How do you vacation???

[NewJerseyDVCMembers]

Reading posts here, we often get the feeling that people aren't "DVC'ing" the relaxing way. So many people seem to rush through their WDW vacations like a team of Green Berets. Folks... ease up! Your DVC members!

Take your time, if you don't get to something this trip, it'll be there next time. We know that most everyone wants to get the most of their park passes, but trying to do too much makes you feel exhausted at the end of your trip. It can also add to stress.

Take some time to really enjoy your resort, that's not done enough. It isn't a sin to skip the parks all together on a DVC vacation. To many people don't seem to be able to take that advice. Some of our favorite vacation memories didn't happen in the parks, believe it or not!

This is just some friendly advice, so don't get upset. If your some kind of commando vacationer and feel slighted, don't post a reply here... try the Dr. Phil site, you need help!

 

[BillPA]

I agree 100%. We go 2-3 times a year, get APs, so we don't feel FORCED to do a full day at any of the parks. We might just go in a park for a meal and a slow stroll around. Hey, if we don't see something on this trip we will be back is a few months, we just pickup where we left off. Life is too short for 'command style' trips.

Thank you DVC!!!!

 

[CharlesTD]

We are commando each and every trip if it isn't a park day it is a day at Merit Island or at Shellkey Island we are gone from sun up to sundown and rarely see the inside of the room.

 

[Laurajean1014]

We go about twice a year and we get an annual pass. We go early and leave early, we go early and leave late, we go late and leave early and we sometimes don't go into the parks at all.

My DS9 is really into the water parks, so we go there a lot. I love OKW and sometimes spend a good amount of time in a one bedroom, with my laptop or feeding the ducks and fish.

There's never enough time when your in Disney World.

 

[jekjones1558]

Isn't it great that DVCers come in lots of different styles? Being able to commando with guests or veg-out alone at the resort is what makes DVC fun, no matter what the circumstances. Every kind of vacation has merits. To each her own!

 

[DVC Jen]

We vacation in our own unique way and would never think of pushing our style on someone else.

What is right for one family is not always right for everyone.

 

[newholidayx2]

This Aug is our first mother/son WDW vacation and our first 2wk vacation.
The plans are:
spend the first 3 days at the pools, waterpark, getting adapted to the heat!
Then we'll do 4 mornings at the parks at their regular openings, leaving after lunch to head back to the pools
Second wk we're planning pools in the morn and parks late afternoon/nights

 

[DVCconvert]

we often get the feeling that people aren't "DVC'ing" the relaxing way. So many people seem to rush through their WDW vacations like a team of Green Berets. Folks... ease up! Your DVC members!

That's a tall order when we've only got Sun - Thurs to cover 47 square miles!

Actually I agree, different strokes -- but we've 'settled in' now to the "relaxation vacation" mode, meaning that with AP's and DVC we can sleep in, stay out, do a park, a pool, or just drive around central Florida and enjoy ourselves whatever we find ourselves doing!

 

[WDWLVR]

I think DVC has definately helped us relax during vacation. I love being able to eat breakfast in the room, especially since I am often up before DH.

We then hit the parks in the morning and when the crowds hit go back to the villa to relax. Evening will find us heading out for a meal and maybe another park.

We usually take a week long WDW trip each year, but DVC and our AP's allow us to do little extras like tacking on a day or two before or after our cruises. We stayed one night after our 12/18 cruise and got to try Beach Club for the first time. We are staying two nights before and two nights after the DVC Member Cruise this September.

Ahhhh - they joys of DVC!

 

[dianeschlicht]

We don't really commando any more. We kind of do with guests who have never been before, but that is because they usually aren't staying as long as we are. We usually take 10 day or longer DVC trips, and many times on our way home we will make comments about..."We forgot to do____ this trip"! Not to worry, there will always be a next trip. We tend to tour the parks on our onw schedule these days. We go early, go "home " to rest and go back late. Some days, we just head over to a park to do one specific thing. That's the beauty of DVC and APs!

