Best Ways to Prepare for a Disney Trip! (Without Breaking the Bank!)

Evan Carmichael and his family pack for a budget Disney trip, catching a delayed flight to Florida and settling into their Airbnb. They shop at outlet malls, grab groceries, and cook simple meals like steak and potatoes to keep costs down while documenting the chaos of traveling with three kids.
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We're going! Yeah! Nina likes to stand on the bed every time she goes into a new bedroom. So that's her tradition. I feel like it was a huge success, this shopping day today. Right? Uh, huge. Just, just a huge success. What's up, Believe Nation? It is time for our— What did you do?
Cheese.
You gotta do it like this. This is an insult in Britain, did you know that? Oh, I didn't know that. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Somebody called me out on my channel for doing this. It's insulting in Britain, so you gotta go this way.
But this is Chinese cheese.
Chinese cheese?
Chinese people do cheese for photos and stuff like that.
Side note: we are getting ready to go to our first— not our first, nope, it's not our first. Our first 2017 Disney vacation! It's our 4th year doing this?
Yeah.
And we will film every step of the way. We are leaving tonight with the kids. It's going to be a late night flight, so we gotta get ready for that. And, uh, Nina's all packed.
Yeah, I'm all done. I'm just editing my videos today.
Go check out her channel. Uh, Evan has not packed at all, and he needs to start. It is what time? It's like 12— 12:23? And we're leaving at?
5:30.
Lots of time. Lots of time.
Tetsu pack!
Alright, I'm pretty much packed. I have a tradition of putting everything in one bag. So that's everything. All my clothes, my laptop, pretty much everything. We're going to Florida, so it's gonna be pretty light, so I don't really have to do a lot of heavy stuff. I usually get on the airplane with a hoodie and long pants, and I also carry around my camera bag so I can record what I'm doing. But there's enough space at the top here too to be able to put my camera bag if I need to, so I'm pretty happy with that. Almost done. There's one final thing I need to do before we're ready to go. Get a haircut. Because it's getting too long. Too long! This is way too long for Florida weather. It's got to come down. Right? No.
Oh yeah.
Oh, that's way better. Oh yeah. Now I'm ready for Florida. Let's do it! We are in the elevator! Nina's fingers are— everybody's in their Believe hoodies! Nina's here, I'm here, Hayden's here. We're going! Yeah! Nina has her Mickey. She's excited. Who's that guy behind?
Here he comes. There he goes.
You have something to say?
Yeah.
What?
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea?
SpongeBob!
What? SpongeBob. Should be singing.
SpongeBob!
See you, Giancarlo. Look guys, look, look, it's snowing outside. We don't just have hoodies, we've got magic hoodies. Look guys, it's snowing. We're going to Florida.
Oh yeah.
Oh, look who we picked up. Look who we picked up. Jeffrey's back. Stephanie's back. They're a year taller. And we're all— we're going to get some food?
Yes!
We're going to get some food and then get on the plane.
Yeah.
What do you want to say, mister?
Who lives in a pineapple under the sea? SpongeBob SquarePants! I don't know the rest of the song.
SpongeBob SquarePants! Hello.
What's your name? Alright, we got settled in. I got my crispy chicken sandwich. My favorite. Nina's got—
What do you got, Nina?
She's talking. Oh yeah. So you got a turkey bacon club. Stephanie, what do you got?
I'm eating a wrap.
Is it yummy? Mister, what do you got? What are you eating?
I got a bagel and it tastes better than normal.
It tastes better than normal? Alright. Jeffrey, what do we got? I don't know.
I hear Canada.
BGL.
BLT.
But BL.
Is it yummy?
Yeah.
Yeah? Alright, good. Who's excited to get on the plane?
Me!
I have a list.
You have a list?
First, get on the plane. We are checking that.
Number 1 is almost done. Second, go to sleep. End of list. Yes! Great list!
Alright, we made it on.
