Floridians - Do you still take "long trips"?

[AdventurerKat]

For the purpose of this question, lets say anything longer than four nights is a "long trip".

Since I moved to Sarasota in March, I have taken four trips to WDW. One in April, two in July and one in August, but all of those trips have been four nights or less. I am thinking of taking a couple more before the end of the year, but those, too, would be four nights or less.

Does anyone down here go for a week? Or even longer? For me, I kind of need to save my vacation to go back to Seattle and visit family and friends so that is pretty much what keeps me from booking a long trip. That and the fact that if I get the inkling to, I could always go up the next month (or weekend, lol) for a couple nights.

In a way, I felt kind of rushed on my four trips this year. I felt like I had just unpacked and now I was packing again. But the fact that I can go whenever I want now tempered that some. My other thought was that these short trips ought to give me the opportunity to try out some hotels I never could have spent the week in due to cost.

So, just curious. Do you still go on long trips or do you find yourself just doing the long weekends?

 

[Tink215]

Well we are in Florida ourselves, and I do the same thing you do, We take several trips a year, long weekends never more that 4 days.....its fun I love that I am only 3 hours away and we have actually gone just for the day and come come in the evening, but I always feel so sad when we leave, never satisfied....Well after two babies,DD4 and DD18 months and me a SAHM now and with the purchase our first home we are a bit tight financially and those weekend trips didnt come this year....I was sad, very sad, my hubby was like you have been so many times, But he finally said we could go for Dec. vacation and the fact that I didnt want to deal with the family for the Holidays and neither did he,lol.

So, We are going on our first ever 6 days and 5 nites to WDW, we are doing 3 parks, Epcot, Magic Kingdom amd MGM, We will leave AK for next year.....So needless to say I am very excited...... This is new to me I get to just relax and really enjoy, but I do wonder how its going to be, being there for so long.......and doing 3 parks, wether or not we are going to be exhusted or what........

 

[MainStreetFan]

I am in Daytona now, so it is only an hour ride. I go for 1 or 2 days on my off days. Lately, I have been going about 3 times a month. I was there for 5 days in early August and 9 days in July, but I can cheat. My sister has a condo in Celebration and with my PAP, it is pretty inexpensive, as I only have to pay for food.

 

[Zandy595]

We never do long trips to Disney World. It's always 3 or 4 days, a couple times a year. Short trips just work better for us. I don't like to take DS9 out of school and if I do it's usually just for one day. Packing for a short trip is way easier too.

 

[SnackyStacky]

We never do long trips to Disney World. It's always 3 or 4 days, a couple times a year. Short trips just work better for us. I don't like to take DS9 out of school and if I do it's usually just for one day. Packing for a short trip is way easier too.

Zandy - whereabouts in Western New York are you originally from?

 

[Zandy595]

Zandy - whereabouts in Western New York are you originally from?

Toy Town, East Aurora.

 

[Destination Disney]

We have been 3 times this year and are going back in Oct for our fourth and longest trip. It will be 4 nights, although we are off for the entire week on vacation. To me I'd rather be there during the week and check out on Thurs. or Fri.
Would I stay there a week, absolutly, but then again hords of people arrive on Friday/ Saturday, and are there the entire weekend. I'll leave, let them have the parks because I can go anytime.

 

[civileng68]

I live in SW Florida and we go for a total of about 40 days per year divided up over long weekends.

To us living pretty close, it doesn't make much sense to us to spend all of our money on one big trip and not be able to go back anymore during the year, when we can take the money and just divide it up among many many trips.

We just got back this week from a Friday - Tuesday stay.

I know this may sound completely hard to for most to believe but, I love Disney more than anyone I know and even so, after going so so so much, I am always worn out and ready to come home. For us, home is relaxing because we dont relax much at Disney as we are go go go go go.

We ALWAYS wish we could stay (in a sense) and ALWAYS miss it when we leave and are ready to get back but, after so much going going going, we are glad to get home to relax. Then again, it's easy to say and feel like that because we know we'll be coming back very soon.