 

[rayelias]

This is just some friendly advice, so don't get upset. If your some kind of commando vacationer and feel slighted, don't post a reply here... try the Dr. Phil site, you need help!

Hi. My name is Ray and I'm a commando vacationer.

Life's short! Too much to do! So little time to do it! Gotta get it all in! Can't miss anything! What's up with all these people? Ugh, these LINES!

By the way, I tried the Dr. Phil website. Too slow! Got things to do! Can't wait around! Let's go! Let's go! Stupid cable modem! 3 MBPS it too slow! Speed it up! I don't have time for all this! Where's my espresso? Need more caffeine!

 

[jekjones1558]

Hi, Ray!
Bet it's a blast doing parks with you!

 

[keishashadow]

Hi. My name is Ray and I'm a commando vacationer.

Life's short! Too much to do! So little time to do it! Gotta get it all in! Can't miss anything! What's up with all these people? Ugh, these LINES!

By the way, I tried the Dr. Phil website. Too slow! Got things to do! Can't wait around! Let's go! Let's go! Stupid cable modem! 3 MBPS it too slow! Speed it up! I don't have time for all this! Where's my espresso? Need more caffeine!

Knew there had to be others of my kind out there...
One of my main lobbying points to my DH (yes - I did have a presentation ready, turns out he didn't take much convincing once I discovered Resale) was that we would: "slow down, deviate from the Plan, maybe not even go into the parks each day" Yikes, what was I thinking?

 

[DisFlan]

The great thing about DVC is that it fits all the different vacationing modes we'll have over 30-40 years. When our son was young, we did commando mode. Now that he's an adult and travels with us with his wife, we're more relaxed. And in a few years, we'll probably be back to commando mode with grandchildren. Gotta love it!

DisFlan

 

[Girlie Goofy]

We've always been commando style vacationers, whether it's WDW or Las Vegas, or someplace else. Hope it changes a bit as we get older, cause it's killing me! One of the reasons I wanted to be an owner, was the hope that we would slow down, and appreciate the small details of WDW.

 

[gracelrm]

I wouldn't say we are the "commando" type, but we usually plan a park or two a day with a rest back at the room in the middle. We have three children 12, 9, & 5 and they all have their age-appropriate desires of what to do, plus what we want to do - so to keep everyone happy - we do it all! I would hate to tell one of the kids that we wouldn't do their favorite, because the next time we come - they may have outgrown that ride. I'd feel too sad to ever let that happen. So I'll continue to err on the side of caution - and do it all!

 

[Rash]

Take some time to really enjoy your resort, that's not done enough. It isn't a sin to skip the parks all together on a DVC vacation.

Tell that to my 5YO daughter and see how it goes over. I will gladly follow your advice when I don't have to hear "when are we going on the rides?" 100 times an hour.

 

[Alexander]

OMG we couldn't be farther from the commando type vacationers. We have AP's so we can head to the parks, do one ride and leave if we want. We are pool lizards. We like to just hang out and do little to nothing. The parks are there if we need something to do. Our favorite memory from last vacation was taking a surrey bike from VWL to Fort Wilderness and wandering around the horse barn for an hour. I don't think we were supposed to leave the surrey bike locked to the bench at the bus stop, but.....sue me!

 

[MagikMom]

Rayelias, you would get along great with my husband! Since we became DVC members in 2002 he has "relaxed" more. We go for extended vacations (next mo. we are going for 16 days) so we can have a lot of down time to just sit by the pool and hang out.

 

[Disney Doll]

Some folks love the commando type touring...the do it all, see it all thing. Some folks may never see the inside of a park.

I think we are kind of middle of the road. We do like to do some of our favorite things in the parks, and we do have restaurants that we like to eat at, but we have gotten away from the sun-up till sundown touring. We'll go to a park, then go back to the hotel and hang at the pool or whatever, then go out to eat and do the evening thing, but it's at a relaxed pace.

I think the beauty of the DVC is that you know you will be back.