Silly question, but has anyone's kids started to get bored with going to Disney??

[Candace]

DVC-Don said:
But, by the time they hit college age, they start to hound to use the points, w/o the parents along of course

LOL! This is what I am beginning to experience with my boys.

 

[Laurabearz]

Originally posted by CaptainMidnight
Soem year, I look forward to going on that river raft ride down the Grand Canyon....

I have done this.... not thru DVC but it was the best trip ever!!!! Just watch out for the bats!!!

To answer the question of the thread..... so far we are not board.... nor are our children, but then again they are ages 4, 2 1/2 and 9 weeks old! Our older two have been to WDW 5 times since Jan 2002 or is it 2001..... sleep deprived today....

Like another poster said..... at this age, each trip adds new things for us to do, as the kids get older (and taller)

If they get bored with WDW that is fine with me..... I got lots and lots of ways to use our points!!!

 

[donmil723]

Our DD, 18, wants to go to WDW with us every trip. In fact, when my DH and I went last November by ourselves our DD called us all the time and sounded so glum. When we got back she said that was the last time she was staying home. LOL. (She doesn't know it yet, but DH and I are planning a getaway to WDW this fall when she's at college.) She went with me and two of her friends and one of mine in early June and we're going back the end of July with DH for a few days at WDW and then our first Disney cruise. She usually brings a friend along now that her brother doesn't go. She wants to go some other places like New York and Chicago which doesn't appeal to DH at all but she says wants to go to WDW at least once a year. She has also been on two vacations this year with a friend and her family--once to Mexico and once to Texas. I really think she is becoming a travelholic.

On the other hand, our DS, 21, hasn't been with us to WDW for several years. But, then again, he hasn't went anywhere with us on vacation since he was 16. I don't think he is bored with Disney, he just prefers to spend more time with his friends who also like to ride horses, swim in the creek, go on float trips, etc. He works with us on our family farm and lives at home so he needs that time away from us. Of course, I'm still hoping he'll meet the girl of his dreams and will be ready to go back to WDW with us.

We like knowing we'll have fantastic accomodations, great restaurants, and something to do besides lie on the beach or at the pool if the weather isn't the best.

Donna

 

[Johnnie Fedora]

This crossed my mind on our last trip when we were on Snow Whites Scary Adventure. I was telling my 5 yo little girl...Don't be scared of the bad witch. She looked at me and said...Dad, don't be silly she's only plastic!!! I thought Oh Noooo, the magic is gone, I was crushed. I was already getting sad about her growing out of Fantasy Land...Thank God we've got a 4 yo and a 9 month old.

I know the kids will out grow certain parts of the parks, but I certainly hope that some activities will become family tradition each and every trip, even if their "to old" for it...like It's a small world, and riding the Dumbos.

For those of you whose kids are sick of WDW, is it because they would rather vacation somewhere else, or because they are at the sullen, scowling, pilly, bored with life stage, and just want nothing to do with mom and dad??

 

[Dopey Sharon]

Yes. Our last family trip was in 1999. My oldest was 18, youngest 16. We should have stopped the trip before, which by the way, was one of our best vacations...they were 15 & 18. DH and I go by ourselves now...our kids would rather stay home by themselves (go figure! lol). BUT, now that we bought into BCV, and they saw the resorts and rooms, they want to go again! I'm planning a trip for next January (we have to plan around my DD's college semesters)

 

[Lisa P.]

For those of you whose kids are sick of WDW, is it because they would rather vacation somewhere else, or because they are at the sullen, scowling, pilly, bored with life stage, and just want nothing to do with mom and dad??

Mine are great to travel with, whether we bring along friends or not. DD is 14. Twin DSs are 12. After at least 7 visits in 5 years (1996-2000), they all just got plain tired of the "same old, same old" at Disney. A couple of new attractions is not enough to entice them. So, since year 2000, we've only been back once more (2002). I will be surprised if we actually visit Disney again with the kids.

We sometimes try to time our trips to coincide with (home school) studies. Sometimes, the kids can bring friends but other times, their school schedules don't allow for them to join us. Either way, we have a great time as a family. There's too much out there that they (and we) want to do and see!

