This. I am seeing prices up at all domestic destinations that I've looked at.Hotel, food, travel in general has increased no matter the destination.
I just finished booking the rest of a Southwestern, Colorado trip for mid June (seven night stay) last night, and it's running me about 1K more than my Disney/Universal/SeaWorld offsite seven night stay trip in March for a prime spring break week (trip includes one time EP for our one park to park day at Universal (just two of the four of us are doing that) and LL and Genie+ for our Disney days too -- everyone is doing Disney - but just two park days). We are all doing one day at SeaWorld too. I was thinking SW Colorado would be a little less expensive overall than our Orlando trip, but I was wrong. Cute Colorado mountain towns all over the state have gotten to be really popular in the summer, and prices have gone up. Both trips are for the same length of time and are for four people. Do note though that for the Orlando trip we are staying in an offsite condo, not onsite Disney or Universal which helps keep costs down.
My Southwestern, CO offsite two bedroom/two bath condo is running about $80 a night more than my Orlando two bedroom/two bathroom condo (and the Orlando one is much nicer with way more amenities - great offsite condo deals in Orlando IMHO considering quality for cost). My full sized rental car in Southwestern Colorado is running me about $100 a day while I got a good deal with a name brand reputable car rental place for the same sized car in Orlando for $50 a day. Air was higher to Southwestern, CO by a little too. In SW Colorado we don't have the theme park ticket costs, though -- That's always a major Orlando expense, but to us theme parks sure are fun. (How much I had to pay for air was actually surprising to me to both places. I've gotten much better deals on air in previous years.) We have a pricey jeep trip one day in Colorado, but other admissions (parks, little museums, hot springs) are relatively inexpensive. I've budgeted the same amount of money for food and groceries in both places. In general offsite food in Orlando looks less expensive, but given that we will be doing a little more cooking in in Southwestern, CO than we will in Orlando things even out a bit. We are walking distance to a grocery store which is super convenient there.
I'm really looking forward to both trips (fun at theme parks in March in the glorious central Florida weather and being in the beautiful mountains late spring / early summer).
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