Six degrees of Disney travel

[rutgers1]

At first, it was just me planning my own trip. Then I would plan trips for friends and family. Now I help people who are helping people plan trips.

That doesn't even take into account the fact that I spend time on this site every night reading about other people's trips and adding my 2 cents when possible.

I figure that, if I walked up to some random person in Disney World, I could connect them back to myself in six moves or less!

 

[Micca]

I'll bet many of us would have less than six degrees of separation at WDW. The odds of someone from your hometown being in the parks on the same day must be pretty good for those of us in the U.S. We were on a boat from Epcot to the Boardwalk and there was someone from our town sitting right behind us. We didn't know them, but I'll be if we had spent a few minutes we could have made a connection. It's a small world after all

 

[staceymay00]

I'll bet many of us would have less than six degrees of separation at WDW. The odds of someone from your hometown being in the parks on the same day must be pretty good for those of us in the U.S. We were on a boat from Epcot to the Boardwalk and there was someone from our town sitting right behind us. We didn't know them, but I'll be if we had spent a few minutes we could have made a connection. It's a small world after all

So true! I have lost count of the families from school and sports we've run into at Disney. Yes, we are all on the same school break schedule and are only about 8 hours away, but still, WDW is a big place with so many visitors. The best was when we ran into some friends who had moved halfway across the country from us. We had no idea they would be at WDW when we were, but there they were when we were both heading into the same restaurant for lunch. We enjoyed lunch with them and catching up!

 

[Tink-n-Belle]

Thats awesome!

We ran into 2 different families we know in one day. Then another 1 on a sparate trip.

Last trip I let my teens go on there own and my DH needed to go back to the room to check on work so I was all alone in. Epcot for the reminder of the day and since they don't have cells I figured I wouldn't see them until I went back to the room, but we meet in the bathroom around 7 pm.. I was coming out a stall and my DD was waiting to go in, She was excited to run into me but my other DD seemed annoyed, but we hung out and then she wanted to leave and go back to the room but doesn't she run into my DH so she stayed with him.

 

[loveswdw]

Yep, last trip we ran into a friend of DS9 on the dock between Y&C. We were staying at BCV and taking the boat to DHS. Walking down the dock to catch the boat and heard somebody calling out to my DS. It was his friend from school. They were staying at the Contemporary but had just had breakfast at Cape May and were heading to DHS on the boat, too. What timing that was to run into them!

 

[dbs1228]

Yup walking through the castle at MK Feb 2012 we bumped into Paul McCartney walking through the castle right next to him, his wife and daughter. Oh wait never met him does that count? very cool anyway

 

[MARY-IN-OH]

I've become one of those people that friends of frieinds and family etc refer to for disney advice, when they ask when there are lower crowds I have been telling them about September for low crowds, and then I'm like "wait, why am I telling all these people to go when I'm there for the low crowds!"

It's fun wearing t-shirts from your hometown and CM's and other guests you run into are from the same area. Great conversation starter when you're in line waiting for the bus with people who live a few minutes down the road!

I remember when my kids were little and they came off the carousel at MK, and told us they ran into their friends from school (early December) and they didn't think it was a big deal at all since they were little and didn't realize how far away from home we were!