For many Americans, a trip to Disneyland or Walt Disney World is a once-in-a-lifetime experience — because of budget, not desire. Between expensive hotel stays, food, flights, park tickets and souvenirs, a family adventure at a Disney park could easily run into the thousands of dollars.
While you shouldn’t abandon all priceless experiences in your life in the pursuit of riches, the amount of money a Disney vacation costs does beg the question: If you invested the cost of, say, 5 Disney trips in Disney stock 20 years ago, how much money would you have today?