Since 2000, we've spent our timeshare vacations in:
Hilton Head Island, SC - fun
Williamsburg, VA - colonial history
New York City, NY - current events, post-9/11
Orlando, FL - fun
Washington, D.C. - politics, art history
Myrtle Beach, SC - fun

Each year, we look at a long list of possible vacation destinations and discuss them as a family - interests, budget, timing, etc. Disney hasn't been making any of their "top 3" lists! The next 3 years will likely include these.
2004:
Nashville, TN or Charleston, SC - civil war history
Sapphire Valley, NC - fun
Sedona, AZ/Grand Canyon - native studies, geology
2005:
Branson, MO - fun
Munich, Germany - foreign lang, visit family
2006:
ocean location - oceanography
Washington, D.C. again - U.S. government
(2007: Hawaii & Volcano Nat'l Park?)

WDW will just have to wait! I don't think we'll really mind! LOL!

 

[DisneyBB]

I remember the excitement my DD felt when we went the first time. We then took her to the Balearic islands and she kept asking me where the rides are ? She loved the next three trips, then had the cheek to say at the grand old age of 5 "Not Disney again!!" Well we were having a break from Disney, as I was expecting our second child. We pretended it was because she said that she was bored with Disney. So we took her touring around Scotland. "Look at the mountains" I said. DD then said "It is boring looking at all the Mountains, I want Disney" Well we did own up and say that it was not because she said she was bored with Disney that we went to Scotland. Every year now she can't wait to get back! We are taking a break from Disney next year, my BIL is getting married in Sorrento, Italy. The sad thing is that the price of that trip for 1 week, is the same as 3 weeks in OKW. We do live in the UK so it will take less time to get there.

We tend to vary every trip, staying in different resorts. We have done a cruise and OKW. Last year, we did BCV, OKW, RPH(USF) and VB, all in one trip!!

 

[SheriB]

We just got back 6/30 from our first stay home at BCV. My DD 16 brought a friend with her. DS12 had to hang out with me, DH, my DM and DF. My DD has made it very clear that she does not want to do Disney again next year. My DS said he would like to go, if he didn't have to do the parks every day. DD wants to go to Hawaii, but she'll "settle" for the Bahamas!

Well, I've just gotten a taste for BCV, and since my DH and I are the adults, we've decided (without consulting her-gasp!), that we would like to go back to BCV next year. We may or may not let her bring a friend. Actually, we may or may not even bring her. LOL.

I don't think she realizes how lucky she is to be going away for a vacation at all, much less where it is she's going. If she doesn't like it, she can stay home with her grandmother and grandfather. I can understand getting bored with the same place, but when I was a kid, the only place we ever went to on vacation was the Jersey shore. And we looked forward to it every year.

All I can say is, my DD better marry a very wealthy man because she's going to be very high maintenance ( my husband and I certainly did not make her that way). I hope she'll come around.

I am willing to not do so much of the parks. Every trip we've done, we've always incorporated US/IOA, and even Discovery Cove one year. But I think next year we'll enjoy the resort a little more, and do more relaxing things. It can get stressfull when all you do is the parks.

OK. That's my 2 cents for now. I'm glad to hear that other people's kids appreciate and look forward to going often.


Sheri

 

[Johnnie Fedora]

Originally posted by SheriB
I don't think she realizes how lucky she is to be going away for a vacation at all, much less where it is she's going. If she doesn't like it, she can stay home with her grandmother and grandfather. I can understand getting bored with the same place, but when I was a kid, the only place we ever went to on vacation was the Jersey shore. And we looked forward to it every year.

I think this may be a major part of the problem, our kids may not realize how truly lucky they are. The ho hum attitude gets old to be around, but I think DW and I will be making the decisions about where we will be vacationing. As they get older, we'll have to be sure NOT to give our kids to much say so in these family decisions. I look forward to doing some other vacation options with points, by exchanging, or renting them out. But for now, there will be enough variety at WDW/Orlando/HH/VB for many fun family vacations.

BTW, I spent may family vacations in the north woods fishing in a hot boat mid-July.

 

[MiaSRN62]

I don't think she realizes how lucky she is to be going away for a vacation at all, much less where it is she's going. If she doesn't like it, she can stay home with her grandmother and grandfather. I can understand getting bored with the same place, but when I was a kid, the only place we ever went to on vacation was the Jersey shore. And we looked forward to it every year.

I'm with you on this. My 16 yr old son is getting at this point where he's hesitant to leave his friends. I, also, never went anywhere as a kid except the Jersey shore, and the most we ever stayed over was 2 nights---mostly day trips ! My son doesn't realize how lucky he is. My girls are much more appeciative at this point (11 and 13 yrs). In fact, my 13 year old made a statement about how some of her friends have never been to WDW (or anywhere). She was horrified at this and said, "wow mom...we really are lucky !"
YOU BETCHA we are......

