I can't explain why WDW is so.....

[Darkside]

I guess magical. I have tried several times to explain to my friends and family why WDW is so special to our family. I just have a hard time trying to find the words that describes WDW. After they go on a trip with us... they come back to us and say to us, I get it! Anyone have a way to explain why WDW is so.....?? I mean what do you compare it to, how can you describe those feelings you get when you are there?

 

[minnie mum]

Nope. I've never been able to adequately articulate it. I've often seen others try to put it into words and usually end up choking and gagging on the pixie dust and flower petals arising from the purple prose.

I just tell people that they have to experience it for themselves in order to understand it.

 

[Planogirl]

I agree with the PP. IF people are going to feel that way, they have to figure that out for themselves.

 

[noahdove]

It makes all of my concerns and worry fade, the joy and giggles that I reap with the children I take there bring many smiles at the memories.. So, I still have concerns but, they don't seem as bad...I will be there in a short while and I can't wait

 

[Mousemommy1]

I understand. We go annually and have friends that were those "you're go again?" types. They would make fun of us for going so often. So last year, we invited them along....and guess what....they got it!! They are actually going back with us in August!

 

[Darkside]

I have some close friends that we had been trying to get to go with us to WDW.....they finally did. A few months after the trip... they had admitted to us that they would make fun of us...now she says they have to make fun of themselves, they are more addicted than we are... if that is possible.

 

[Missymouse18]

Can't ever seem to quite put it into words, so I just always say that it's my happy place. People shake their heads at us because we go every year at the same time. If we can't afford two vacations, then WDW is the one we choose and we scratch the other.
Once a relative said to me that she just didn't think WDW could do anything for her because (in her words) "I am just not much for rides." REALLY? Is that what people think that's all there is to it? A PP said it's one of those things that most people just have to go and see for themselves before they can really get it and I agree. It is my happy place, my laughing place, my quiet place, my peaceful place. When I am not there, I'm dreaming of it, watching videos of it, listening to my "Four Parks, One World" cd, or planning my next trip

 

[Wef]

I think what makes Disney so special is that there's a level of excellence there that you just don't encounter often in daily life. Such care and creativity is put into everything--from design, to customer service, to cleanliness. There is even an obsessive attention to detail over little things that aren't noticed by most people. Whenever I'm there I'm in awe. Disney shows you what happens when the most creative, talented people give something 200% effort.

 

[larryz]

I mean what do you compare it to, how can you describe those feelings you get when you are there?

I admit right up front that I was brainwashed back in the '50s and '60s.

I've learned to deal with it by going as often as I can...

The only things holding me back from a trip right now are the FP+ unpleasantness, and figuring how to get my DW to want to go...

 

[danceteachermom]

Understand. It is hard to get it if you do not experience it. Also, people who just go without planning, arrive mid-day with no plan, etc. they may never get it.

For us it is that our whole family finds something to love at Disney. It gets our 14 year old as much as our 6 year old and mom and dad are happy. Not many vacation destinations can do that for days.

When I am there I feel enclosed from the world and can just focus on my family...that is what makes it so special.

We love other vacations too and pretty much have fun wherever we go but Disney is just special.

 

[Sheaboys]

I had a very good friend of mine say "I can't believe you have been as many times as you have and you still are considering going back to that place."

I said, it is not "a place", or just a vacation place, it is a "destination place". It has something for everyone, the lover of rides, the non rider, the young group, the teenage group, the parent group and grandparent group. It is an "experience".

 

[TLSnell1981]

I love the familiar sites and smells. The popcorn, City Hall, cotton candy from the Confectionary and Cindy's castle...walking down Main St. always puts a bit of pep in my step. I get a big smile on my face and my heart goes pitty pat for no rational reason. So many, many memories.

Sadly, so many of our favorite things are gone. I don't want Disney to lose the nostalgia. It's the reason, that I'm passionate and vocal, over the numerous changes. I feel the Magic slipping away.

 

[AnnaL]

I don't know if there are words to describe it? I typically tell people how *magical* WDW is and that it is my happy place but that's not really a good description. I will try to give examples of the magic. Like when we visit Tinkerbell, my extremely observant 8yo believes she is really shrinking down to fairy size. I think a lot of people just don't "get it" because they have yet to experience the magic themselves.

 

[JanaDee]

I have never been able to adequately describe the feeling I get walking under the train station, into Town Square and up Main Street.

No matter how many times I do it (even within the same trip), it makes my heart happy.

 

[disnut8]

Good points everyone. For me, I get the "again?" thing from co-workers who have never been or, as my boss puts it, "I've dealt with Disney World as a corporation so I can't ever see it as a vacation".

But I don't care. It's not the real world. When I'm there, I shut other things out.

I've had a bad last six months and am finally able to go back to Disney World after a lot of personal issues. Being able to go back to Disney World kept me going for those six months. For five days, I won't be in the real world. I'll be in *my* world.

 

[ShannonMB]

I really can't put it in to words, and it astounds me that there are so many of us who feel this way about it.

This year I was planning on skipping WDW because I have travel plans for a cross-country family trip and a beach trip for DD's dance competition. I was really feeling down about it, and one day I just got it in my mind that DD and I are going to take a quicky 3 night trip this fall come heck or high water. I have not stopped daydreaming, being excited, basically glowing, since I made that decision. Nothing else I can think of makes me feel quite the same way. The other day I guess I had an over-the-moon look on my face in my work breakroom and one of the other nurses said, "Shannon, you are thinking about Disney, aren't you?" And I was!

 

[DisneyFansInNYC]

Our family feels the same way. We all love the magic and the detail of everything. We all have a blast together. We have people that don't get it - until they come with us. We haven't gone just our family in years....we love it. Our family talks about who we want to go with on our next trip. We are going in August with a family that hasn't gone in 12 years. We all can't wait.

 

[Disneylover99]

I absolutely love it, but as others have said, you have to experience it yourself to "get it". So I don't talk much about it and I don't tell people how much they'll love it, because they may not. Most of the people I know who have gone to Disney, don't really get it.

 

[disneyerin]

Can't ever seem to quite put it into words, so I just always say that it's my happy place. People shake their heads at us because we go every year at the same time. If we can't afford two vacations, then WDW is the one we choose and we scratch the other.
Once a relative said to me that she just didn't think WDW could do anything for her because (in her words) "I am just not much for rides." REALLY? Is that what people think that's all there is to it? A PP said it's one of those things that most people just have to go and see for themselves before they can really get it and I agree. It is my happy place, my laughing place, my quiet place, my peaceful place. When I am not there, I'm dreaming of it, watching videos of it, listening to my "Four Parks, One World" cd, or planning my next trip

Couldn't have said it better myself!!