Need a good response for "You're going AGAIN?"

[PrincessTigerLily]

Just back from another wonderful trip at the world. First thing coworkers ask is "How was your vacation?" When we respond "Great!" we start to get the inevitable "I can't believe you go there all the time! You mean you are actually planning on going back in January?". It's never said nicely, and I never know how to respond. I can never think of the right thing to say in the moment. How do I succinctly tell these rude people that Disney World rocks and they are just ignorant??? (Aside from those exact words!)

 

[twanner]

Just back from another wonderful trip at the world. First thing coworkers ask is "How was your vacation?" When we respond "Great!" we start to get the inevitable "I can't believe you go there all the time! You mean you are actually planning on going back in January?". It's never said nicely, and I never know how to respond. I can never think of the right thing to say in the moment. How do I succinctly tell these rude people that Disney World rocks and they are just ignorant??? (Aside from those exact words!)

In my experience, people who respond that way are often envious--maybe because they can't afford to go on vacations--but whatever the reason, they would rather act like YOU have some sort of problem than admit that they're jealous!
I might say something like, "Yep, we're going again! I guess we're really lucky that we're able to visit as often as we do, because we love it so much!" I wouldn't bother letting these people know that you're annoyed with their comments, because that's likely the reaction they are hoping for.

 

[MomofKatie]

I just tell them, "Yup! Some people like to go to the same beach house (lake house, cabin, ski resort, etc, etc) every year- we like to go 'home' to WDW."

Usually I find the ones who act so snooty about WDW either have never been because they think it's "just an amusement park", or went once and hated it because they didn't do any planning.

I just smile and think to myself, "One less family in front of me in line for Space Mountain!!" I don't even try to convince people that WDW is wonderful- if they don't "get it", I'm not going to let it bother me.

 

[Snow Shoe]

I've quit trying to explain. They just don't get it, and probably never will. Disney is my place to relax, forget the outside world and its problems, and enjoy "My Family Vacation"!

 

[iggbees]

i get that from my coworkers too. although, most of them have been to disney and they loved it. i even have a friend at work who used to go to disney 2 times a year until he was about 15 or 16. i usually just say that we go for the memories. i've had so many memories there and really it's a place that i can go and think about them. we used to go every year when i was little with my great aunts who have since passed. every time i go now, i think of how much fun i had with them there and how much i miss them being there. i think my mom and sister feel the same way and that's why we go back every chance we get. my dad doesn't even really like going to disney, but he still comes with us and even wanted to come on our all girls trip this year (which i'm happy he wants to, it just wouldn't be the same without him).

we used to have a family in our town that would go to myrtle beach every single year, i think they still do actually. why is it that people can go to a beach or a campground every year, but disney is out of the question? at least there are sooooo many things to do and things are changing all the time and there's always some restaurant you never ate at at disney!

 

[OKW Lover]

I think the best response to that question I've ever heard is:
Yes, I'm going again because every time I have to leave to come home I ask myself why I'm leaving again.

 

[cheapi86]

"Yep. Why? Do you want to pay for me to somewhere else?"

 

[stitchlovestink]

"Yep. Why? Do you want to pay for me to somewhere else?"

This is the best response!!! I'm going to use this for my FIL. He comments about our trips to WDW year after year, but they can go to Ft Myers (they bought Timeshare there) year after year. For 6+ yrs they had a camper at our Beach here in MD year round and would spend tons of time there. But I get flack for wanting to go to Disney too much?!?! Go figure. I guess it's because they don't want to go there so why should I?!

 

[CampbellScot]

Oh yes, we get this too..."Why are you going to go THERE again?" I could say the same thing for yearly trips to the over crowded, over priced Hamptons?! NO THANKS. WE always say to people who don't do Disney "Well what do you do when you GET THERE?" Unpack...wooo...fun...

Our family loves Disney so much b/c once we get there, we've got so many things to do and see. Our minds are always engaged and we're just so dang happy we could bust. It's just that Disney magic! Plus the massive amount of walking ensures that the DDP doesn't end up on my hips!

I don't know how people stand to go on vacation where the only thing to do is sit on a beach. After about an hour and a half of sitting on the beach, I'm bored out of MY MIND so I start worrying...about anything and everything. I have too much time to think. I can't enjoy myself...and the "cleaning" starts...I have to keep busy so I clean and when you are at the beach trying to keep the sand out of your kitchen...yeah, never ending battle. I hate those sorts of vacations b/c they aren't vacations. The kids get bored too...so they spend most of the day plopped in front of the tv b/c they are sick of the beach...there are only so many holes you can dig or sandcastles you can build...after about two days they start to whine, they fuss with each other, somebody always gets stung by a bee...or sun burned, or stung by a jellyfish. These are NOT fun things. I find I need a vacation from our vacation when we don't do Disney!

Yes, we are Disney people. I will go to Disney as many times as I can in a year. I will enjoy my DVC membership to it's fullest and challenge anyone to find me a more family oriented, couple oriented, single traveler oriented, something for EVERYBODY kind of place. WE Disney!! SO THERE!

 

[AlyssinWonderland]

WE Love Disney. So there! I love this! Gonna use it on my sister one day soon!

I haven't said this before but I just love these Disboards!!! I love Disney People! Everyone here is awesome!!!

 

[BetsyinFL]

You should have heard the crap we got about MOVING here! People tried to make us feel like idiots with no sense of culture. To them I asked, "so when's the last time you visited the ballet?". Of course it's real life, but is it such a crime to want to live somewhere wonderful?

 

[CampbellScot]

You should have heard the crap we got about MOVING here! People tried to make us feel like idiots with no sense of culture. To them I asked, "so when's the last time you visited the ballet?". Of course it's real life, but is it such a crime to want to live somewhere wonderful?

