Does Any One Elses Family Think They Are Nuts??

[panfan]

Just bought at BCV this week!! Just dissapointed that all that most of my family and friends can say is "DONT YOU EVER WANT TO GO ANYWHERE BUT DISNEY WORLD?"---WELL---NOT REALLY!!

Does any one else get this too??

My husband and I have been going almost every year since we have been married. We even talked our brother and sister in law into taking their family after raving about WDW for years and they finally went last year and HATED IT!!--How is that even possible--( their children ages 7 and 10) They thought the whole thing was over rated and just a waste of time and $$j

At least my mom and step-dad are excited for us--They go every time we do( whether we want them too or not!!!!)

ANY BODY ELSE GET THIS FROM FAMILY OR FRIENDS THAT JUST DONT GET IT??

 

[Jhalkias]

Yes, Panfan, we get it all the time . . .

Last December, we took my two sister-in-laws, one of their foster children, and my mother in law for four nights at BCV, and a 3 night DCL cruise on our points. One of them hated it, and the rest really wondered why we rave about it all the time.

I have grown so tired of my boss and work associates that I now say I am going to Florida on vacation, and do not mention WDW. They all think we are nuts. Too bad - I think the same thing about all of them when they go to Las Vegas every year - to each his own.

But, my wife,our kids, and I LOVE WDW, go at least once a year, and truly consider our DVC like our second vacation home. I like to think that there is a common, wholesome, family oriented thread among those of us big "KIDS" who love WDW so much!

 

[panfan]

Most of the people I encounter think I am just "over the top" about Disney. It is nice to know after discovering these boards that there are sooooo.... many of us out there!!

 

[house_of_princesses]

I'm starting to lurk here because I'd like to sign on the dotted line, but am afraid my own DH may think me looney. We have been taking the travel trailer with us where ever we go for the past two years, but wouldn't it be nice to just fly away for a week, once a year..... AAHHH I can feel the stress slipping away already.......

ps. jhalkias, we moved from Green a few years ago. My how it's grown! We lived in Raintree, off of Graybill and Mayfair Roads. Miss the geography, as well as my friends.

 

[mitymott]

We get it all the time. But trust me, they're all just jealous.

 

[littlestar]

Oh, yeah, we hear it also. We throw a trip in to Hawaii every once in a while to throw 'em off, though (hee hee).

I like Disney because it feels wholesome, great theming, (I can't really explain it). Maybe it has to do with being a baby boomer. All those years that mom took us to the drive-in when the Disney classics came to town. Pure MAGIC.

We were just in Vegas (again, ahhhh) for work. We had to be there for a week and my husband kept looking at me and saying, man-oh-man, why couldn't this trade show have been in Orlando? Our clothes smelled like smoke the entire week (everywhere we went we had to walk through casinos) and it really gets tiresome with the panhandlers on the street snapping those nudie cards at you - yuck.

Give me my DVC, please.

 

[Disney1fan2002]

DONT YOU EVER WANT TO GO ANYWHERE BUT DISNEY WORLD?"

WOW, so i am NOT the only one! I don't get it so much from my family, but I would get that exact question from my co-workers. You see, I started working there 16 years ago at the age of 19. It was the Post Office, so I was the youngest by about 10 years. So they joke that they watched me "grow up'. I was considered their baby. So many of them sort of felt like parent figures towards me. Disney was my first major vacation at the age of 27. And I pretty much don't plan trips anywhere else. Just Disney. I guess they feel there is just so much MORE in the world to see, but they don't get the fact that I DON"T CARE. I have since discovered NYC, and that is my next favorite place to go, but Disney still RULES!!!!

Now they think I am being unfair to my kids because all they will ever get to see is Disney. Excuse me? Hello? I saw NOTHING as a child. I grew up OK. ( well, some may argue that my obsession with Disney is not "normal" LOL. My kids love Disney as much as we do, and I say WE because before my husband met me, he had no opinion on Disney one way or the other, but now, he is more of a fanatic than I am, if that is at all possible. LOL

 

[trishy]

Does any one else get this too??

Yep, from family, friends, neighbors. I agree it's just jealousy that drives them to say this.

