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What a trip to Orlando costs

A week in Orlando for eight people works out around $7,330 before flights — $166 a night for a place sleeping four, scaled for the group, plus $75 per adult per day for food. From Atlanta it is cheaper for a family of four to drive than to fly.

A central Florida city whose metropolitan area is built around its theme parks, principally Walt Disney World and Universal Orlando.

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What a week costs

Lodging and food only. Seven nights, whole-property rental, all fees in.

Group	Lodging	Food	Total	Per person
4 people	$1,160	$2,100	$3,260	$816
8 people	$3,130	$4,200	$7,330	$916
12 people	$4,280	$6,300	$10,600	$881

Note the per-person column does not simply fall. A place sleeping four is the efficient unit; going to eight means changing property class, which costs more than double. Past eight it improves again — each additional person adds roughly half what they did over the first jump. The expensive step is condo to house, not the people you put in it.

How Orlando compares

OrlandoFlorida median of 4Cities median of 7All destinations median of 40

Nightly lodging for a property sleeping four, month by month. Medians are taken across the seeded destinations in each group, so they are the middle of that group rather than any one place.

Averaged across the year, Orlando runs $175 a night for a property that sleeps four. That is 41% below the median for all 40 destinations in the library ($295), making it the cheapest of 40 destinations. Against its own kind it is 10% below the typical city ($195), the cheapest of 7 cities.

The same week costs $241 more in January than in April on lodging alone, before anyone has bought a flight.
It is at its most expensive in January and cheapest in April — the opposite of the library as a whole, which peaks in July. Advice about avoiding summer prices is the wrong way round here.
Within Florida (4 destinations here), it is 48% below the regional median of $337 a night.
Driving beats four seats from Atlanta. The longest of those is Atlanta — 474 road miles and 8.2h each way, saving $787 against four seats.
The cheapest seven nights of the year fall in April, at $1,162 for the whole property — $1,403 for the same week in January.
The sharpest single step is between March and April: moving the same week across that line changes the lodging bill by $241.
The closest thing to it on price is Savannah, GA, another city: $7,497 for a week for eight against $7,327 here, 2% apart.

When to go

Orlando is at its most expensive in January and cheapest in April — a 21% swing on the same property.

Month	Per night, sleeps 4
January	$200
February	$200
March	$200
April	$166
May	$166
June	$166
July	$166
August	$166
September	$166
October	$166
November	$166
December	$166

Getting there

The two halves are not priced the same way, which is the whole point: a seat costs per person, a car costs the same whatever the headcount.

	Flying		Driving
From	Round tripper person	Each wayhours	Round tripper car	Each wayhours	Cheaperfor four
Atlanta	$377	3.7h	$721	8.2h	driving
Chicago	$214*	4.9h	$1,708	18.2h2 days	flying
Dallas	$216*	4.9h	$1,670	17.8h2 days	flying
Denver	$314*	7.8h	$2,593	27.5h3 days	flying
Los Angeles	$410*	9.3h	$3,704	39.3h4 days	flying
New York	$310*	4.8h	$1,608	17.2h2 days	flying
Seattle	$654*	10.0h	$4,266	45.3h5 days	flying
Phoenix	$308*	8.5h	$3,091	32.8h4 days	flying

Drives over ten hours are shown in days as well: nobody drives that in one go. The nights on the road are not counted here, so a long drive is cheaper on this page than it would be in life. * published DOT average for that airport pair. Others are modeled from distance. Driving uses the IRS standard mileage rate, which includes running costs, not just fuel.

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Where these numbers come from

Lodging is indexed from the US federal per-diem schedule (GSA) for this county, calibrated against real rental listings. Food uses this location's own federal meal tier. Fares come from the DOT Consumer Airfare Report where that airport pair is published, and from a model fitted to 2,089 real DOT fares otherwise. Everything here is an estimate for planning, not a quote — check real prices before booking.