my best disney tip!

[wiskband]

Don't tell your kids their going to Disney! I did this once, it was so hard planning with out them knowing. They were 3 5 8 10! We drove this particular time. I pulled it off though and they will never NEVER NEVER
forget it! I woke them all up at 4 in the morning and simply said, get up we're going to disney! They freaked!
that made this trip all the more memorable! This was four years ago and they refer to events from that trip specifically! I have over heard them telling their friends too! It was truely unforgetable!

renee

 

[*MickeyFan*]

That is so cool! I would love to do that! My kids don't even realize at this point. We keep on telling them we are going to Disney to see Mickey Mouse and they say YEA. It will be fun when they get older and we can just throw them in the car and say GUESS WHAT!!! Thank you for sharing! jen

 

[MeMom]

I hope to give my granddaughter surprise trips in the future, but right now she's only five months old. We're making two trips this year, but she's too little to know where it is that we lug her around to all the time. She just sits all bundled up in her car seat quite happily ready to go wherever! The trouble with ever pulling a surprise trip on her is that her mother (my daughter) and I are too Disney crazy, and we talk about it all the time. I don't know if we'd ever be able to keep the secret. If we plan it and talk about it, she'll know, and if we plan it and try not to talk about it, she'll sure know something's up then. I love reading about everyone's surprise stories and about how their kids react.

 

[mattoxtr]

That is great. I could not pull that off. I would be way to excited. We are going in Dec and that is all I talk about right now.

 

[mom2npr]

That's a great tip, but I don't know if I could keep it a secret! We're going in Feb. and the kids are so excited. My 3 year old goes to sleep every night talking about it.

 

[momtoBrandon&Jacob]

OMG, my 4 year old comes into the bathroom every morning while I'm in the shower all sleepy eyed and says "Mommy, are we going to Disney World today?" The other day he asked if he could bring his cereal with us and eat it with Mickey mouse.

 

[Stitchfans]

I get way to excited when we go to Disney World. There is no way I could keep it to myself. I could never surprise my family.

 

[swillis]

That's my plan! I am planning a surprise trip for June for my kids (11 and 12) We leave on the last day of school, so I think I am just going to get them into the car like a usual day (I drive them to school each morning) and then tell them in the car.

I'm still undecided about how to tell them. I am also bringing my good friend along (DH is not a DW lover) and she really wants to be there when the kids find out...so I may have to do some tweaking on the logistics of the surprise.

 

[Amyg]

That reminds me of when we took our son on his first Disneyland trip. We went to Ohio for a family visit and then on our return flight, we stopped in L.A. and we just told him that we were going someplace special. When we walked to the gates of the park and he saw the Disneyland sign, he said "Mom, that looks like Disney." and said "Yes, we are going to Disneyland!" He jumped up and down like a Mexican jumping bean said "We're going to Disneyland, we're going to Disneyland!"

Off course last year, I just couldn't keep it from him since I had the books and he kept walking in while I was on the computer researching WDW!

 

[kangareaux]

That would have beennice, but we're nott going until November....and well....I could barely keep it a secret long enought o wait (2 WEEKS!) and tell them Christmas Morning! LOL!

BUT.....We told them we were going for Thanksgiving. We're really going the week before. So we shold be able to keep that quiet and have a little shock when we leave a week early.

 

[MommaSnowwhite]

DH and I have been able to keep the secret from DD7 and DD5 since November. We are leaving on 2-2-07 and we are telling them in the car on the way to the airport. We also drive them school. We told them that the dogs are going to the Kennel to be groomed overnight and that we may have to drive Dad to the airport that morning. It is going to blow thier minds!! I can't sleep I am so excited!

 

[DisneyKeith]

We surprised our kids in Sept '05. We had been in May of that year for 2 weeks but that just wasn't enough. Within a month of getting back, we had booked another week only this time we told no one. Part of it was because we knew most people would think we were crazy for going back so soon. Anywho, we didn't tell the kids (DS9 & DD5) until we were 2 hours down the road (total trip 12 hrs.). Initially, DS was sorta mad because he is a planner about everything. He has to know everything and exactly how his day is gonna go. After he realized we hadn't forgotten to pack anything he needed he was excited. DD5 was jumping all over the place. It was the most fun trying to keep it from them. Every now and then DW or I would slip and almost give it away but somehow it worked out.
The funniest thing was when DS said, "I shoulda known something was up when you were washing the van cause you only do that when we're going somewhere."