 

[Merilyn]

We don't hear that a whole lot. Most of my family and friends love the idea too. We love WDW and think it is the best place to vacation. We really love the way our handicapped brother is so welcome there. He is an adult with a childs mine and they treat him so special. Everyone gives him the same amount of time they give the children. He loves the characters and they really try hard to make him feel special. It is the only place we can go and not worry about him being out of place. We have traded off several times but it is never the same. Nothing will ever be as good as WDW. I will never get bored with our trips there and will continue to go yearly for another 39 years. That is if I am still able at 92!!!

 

[ArnyVee]

I think that almost everyone that cares so much about Disney (I'm a self-proclaimed Disney Nut as well ) tends to not need anything aside from Disney in the way of vacationing. I mean, the company as a whole preaches (or at least they used to) the best customer service. They try and treat everyone special...creating magic...making you forget about your worries. How could you not love going somewhere that transports you to a child-like state of mind? Walt Disney himself said..."Although there's not a lot of grown-up in every child, there's definitely a lot of child in every grown-up."

So, to those that don't believe in the 'magic'...that leaves more fun and magic to us!

Especially here in South Florida it's hard not to love going to Disney because most children are taken at least once every couple of years and they grow up liking it. So, I don't have a lot of friends and family that say anything bad about it. Well, aside from my DW

I'll get her to love Disney if it's the last thing I do

 

[InstImpres]

Originally posted by panfan

Does any one else get this too??

We even talked our brother and sister in law into taking their family after raving about WDW for years and they finally went last year and HATED IT!!--How is that even possible--( their children ages 7 and 10)

Sometimes I get this but I don't care. The looks are getting worse now that I am adding a solo trip this summer.


As for your brother, the answer is probably they didn't want help planning and did a commando uninformed thing. My SIL and her DD joined me in Feb (her husband won't go as he is very anti-disney - big waste of $$, etc.). Bottom line my SIL (and DD) are going with me again next year. I was disappointed we had to skip a few things but she said she did twice as much this trip as compared to her last trip and saw so many amazing things they never would have found. I believe anyone who doesn't love DIS treats it like a trip to 6 Flags so they don't get enough out of it! JMHO.

 

[carone0318]

Our family and our frieds are perfectly ok with our obsession. We have taken my family, they loved it and my bother and SIL bought DVC too. In Feb we are taking dh's side of the family. They will love it because they will be with their grandkids. Our best friends own DVC. At one point there were 4 families on our street that own DVC.

The place where I get the looks and chuckles is at work. That really doesn't bother me though. People don't understand, but they think that it is perfectly acceptable to go to the Jersey shore every year. Yuck! I'm go, but I don't really like to swim in the Jersey shore. To each his/her own.

The funniest thing about work is, everyone thinks that I am crazy for going to Disney every year, but everyone runs to me when they have a question about Disney. This past January, our mgrs had a junket (as I like to refer to it as) down in Disney. I figured out the location when about 4 people came and talked to me. I was able to save one guy a few hundred bucks in regards to hotel rooms because I enlightened him about codes. Kinda funny, us crazy ones are a great reference point. They laugh and chuckle at us, but run to us when they need information

I don't think that people are jealous or envious of us, my reason for thinking that is because most of them don't know squat about Disney to know what to be jealous or envious of! I would chose the word ignorant, I think that that fits better .

 

[westjones]

DH asked this ("Don't we want to go other places too?") when I first brought up the idea of DVC. But when he learned about banking and borrowing points, and Hilton Head Island, and trading out to other places, and the Disney Cruise Line (which we both love) he realized that DVC didn't mean we HAD to go to WDW every year.

DH has 'ideas' of us using our points to go other places when the kids are grown. I just say, "We will see." I am happy at Disney, and I loved Hilton Head and can see a week there every year if we want something slower and quieter.

DVC doesn't mean you have to go to WDW every year. We only bought 150 points. I would have loved more, but to be realistic, DH can only get a fixed number of days off each year, and we live 19 hours away from WDW (so can't make quick trips there). DH also felt that with only 150 points we could easily bank points some years and do something else for a year.

Since we are 'new' to DVC and our kids are still somewhat young (twins, 9), I told DH that as long as the kids have that young 'magicial' feeling for Disney I want to go there. But when those teen years hit we can think about going other places.

