The best Time of a DVC Trip?

[Tigger031266]

What is your Favorite Time in the trip?

I have been through pretty many DVC trips. The best part is those first few minutes when you arive at your room.

I remember almost every time. I just sat on the couch and looked at all the beautiful colors and said to myself "Heaven has got to be something like this".

I am a very spiritual person by nature. I have to believe that heaven must be something like getting 20,000 DVC Points with no expirations. I really think that when I die, God is going to send me to a DVC up in the sky with all of our friends that we have lost.

After those first few hours, it is still fun but kind of goes down hill as that terrible leave date comes closers. I have to say that I am usually glad to go home which is a sign of a successfull vacation.

What is your favorite time of the vacation?

 

[Trio]

We always get to our resort around noon, and do not go to the parks that day. I always really enjoy that evenings meal. The first sip of that second glass of wine, always taste the best.

 

[LSchrow]

the first glimpse of the BW archway.
every time is like the first: i slightly smile as my eyes well, & whisper "i'm home". i know that moment is just the beginning of something wonderful.

 

[Granny]

I agree that the drive into the resort is a wonderful feeling. Whether it's the Wilderness Lodge "arch", the BWV sign or the OKW guard shack...each time as I go past for the first time on a trip I can feel the stress start to reduce.

It's kind of strange...I suppose at that point most people start getting excited.....but those landmarks actually help me to take it down a notch!

 

[Lady V]

when Ipark and walk in to check in. I just feel so fresh and excited (even if I have been driving 10 hours-it's like a wonderful second wind). Waiting to get to the counter I feel like a kid at Christmas. I am just so happy! Getting that welcome packet is awesome. I actually save them!! And finding our room, unlocking the door and just looking at my new home is so wonderful. And then going to the balcony where I know Iwill enjoy many cups of coffee as I recoup for the day! I just love it all!!!

 

[bluslag]

Well since I don't like to fly as soon as our plane hits the runway I am happy. I am a little impatient on the way to Disney but as soon as we get our first Welcome Home coming into OKW I am smiling again. Love to know what room we get and don't really care if we have to wait because that is the way it is. Love it when we get to take family or friends just to get their excitment.I just love it all!!!

 

[byoung]

The best to me is when I land in MCO, I know I'm home again.

 

[Muushka]

I have to believe that heaven must be something like getting 20,000 DVC Points with no expirations. I really think that when I die, God is going to send me to a DVC up in the sky with all of our friends that we have lost.

I love this.

 

[Muushka]

Tigger031266, I hope you don't mind but I just re-quoted you on another thread (Dean's). Your words were so comforting.

 

[dianeschlicht]

I get the first rush of excitement when we make our quick as possible passage through the airport and to the National car rental. We always reminisce on the trip from the airport to OKW, and the excitement mounts as we approach the guards gate, and get that first "welcome home" of the trip! I'm the one who runs (yes runs) in to get the check-in procedures underway. It's always a game to see if i can talk the CM into letting me know WHICH building we will be in. I often can tease them into at least an area, of not the building. Then, if our room is not ready(it usually isn't, since we usually arrive around noon) we will head to the park of choice.

I realize this is not one specific thing that is special to me, but the whole makes up how special it always is.

 

[tobidisney]

first meal on the first night....

then tucking the kids in on the first night and anticipating the next day....

love everything about Disney.

 

[BroganMc]

For me it's the first morning I wake up there.

My arrival day is always a hustle and bustle. Last day of my drive down (or after a night on the autotrain), I'm hauling myself to the hotel, checking in, getting groceries and supplies. I'm kinda cranky and far too busy.

The biggest thing I started to do when I got APs was to pop into a park for a quick snack. Just to say I can. Did that once when I had to pick up my DDE at Epcot and my room wasn't ready till after 4. It's was around noon. We went to the Electric Umbrella and had lunch while we watched all the other folks madly scarfing down food and pouring over their maps trying to fit it all in. It was first of a 14 day trip for us.

But I really enjoy a good night's rest and waking up someplace new the most.

 

[DVC Grammy]

For me, it's the first "official" large property sign we see from the DME bus.
I know then that I've entered my "REAL" world!

 

[Boardwalker]

I think my favorite moment is right after I have unpacked into my "home", and I step out onto my Boardwalk view balconey and ask myself "Where do I want to go first?" I just love having all of WDW at my fingertips, and all that fun for the taking. That is the moment I shed the 46 year old responsible adult and turn back into the excited, inexhaustible six year old.

 

[JudyTL]

Entering into WDW. The excitement of the long walk and the modes of transportation funneling into the entrance way. I feel the high energy of people coming and going.

I love the dining option next.. The amount of food. No cooking and I can basically eat what I want without a hard limitation. I feel like my money is not being wasted.

At night seeing my two teenagers sleep sound. No fighting no yelling. They have smiles on their faces. They still get excited about seeing the characters. (My DD was giving me mounth... What am I a 5 yo going to WDW.. that music changed when she got there. She turned down Hawaii for WDW this year.)

 

[HUFF590]

We like to open the door, make us a drink, sit out on the balcony and breath it all in, were home.

 

[JimMIA]

So far it's always been the same moment for me -- the moment DD4-going-on-24 figures out where we are.

We get up early in the morning and start the 4 hour drive up from Miami without telling her where we're going. Then, as we make our way down Osceola Parkway, DW and I get pretty quiet.

When she spots the first "Hidden Mickey" on a traffic sign, or the characters on the big arch, DD gets a real "I am WAY smarter than you two!" grin on her face, and then either yells, "Hidden Mickey!" or the character's name (usually Minnie).

Seeing her face light up like that is the best part of the trip for me. Her face lights up a couple of hundred times in a trip, but that initial surprize/joy reaction is the best.

 

[bpmorley]

I do enjoy our first day. When we have AP's we'll go to a park and get a fast pass for a ride and we'll get something to eat. No rushing around. After we ride, we head back to the resort and get a drink and just relax.

 

[Delaware Mike]

The absolute best part of our trip comes after our flight, after getting our luggage from the turnstile at MCO, and after getting into the rental car to drive out 528.

It comes when we first see the large, red, welcoming arch, which beckons us in. My wife always reaches for my hand, and smiling, she welcomes me home.

The English language is the only language in the world having one word inspiring a sense of being settled, of calm, of all is right with the world

...and that word is "home".