Advice Needed From The "AARP Crowd"

Our preferreds are BWV and AKV and you can do the following:

1. You can go to the Hall of Presidents or the American Adventure and not feel like the ones you are with are doing you a huge favor by letting you drag them to such boring shows.

2. You can actually make a reservation for dinner at Victoria & Albert's.

3. If you play golf, you can play any day you want and any time of day you want.

4. You can get up at 6:30 a.m., have coffee on the porch while watching the sun rise, boats and people passing at BWV or animals at AKV, and not even think about getting to the park early.

5. You can go to the pool, have a few, spend some time in the hot tub, read a book and not be constantly watching to assure those you are with are not drowning.

6. You know you can go to 9 p.m. Cirque show or 9:30 Hoop Dee Doo and not worry about kids being too tired.

7. You never have to go on Dumbo or Alladin or [fill in any others that drive you batty].

8. You can tell random young people you don't know that the sickening Mission to Mars ride used to be a very impressive, imaginative and comfortable ride called Horizons.

9. You can walk past any ride that exists and no one with you will express disappointment if you don't go on it now.

10. You can go to Jellyrolls at BW without finding a sitter.

11. When Fantasmic ends you can just sit and wait until the crowd moves out before leaving because you are in no hurry to get anywhere.

12. If you want to see a parade you just walk up 5 minutes before it starts because you don't have to worry about ones you are with not being able to see over those standing in front of you.

13. You can actually spend a couple hours going through the real zoo portion of AK without those you are with believing they are missing the excitement elsewhere.

14. You can go to any restaurant you want and not ask to see the kid's menu.

15. You can if you want just go to a park a few hours a day and not care whether you get on any popular rides. In fact, you can go just to do two things and then come back and lounge at the pool.

16. You can go to a park just to see stage and and street shows.

17. You can spend time shopping for things you actually want to buy for yourself.

18. You can have a rather late dinner at Jiko's, a nice bottle of wine and then go back to the room and do what you couldn't do when the kids were around.

Of course, you can also buy souveniers for those who aren't with you so they won't fear they have been forgotten for you will always remember what it was like with them and what it is like without them.

:surfweb: EXACTLY!! YOU ARE SO RIGHT ON! We have been visiting Disney since the year it opened - children, grandchildren, and now just my DH and I. This is great - especialy the dinner choices. Never see a chicken strip or hot dog again! Thanks for the smile.
 
Loved reading this thread!
My DH and I took our first non-kid trip in over 17 years (the age of our son) this past March. Our two kids were at WDW with their high school band and we did our own thing. Stayed in a studio at BWV. Highlights included:
Going to the Bellevue Lounge for a libation the first evening, to unwind after our flight.
Enjoying breakfast (OK, coffee and pop tarts!) on the porch one morning, with a great view of some wandering ducks.
Spending most of a day at the pool just relaxing.
Going to dinner at Boma (our favorite) and visiting the sample units at Kidani.
Walking over to Disney Studios at park opening, riding RnRC three times, then leaving the park to spend the rest of the day at Epcot and BWV.
Hanging out in the lobby of the Grand Floridian one afternoon, listening to the piano player and people watching.

We are enjoying the parks less, in large part due to lots of crowds (we're not flexible about time to visit) but we love the resorts and general atmosphere of a Disney vacation.
 
I see your tag is Illini Al, but you are in Ohio. We are Illini fans and we still live in Illinois. Anyway, we didn't buy our DVC until we were emptynesters. My husband and I are both 59 and we love going with our kids and grandkids or by ourselves. We relax much more now that wwe have DVC. We don't feel like to have to do the parks commando style. We volunteer to stay in the room with the grandkids if they want to swim, or we let our kids go our at night if they want to and we stay with the grandkids. It has been wonderful and we hope to have many more years enjoying our DVC.
 



















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