Tell me why you go to WDW as an older adult?

[WDWLVR]

I was 19 when I went to the WDW for the first time and loved it.

I was 33 when I honeymooned at WDW and was able to share that love with the man I loved.

I was 42 when we bought into DVC and I know we will have years and years of Disney vacations ahead of us!

We went for a week this past June and then had a few days before and after the DVC Member Cruise this past September. When my in-laws cancelled the booking we gave them at Vero Beach and the points went into a holding account DH came up with the idea of running down for a long weekend. We just got back! In one month we'll be at Disneyland.

To us Disney is a place where we know we can have a great room, great food and a great time. We can just relax. We can have fun. We can act like kids if we want.

 

[patricianne2500]

My husband and I just bought our second passes to Disneyworld. I am 67, he is 75. We love Disneyworld - makes us feel like kids again. Granted we get tired but we always take at least two day. Passes are good for a year (with blackout dates). I am planning a trip in December for our 38th wedding anniversary. Can't wait. Also, we've never seen the Christmas display and i hear it's wonderful....

 

[KittyKitty]

It all started with.......M-I-C,see ya real soon, K-E-Y, why, because we like you. M-O-U-S-E, in the 50's

Husband wondered when we were transferred from Virginia to Idaho, that I had to go to Florida to see the Disney Park, 1973.

Settled in Seattle, and since there weren't too many ppl who had gone, my 1st true taste of magic was when I went on fam trips to WDW as a travel agent. I was totally immersed in Disney, and couldn't believe there were others like me.

I came out of the Disney closet about 6 yrs, and professed my passion. To the laughs and sighs of family members.One said" It took you long enough!!"

So now I work parttime, and tho I don't have fancy clothes nor car, the bills are paid, and I always seem to find money to do to WDW. I can't seem to stay away more than a year. I'm already planning 2006 and 2007! Got my AP.

Thanks for asking!!!

Oh, I'm 56.

 

[Moosysmom]

I remember watching the Mickey Mouse Club and Wonderful World of Disney as a kid and wanting to go to the place with Mickey Mouse. When I finally made it there as an adult, some people were afraid it would be a let down for me because I had looked forward to it for so long. Well, 13 years after my first visit, I'm living in Florida (to be closer to the WDW), and have just been hired for a part time job there. The magic never seems to leave me and I feel good when I go to Disney, it could be a bad day, or after last summer, another hurricane coming, but at Disney it's hard to have a bad day. I went up there for my 48th birthday and spent 3 days celebrating. My family doesn't make it back until after my birthday, but at Disney, I hear Happy Birthday alot. It sounds cliche and not everybody understands but there has to be some magic and pixie dust around there somewhere. It's just special.

 

[The Doctor]

As an adult, I find it both a physical and emotional experience to immerse myself in the perverbial "magic", it allows me to forget,for awhile at least, the outside world.

 

[Brendita]

I won't grow up.
Just cause we get older, we don't stop having fun.
I will turn 50 in September.
I'm crossing my fingers to eat my @ the castle.
With all my family, friends, & lots of the characters.
This is my wish.
Come on Blue Fairy wishes do come true.
RIGHT!!

 

[fabumouse]

I just like being taken care of. I like the fact that when I have a problem, the Manager looks me in the eye and says "I'm Sorry". I like the fact that the streets are clean and most of the employees are sincerely happy to be there. It's pretty rare anywhere else but WDW.

 

[jpeppers]

I go because it makes me feel like a younger adult. I need to go somewhere on my vacations where I can feel like a kid and at 43 there aren't a whole lot of places that do that.

 

[Suzi Q]

My DH and I are 56 and we love WDW. We are DVC members and usually go to WDW once or twice a year. People say we have disneyitis, and don't understand. We travel other places as well and enjoy that also, but there is something special about our trips to WDW. It is the one place where we can park our car and never have to get back in it for as long as we like. We can be kids again. We enjoy watching families having a great time together. The resorts are beautiful and the food is great!! We enjoy sharing our vacations with our children and grandchildren or we enjoy just the two of us. Where else can you please all age groups?! And where else do you find so many smiles?

 

[cherokeemamma]

My DH is 52 and I am 43. We started our family perhaps a little later than some - our DS is 11 and DD is 6. We came back about a month ago from a 10 day trip WDW and we had a blast!!!!! I think we did everything except Mission Space. On the way home from our trip my husband asked our children, "What did you learn on our vacation?" My son replied, "That you are never to old to have fun!" WOW!! We loved his comment and we did have fun. Who could ever be too old for that?

We LOVE WDW!!!

 

[MickeyNicki]

My DH and I go 3-5 times a year, we live close by and have annual passes. DH likes to go because it is like la la land, everyone is nice and pleasant, the place is super clean. And the food is great, the hotels very nice, the parks are fun. We always go at the slowest time of the year so we can really enjoy ourselves.

