Has Disney 'ruined' other holidays for you?

[wilma-bride]

Before Disney (BD), I was all for a holiday which meant a relaxing couple of weeks, lazing by a pool with the odd trip out and about and evenings spent boozing. I've been on several European package holidays and always had a good time.

However, now, I don't know whether it's just because I'm getting older but I feel that, having been to Disney once (soon to be twice), if I can't go there I wouldn't really want to go anywhere else.

Does anyone else feel like that (or am I odd)?

 

[Tron[ADS]]

Absolutely !
I now have no desire to go anywhere else.
This year I spent the run up to my Portugal holiday not really wanting to go, wishing I was going elsewhere.....and then during the holiday I wished I wasnt there.
Strangely though, afterwards, I have realised it was actualy quite a nice place and I wouldnt mind going back sometime.

 

[gilld]

For the first few visits, yes, I felt just as you do. But we started going further afield and soon realised there are other wonderful places. We particularly love the Caribbean and go there a lot, we love cruising and most magical of all the Maldives. Next year we are going to the Far East. Disney is just one sort of holiday, don't narrow your experiences of the world without at least trying elsewhere.

 

[natalielongstaff]

i have to admit i do know what you mean, 2 weeks in spain doesn't seem as exciting now

 

[UKDEB]

There are so many places I would like to visit if I had an inifinite amount of time (and money!). We have tended to want to spend those limited resources at Disney for several years now - we know we'll have a fantastic time, so why risk anything else?

Like Gill, though, we have started to broaden our horizons lately, albeit that we usually manage to tag on an Orlando stay. Besides, there are so many places in the World to see. Disneyland California, Disneyland Hong Kong, Tokyo DisneySea...

 

[jns]

I agree
no one in our house wants to go anywhere else

we have been now 5 times and have never even gone to US or IOA

we have been to Tenerife in between and had a good time but I think our family have out grown Package holidays
DISNY HAS SPOITLED US

 

[emily1982]

i've been to disney twice and am going again at xmas with my mom, it will probably be the last time i go for a fair few years as i just can't afford to pay for everything myself, i'm abit like that, if i'm going somewhere else im always disappointed it's not disney, but for a few years we could only afford to go to bournemouth, and i was walking with my mom last year and said 'i miss bournemouth, we should go visit there next year', my mom just stopped in her tracks and looked at me and said 'please tell me you still want to go to disney and not cancel it for bournemouth!'. Its not that i like it more, it's just a nice (cheaper) place! But just to c the look on her face was worth the comment!

 

[TotallyAngelic]

I agree totally. Since going to Florida there is no way I would want to spend my hard earned holidays in a Mediterranean beach resort, but although I do like my regular Disney fix, I also like visiting other places in Florida and are planning a West Coast USA trip in the next couple of years or so (which will no doubt incorporate Disney California!). At the moment we are planning to get annual passes to DLRP to allow us to have our Disney fix more often! If I went anywhere else I would probably be wishing I was there anyway!

 

[Soprano]

For me it would be more accurate to say the US has "ruined" it for me. Each time I have been to the US, I have gone to Disney/Universal. Europe has no interest for me at this time of my life.

we have been now 5 times and have never even gone to US or IOA

Wow! I think you are REALLY missing out! Its only a few mile up the road. Those parks are GREAT!

EuroDisney is a complete non starter. I went there years ago and had a good time, but nothing can compare the the Florida and wonderful California parks.

I worked it out, like others I guess, it would cost the same to spend one week in Disneyland Paris, than two weeks in Florida. Tough choice, eh?

 

[carolfoy]

Has Disney ruined other holidays for me?
absolutely not, as long as I get a disney break each year I'm quite happy to have my other holidays too,
last year was Disney, st lucia, spain and India
this year disney, caribbean cruise, and spain
now if I only had 1 a year.....
it would have to be disney!

 

[Scottish_Maleficent]

Since our first trip in 1996, we've haven't even considered going elsewhere. Before this we did the usual package to the med and canaries , which now really don't hold much appeal.
That said, we are keen to try different places, and hope to visit California and New England within the next few years. But I know that we WILL visit WDW too!!!

I think WDW is addictive......... I think they put something in the A/C that makes you want to keep coming back for more!! WDW always smells sooo good!!

