re: Disney Pros, is it worth it to stay on site?

I live in Florida and have a family of 4, we find a suite off site for around $125/ night. Sometimes a house or condo VRBO, but always a multi bedroom just depends on who is visiting.

I've stayed on site, and its great. But you pay dearly for it. If its a vacation thats like once a lifetime or once every 5 or 10 years then staying on site is probably worth it But we go about once a year for 3-4 days, and its no where near the money for us. The only place that staying on site is worth it over parking, is Magic Kingdom. Unless you get hammered at Epcot or something. But the other 3 resorts you park maybe 400 yards from the entrance so its a short walk.

So yeah, we save like $400/ night by staying off the resort and have one day that's kinda a pita in Magic Kingdom.

My work around that is that we book a breakfast at one of the hotels on the monorail or at MK to beat the crowd. If you eat breakfast at a resort on the monorail you can park all day there, breakfast is like $40 for a family of 4 and parking is $20 so you basically get breakfast for $20. (blah blah blah not supposed to do that but we've done it over 10 times without an issue Disney is not going to tow you unless you are an obvious ahole).