The Jaw-Dropping 2025 Cost Of Kevin McCallister's ‘Home Alone 2’ Trip Shocks Fans

For more than three decades, "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York" has been a holiday staple, and Kevin McCallister’s (Macaulay Culkin) solo adventure through Manhattan remains one of the most iconic (and chaotic) Christmas movie moments of all time. After accidentally boarding the wrong flight and winding up in New York City, the 10-year-old famously checks himself into The Plaza Hotel, orders a mountain of room service, hits up Central Park, foils the Wet Bandits all over again, and still finds time to donate to Duncan’s Toy Chest. But what would Kevin’s luxurious runaway getaway cost today? Hint: It's over a 300% increase.

A new 2025 analysis from iSelect.com that was sent to The Blast breaks down the updated price tag for Kevin’s unforgettable one-night stay, and the numbers are staggering. What cost the McCallisters $2,109 in 1992 would now run a massive $8,511, a jaw-dropping 303% increase.

And here’s the twist: modern travel insurance wouldn’t cover almost any of it.

According to the new analysis using real pricing from The Plaza Hotel, modern menu data, and historic inflation records, Kevin McCallister’s famously extravagant New York adventure would be shockingly more expensive in 2025.

In 1992, Kevin’s one-night stay in a Plaza Hotel suite cost $1,100, a price that has skyrocketed to $6,244 today, marking a massive 468% increase. His over-the-top room service feast, once totaling $967, would now ring in at $2,233, while even his simple three-scoop ice cream sundae has jumped from $18 to $24. Altogether, Kevin’s 1992 bill of $2,109 would become a jaw-dropping $8,511 in 2025, a 303% surge.

And that doesn’t even include taxis, sightseeing, or his memorable donation to Duncan’s Toy Chest. In 2025, Kevin’s NYC escape wouldn’t just be chaotic, but it would be a very adult-sized financial problem.

While Kevin famously checked into The Plaza using his dad’s “borrowed” credit card, a real-world runaway child racking up thousands of dollars in luxury hotel charges would be a nightmare scenario for travel insurers. In fact, most of Kevin’s indulgent New York adventure would be completely rejected under modern policies.

The only things that might be covered are lost luggage, since Kevin ended up with only his dad’s bag, and most policies reimburse between $1,000 and $3,000, along with necessary meals during a legitimate travel delay and emergency accommodation only if he were truly stranded due to airline error. Everything else would be denied.

Luxury expenses like the $6,244 Plaza Hotel suite would never qualify as “reasonable accommodation,” meaning Kevin (or rather, Mr. McCallister) would be responsible for the full bill. The $2,233 room service marathon, complete with lobster, giant sundaes, and silver-platter cheese pizza, would also be excluded since insurers don’t reimburse elective food charges. Any charges made with an unauthorized credit card, like Kevin using his dad’s, are automatically invalid, and personal purchases such as donations, gifts, or toys from Duncan’s Toy Chest would not be covered under any circumstances.

In reality, Kevin’s reimbursable total would be nearly zero. His 2025 New York spree would still leave him with nearly $8,000 out-of-pocket, and absolutely no travel insurance coming to his rescue.

As fans recall, in "Home Alone 2," Mr. McCallister famously explodes when he discovers Kevin racked up $967 in room service, shouting the line: “Kevin! You spent $967 on room service?!” But that meltdown looks adorable compared to the $8,511 he’d be facing today.

Between a $6,244 Plaza suite, more than $2,200 in room service, and dozens of luxury add-ons, the 2025 bill is the kind of number that would send any parent sprinting through Manhattan yelling Kevin’s name at full volume. And with modern travel insurance refusing to cover nearly all of it, there would be no financial safety net, just a very stunned McCallister dad staring at a credit card statement large enough to ruin Christmas and New Year’s.