If you could be a kid again - on you way to WDW - what age would you be?

[barbaraann]

Turn back the clock. Use your imagination. You are on your way to WDW. You are still a child. What age do you "wish" you were, experiencing Disney. I realize I may get a few responses that say "you are only as young as you feel". That is true. I myself would want to be about 10. The body worked better then. My family could never have afforded a Disney Vacation. If they could have in my imagined one, I would be 10. Instead of being at Riverview Park, where we went in Chicago, we would be at Disneyworld. I can see all of us hanging out at the castle. My 2 brothers, my sister, and my mom. She's 80 now and goes nowhere any more. Yes I would like to be about 10. I could run better then. I could eat all the ice cream I wanted and not get sick. I could stay out in the sun and not get too badly burned. I could spin on the tea cups more than once and not get too dizzy. I even tried a few roller coasters when I was 10. Yes I would love to be at Disney, at age 10, with my family.

 

[sleepyone]

Me too, 10.

 

[lsteadman]

Just like my daugther!

 

[F1Julie]

I'd say age 3. It's so magical for kids that age and they really believe everything is real. The older kids get, the more jaded they get.

 

[mscoryb]

My first trip to Disneyworld was when I was 17... and I can't imagine having any more FUN than I had then!

 

[bucky1023]

I would be 6. You're big enough for nearly all the rides and still ecstatic about meeting your favorite character for the first time.

You're also small enough to fit in a stroller and let someone push you around for a change!!

 

[Mom to Jordan]

I want to be 5. Still young enough to belive in all the magic but I can remember being 5 so I would be able to have the memories.

Jordan's mom

 

[Reflection]

Another vote for 10

 

[pezpam]

I vote for 5 or 6. Big enough to start trying bigger rides, but small enough to still see all of the magic. DD and I have gone when she was 5 and then 6, so that may be coloring things for me..... especially since my only kid-trip was when I was 13.... and traveling with parents who wouldn't go on the good rides.... and a little sister (age 11 at the time) who cried when she was born and hasn't stopped complaining and blaming and whining to this day.

Yeah, somewhere around 6.

 

[Evil Queen]

I would say around age 5. My brother would be 10 and convince my Mom we could go off ourselves (much safer 34 years ago). But the time with my Mom would be awesome, she would be younger and would try anything!!! (wow-guess that's where my love of thrills come from). Wishing my Dad would go, he stepped foot once in Epcot, after it first opened, not his cup of tea and never before or after that, how I wish as a child he would have wanted to go more.

 

[MinnieGi]

4 or 5 - This was how old I was when I first went and I know it was magical. My DD is 4 now and I see how magical this age is to be at Disney. She is enchanted by the princesses and characters and loves to give them big hugs and get their autograph. She was also tall enough this past trip to do some of the "bigger" rides like Test Track and BTMR.

 

[dixipixi]

I agree with 10. I'm now mid 30's and have been 12 times or so, but it is always that trip we took when I was 10 that I remember. I think it was such a good age because I was still a child but old enough to actually appreciate the trip. Young enough to still want to play, but old enough to know when to behave. Young enough to want every toy I saw, but old enough to understand that I would have to choose carefully. Young enough to still be "babied" by my parents, but old enough to sit in the front seat and help read the maps! Young enough to still believe but old enough to wonder how things actually worked. I loved that trip!

 

[PatricenPete]

I was 7 the first time I went to WDW and it was magical. I can still remember that trip. I was getting a little older, but I was still a kid and I remember seeing Mickey Mouse and just being mesmerized. I was big enough to be able to do anything, except what I was afraid of (Space Mountain! YIKES!).

We are taking our DS this year for his 1st birthday and even though my DH and I have been to Disney dozens of times, this is the trip that we are looking the most forward to. I can't wait to "re-see" Disney through my son's eyes.

 

[tzuhouse]

I would have to say 6 or 7. Could ride most rides but yet still appreciate the magic. Plus, my Dad wasn't drinking yet, so it would be have been a great family trip.

Mary

 

[bubba73]

If I could go back as a kid, it would be very hard to decide exactly what age I would want to be. My first trip was when I was 4 and I remember it being magical. This was back when you had to use tickets for all the rides. You could spend $20 a day and ride everything you wanted. I also remember a trip when I was in the band in high school. I was probably 13 years old on that trip and enjoyed it very much. And one of my personal favorite vacations of all time is when my Mom and Dad took my Grandmother to Disney shortly after Epcot opened. That was a vacation that none of us will ever forget. Now I am 32 years old and I am going back down there in just about 2.5 months with my DW, DS, and DD . I believe I am just as excited about this trip as I was about my first, fifth, or fifteenth. So I would turn the question around and say is there a bad age to go to Disney World?

Bubba73

 

[princesslulu]

Age 8. We took our daughter and my niece at this age and had the best time ever. I don't know if any other trip will ever top that one.