 

[vital]

I'm taking my DS to MNSSHP on Oct 26 and getting on a Disney 7 day Eastern cruise on Oct 27 and he has no idea! I booked it in August and have kept it a secret the whole time! I'm going to pick him up from school on the 25 and start driving. When he asks where we are going, I'm going to pull over, get out my camera and tell him! I'm just going to say WDW and keep the cruise a surprise until he sees the ship! It's just going to be the 2 of us, and some wonderful DISers on the cruise thread.

 

[jillyjoey]

OMG, my 4 year old comes into the bathroom every morning while I'm in the shower all sleepy eyed and says "Mommy, are we going to Disney World today?" The other day he asked if he could bring his cereal with us and eat it with Mickey mouse.

DD(4) does this too. She gets her Cinderella purse and says "I'm ready to go to Disney World" I respond "But Daddy has to work today" DD "That's okay, we can go without him" She's so nice isn't she.


We just booked our December trip too. Last year we told the kids. This year, it's going to be a surprise. I think I'm going to bust -- and I still have 11 months to go.

 

[dsnymomof4]

I love reading all these "surprise trip" stories. I think that would be so neat. I just have a hard time imagining how I would pull it off. How do you pack for the kids without them knowing. Don't they notice certain clothes disappearing? Do you wait until the last minute to get everything together? Well, they already know about April and we're thinking about going to MNSSHP in October, so I would have to tell them so they can decide what costumes to wear, so maybe the trip after that I'll try the surprise. Although, I would have to keep it from DH - he can't keep a secret to save his life!

 

[kidsicet]

We surprised our DD's two trips ago. We arranged ahead of time with DD's teacher to get homework, etc. for when we'd be gone, and asked her to keep it a secret. DH took the kids to several different parks in our neighborhood on the day I packed for all 4 of us. I hid the suitcases until the morning we left. DH put the suitcases in the car, and then we woke the kids up with video camera in hand. I will never forget how excited they were. We woke them up really early, and I announced that no one was going to school that day, because we were going to Disney World. My oldest DD was 7 at the time, and pretty much blew me off until I showed her a new Disney outfit and told her to hurry up and put it on so we didn't miss the plane. I've never seen two girls get up and get dressed so fast before in my life.

The last trip wasn't a surprise, and they had fun helping to plan for it. But they still want us to surprise them again sometime. It was hard to pull off, but so much fun to see their surprise and excitement. They were on cloud 9 the whole trip!

 

[camatwell]

This is just the perfect thread for me. We went on our first ever trip to disney in Oct last year. On the day we left I announced I want to do this every year. Well then, we got to thinking we could do the surprise thing, but the kids are smart ones. We were talking out loud about the plans and they overheard and were talking oh we can do that this year when we go. So we had to convince them its just too expensive for every year and we will go every other year. Little do they know we are planning a trip for this year September. A longer trip and MNSSHP and flying down. They have never flown before. WE ARE SUPER DUPER EXCITED. I just have to keep deciding when and how to tell them. Also planning costumes for a family for just an ordinary trick or treat without the kids knowing my other motives is just plain hard.
LOL

 

[princess~yo]

That's what we're doing for our first trip in March! My best friend and I are taking them for 5 days to WDW, and in order to not give away the BIG secret we told them a partial truth...that we're headed to the beach. (We will go afterwards). We also told them that we are planning a family reunion trip in 09 - true story - so if they happen to overhead us disscussing DW they won't be tipped off!

So we'll wake them at 3 am to go to the beach...I can't wait to see their faces when we drive into the resort!

 

[emileee]

I love the planning and anticipation so that would be so super hard for me! We have a countdown on the chalkboard (8 days at midnight) and hosted a Mickey countdown party....we played disney bingo, disney pictionary (made up home versions) Disney "Scene It" and made mickey sundaes. The kids all won a Disney Dollar and we all wore our Disney tees....

 

[emileee]

I love the cruise surprise! How wonderful....especially the camera shot of the reaction!