This is why I'm thankful I bought (and paid for) DVC a few years ago. The trip is basically paid for. We have AP's and DDE card. So other than eating and gas, and we have to eat no matter if we are home or out, it really doesn't cost us that much to go. We do look sometimes if it will be just a weekend trip to see if there are any good AP room discounts, mousesavers.com is an awesome resource, so many times we'll save our DVC points and pay to stay in a moderate or value for less than $100/night for 2 nights, but that is strictly to save points for when they are more valuable or stretch further. We're going Columbus weekend, yay 2 weeks
, and this will be our 6th trip this year so far. We don't have any more planned but we may sneak one more in there this year, I'd like to see the Christmas lights, haven't in a while.