As DVC members do you vacation differently?

[Wedgeh]

When I go to WDW now it feels like a second home!

This!!

Also it's allowed me to take family and friends and go more often than I would otherwise have done.

 

[pouncingpluto]

We always went to WDW for long weekends before-- 4 or 5 days max. Now we end up going for 7-10 days. And, yeah, we are definitely less commando. And we always stay in a one-bedroom, even before we had DD.

 

[AmyB2006]

Well for us they changed a lot. My parents are locals, so we would always stay with them. They're about 30 mins away. But it's so different than staying onsite. And maybe out of our 3 day trip to my parent's house we would take 1 or 2 days and go to a park.

Now we go and stay at the park for 3 full days. The kids love it. We are not commando and don't feel like we have to "cram" stuff into our day. We're much more laid back about it.

We get up late (like 7 or 8 am for us), usually do a sit down breakfast somewhere, then head to the parks. Stay for the afternoon and evening, taking advantage of any evening EMH. Love those.

We'll usually take one day and just lounge around the pool in the morning, then go into the parks in the late afternoon early evening.

 

[teacher383]

I'm a new member so I'm really excited to take a less Disney vacation at HHI next year.

 

[jdmn2010]

My DH and I used to go non-stop before DVC and we would wonder why people were doing non-park activities which seemed like such a waste to us. After becoming DVC members and starting to visit about twice a year, we rented a boat on one of our trips and took the kids for a ride and had so much fun. We finally understood how to have fun without going commando. That trip changed everything and now typically we spend half of the day at the parks and half of the day doing something else that is equally fun to us. Even when one of my kids got sick, it didn't ruin the trip. We took advantage of DVC perks like renting/borrowing movies and since we were at Kidani, looking at animals from the balcony. I also love having a kitchen. We no longer buy the dining plan and we always have breakfast in the room and bring our own snacks and drinks to the park.