 

[anniet]

...I'm 38 and my mother keeps asking "Aren't you bored with Disney YET?"

 

[carone0318]

I just thought of this and it is so true....

Our kids will only truly appreciate going to Disney every yr (if not more for some) when they are older and have their own kids and plan their first trip and see how much it costs

It's a shame that we have to wait that long!

 

[Granny]

Originally posted by carone0318
I just thought of this and it is so true....

Our kids will only truly appreciate going to Disney every yr (if not more for some) when they are older and have their own kids and plan their first trip and see how much it costs

It's a shame that we have to wait that long!

I think that's true of just about everything with kids in general. Every once in a while, I'll ask my daughters if they know how spoiled they are. When they reply yes, I just give them the thumbs up and tell them that I was "just checking".

 

[GrammieMame]

When I was raising my kids, money was extremely scarce and the only vacation we could afford was an annual week at the beach, but no matter how broke we were, I always made sure we had that family vacation. Now that I have grandchildren, I'm indulging them to the max. They are 6 & 9 and have been to Disney twice, California once and Hawaii this year. I'm planning on San Francisco next year, Disney again the year after that, with a Utah raft trip thrown in there somewhere. My son asks me if they know what a "cool" grammie they have, and I have to say, not really. It's always there, so they assume it's a given and take it for granted. I hope when they get older, they will realize what a treat it was to be able to go and do such exciting things. I hope to be remembered as "GrammieMame".

 

[laceemouse]

Much as I love Disney, our family enjoys going other places as well. Now that our 4 are old enough we plan to start going to lots of educational places. We will alternate these with our Disney trips.

 

[dbond]

My oldest (19 yo DD) is not just bored with Disney, she's bored with traveling with us period. She has been fortunate enough in the last 10 years of her life to have traveled quite a bit. Disney at least once a year, NYC 3 times, SF, DC, 3 cruises, skiing every year. However, she has 2 little brothers, (15 & 9), that she shares those trips with. Now that she is "on her own" in college, we would have to come up with something teally fabulous to entice her to join us. However, we offered her Hawaii this summer and she turned us down. So DH, youngest DS (he still loves it) and myself went to WDW instead. DD and her middle brother (15) both opted out of our July 4th WDW trip, of course brother had another invite to go to the beaches of Mexico. DD chose to stay home and work. DD has big winter break ski plans & spring break beach plans with friends that she is saving money for. She's determined to flee the nest and be independent. It's tough to let that first one loose.

 

[boardwalk prof]

I too am looking forward to the days when DD (20) and DS (17) don't want to go with us. They aren't always the cheapest dates. However, even after 9 trips to WDW (5 in the last 5 years--joined DVC) they still want to go.

This year DH and myself went by ourselves in March. DD watched DS (5) during Spring Break with the stipulation that we would get her a room at BWV in '05. Thankfully we got next years babysitting week out of her too for the room.

Told DS (17) that he could have the same deal. You watch younger brother over spring break for 2 years and then we will get you your own room for spring break with your buddies.

So I don't know when they will get tried of going to WDW. We do try to do things they are interested in. However, DS (5) often rules the roost. And we have certianly sloooowed down the vacation. Since we go every year for 2 weeks, you don't really have to rush things.

I have insisted that if they are going to get serious about a mate, they better ask if they like WDW. And just the other day I asked DS (17) when he wanted to stop going with us. He stated that he would be bringing his lovely wife and children and we better get more points.

 

[gmboy95]

I know this much...kids are kids. We all never seem to appreciate things we had as kids until we realize how difficult it is to obtain this kind of lifestyle...in other words, when our kids finally stop sponging off old mom and dad, and have to actually work to put food on the table and pay the rent...and YES the PHONE BILL!!!!...they begin to understand and APPRECIATE all that came before....but alas...until then we must continue to wonder why they dont seem to get it, and we will continue to tell our kids how spoiled they are, and to of course shut the door "because we are not heating the entire town"!!!!

 

[JimC]

One daughter is and one is not. They are 21 and 19 respectively. But older daughter loves the beach and enjoyed VB this May with us.

My wife and I enjoy WDW -- it is our favorite vacation destination. Yet we still go elsehere -- DL, well other than places as well. We are also big fans of the National Parks.