Quick and dirty trips: Anyone do them and enjoy them?

[JenniBarra]

I think this is a YMMV thing. We did this once, in 2002. I am on the west coast and we had plans to go to a convention in Nashville. At the time, we had APs so we figured since we were already flying partway across the country, why not add a short side trip to Florida beforehand? (Plus, it was my birthday during that time frame so that was additional motivation.) I seem to recall we did three days, two nights. It was fine for us at the time because we were going once a year around then so a short trip just meant hitting our favorite rides and restaurants. We knew we would be back soon enough so we didn't feel like we were missing out by having to skip so many attractions and such. I couldn't imagine doing that now since I have no idea when a follow up trip may be on the books.

 

[tlmadden73]

Yep - that's what we have. I bought a 10 day hopper with WPF&M. Since I valued the waterparks entitlement at about $25/day, my tix worked out to be about $45/park day in my valuation. I would flip out to pay $150 to go to the parks for 1 day. But am OK with $45/day.

BTW, I suggest you go on MDE and check your NE tickets. Mine is now showing that I have 8 days remaining - based on my records of what I used, I should only have 6 days left. I've heard that it is possibly as compensation because they are now valid only until 2030. That's only 13 years away...which I am not entirely pleased about but am mollified by the additional days. I do expect to use it up over the next 10 years, but who knows? I paid double to get them nonexpiring precisely to hedge against future ticket inflation (and mostly so I could justify a one day visit that year haha!)

Wait, wuh? "No-expiration" tickets NOW have an expiration? I also never could see how many days I have left in MDE. Where do you that? I looked now (on the website) and I don't see it showing how many days are left.

I mean 2030 .. sure .. I fully intend on using them before then (considering I have 4 days left and my son has 8 days left), but I guess I never heard that.

 

[Tigger's ally]

We do one most every fall now. Went for the long one in may. Leave two weeks from tomorrow to get our fix at the Food and Wine. I enjoy the fall trips without anybody but me and Mrs. Ally. We spend more time in the room, more time in the lounges, and less time feeling rushed even though the vacation is a short one. My wife does have an AP which makes it easy for her. We get the AP discount to save on the room and dinner. I just buy a 2 day park hopper for me and brace myself for the beverage bill from Lacava and the F&W booths.

 

[angierae]

In 2013 we flew down to Florida on Friday morning for another event that was Friday/Saturday/Sunday. We skipped the Sunday part of our event, drove to WDW, checked in at Pop, dropped off our stuff, went over to the car return at the ...Swan? Dolphin? One of those, anyway, then used WDW transportation to go to the Polynesian, had a late lunch, arrived at MK at 4 for the Halloween party, stayed until close, went back to the resort and slept.

Monday morning we went to MK so DD could meet Peter Pan, spent a few hours there doing some stuff, had an early lunch at Tony's (it's my daughter's fave, I have no idea) hopped over to DHS (my favorite park), spent the day there, saw F!, took the bus back to the Poly, had a late dinner at the CS in the Poly, then took the boat over to MK for late EMH.

We then got up Tuesday, checked out, went to DTD and hung out, came back to the resort, took ME to the airport and few home Tuesday afternoon.

I'd do it again in a heartbeat.

 

[Texans_loyal]

I love our short trips! the longest trip we have ever done is 5 days. it always leaves us wanting more!

 

[Praying Colonel]

We did a WDW day before and after a 3-day Bahamas DCL cruise in January 2016. Honestly, we enjoyed the WDW days more than the cruise days. For us, a short WDW trip was more fun than the short cruise.

 

[bookgirl]

Normally there would be no quick trips for me as I live in the middle of the country so too far to drive and since my airport in not a hub there are rarely cheap enough flights to justify anything less than 4 days.

However.......Got a last minute quick planned last weekend in October trip happening.

$41 RT flight (sale made a low points flight so only paying tax and EBC), availability at POP (not my fav but reasonable price), days off work (original plans fell through but still had the days), and the decision to buy an AP on my Dec trip (will just get it early as my next trips still coinside with an OCT start date). Just got planned about 10 days ago and will only have 2 park days but one will be at F/W and the other will either be a MNSSHP (if available) or a hopping day.

 

[kmb584]

I used to, and I loved them! Before my daughter was born in '09, I would fly down multiple times each year for long weekends. My best friend, who at the time lived in Winter Springs, would pick me up at MCO and we'd go check in to our WDW resort. We'd do 2-3 days, sometimes with PH and sometimes without, and would go from park open to close. We had an absolute blast doing that! Now, it's much easier to continue on with our 8-10 night vacations, but I do sometimes miss the whirlwind of what once was.

 

[Laura's Dad]

We are going down for a long weekend in two weeks. Driving down on Friday, doing the Food and Wine Festival on Saturday, doing a MNSSHP on Sunday, driving home to Atlanta on Monday. My daughter just flew down to do a one day trip to ride the Great Movie Ride one last time. Thinking about doing an AK day on Sunday before the Halloween Party to see Pandora