How long do we (as Canadians) tend to stay?

[Puccaw]

With the price of gas and airfare from Canada ( I am on the East coast) do you and your family tend to stay longer or do you still keep your trip to basically a week? To me a week seems too rushed when you have to alott 2 days for travel if flying. When it is all worked out is it really that much more to stay for 10 days to 2 weeks?

 

[Lollipop's Mom]

We live near Vancouver, so it is a long 10-12 hour travel day to get to Orlando -so we stay for 2 weeks. This year doing 5 days in disney then the 7 day cruise, with airport hotels on either end.

 

[Puccaw]

See, when I even mention that we are going for two weks I usually hear,"What? are you nuts?" or "It must be nice." But to me, staying for two weeks is not double the price of a single week and therefore worth it seeing as the airfare is quite costly from Canada and although I tried, DH is not willing to drive to Maine.
Cute icon by the way!

 

[pooksma]

I like the ten day trips as you can see by my sig. The only reason this trip is a week is because we are not taking DS.

Next year will be 10 days.

 

[digskat]

our usual trip is 10 nights at WDW, and 1 night each way.

 

[PBX1]

We usually fly down 1 day early and stay off site for that night and try and book a late flight on the last day.

 

[F4disneyfan]

We are usually 12-14 nights at WDW and 3 travel days 2 on the way down and 1 on the way home (straight through)

 

[pigletto]

We are going ten days. But I booked mid day flights coming and going to avoid getting up super early and rushing. So really our actual vacation days that we will spend in the parks is 8.

 

[drag n' fly]

Never less than 10 days since flights run 2500-3500 for our family of five every time.

 

[deanie]

We live in B.C. so it is a pricey flight for us. We have been four times now and spend anywhere from 11 to 14 days.

 

[yxe dad]

My shortest was 5 days because I had a work trip in New York and got a cheap flight down to Orlando after work was done. My longest was 19 days with a 4 day Disney Cruise in the middle.

 

[dvcdisney]

We tend to go twice a year and 10-15 days each time. I will admit that the price of airfare has made us stick to the 15 days. We are DVC members so we plan quite a few months in advance and would stay on points for the whole vacation. We also use the DDP so (for now) it's a good deal. We moved to the EAst coast a few years ago from Toronto and we find that, now more than ever, we need to make our vacation longer to make the airfare worth it.

 

[mackeyapp]

We do two weeks at Xmas time since it's an easier time for us to get away from our business and we find that two weeks works best for us. We have done a 1 week trip the past two summers and it is gone by too fast. Two weeks works best for us, time to enjoy the parks (at our pace) and just enjoy everything else around us without feeling rushed. I know people roll their eyes when we say we are going again for 2 weeks but that's our escape and I don't feel one bit guilty about it.

 

[Puccaw]

That is the way I look at it, for the price of airfare you want to get your money's worth! Mostly people that I talk to who have gone tend to stay for 10-14 days, and when I hear people talking about a week and what they are trying to jam in, I wonder how they will feel trying to do that. I am planning 3 down days on our next trip, as I found that we were a bit too tired at the end of every day on our last trip.

 

[My 2 princesses]

This is our first trip and I had a hard time getting DH to take the entire week off. We'll see how it goes. I have told him that after I visit and if I feel I can do this trip again w/o him, I'll be so there, LOL!!!

 

[Puccaw]

This is our first trip and I had a hard time getting DH to take the entire week off. We'll see how it goes. I have told him that after I visit and if I feel I can do this trip again w/o him, I'll be so there, LOL!!!

While we were there on our last trip DH developed a terrible sinus infection and had to sit two days out. The girls and I carried on and went on our merry way while he slept back at the hotel (wimp...lol). I was thinking I could totally do it without him (not that he would ever let that happen for an entire trip as he is as nuts about Disney as the rest of us). The only problem that I would really have is the airports...I don't like airports and I don't like flying.

 

[squirrel]

My trips have been about 10 days. Five days of each of them at WDW. The first we did Universal, Sea World and Wet n' Wild- the other DCL (we added a few nights at ASMu, and finished passes from previous trip).

This year we have 14 nights at WDW. 10 days in the parks, and 3 days of down time (might do water parks).

We are driving down to Seatle and spending the night and then flying- so much cheaper than flying out of Vancouver. We do loose a whole day each way even with an early flight.

 

[MCFADDEN5]

We say for 8 days ,all on property.

 

[roxrox]

10 to 12 days.

 

[loretta lowerison]

I am from Toronto so the travel is not bad at all. We usually do 8 days which give me about 6.5 days to enjoy the parks. We like to split the time equally between all the parks. I would love to do for 2 weeks straight, but just can't afford it right now. Hope I can do that in 2 years.