Family in FL ruining vaca anyone else?

[rockundergirl]

I'm writing this at the risk of getting my head bit off, but.. Does anyone else have family in Florida that sucks the magic out of their trip? I want to go to disney world, stay on disney property, eat disney food, and have fun planning on being away from home for a week. As of 6 months ago I have relatives that have moved to the orlando area.. now I'm being endlessly propositioned.. Why not just stay with us, its cheaper?.. Well if you coming down anyway, you can stop and see the pool... At least come over for dinner a few nights... they have better food outside the parks ya know... UGH SHUT UP.. NO! i want my Disney Vacation to be a vacation... I'm driving 16 hours to get away from Jersey! Ok I'm done... i think i needed to get that out... lol

 

[DaParkers]

I understand completely. I am from New Orleans but haven't lived there in more than 10 years. I visit often, but never stay with family. I ALWAYS stay in a hotel. I've stayed with family before and hated it. My wife isn't comfortable because it's my family and I'm not comfortable because I'm used to living how I want to live. It's hard being grown in someone else's house. No matter how much they say "Make yourself at home" You never can. I visit New Orleans to go places I haven't been in a while and to VISIT family, not live with. I understand. Disney is NOT cheap. Therefore I know you want to get your money's worth. And you can't get that anywhere but at Disney. Also, once you commit to an hour or 2, that can quickly turn into 3 or 4. Do whatever it takes to NOT be bothered while on vacation.

 

[L.E. Ott]

I think the first mistake was telling them you'd be there....

 

[rockundergirl]

I think the first mistake was telling them you'd be there....

agreed, i blame face book and my own reckless excitement

 

[Kimberle]

Sneak in when it's dark. Where one of those hats with the big floppy ears. They'll never know you're here..... sssshhhhssss!!!!

 

[dis2cruise]

simple...don't tell them

 

[rockundergirl]

LOL Kimberle,
Front page.. " Jersey woman arrested, dressed as goofy, sneaking into the AKL claiming her family is after her"

 

[livndisney]

I have the opposite problem. Relatives I didn't even know I had, want to stay with me and know if I can get them FREE tickets LOL

 

[WDWtraveler27]

Sneak in when it's dark. Where one of those hats with the big floppy ears. They'll never know you're here..... sssshhhhssss!!!!

lol!! thats a very good plan

 

[WaltD4Me]

I hear you. I have an aunt that lives in Hilton Head. I want to see her when I'm there, but I don't want to stay at her house. I'm vacation, I want a hotel with a balcony overlooking the ocean. I want to eat in their restaurants, not at her house every night. I enjoy seeing her while we are there and spending time with her, but I still want my ocean balcony.

 

[mamato3princesses]

You will get absolutely no heat from me! My dad and his wife do the same thing to me. I can't stand it either!! One thing I do that makes it very difficult to visit him while we are at DIS is NOT rent a car!! That makes not eating offsite an easy decision too.

Last year when we went I told them in no uncertain terms that it was a vacation for my family of 5--and not to sound mean, we didn't want to share our time away (it was also a reuniting of our little family after DH returned from his 15 month deployment to AFG!).

This year when we went down we told him he had to come to us at DIS if he wanted to see us. He *hates* spending the money to get into a park so we just met him for lunch at DTD and did a bit of shopping (well, we shopped, he didn't LOL).

It may even sound selfish, but we are the same as you--we go there to have downtime, on our time, where we want it. It's fine and dandy if he wants to run after us in the park and hang and enjoy his grandkids, but we are not spending the extra money to rent a car and drive more than an hour each way in addition to the expenses we've already occured.

Boy, I do sound mean--but really I'm a nice girl!!! LOL

PS--I should add that he does spend time up here in the summer so no, we are not depriving him of time with our kids, either.

 

[clombardi]

My father got remarried after my mother died, and he moved an hour from Orlando. He drives me insane because he (actually it is more his wife that does it) insists on coming to Disney to meet us whenever we go.

I finally bought Disney vacation club just so that he could not take over our vacations any longer. We have worked everything out after some trial and error. After our Disney trips, we usually spend 3-4 days at their home so they can see the grandchildren.

 

[Disneybridein2k3]

LOL Kimberle,
Front page.. " Jersey woman arrested, dressed as goofy, sneaking into the AKL claiming her family is after her"

Nikkibell???
Actually, I have the same problem. My husband's family lives about 45 min away and to top it off, they hate my Mouse. So even if we visit them, I have to hear endless taunting about "you do realize there are other places in the world to visit other than Disney, right?" Yup, got it. Got the memo.
As far as solving the problem, I am just not a nice person. Now they don't want me back See? THAT is forward-thinking.

 

[rockundergirl]

Advice to date... Wear costumes, lie, and be cruel to family to make them dislike my company.. NICE, i had know idea that so many people out thr think like me ha , just joking, i'm glad im not the only one that has this issue!

 

[vicki_c]

I was seriously disturbed when I thought my SIL/BIL and niece were going to join us for 1 day over Christmas! I really like them - a lot - and we visited with them on both ends of our trip, but I just did NOT want to tour the parks with them. Our family are serious rope-droppers, FP-gatherers, Disney freaks! They would have been all over the place not wanting to follow any plan.

I was so (secretly) happy when they said they couldn't come because they were too busy getting ready for Christmas.

I acted like but inside I was

 

[Shelly F - Ohio]

We have family who recently moved to Cocoa Beach and we will be taking our 2nd trip since thier move and we have not told them about our trips.

We own a DVC timeshare so why would we stay 1 hour away at their place? So we chose not to tell them or any of my husband side of the family that we are going to Disney for fear it would get told to them that we will be there.

 

[IWISHFORDISNEY]

WOW we go all the time with family but have learned that you do the parks with your own family and eat dinner only with the whole family. I hope we dont become those annoying family members in FL

 

[vicki_c]

WOW we go all the time with family but have learned that you do the parks with your own family and eat dinner only with the whole family. I hope we dont become those annoying family members in FL

Well, we USED to be the relatives in Florida ourselves as well -- but we were the ones helping our clueless relatives navigate the parks, even the other Florida relatives! Sounds like you've got the right approach -- not too much togetherness!

 

[safetymom]

I love it when I have friends come to Orlando for a visit. They want to stay at WDW so I go visit them when it is convenient for them. They get their vacation, I don't have to worry about having house guests.

 

[sshaw10060]

I have done the exact same thing with my parents. I have been in town and not told them. Plus, since they are divorced, I have gone so far as to see one of them and not tell the other I am in town. If you had met them you would totally understand