What is Your Family's Ideal Number of Days at Disney?

[Accident]

We try to book 7 but order our travel arrangements in a way we can extend the trip with minimal cost if we decide we're staying longer. Next trip we're doing 9 days.

 

[scrappymel]

We like 10 days. Long enough to do some relaxing along the way.

 

[Jfsag123]

We've stayed 6-7 nights and it has not been long enough. Next trip we are planning on 10 and have been talking about bumping it up to 12. I still think we will cry when we leave.

 

[patches07]

My family and I love Walt Disney World but 7 is our limit.

 

[javaman]

I think we've done 7 nights each of the 4 times we've been there. I would love to do 10 or 14 but it would difficult to get off of work for that amount time and the logistics of everyone else's schedules.

 

[2Pirates2Princesses]

We've done 8 day/7 night and 7 day/6 night Disney trips which were both nice, but I think 9 days/8 nights would be *perfect* for us. I would love to have 3 Magic Kingdom days, 1 Epcot day, 1 Hollywood Studios day, 1 Animal Kingdom day, 1 day for another Orlando area theme park (we did a Legoland day on our last trip and want to try Sea World on our next trip), 1 resort & DTD or Boardwalk day, and 1 water park day. This type of itinerary is what we are hoping for with our next trip. I am keeping our fingers crossed that we can get the flight times we want on both ends so that we can maximize our time and have a true 9 day/8 night trip.

 

[TianaPrincess]

I have only been to Walt Disney World once in my life and we stayed 7 days. We really were Speedy Gonzales's during the trip since it was me and my parents first trip ever. It was a great trip, but an extra few days would have been nice.

 

[dtoren2033]

We went for 10 days in 2012 @ Halloween and I found at the time that our group started putzing out around the 8 day mark. But in all fairness we had some pretty busy days planned. This time we are going for 8 days but left off the water parks as we found our home state water parks (Carowind's Boomerang Bay & Emerald Pointe) to be sufficient for our water park fix for the year. I would like to try 10 days again next time without a water park and instead use one of those days as an extra Epcot or MK day and 1 full day to just explore the resort. This time we have 1 AK day, 2 DHS days, 2 Epcot Days, 2 MK days and 1 whatever park everyone wants to go to again day.

 

[AT2136]

For those who have stayed around 7 days, would you recommend doing a split stay between onsite Disney resorts, or just stay at one resort?

 

[meohmy]

Last trip, 18 days. Previous trips two or three weeks. Three weeks was fabulous, but hoping to go in two years-coming from Scotland, flights can be expensive- and spending 4 weeks, 3 in Disney, 1 in a villa. Will be a blissful trip.✈

 

[pooh4evr]

we manage to usually do 10 days, 9 nights (8 park days, 2 travel days) every other year. But our ideal time if money was no object- about 3 weeks, or for-ev-er.

 

[kandb]

We travel down from NJ, so would never go for less then 7 nights. We usually go yearly but last year did now go down. This Aug/Sept we are staying 11 nights at CBR, with free dining for 9 of those nights. Our last night we are staying in Tampa since we are flying out since we got a cheaper flight. We are also renting a mid-size car for a week for $97 while we are there to have a car for part of the time and for driving to Tampa.

 

[Lisaloo]

For those who have stayed around 7 days, would you recommend doing a split stay between onsite Disney resorts, or just stay at one resort?

I would never consider a split stay. I don't like packing up and moving. We make our home base and stick to it, but it sounds like it works out great for a lot of families.

 

[Accident]

For those who have stayed around 7 days, would you recommend doing a split stay between onsite Disney resorts, or just stay at one resort?

We've never resort hopped but for cost reasons, we've considered doing a higher priced resort and switching. Some holidays or special occasions for us we will do it in the future because it'll allow us to stay longer.

 

[Mindertaz]

We bought annual passes this year and are doing 5 shorter trips this year. My ASD son can only handle about 4 days out of routine before he loses his ability to regulate, and we are just south of Atlanta, so it isn't a bad drive.