My point is, when the "Don't you want to go anywhere else?" comes up, we can say YES, and DVC works in a way that lets us do that very easily. But our heart will always be with Disney, and I can't imagine going more than 1 year without some sort of Disney Vacation (whether is it Hilton Head, Disney Cruise, or WDW).

DJ

 

[ArnyVee]

Originally posted by InstImpres
Sometimes I get this but I don't care. The looks are getting worse now that I am adding a solo trip this summer.

Solo trips are great!

I was 'forced' into going to WDW by my DW as she had a business meeting in January and we were put up at the Dolphin hotel. Well, while she was doing her 8am-5pm workday, I was off to conquer all four parks in one day!

We were able to walk around the Boardwalk area and visit some of the Epcot area as well together as well. But, it sure was fun having the final (and only) say in what was going on.

Have fun and forget the 'looks'!

 

[rtkane]

Originally posted by carone0318
People don't understand, but they think that it is perfectly acceptable to go to the Jersey shore every year. Yuck! I'm go, but I don't really like to swim in the Jersey shore.

This is exactly what I've come across before--I have friends who'd say I was crazy thinking about DVC and yet they go to the beach and rent a house for a week every year. My sister also made a comment about DVC but they rarely ever go on a real vacation (and when I pointed this out, she said, "well, that's true"). I don't think people really understand it, and many probably remember their Disney vacations which had small rooms and nowhere to spread out, which isn't the case with DVC.

 

[sandieb]

Hello - I am known for my annual vacations at Disney...and some people do make comments indicating I am a Disney fanatic. Guess what? I don't care! I DO love the World, so do my grandchildren, children, and (I guess so does my husband - he is so easygoing, & he knows my feelings). I work hard to meet expectations at work and home, but at vacation time the expectations are all mine, and Disney meets them and more! Sandie
PS - Hubby just walked in and I read him my post...he says ditto for him...he loves it too. Sandie

 

[chrissyk]

Of course!! My family all say things like "don't you ever go anywhere but Disney World?" I could care less, though...hey, I LIKE Disney World. So what?!! My parents don't vacation at all, and my in-laws take cruise after cruise. I don't understand either of those scenarios, so I don't expect them to understand why we're DVC members either

 

[panfan]

Carone0318--It sounds like we have much in common!! ( In fact we just moved to PA in october from south jersey in october)

I too have friends and family that love the shore. Whats even worse is my Dad and Stepmom own a house in Stone Harbor--Very lovely but I would rather go to WDW of coarse! I always get "Why dont you just spend a week at our house?"

My husband and I run my fathers buisness and It is very difficult to get time off in blocks of a week at a time and when we do--Disney JWorld here we come!!

I have even gone as far as lying a couple of times about where it is we are going but my DS is too old now. ( It worked when he was a baby)

 

[Jen D]

I don't think it is "just jealousy" for everyone. I know a lot of people who can't imagine ever wanting to go to WDW one time, much less multiple times. To each his own.

I read a quote from a trip report this week that explained Disney addiction so well I think I'll use it when people ask why I keep going back: "To me Disney isn't like a movie you get tired of watching over and over, it is like a favorite food you crave." (I think this was Steve Russo's trip report on Mouse Planet but can't swear to it.) Anyway, this quote explains it about as well as it can be explained.

 

[bcvillastwo]

The addiction started didn't start for us the first, second, or third time at Disney World. No, it took us a while to realize that we Disney World is our preferred place to take a vacation. Once we came to that realization we started going more often. Then, we started looking at those DVC kiosks and began to wonder what it was all about. Then we took the DVC tour and talked to one of the associates about buying into DVC. We still weren't convinced but the addiction was growing so after our next visit we decided to buy 300 points and the rest is history.

Yes we have family and friends who don't understand why we spend so much time at Disney. By the same token, I don't understand why some people prefer a week at the beach, or the mountains, while some swear by cruises, others like Las Vegas, the islands, or visiting Europe.

Who cares what others may think, give me Disney or give me death. Hmmmmmmmm, perhaps I got a little too carried away. Ya think?

Really, it doesn't make any difference if other understand or not. What is important is the WE like DVC and Disney enough to plunk down our hard earned money to be able to enjoy our vacations at the place of our choosing.