Anti-climatic feeling?

[Mercy]

With all the planning that goes on here at the boards (which I love by the way), does anyone ever have an anti-climatic feeling once they actually get to WDW?

Some of us plan for months and years for our next trip. I think I over planned our last trip and maybe anticipated too much. Don't get me wrong, I love WDW. But sometimes I think all the planning, stressing, etc. backfires a bit when I get there. Does anyone else feel this way?

Of course, I say all this and if you look at my counter, you will see I am already planning my trip for Aug 04

 

[Synonymous]

Yup. Especially when the plan starts to implode and we're not getting to do things I had wanted to do. Worst is when DD doesn't want to do something that I PLANNED on her loving! Doesn't she understand that fun must be CAREFULLY choreographed????

 

[purplebelle]

I was wondering that myself. I've been to WDW so many times, but not recently enough to remember it so clearly and I'm the one doing the planning this time around. However, I haven't been to WDW for 6 years now, so I'm not sure it's possible for me to have an anti-climatic feeling. ...Or at least, I hope not!

 

[momof3disneyholics]

I have planned like crazy for this trip, including making a day-by-day, almost an hour by hour plan of what we were going to do. Then I thought long and hard and figured with 3 kids under 6 and I can't plan that much, so I think we are going to take it flow by flow and do whatever the family feels we should do. I'm sure we will enjoy it much better than the first way I was planning it.

 

[Bill From PA]

Not yet! We've been to WDW 5 times in the last 6 years with never less than a year between trips and it's still 'fresh'. Last Nov. was the first time we went at a time other than late Feb./Early March, and it felt slightly different as we hadn't suffered through a NE Pa winter yet. We missed that blast of hot, humid air when stepping off the plane that is so welcome after a hard winter, but we got over it. Here's hoping for a real wicked Winter of '03/'04!

Bill From PA

 

[daannzzz]

I get the Anti-climactic feeling a few weeks before going after everything that can be planned has been planed, tiickets are purchased and there is nothing to do but wait and pack. Then I get it again after returning home, not just the blues from not being at WDW but also from not having any planning going on. I usually begin planning for a trip to Disneyland a month or so later!!!

 

[poohbear1029]

No, I always overplan PS, etc and then once we get there, our plans always change! That's okay. As long as we are having fun, I'm happy! The advanced planning makes sure that we recognize our "must-do's" but isnt set in stone! Cant be too rigid about the schedule! Otherwise I might as well be at work.

 

[mom2of2]

In March for our first trip, I planned and I mean PLANNED! What day, what park, when to eat and what, what ride when, what show and so on. I made time in between for downtime, but planned that as well lol. The crew was a little sludgey about it and I accomodated them to a point!! When we went down again in August I only planned 2 PS. Everything else was a "wing it" well the crew did NOT like that. "where are we going today? where are we eating, etc" I replied with where do you want to go today or what do you want to eat. They looked at me like I'd lost my mind and said that they liked the last trip better. So it's back to planning for me again. We're booked on a cruise for next year but I'm in planning stage for a summer trip to WDW. I will plan!!!!

 

[Tonyspad]

The cruise gives you an entirely different Disney vacation in that all you MUST plan is your dinner time. Everything else is done for you(except excursions).
As with overplanning WDW trips I was just like the most of you in that I would set dates, PS and times for everything. Then I would(over the course of one year prior to our trips) change and modify times and places almost weekly! This year I made our time, PS and date list and haven't touched it once. As a matter of fact I looked at it for the first time in three months yesterday simply because I forgot what I had planned. In the past this schedule would have been memorized down to the last letter. Well with 210 days left until our sixth WDW trip in six years I ( so far ) like not re-arranging everyday!!!

 

[SamanthaL]

I also get the blues AFTER the trip because I don't have anything left to plan. I am happy girl as long as I am planning, anticipating, or going on a WDW trip. It's called addiction. ( I also get that feeling when I get to stay home and be with my kids!)
I know what you mean though.

 

[Claudia Kellenberger]

Planning is SO much easier for a solo trip. I don't have any children, anyway. I plan about 11 months out....and none of that is stressful. My only stress is in the actual packing, and then my blood pressure is probably up. I plan for which park on what day, but other than that, I wing it. I have made only one PS so far. ( and vacation is 12/05 - 12/11 ). Most of the time I figure, when I get hungry - I will then eat.

My house is sort of tiny. I have no where to put my luggage to gradually pack without it really being in the way. So I start to pack only 2 days before leaving. Now it feels stressful.
Packing feels like so much work that I suddenly feel like I don't want to go after all.

Is it anti-climactic once I get there ?!??!? No way ! I am then so excited to be there. Yeah.......I miss my DH for a whole week, but then again, I talk to him every evening to say goodnight. I sure miss my 2 cats, though.

 

[Wineaux]

My husband and I discussed this just last night.

For events I am really really looking forward to, I always obsessively research and plan things out. Maybe the intense excitement makes me anxious and this reading and planning gives me the feeling of more control over it.

Maybe it's also just to keep reminding myself it's really going to happen, I'm finally going to take a break from my job!

However, I don't think the experience is going to be anti-climactic. If it's anything like my first trip to Disneyland last year, I'll be on sensory overload most of the time!

 

[puffkin]

I think I definitely had that anti climatic feeling on our trip in June 2002. It was especially hard when I got home and didn't think I would be back until my honeymoon in 2004. Well, the winter of 2003 hit, and we decided to go back in July 2003 and December 2004 with my mom for the first time. Plus, we have the honeymoon in June 2004. It helps to always have a trip in the planning stages. I tend to do a lot of planning about 6 months out, tracking flights, hotel discounts, determining ititneries and events, ect. Once the 90-day PS window hits, everything is pretty much planned, and I try not to look at it too much. Then, the week before the trip, I reconfirm everything and make sure everything is all set. I don't allow myself to get too excited until right before the trip.

 

[bunnyfoo]

I usually get that feeling about a week before I leave for WDW ... Usually, there isn't much planning left in the last week and I find myself with nothing left to do. That usually changes by the time we land in Orlando though

 

[Pin Wizard]

No, I've never been disappointed while there. I'm not one for "planning" every minute of vacation. I always wing it and have a fantastic time no matter where I am.

 

[RitaZ.]

No, I don't. In fact, when we get there I get even more excited. Then again, we never have an itinerary. We just have a general idea of which park we want to visit and go with it. I like to do my research ahead of time, but I don't have a set plan on what we will be doing every minute of our trip. For me that's not fun, it's stressful.

 

[ThinkTink1984]

No i don't think so...I had that feeling when I was planning on going back for the first since i was twelve...I was going as 17 year old and I was overly excited but then I got nervous that I was going to get there and the magic would be not so much gone, but not as relevant as when I was younger. I proved myself wrong because the magic is ALWAYS there and that's why its fun for everyone, thats the purpose. Disney is always everything I hoped for plus some extra, because I think it means different things as you get older.

 

[momsal]

Originally posted by Bill From PA
Not yet! We've been to WDW 5 times in the last 6 years with never less than a year between trips and it's still 'fresh'. Last Nov. was the first time we went at a time other than late Feb./Early March, and it felt slightly different as we hadn't suffered through a NE Pa winter yet. We missed that blast of hot, humid air when stepping off the plane that is so welcome after a hard winter, but we got over it. Here's hoping for a real wicked Winter of '03/'04!

Bill From PA

HEY HEY!!! BE NICE! NOT ALL OF US GET TO GO TO DISNEY THIS WINTER AND I AM NOT FAR FROM YOU!!!!!