How Often Do You Go Down On A Whim?

[Jhuff8181]

We're buying a camper this month in the hopes of getting down to WDW more often. We're up in New Hampshire so it is about 23 hours straight through. I'm trying to figure out how often we might make the trip and what the minimum stay would be to make the trip worth while. Any thoughts?

 

[Dsnyfireman]

Hi neighbor! Mainer here, we did a last minute trip when I was a kid. I mean LAST minute! My dad called my mom from the fire station on Friday and said can you get someone to cover her day care, she did and we left that night! Had to dig the camper out of the snow and pack clothes! But I think that even a four day trip is enough. We find with two little kids, 3 and 5 at last trip, four days is good if we skip one park. Usually Hollywood studios. But even a three day stay at fort wilderness wouldn't be bad, especially if its February !!! Hope you get lots of use from the new camper and lots of disney trips!! Enjoy!!!

 

[bama_ed]

We come about once a year and it needs to be 4-5 full days minium at the Fort to make it worthwhile for us. And we only have about a 10 hour drive each way. Doing it annually, we only buy 1-2 days of theme parks (5 adult tickets -kids are older).

Your title mentions going on a whim. When I used to live in West Palm Beach, we could go on a whim on a weekend. But now it's all so expensive that I can't afford a $1,000-2,000 "whim".

Not with two kids in college anyway.

And a third on the way.

Bama Ed

 

[mikron]

35 foot coach, 80 miles North of Disney and we whim a lot. 23 hrs. get real tiring after a while. Might want to find a storage site and not have to haul all the time.

 

[sbnewhampshire1]

Hi Granite Staters! We also are from New Hampshire and we take two days to drive down! Depending on where in NH you are from (also we are older)and have more time. We go every year sooo 2 days down, 3 days at park and the fort and two days back ( of course if two drivers your time could be better) total 7 days! Absolutely love the Fort and of course Disney!

 

[serenitygr]

Oh I how I wish we could "whim"! We are coming at Christmas from MN- 1st time every- and we're guessing from google maps it's about 34 hours of driving. Planning to take the kids out of school thur and Friday before Christmas vacation- if we leave Thursday morning sometime, we're hoping to get there Saturday evening or early sunday- our site is actually for sunday. Hoping for a relaxing event free trip down!
But in answer to your question if we could we'd be "whimming" every chance we got!!

 

[Disney Fan Katt]

Howdy Neighbors!!!! We are in Bow, NH and we drove down last Christmas and I would leave tomorrow to drive down on a whim, however my husband does not share my enthusiasm. We took a long route in bad weather and it took us 30 hours down. Our next agreed upon vacation is in April for school break. If I have my way, we will try to get down this fall as well.

We LOVED the campground and no other place has even compared to the feel of the Fort.

Enjoy camping.

 

[PixieCamper]

We're about 8 hours north of WDW and have 2-3 planned trips a year and 1-2 "whim" trips. We always take the camper and it's always well worthwhile. If it's a short trip (4 days) we may not do a full camp set up but we always take the camper. We don't always do the parks though, sometimes we go to just camp. We got kinda burned out on the parks when we lived down there.

Recently tried Universal again for the first time in about 10 years and was blown away. I feel guilty but I think we like Universal better than WDW now.

 

[Pooh2]

We are in central NH. We did a whim trip once, calling and getting a site in the 1500 loop 3 days ahead (stayed 7 nights).

We had record breaking amounts of snow, our pop-up was stored out back. Our neighbors packed down a path with their snowmobiles, another neighbor used his 4 wheel drive truck to get the pop-up out of the back yard.

It was sleeting and icy when we started out (not fun with a pop-up!), we had to rinse the salt and mud off the camper when we got into warmer climates.

We break the drive into two days.
That was one of our best trips with the kids. Sometimes, you just need a break from NH weather!

So just make sure you leave your camper where you do not have to dig to far to get it out of the snow!

 

[Barney Fife]

We sort of "whimmed" twice. But that was after we sold our camper in 2008. We also had APs.

So basically, we already had passes and we stayed at the Contemporary and POFQ. Both times we left early Friday morning and came back Monday. I couldn't imagine dragging the camper down there for anything less than a week.