It's kind of chaos in here. Nina did some ninja baggage putting up. We have bags in 5 different containers here. You got Nina? Stephanie's next to us here. And then we got the 2 boys on the other side.
I'm very scared.
Say hi.
Hi. Hi.
They're going to have a great sleep on the flight. We're all very excited about this. Alright, it's past midnight. We arrived. We got delayed because of the snow in Toronto. But we're here. Nina slept a little bit. Hayden slept, but he's kind of stoning out. There he is, stoning out. We're gonna go get our rental car and find our place. Aiden is stoning out.
Yep.
Yes, he is. He's pretty tired. Yeah, he's tired. We're going to go get our car rentals. We're going to go outside. It's warm, but it's not crazy hot. Where's the snow, guys? All I see is palm trees. Yeah.
And nice warm air.
And a nice warm what? Air.
Yeah.
And smoke. And smoke. You know, you get that at the airport too. Okay, so it's 1:40, 1:40 AM. We couldn't figure out how to, uh, turn our data on, and then we got lost, and then we stopped at Walgreens to get some cereal for tomorrow and something for me to eat because I'm hungry. We are tired. Kids are getting ready getting ready for bed. This is Nina. I'm here with her. It's a nice place. Well, we'll, we'll, uh, let you guys in on what's happening tomorrow. We're gonna get ready for bed, rest up. Tomorrow's shopping day, so it should be exciting. Nina's trying to— we're locked out of our bedroom. That's amazing. Oh, there you go. How's the bedroom look? We'll show you the bedroom. Nina likes to stand on the bed every time she goes into a new bedroom. So that's our tradition. Don't fall. Have a great night, guys. We'll see you in the morning. All right, happy day one! Day one! Day one!
Day one!
We, uh, Nina and I went to sleep at 4 AM because it was a time change as well, and it is What time is it now? It's all— it's just 12:10. Hayden, your hat is a weapon. That's a weapon. We're eating breakfast, we're in our Airbnb, and then we're gonna get ready to go out, do some shopping, and do Pokémon, and maybe do some Pokémon.
Let's see what happens.
All right, we're outside. It is hot. And we like it. We're looking for geckos.
Oh, there it is! Oh, is that a gecko?
No, that's—
yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's a gecko.
Kid, nobody move.
Mini.
There it is. So today is shopping day. We're going to go get Nina some stuff. What do you think, Nina? What are you hoping to find?
I don't know. Nothing.
Nothing? Well, if you're hoping to find nothing, I think you're in luck. I think we'll find nothing. The kids are in the back. What're you guys doing?
I'm teaching Hayden how to tie shoes! Tie your shoe?!
Oh—
oh, Hayden's learning to tie his shoe... Good job! Let's go! We found the salsa station! Da da da dah dada dadadah doo-doo-da-doop-boo-ti-seven body waves Nina! Hahaha!
Wooohooo!
Alright, we made our first stop. Malls at Millennium. Hayden's very excited. Jeffrey's— just punched me in the face on that jump, Jeffrey! Nina's gonna discipline.
No.
That's life. Life sometimes punches you in the face and you keep going. That's how we roll. First stop of the day has to be Starbucks, right? Has to be Starbucks. I see one ahead. Let's see it, mister. Good job, mister. We're here at Microsoft again. Maybe this third time is a charm. Nina's going to try again. Let's see. It's Nina's turn.
Yay!
Third time. It's our third time here. Oh, holy cow. There are 3 levels.
I told her I only want to do one level.
Which one? Archery?
Yes.
Or the drawing? Yes. Or the whales?
I just want to do— I just want to try it.
You just want to see it?
Yeah.
Okay, Nina's excited. Go, Nina, go! Go, Nina, go! Nina, they're going to kill you! Oh, wow. What happened there? The pizza has arrived.
Pizza!
Pizza!
Let's open it up.
Let's pizza!
Oh!
Hayden's plate.
Oh, it's hot.
Hayden doesn't want any anymore.
It's hot, Hayden, so I have to wait. Still a little hot.