 

[Tron[ADS]]

Having said I have no real interest elsewhere....the fact that I am moving to mortgage base rate at the end of next month, having had 2 years at 1.89%, might force me to look elsewhere, or not-atall for a while !

 

[wilma-bride]

Having said I have no real interest elsewhere....the fact that I am moving to mortgage base rate at the end of next month, having had 2 years at 1.89%, might force me to look elsewhere, or not-atall for a while !

Good God, 1.89% was a good rate. We are also moving back to base rate in November this year but are hoping to remortgage and get a decent deal.

Don't get me worng, I'm not saying I wouldn't even consider going elsewhere. There are so many amazing places in the world and I still want to see loads fo them but, for the time being, I prefer to spend my hard-earned cash on a holiday to WDW in prefernece to Ibiza or Greece or something similar. I am sure, as we get older, DH and I will want to travel further afield and experience more of the world but we are still revelling in the newness and excitement of Disney (not sure if this wanes any after a few trips).

 

[carolfoy]

I will admit WDW has spoiled completely for me going to firework displays and carnival parades and other theme parks, after we came back from FL the first time we went to legoland a few weeks after and we really couldn't get enthusiastic about it at all, so now we don't bother 'cos we don't want to be the ones there saying 'its not as good as florida'

 

[squitty]

Yes, it has for us.

Since our first trip in 92 DH & I find it very hard to book anywhere else. We have managed to have a little holiday over in Majorca and a day trip to DLP and we wished every minute of those that we were in WDW. Looking back the holiday in Majorca was a good laugh, but we wont be going back, nor to DLP!!
I hope that we manage to get to see Disneyland Cailifornia, maybe a trip to NY soon. Hopefully!!!

 

[Tron[ADS]]

Good God, 1.89% was a good rate. We are also moving back to base rate in November this year but are hoping to remortgage and get a decent deal.

It certainly was, the only better rate I could find at the time was 1.75% with the Alliance & Leicester online......but this one Im on from the Northern Rock also contained £700 cashback for fees.

Of course such a good rate hasnt come without its penalties....Im now tied in for 4 years, and the penalties for an early move are quite severe.

 

[Paul and Shirley]

We feel the same. When there is another place that offers the same fun, sun, food, MAGIC etc then we may look. The thought of sitting around a pool for 14 days doesn't have the same appeal anymore. This is not just us getting old as Katharine is the same.

Do spend a lot more time counting down days to trips though

 

[Hilary]

I think WDW spoilt our enthusiasm for other foreign trips for a while (quite a long while, actually!), but we're starting to regain an appetite for venturing elsewhere.

We've never been a 'sit on a beach/round the pool all day' kind of family anyway and our first trip to WDW was a fantastic family holiday with our DDs. Once we'd been the first couple of times, it was also a holiday which didn't need any angst in sourcing the best arrangements to suit us - we knew what we liked and we did it again each year, only varying the other parts of Florida we visited. It was an easy option (albeit an expensive one!) for a great holiday we knew we'd all enjoy. If it works - why change it?

As DDs have got older, we've started to look at other places but have usually ended up back in Florida. It came as a bit of a shock when youngest DD (now 16), was asked to name her favourite city and she said she couldn't, because she hadn't been anywhere apart from Florida! That wasn't strictly true, but it made me realise she thinks all her holidays have been to Florida and she's now very keen to try somewhere else. I suppose Florida for her is 'ordinary' in the way that camping in Wales was what my DH did every summer with his family!

Times change, children grow up and families evolve. There's a whole world out there to explore, but WDW will always be the place my memories of family hoidays were made

 

[gilld]

It was an easy option (albeit an expensive one!) for a great holiday we knew we'd all enjoy. If it works - why change it?

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The trouble is, we find going to WDW actually cheaper than most other holidays. A decent standard of hotel in Asia/Caribbean or a cruise costs much more!

 

[rob@rar.org.uk]

Not for me - Disney's not even my favourite type of holiday. You can't beat a good ski trip and if I was forced to choose I'm afraid I'd have to give up visiting the Mouse. Luckily we can do both at the moment, although when we leave orlando tomorrow it's likely to be three of four before we return as there are other destinations we want to visit. In the meantime we'll renew our Disneyland Paris annual passes so we can at least have a few long weekends there.

Regards

Rob