Oh girl you ARE living the dream! My husband and I have EVERY intention of moving to Celebration when we retire...in like....35 years...but still. It's our intention...and honestly, maybe even before that. My husband says he is going to be the Monorail driver!!! My step son says I could be Belle!

 

[Dizneydaz]

I just say-"Yes, I am! I love Disney. People who haven't been, just don't understand." Sometimes I get this question from a couple (related by marriage) who go to Hawaii every 2 years, for 2 weeks. They stay at the same condo, lie on the same beach for 2 weeks, and have their Sam's club shopping list ready to go! And they call that a vacation! Please-how boring! They don't even tour the island anymore.

Since I live 30 min. for DLR, I also get "Why do you go to WDW so much when you live so close to DLR?"

Then I have to explain that WDW is a completely different experience from DLR. Since I live so close, and have an AP, the experience is like night and day. When I'm at WDW I am completely in the Disney magic ! I'm not fighting the traffic to go home, and I'm having many days, in a row, at Disney. When we go to DLR, if it's crowded, or too hot, we go home. After all, it's only a short (or longer, depending on traffic) freeway ride to go home, and we can always come back another day (and do!)

 

[american_gramma]

When relatives find out we're able to go to WDW again (first time was in 2005) they're gonna wonder why. They think we should save our money. So, I'm not telling anyone! So there!

For us, it's a much anticipated luxury, a treat, if you will, for the grandkids plus my daughter & me. They're good kids & deserve to have some fun.

Someday, I think it would be a real treat to celebrate Christmas in WDW.

 

[Jen76b]

I have that all the time. We've been 4 times in the past 5 years. People just don't get it. My DSis is the worst. When I told her we're going again this summer she said "are you ever going to go anywhere else?" I told her " Don't hate just because you can't afford to go anywhere!"

Drives me crazy... Just people I like to save my money and spend it on vacation instead of just spending it everyday on mindless items doesn't mean you have to be rude. Some people!!

 

[CampbellScot]

I just say-"Yes, I am! I love Disney. People who haven't been, just don't understand." Sometimes I get this question from a couple (related by marriage) who go to Hawaii every 2 years, for 2 weeks. They stay at the same condo, lie on the same beach for 2 weeks, and have their Sam's club shopping list ready to go! And they call that a vacation! Please-how boring! They don't even tour the island anymore.

Since I live 30 min. for DLR, I also get "Why do you go to WDW so much when you live so close to DLR?"

Then I have to explain that WDW is a completely different experience from DLR. Since I live so close, and have an AP, the experience is like night and day. When I'm at WDW I am completely in the Disney magic ! I'm not fighting the traffic to go home, and I'm having many days, in a row, at Disney. When we go to DLR, if it's crowded, or too hot, we go home. After all, it's only a short (or longer, depending on traffic) freeway ride to go home, and we can always come back another day (and do!)

no kidding! That is like saying to someone "Why climb Mount Everest? I mean I know you like Mountain climbing but you have that hill in your backyard...isn't it the same thing? street"

My husband's ex was making snarky comments about disneyworld AGAIN and said something like "well I can't afford to take the kids there..." No, I guess not since you took them on FOUR skiing weekends this winter, outfitted them in Burton snow gear head to toe to the tune of nearly $1000 per kid when all was said and done (we're talking $100 for a 4T size coat he'll never fit into again), BOUGHT, not rented their skis and snowboard, stayed at pricey ski lodges and paid for ski lessons and ski camp for two kids every single time as well. I wouldn't imagine there is a lot left in the bank after all that! The kids had a ball, they loved it...be happy with that! She could have paid for TWO trips to Disney and then some with all that went into those ski weekends.

My husband and I work. Hard. We don't go anywhere during the year, we rarely eat out, we don't go out all that often b/c we are so stinking tired at the end of the day and it just chaps my hide that we get grief over our ONE thing that we do each year. We work hard so that we can afford to do fun things if we want to. We don't want to worry about money.


Don't question my Disney habit...things could get ugly!

 

[xipetotec]

Just back from another wonderful trip at the world. First thing coworkers ask is "How was your vacation?" When we respond "Great!" we start to get the inevitable "I can't believe you go there all the time! You mean you are actually planning on going back in January?". It's never said nicely, and I never know how to respond. I can never think of the right thing to say in the moment. How do I succinctly tell these rude people that Disney World rocks and they are just ignorant??? (Aside from those exact words!)

"What am I supposed to do? Go lay on a BEACH for two weeks? psssht!"

or simply "Yes, we love it!" ... that's pretty much what I respond.
Even my father, who is co-owner with my mother of their DVC, thinks we're crazy

 

[summerlandjeff]

Some one said this to me after we returned in April, "You went to Disney again, how boring".

I said "Let me ask you something, do you sleep in the same bed every night? Yes. Why? Because it's comfortable and familiar. You don't buy a new bed every night just for a change do you? Well that's what a Disney vacation is to us, comfortable and familiar, so why buy a new one every year!"

She got the point!

 

[tink_about_it]

I say "IT's my happy place! Leave me alone!" My friends that go to Myrtle Beach don't get flamed for doing that every year. People think it's crazy mostly because they have never been to WDW OR they don't do their homework and stand in HUGE lines...don't know about the dining and special things around on Disney property.

 

[princess jackie]

I always get the "your crazy" looks and comments from non Disney people. I just ask them to name a place where they are truely 100 percent happy ALL of the time. Nobody can ever come up with an answer and then I say "That is why I go to Disney as often as I can."

But no mater how many times you tell them it's the only place your happy or how wonderful it is, if they don't want to "get" the Disney magic they never will. And that is truely a sad thing for them.

Luckily we all have it!!