Beena lost all of the cheese. Okay, is that Hayden's piece? With no cheese? Yuck.
What?
Yuck? You don't like mushrooms? Alright, well, we have 2 whole pizzas to eat.
Here we go.
Alright, we're done. We're leaving one mall, Nina Pot. Sefarah. Just basically the same thing. We spent half the time, I think, at the Microsoft store. Yeah, really what we did. We're all— how full are we? Very full. We ate 2 extra large pizzas between the 5 of us. 3 kids. 3 kids and Nina. Nina had the biggest slice at the end though. It was pretty epic.
Did you?
You did. She had the biggest slice. You spat on yourself?
Cause you picked the small one.
Nina, don't spit on yourself. Okay, we're gonna get in the car and go to another— this is a regular mall. We're gonna go to an outlet mall now for Nina.
What's an outlet?
Outlet mall.
What's that?
It's a mall with lots of outlets. Here we go.
Here it comes.
Ready, guys? My name's Blurryface and I care what you think. My name's Blurryface and I care what you think. Alright, alright, alright. We made it. After some chaos in the parking lot, we are going to the Premium Outlet Mall. The Vineland Premium Outlet Mall where Nina is going to buy something. What are we hoping to find, Nina?
Oh, I don't know.
Shoes.
We're hoping to find a toy for Hayden.
A toy for Hayden? A toy for me too! No, Jeffrey toy? No.
Yes!
No, it's Nina day. We're here to find something for Nina because we love her. She's special and she deals with all of us.
What?
Right, you gotta love Nina.
Do you like it? Do you like it? I don't know.
We're waiting for the girls to come out.
We're heading back.
Mima didn't buy anything else.
Okay.
That was it. Just the Sephora. What did you buy again?
Nothing.
The—
Oh, the eyeliner.
Eyeliner.
And primer.
And primer. I kind of feel like that was like an insane eyeliner. I feel like that was maybe worth the whole trip to come to Florida. To buy the eyeliner. I feel like it was a huge success, this shopping day today. Right? Just a huge success. Like, if that's all we got for the whole week, it was a big win. Okay, back to the car. Get some grocery shopping done.
Yeah.
And then go home. Yeah.
Yeah.
It's time to do everybody's favorite part of the whole trip. Grocery shopping! Yeah, let's buy some food.
And I wish I could have a protein bar.
This is for you. This is a lot of food for one week. Let's pop it on. Chocolate?
Chocolate! Almond! Yay! Almond milk!
I'm totally drinking this.
Buy one, buy one Nina, get one free.
If we find a second Nina.
Nina is one of a kind, okay? Doesn't exist. Wow, that's a lot of food for one week, Nina.
It's not a lot.
It's not a lot of food?
It's just a package.
Just the bare essentials, you know, some Stella, some wine. It's just a package? It's a lot of stuff. No, it's not a lot of stuff. It's a big package with nothing inside, is what you're saying? You're the opposite. You're a lot of stuff in a little package. Okay? We love you. We made it home.
Home.
Whoa! Yeah, time to pack up the food inside and eat some dinner.
I got dinner right in my hand.
That's breakfast tomorrow, mister. Oh, we're not having Cheerios for dinner. I mean, I might have some later, not for the kids. All right, Nina's cooking us some yummy food. What do we have, Nina? Food.
Potatoes.
Some yummy potatoes. Look at that. Green beans. Nice. And oh yeah, look at that, steak strips. What inspired this, Nina? I don't know. You were hungry for steak?
No, just whatever I feel like.
What you felt like. Alright, dinner time! So that's the end of day 1. Realized I forgot to make a video. We had an awesome dinner and then just put the kids to bed and chilled on the couch. Watched some Shark Tank, had some beer. Yeah. Time to catch up on some sleep because we didn't sleep that well yesterday. Wake up and go to the baseball game. Woo! Go Jays, go! Thank you guys for joining us for day 1. Let's hope for an amazing day 2 and a Blue Jays victory. Good night.
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