Couples Only Trips: How Do You Tour?

[adminjedi]

Can't wait for our first trip "just the two of us"......leaving our 5 kids at home!
We plan on taking it easy, enjoying the food (I want to eat my way around the world at World Showcase), going some places the kids never want to go, reading, etc.
Just being together is what it is all about!

 

[tofubeast]

This thread is just perfect. After a few commando style trips to WDW and DLR, I vowed to my DH that this spring trip would be RELAXING! I even put it in my signature as a reminder to myself. There are lots of great ideas on here. Keep em coming!

 

[Sully]

DW and I have the annual pass and enjoy the resort, SSR. We wake up on our own, walk over to the spa for a workouot, eat breakfast at artist palate or our room, take a long walk back to the room, if the weather is nice, spend the morning at the pool. By mid afternoon we clean up and go into the parks if we feel like it. We do enjoy the resorts.

 

[hematite153]

I find this thread interesting since my DW and I are more likely to be commando when we go alone and more likely to take it easy when we go with others.

 

[kaelarad]

DH and I (we have no kids) always due the morning EMH primarily because we are earlier risers. We take our time go on the attractions we want and then eat breakfast. We schedule ADR's because I have medication that I need to take at lunch time with food. We leave the evenings open for a nice quiet dinner and go where we feel like it.

 

[Sea Turtles]

Great thread with different perspectives. We've always been the commando rope drop couple and then transition to a more leisurely pace with maybe a late-afternoon nap mixed in.

 

[PhotobearSam]

Our first trip we, we did it commando style cause we thought it would be ages before we could ever see it again....

Not 2 years later, we started going every year. We go to the park that had EMH the day before...If it`s AK emh morning on tuesday, we visit AK on the Wednesday. Just our way and it works well. We do plan What park what day but also plan in there some NON park days as well and lots of Pool time.

We avoid MK on Weekends except if we really want to see fireworks and Spectro and it`s the only time while we are there.

We make Dinner ressies or plan off-site supper.

We then ask ourselves what we really each want to do and make sure we each get 3 wishes...


but at each park, we just walk around and wing it. We just see what we want and skip other things. We talk, shop, laugh and say how thankful we are that we don`t have kids of our own...LOL

 

[THicks863]

Wow, I admire those of you who can go to WDW and have a relaxing time! As much as I would like to relax, it's so hard not to go commando every time. There's just so much to see and do. My DW and I have been there by ourselves a couple of times, and it seems like we run harder than we do with our 2 DSs. The good thing about it is that DW and I like the same things and we always have a great time.

Now here is a hint for you. If you are celebrating a special occasion, make sure that it is well-known. DW and I went for 8 days for our honeymoon last year. We had "Just Married" buttons and we wore the requisite top hat and veil with the MM ears. We were treated royally! Cast members went out of their way to say "Congratulations!" to us, and they did all kinds of special things for us. We had our own "personal FastPass" at the Aerosmith Rock 'n Rollercoaster , a CM who kept finding us in line and handing us another stack of FastPasses. We rode it 17 times! We would have ridden it even more, but we had to leave for the airport.

We have another "just the two of us" trip planned for September for the Int'l Food & Wine Festival. I look forward to having Didney time with just my DW!

Tim
Angie
Matt
Parker

 

[kesharn81]

good trip with lots of fun....

 

[an_evans]

I am planning our second solo trip for our thenth anniversary. Our first was our honeymoon and we had no idea how to do disney!

Lookimng for more ideas of how to make it fun without scheduling every moment.

 

[tednvon]

Hi, all great ideas...just a couple of very specific things that our over 50 group 10 really enjoyed...
1. Single rider line at Everest and Test Track for those who wanted to go
2. Drive over to Celebration late afternoon and just drive all over the place looking at the homes...especially along the street by the golf course. Just keep turning away from downtown and away from the condos and get lost back in the area the boarders the back nine of the golf course...there are some real mansions back there...and then do dinner at the Town Tavern in downtown Celebration.
3. They LOVED the Sunday morning Gospel brunch at House of Blues

Things that I thought we overrated
Ragland Road...expensive and OK food...we were not there late at night for the partying however.

Have great time...Ted

 

[Poohbear5]

We are also booked for a spring trip without kids (all three in college)for our 25th anniversary (only our 4th trip ever). We were also debating early to rise (I'm always awake early anyway, hubby, not so much). We figure some days we'll do early ADR in the parks, some days, go slow and lazy.
Our trips with the kids were full speed ahead so we felt like we needed a vacation after the vacation!

 

[rlovew]

We are heading to the Grand Flroidian for a romantic anniversary trip this June. The first time we went together we went commando and my DH didn't like it. Now we generally get up for rope drop but just because we wake up early. If DH doesn't want to get up sometimes i will go and meet him for a late breakfast or lunch reservation later in the day. We spend the rest of the day together and I am happy cause I got to do my riding and he enjoyed the leisure time in the morning.

This trip though I plan to get up a little later and not worry about doing any riding. I can do that on other trips without him instead.

Rebecca

 

[dizluvah]

DH and I always sleep late and arrive at the parks late morning (11 ish) or even in the afternoon. We typically stay at a timeshare offsite - get up whenever (usually around 9:30-10) get ready and head to the park. Sometimes we plan a meal offsite before the park, sometimes we wing it when we get there. I know on the boards ADRs can be a touchy subject but we often have luck stopping at guest services on the way into the park to see if any reservations are available for table service lunch, right then. Sometimes we strike out and eat counter service but many times we get in and are able to try a variety of restaurants.

We aren't ADR people - we don't like the "pressure" of having to be somewhere at a certain time. That being said, we did make an ADR for California Grill last trip - we arranged for a time when MK fireworks display was visible from restaurant - it was very romantic. In the past we have had late dinner in the castle. We are willing to eat a late dinner, and we can wait until 2pm for lunch, etc.

We also enjoy staying late at the parks. For us, it is very romantic to sit on a bench in front of the castle at MK and watch the throngs of people filing out down Main Street. Then when the crowd has thinned we take a leisurely stroll down main street to the monorail. Same with Epcot - strolling around the world showcase after illuminations can be very romantic, we miss all the exhausted crowd hurrying to the exit.