Does anyone go to Disney without DH?

[mickyzzzzz05]

My DH and I went Dec of 03 and 04. Last year I went with our youngest daughter and he was pleased to not be there. This Dec I am going with a friend and her husband is staying with my DH and they will golf.

He said that he will go next year - he just doesn't want to go every year but understands that I do!

 

[deide71]

I am going with my 3 small children (7,4,2) in October. My DH preferred his hunting trip!!!!!

My 2 best friends are going with us, and I think we will have a fabulous time !!!!

 

[Minnie_Moo]

My girls' trip with a bunch of friends I've known forever is less than six months away and I went to WDW with a friend from work back in May. DH doesn't enjoy going as often as I do, but after two trips without him in one year, he may insist on going next time!

 

[Simba's Mom]

My DH and I went Dec of 03 and 04. Last year I went with our youngest daughter and he was pleased to not be there. This Dec I am going with a friend and her husband is staying with my DH and they will golf.

He said that he will go next year - he just doesn't want to go every year but understands that I do!

Perhaps you could encourage your DH with a game (or several) of golf. When DH and I go to WDW, he golfs every day, so even on my non-solo trips, I'm solo during the day. I think DH considers WDW a golf resort. The last time we were standing at the luggage carousel waiting for the luggage, and his golf clubs came off first. He announced "Well, I've got everything I need for the week!" I'm afraid that's somewhat true.

 

[snowbunny]

DH never goes with us, he's been twice and says he hates Orlando and will never go back. I don't waste my breath trying to convince him anymore.

Our next trip sans DH is in three months. We're meeting some of my relatives for a stay in a BWV Grand Villa

 

[disneyfan551]

My best trips have been without my dh! During our last trip in May, my dh & my best friends (bf's) dh came down several days later, and then left a few days early! So, it worked out perfect! He doesn't enjoy Disney, and only likes to watch our dd having fun. So, he'll be going hunting this Fall, when my bf and I will be taking our 2 kids to Disney in Sept.!! Now, I just have to figure out when and how I'm going to tell him... Last October our house sold earlier than expected, and I already had a week planned at WDW before our 7 night cruise....so, I HAD to go to Disney, while he HAD to stay home and finishing moving! Bad thing is that we're in the middle of building our new home, and it looks like we will be moving in sometime during the month of my next trip too... Looks like I may be in trouble again....

 

[disneyfan19712006]

I have been 19 times my DH 3. He prefers to visit his mother in Vegas.

 

[IrishWake]

Any of you girls that go to WDW without DH. Let me know and I'll leave DW home as well.

 

[ellyn2000]

Finally, a thread I can identify with more than any other! We have been to WDW many times since our first trip in 1990 and DH has never been. He runs the family business and would be too worried about the place closing down if he took 8 days or more off, so I take the family and go without him. I've honestly come to believe that he would be too much of a downer if I had to face every day with him worrying about home and work. I don't give it a second thought now and he's happy for me to go if I just don't make him go. We do shorter long weekend type trips when he is in the mood to get away.

 

[bluejasmine]

Any of you girls that go to WDW without DH. Let me know and I'll leave DW home as well.

You are so bad! I have been to WDW twice without hubby. Once back in 2001 with mom and DD then last Aug I got the free dining but DH didnt want to leave during hunting season. He is going this Aug tho!

 

[ClarabelleCowFan]

Yep, all the time!

 

[IrishWake]

You are so bad! I have been to WDW twice without hubby. Once back in 2001 with mom and DD then last Aug I got the free dining but DH didnt want to leave during hunting season. He is going this Aug tho!

Bluejasmine, I was just in your neck of the woods last weekend. Me and DW stayed at the Charleston Place Hotel. You have a lovely, lovely city. We loved it very much.

 

[discraz]

No way is DH coming with us, he's not invited. I know that sounds a little mean but he has no desire or thought of every going to DW. Just as I'm not invited to his motorcycle trips. We do take a vacation together, usually a cruise. We can both enjoy and agree to the cruises.
I don't want him to come because I know he would hate it and he would want to go home after a half day at the parks. Now me and my two boys can ride the rides all day long and never get enough.
I have not attempted a trip with both boys yet, the youngest is only 4 years, and I like for them to be big enough to ride all but one or two of the rides.
We have to travel a ways and can't go very often, so any trip has to be big-all you can do kind of trip.
My only concern is keeping track of both of them, 2 against 1.

 

[Harvest02]

Thanks for all the replies! I am trying to convert my husband, but just don't think it will ever happen! I guess I will have to enjoy the Disney magic with my kids alone!

 

[LiLIrishChick63]

my DF's mother goes without her husband all the time. her husband is a big grump and thinks that Disney is "boring" now that he doesn't have any young kids anymore and claims that Vegas is so much better because "it's not the same thing every year"......riiiight......because there's different slot machienes in every casino! lol.

she loves going without him. she has a great time with his entire family that goes without him. he would probably just complain the whole time anyway.

 

[deany]

Yes, I am going without him in Oct. He doesn't like to travel as much as I do. I am taking my DD and her BF for a grad trip.

 

[Florida_Mom]

MOST of our trips are without DH. Like the OP, my boys are 9 and 5, and we all need our "Disney fix". We only live a few hours away, though, so we take spur-of-the moment kind of trips, and then we have the planned ones where we spend a few days.

We did MVMCP with my mom and without DH two years in a row, and had a blast!

Last summer, DH came with us camping and had fun, but didn't want to do it again this year. So, I packed up the pop-up and off we went to FW this summer. Yeah...not doing that again without DH. That was actually pretty tough. Fun, but I just don't have his muscles....

And truthfully, I think DH enjoys the occasional quiet weekend at home. So, it works out well for all of us.

 

[AnnaS]

My dh comes almost everytime. Last year for Easter we visisted my inlaws in Jupiter for a few days. My dh and son drove my daughter and I to WDW and we stayed three additional nights at the BWVs without him.

This August - my dd, sister and I will be there again as will my cousin and her daughter (2 studios at OKW). Can't wait. Hoping for less decisions/thinking/deciding where to eat, where to go, what to do when all five of us are together.

 

[Pixiedust34]

I am traveling alone with the kids for the first time in September. Dh is a teacher and can travel only during the summer. We will miss him so much, but we'll be at WDW so I know we'll have fun! Dh will be traveling with us to WDW in 8/07.

This is pretty far off, but I'm thinking of taking an 08 trip with our kids and my parents.

 

[stacy347]

I'll be going without my DH on this trip. Due to having to reschedule our vacation (not just because of Free Dining but we also bought a new house and we couldn't do WDW and a new house in the same month) ~ so now DH and my step-son are unable to go on this trip.
We are doing a Grand Gathering so lots of other family will be there but I will definitely be planning another trip to the World so that DH and S-DS can go!