 

[Kay7979]

We take plenty of other vacations besides WDW, and I love going new places and having a variety of experiences. That said, I never get tired of WDW. I think people who question why you want to go there as an adult 1) have never been there and don't know how much there is to see and do or 2) have all the personality and imagination of dryer lint.

I have given a lot of thought to why I like Disney things so much. I believe it is because they have the ability to take a segment of life, and filter out everything but the charm and the beauty. Take Main Street USA. There isn't dirt and litter in the streets as an early 1900s town would have had, there are no stores with peeling paint and worn roofs. No rundown, empty buildings. Everything you see represents the best and most charming aspects of life during that era. The architectural details are quaint, the paint is fresh and colorful, the storefronts are full of beautiful items. Everyone is happy and smiling.

Or frontierland: No horse droppings, muddy streets, brawling ruffians, unkempt buildings with sagging porches. No, they have captured only the essence of what we like best about western towns. The buildings are colorful and have Victorian trim, there's rustic wooden barrels and old miner's tools, the sound of a train's steam whistle in the background.

And at the resorts: The polynesian is more "Hawaiian" than Hawaii. They have captured an earlier era before too much commercialization and too many shopping plazas overshaddowed the serene beauty of the islands.

The Grand Floridian? The Victorian era's refinement, sense of tasteful elegance and propriety, the love for ornamentation and the display of wealth.

Everything worn, dirty, tawdry, dull, or sad has been filtered out at Disney, and what remains is what life and nature would be if only it could. We would all like to have that ability to filter everything around us on a daily basis, and to experience only beauty and cheerful surroundings, but we are not able to do that. And that is the Magic of Disney. They have given us that gift of a few moments or days of unspoiled pleasure.

How can anyone get tired of that, or be too old to enjoy it?

 

[magicmama]

Very well said!!! I agree with Kay7979!!!

 

[gppnj]

DH and I just completed a trip to WDW for my 53rd birthday. I got cards in my hotel room from both Mickey and Minnie, my age was announced to everyone at Whispering Canyon Cafe, and PUSH sang happy birthday to me.

I wore a princess tiara during the whole trip.

I can't recall when I had so much fun.

I love that answer!

I hope I'm in the same frame of mind when I'm 53 (not that I'm all that far off now).

 

[doubletrouble_vb]

For one thing its one of the easiest vacations i can go on. i have either DVC or Westgate for accomodations so its just a matter of planning the travel portion. If I want to do something new that's the ONLY thing I have to check out...what's new in Orlando...otherwise (let's break into song here)..."I've got sunshine (even) on a cloudy day, When its cold outside (at home) I've got the month of May, I guess you can say, What can make me feel this way? My (Way), My (Way), My (Way).

Also I've got something in common with other people. Disney World opened when I was a little kid. Those kids whose parents didn't have government jobs like mine got to 1) Get on a plane!!! 2) Go to Florida with palm trees and everything and 3) Go to Disney World!!!. I was so wistful, so jealous that we couldn't afford to go. But I do have to say because my parents were teachers we did go on extended vacations in the summer (but not to Disney) as a family and that's something I wouldn't trade for anything.

 

[LorieR]

DH and I just came back a week or so ago from WDW. It was our fifth visit since 2000! We just celebrated our 30th anniversary this year and I turned 53 in September. Now that our kids are grown is out time to have fun again!!! My sister thinks I am nuts but then again she has been going skiing to the same place in Canada in the same month for years, but I guess that does that count!!


Lorie

 

[SaraMc]

As a child I once told my parents that I never wanted to grow up. That I was going to stay a kid forever. Well Ive tried as much as I can. My DH and Love going to Disneyworld and having fun. We dont see the point of going and sitting on a beach in some tropical place having a drink that I have to worry if the ice cubes were made with unsafe water. Because after about a hour of that I would be bored.
We both have THE BEST sleep EVER when on vacation at Disneyworld. I come back recharged and ready ( ready to plan the next trip too)
We dont even tell people anymore where we are going its just naturally assumed.

I am a adult now, but I do have fun anyway I can.

 

[KIANGA]

Hubby Is 78 And I'm 74. We Just Love To Go To The Parks Taking Our Time To Enjoy Everything From Watching People To Riding Some Of The Rides, seeing the shows and the parades. We Love Eating, So We Do Alot Of Sit-down dinners At The Parks And Hotels. Really Enjoy The Animals At AK And AKL, Sometimes Eating Our Breakfast On The Balcony At The AKL With The Animals. The Foliage At The Parks And Hotels is Beautiful, And Watching The Fireworks And The Water Pageant From The Poly beach Is Spectacular. We always take the carriage ride at Port Orleans. I Guess What I'm Trying To Say Is That As You Get Older You Can Still Have Fun And Be Like A Kid At WDW.

 

[lgp1]

I go because it makes me feel like a younger adult. I need to go somewhere on my vacations where I can feel like a kid and at 43 there aren't a whole lot of places that do that.

I agree i'm 50 and i feel the same way

 

[Nanabug02]

You either get it or you don't....and we here on the DIS boards get it!