Has your enthusiasm for WDW fizzled?

[molly2004]

Don't get me wrong, I'm as nutty about WDW as all of you! I just wonder if I'm overdoing it, if there's such a thing. I love Disney World, not necessarily anything Disney, just WDW. It's the one place I truly can let go of all responsibility and be a child. I wonder sometimes if it'll eventually get old...I hope not. With any luck my little boys will be just a nutty as I am and my DH will be outnumbered!

 

[BunsenH]

I only visit every 2-3 years, so my enthusiasm has plenty of time to recharge. Sometimes I think that I like 'just being there' as much as any attraction.

 

[reedycreek]

i wonder the same thing now that i try to get 2 times a year. everytime i go back i feel recharged again, so it hasnt happened yet, i really dont think that a true disney fan can ever get sick of it.

 

[klofan]

I couldn't go like 5 times a year. Maybe every year or every other. I don't think you'll ever get bored with it. Just don't go often.

 

[ncbyrne]

DH and I are grandparents. The older we get, the more we love it! I go every year...one year with the kids, the next just DH and me!

 

[Laurajean1014]

Mine has grown over the past years...... this place helps a lot.

 

[sheepygirl23]

i think i could love there. ....seriously

 

[jkovick]

We will make our 10th trip there since 2000 in October. We now are DVC members. We love it more everytime we go.

 

[Shagley]

I had been to DL about 6 times as a kid. I was probably 12 years old the last time I went to DL (I am now 36), and then we moved from California, so I haven't been back since. I had never been to DW before, but it didn't really appeal to me (I have no idea why ) UNTIL, this year we planned a trip to Florida in May (My sister, friend, and I). I figured since we would be going right through Orlando, we should at least stop to see what DW is all about. It brought back the magic I felt as a kid at Disneyland. We only spent 2 days at DW, so we barely skimmed the surface. Now I am addicted and I am dying to get back for a week or more to see/do so many of the things that I am missing out on. Unfortunately my sister and my friend didn't seem to get bit by the "tink bug" like I did. Now they are saying "but we were just there".

 

[molly2004]

Just when I thought I was just getting a little quacky, you guys set me straight! WDW is such a great place to get recharged. There seems to be a something a little different I get out of it every time. Now, I get to look at Disney through my kids' eyes too. Nothing better than raising Disney kids and teaching them to spread a little pixie dust around. I also managed to get my groucho, bubble-buster husband into being excited about our next trip! So next time will be a whole new ball game! Yay! Maybe I'll get in a trip with just DH before 2007! Heehee!

 

[Princess Di]

My first trip to WDW was in 75 offsite. We honeymooned in 76 at CR for $42.50 anight --can you believe that price??--Since then, we have stayed all around the world--PR, Campgrounds, CB,POR,CS, YBC,--and have grown into the DVC. Our trips seem to have happened about every 2 years or so. Our kids have their favorites at each park, and there has always been something new to see or do by then in each place. Over the years Disney has just been getting better and better in our eyes! Can't wait until the next trip! Princess Di & her Court!

 

[spiceycat]

I go too often - if I only went once a year - then yes I could agree.

However I go anywhere from 4 to 7 times a year.

If WDW only had the parks then I would definitely be sick of it.

but it doesn't - it has shopping, water parks, water sports, sports complex, car racing, horsebacking riding, boating/biking rentals at your resort, it is a resort not just a hotel.

besides I can really relax at OKW and I love it!!!

 

[goofy4tink]

I have to admit it....I did hit the wall last month. I have been for 10 days in August '04, then 7 days for THanksgiving and just got back from 9 days in mid-June. On the Friday before our Sunday departure, I really had had it. Too many people, too hot....I just wanted to go home and get on with summer vacation stuff. Dd and I decided that we had been a bit too much this past 12 months. I go again in late Nov, solo, and that's it until Oct '06. I'm sure that by June '06 I'll be going nuts. But I did get my dh to admit that he would be happy to go once a year. THat's a huge deal for a man who just couldn't understand why anyone even went for a day!!!

And with all the other stuff to do...well, we just don't feel the need to be in the parks all day anymore. Mini-golf, swimming, shopping. lazing around the pool. It's so much more than an 'amusement park'!!!

 

[floridagirrl2]

DH and I have gone about 10 times in the last year and a half, but we're not sick of it yet! We do wonder if we'll eventually get burned out on Disney (we wonder the same thing about St Augustine, but after probably 30 or so weekend trips and probably 100 day trips to the beach, we're still not sick of it!).

 

[KittyKitty]

Since I live far enough away, I try to stay 10 days of so each trip. When I get home, I feel," ok now I can go on with my life, be normal". This last about 3 months, then the urges start again.

I was going twice a year, but I have to skip this year to save money.....ok, I do have a trip to DL in Nov.


I try not to read the planning portion on the boards as it makes me homesick. Homesick for WDW.

Like Spicycat said, it's all the other stuff besides the parks that keeps be coming back..... Ok, I like the parks too. But it's all of it that I love.

I give up. I'm going back .

 

[Aurora borealis]

DH and I go every 2-3 years and that's just enough time to really get you missing Disney and ready to go! Actually, 3 years is pushing it... I feel like crawling out of my skin right now!! But I think, for us, going every year would be a bit too much... We do stay longer, like 8-9 days, so maybe if we only went 5 days we'd be ready to go more often.

 

[BuddyGenie]

There have been a time when I may have been "Disney'd out", mostly because of travel expenses, but between that time and now, I have learned to just relax and have fun, and not worry about doing this like that and that like this, and so on.

My sister has a condo in Florida, and she's a teacher so she makes the "Big I-95 Commute" two months out of the year. I don't think she's tired of it, and I probably won't be either.

 

[Mykelogan]

Fizzled? No way!
Sizzling? Definitely!
hehehe!!!

I will be job searching in the spring and keep joking about moving to FL... but it might not be a joke in the end!!!

Mike

 

[Taja]

It's more that Disney tends to be over-hyped these days. I went through a period from the late 80s to the mid-90s of being Disneyed-out--and I grew up at Disneyland! What used to be exclusive to Disneyland or WDW became available everywhere, and I was tired of Disney!

Fast forward to 2003 and the FTP. Boy, was I hooked fast! If my November 2005 trip doesn't disintegrate, it will be my 4th trip in 3 years--and likely my last for a couple of years! Airfare just doubled over last year and it's difficult to take sufficient time off work to make it worth while financially. And I don't like the new AP reservation system--WDW already has the worst cancellation policy around--not to mention the worst refund procedures. Took 6 weeks to get a refund last year when I had to cancel a trip scheduled for Labor Day weekend (cancelled well before hurricanes became an issue).

But, thanks to The Dis and other Disney boards, I can enjoy the planning and experience of others. And feel just a bit envious!

 

[nukeantz]

We go 2-3 times a year. For the past 5 years with our 22 yr & 18 yr old sons and their friends at New Years, they get a pouty face if we say we arent going and we cave and go

We keep saying we are not going any more, basically we gripe about all the things disney cutback and changes. We just got back from our first just the 2 of us trips , which I am sure how it will be from now on.

We get there and realize how nice it is to park the car and not move it , not be in a rush to see everything & do every ride, have good restaurants right there, the huge movie theater (we never have time to see a movie at home), not to mention just the cool things to see and do

Well after saying we are burned out we just cant wait to go back each time, we are buying a DVC so it is official we are admitting we are
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