Ideal number of days

[bebelle]

What is your ideal number of days for a WDW vacations? I know most of us would say a month or some other crazy unrealistic amount of time. But I am asking for a realistic amount of days that would allow you to do and see most things.

We are taking my sister and her son on a birthday trip in 2015. I am thinking 8 actual days for Disney and 2 travel days...Thursday through Saturday of the following week. Enough, too little or too much?

 

[Robo]

What is your ideal number of days for a WDW vacations? I know most of us would say a month or some other crazy unrealistic amount of time. But I am asking for a realistic amount of days that would allow you to do and see most things.

We are taking my sister and her son on a birthday trip in 2015. I am thinking 8 actual days for Disney and 2 travel days...Thursday through Saturday of the following week. Enough, too little or too much?

We like 10 days (sometimes 12,) including arrival day and departure day.

 

[JoshuaShaw]

While it doesn't leave a whole lot of time for relaxation days, I find a week to be sufficient, so eight days should be plenty.

 

[blessedby3]

My ideal trip is 10 days and we have done that a couple of times. Our next trip is for 2 weeks and I can't wait:good vibes One day I would love to have a month there

 

[HelenParr]

We do an annual fall trip for 10 nights starting on a Friday and leaving on a Monday, because it wraps in two weekends. Our jobs require we be available weekdays for "on call" access, which makes weekends more valuable.

But we also squeeze in one or two 5 days trips, which are great but would seem too short if we only went once a year for 5 days.

Shorter answer: 10 to comfortably "see everything". 5 is fun but too short.

 

[dixiegirl]

Right now 9 days, 8 nights is perfect for DH and I.

 

[Flamingeaux]

6 is our perfect number. We can do AK & DHS once and MK and EPCOT twice.

 

[butterfly71076]

We usually do 10 days, 9 nights. It allows for some down time, some days we just go to a park for dinner and fireworks. For our trip next summer, we are adding a night to go to US and finally see Harry Potter!

 

[Meriweather]

We usually do 14 nights and I find that works for us.

 

[Mikie]

We are constrained by schedules to do less than we'd like. Find 8 nights (including 1 travel on each end), so 6 park days to be enough for us to see the parks at a decent pace (not rushing too much). We don't do water parks and this doesn't really allow much down time. Ideally we'd want 2more days to wander DTD, spend more resort time, etc, but we never get a 10-12 day break that would allow *everything*

 

[fishhunter]

What is your ideal number of days for a WDW vacations? I know most of us would say a month or some other crazy unrealistic amount of time. But I am asking for a realistic amount of days that would allow you to do and see most things.

We are taking my sister and her son on a birthday trip in 2015. I am thinking 8 actual days for Disney and 2 travel days...Thursday through Saturday of the following week. Enough, too little or too much?

We've done 8 days and it certainly was enough to achieve everything we wanted to. This December we are going for 10 days. I added a couple more for the option to relax a little and not fill rushed to get every show, fireworks display and ride in. We did all that in 8 days including a Circus Soleil show but we were humping.

 

[kmv]

Another vote for 10 days.
Enough time to visit the parks without feeling rushed, and a few days of relaxing by the pool and nice dinners.

 

[lovin'fl]

I'd say 8 is good...we did 9 once and that was nice. We are planning 8 for our Aug 2015 trip (with a night or 2 at US added on). And we will do a split stay...4 nights at each resort (BWV and AKV).

 

[dawnhaze]

For me, a "do just about everything" trip is about 10 days. I like 3 days in MK, 2 days in Epcot, 3 days in DHS (it's my favorite park), 1 day in AK, and a resting/DTD day somewhere in the middle. Since I fly in early and fly out late, one of the DHS days is my arrival day, and one of the MK days (occasionally an Epcot day) is my departure day. The shortest trip I can cram all my favorite stuff to do into is a minimum of 5 days, but 7 days feels like a pretty comfortable compromise between the "bare minimum" trip length and the "do just about everything" trip length.

But, I am planning a 14-day trip for either next year or 2016 (depends on how long it takes me to save the money!) and I'm going to add a couple of water park days and do a tour or two as well.

 

[LSUfan4444]

6 park days

4 mornings (one in each park), 4 evenings (one in each park) and two days to either go back to our favorites, water park, cirque de soleil, etc

 

[DisMama5]

We like 10 days (sometimes 12,) including arrival day and departure day.

Couldn't agree more with this, 10-12 days for us feels perfect

 

[amg35]

We are doing 9 nights, leaving on day 10.

Just two adults. I'm starting to get a little nervous that it may be too long based on people's reactions - You're going to be there 9 nights??

We'll see. We haven't been to WDW together in over 10 years, so we wanted to make this a big trip. And we don't plan to visit WDW again until after Avatarland is open.

 

[wuzzy6]

I like 3-4 days, but we stay several times a year. DH actually wants to start making less-frequent, but longer/more indulgent, stays next year. Fine with me!

 

[lovin'fl]

I like 3-4 days, but we stay several times a year. DH actually wants to start making less-frequent, but longer/more indulgent, stays next year. Fine with me!

We have been doing a lot of 3-5 nighters with PAPs but DH is tired of paying for airfare and dealing with the hassles of flying so often so he too suggested we start doing longer trips (and driving to them). I am okay with that as long as he still wants to go to WDW.

 

[Dallas_Lady]

For us, 7 nights Sat-Sat is perfect. We take and early flight there and a late flight coming home to maximize the days. Longer than that and we'd get homesick and tired of living in a hotel (now, if we had a condo...) Plus it fits our budget and the amount of time DH can take off work (it's tough for him to be gone more than a week). Coming back on Saturday gives us Sunday to recover, do laundry, etc. before heading back to work on Monday.

In terms of Disney time, it gives us 6 full days in the parks, plus our travel days since we arrive early and leave late. There's is never enough time to do everything, but this definitely gives us what we need to have a great time without feeling rushed.