 

[Momma Rabbit]

We live in NE FL , we tend to take long weekend trips. I like being able to go a few times a year, and to be able to take longer vacations elsewhere. Two years ago we did a total disney overload trip 7 nights followed with a 7 days cruise. We had a great time, but I think we will stick with the long weekends from now on

 

[PeepleMoovr]

We never do long trips to Disney World. It's always 3 or 4 days, a couple times a year.

This is more of our pattern as well. We'll do 2-day or 3-day weekends there several times a year (just got back Sunday night after 3 days there), but we're only 90 minutes away so day trips happen more often on the weekends.
At times I'd like to go for 5 or 6 days, but I know I'd want to go right back in a week or two anyway. So I find no matter how long I go for, I always want to head right back. I wouldn't discourage you from staying longer, though. Even though we're so close, it feels like a real vacation when we're there.
(We moved here from Seattle as well, so I know what it means to save time to travel and see family. We have family all over the country!)

 

[kerrynic78]

We live about 30 minutes away so my DH usually only lets us stay for 2 nights, he can't see paying money to stay in a hotel 30 minutes away from home.....I try to explain that it's Disney and the resort is as much fun as the parks, but he isn't buying it!

 

[Paisleyjane]

Being in Celebration, where it is only a 15 - 20 minute drive from my front door to MK parking lot, I haven't stayed on property for a couple of years now, but I go over every chance I get!! Sometimes every day!

 

[AdventurerKat]

Being in Celebration, where it is only a 15 - 20 minute drive from my front door to MK parking lot, I haven't stayed on property for a couple of years now, but I go over every chance I get!! Sometimes every day!

Oh sure Paisleyjane...just rub it in.

I truly expect that I will not take another week long trip at Disney as long as I live in Florida. I am not unhappy about that, it just seems weird.

PeepleMoovr, when did you move down here? How do you like it so far?

 

[spoon full of sugar]

We live 2 hours away and have never stayed more than 4 nights/ 6 days(like to get there early and stay late ) usually just a 2 night trip. I always feel so rushed though and would like to stay longer, at least a full week. We also have to stay on weekends, when it is most crowded, wish I could stay during the week. We started going regularly soon after 9/11, didn't know what deals we were getting or that the crowds were light. Would have done things differently had I known.

 

[safetymom]

Now that we live by WDW we actually go to DL for vacation. Crazy I know but I think next year we will do an onsite vacation.

 

[AdventurerKat]

Now that we live by WDW we actually go to DL for vacation. Crazy I know but I think next year we will do an onsite vacation.

I don't think its crazy at all! Actually, one of the first things I said to my husband when we got to this coast was "I wish we would have gone to DL before we left to Seattle, because now we will have to fly cross-country to go!" I LOVE DL park. It is just better than MK, plain and simple (o.k. IMHO!). So, I don't blame ya for going at all. We actually hope to do a split trip to DL and then up to Seattle to visit because I want to go to DL!

 

[webmomom]

Actually we do both. We spent 7 nights at the Ak in June and since then we have been there two more time and each time it has been four days and three nights. We like going up for special things, i.e. passes are exprieing, we need a disney fix, etc lol.

 

[Skylarr29]

We take a few short trips a year(have to make use of those ap's) and we ussually take one LONG two week trip also. We just love anything Disney so we still love to take long trips so we can do other things, eat at some of the restaurants, take out mouse boats etc.

 

[PeepleMoovr]

Oh sure Paisleyjane...just rub it in.

I truly expect that I will not take another week long trip at Disney as long as I live in Florida. I am not unhappy about that, it just seems weird.

PeepleMoovr, when did you move down here? How do you like it so far?

May of last year, and I like it a lot. The sun helps. Sometimes I actually miss a dark, dreary, cloudy, misty day - but that passes pretty soon. But I still have the ocean - and this time I can swim in it!

I agree about the weeklong trip. But I try to get my fill with shorter trips and hope that keeps my satisfied. It never does, but then I just keep going back!