More Families Going Into Debt to Visit Disneyland

For many American families, the only way to make that fantasy trip to Disneyland into a reality is to wave the magic credit card. In Lending Tree’s survey of more than 2,000 American consumers, the online lending marketplace found that a trip to Disneyland was putting a serious dent in family finances. “Across the 77 percent of theme park-going parents with kids younger than 18 who’ve been to Disney, 45 percent have gone into debt for a Disney trip,” according to the survey In 2022, Lending Tree found that only 30 percent of parents with children went into debt for the same trip. The average Disneyland debt for parents with children was nearly $2,000....