The Post-DL Blues...

[Meemoo]

I have that feeling, sitting here at my computer listening to 'Live the Magic' looking at my awesome Photo Pass photos with that tinge of sadness, that DL is so far away. Yes, I have the Post DL Blues, someone write me a script for my treatment, another 3 week trip would fix it!! If you live in America, don't take for granted how lucky you are to have the Happiest Place on Earth at a domestic flight away. I realize some of you the trip isn't so simple either but to be a 15 hour flight away and the expense to get there is just depressing!

The good thing is, the planning has started again for next time, and planning is half the fun right?! It will be WDW next time first visit in the making. Anyone else get the Post Disney blues?

 

[Lucysmom2]

Really? Doesn't everybody get the post Disney blues?!

 

[Disney127]

We can relate - we get the post DL blues too! . But we are lucky, we try to go once a year. Flights from Canada are not cheap plus our exchange rate is not so good right now. Glad that you have WDW to plan for - something to look forward to!

 

[justgrace]

Yep, we get them too. That's why we start planning our next trip immediately after we get back. Sometimes, the planning starts on our walk back to the hotel on our last night of vacation there.

 

[McNs]

Yep got them here too. Crazy busy year at work next year so nothing to plan for either.

For now my fix is coming from the podcasts, fresh baked and frequent checks of wait times on the app!

 

[sdchickie]

I already have them and my trip isn't for 2 more weeks! I just want to live in my happy place.

 

[Angel Ariel]

We just got back, and I have them too. It's a cross country flight for us, so it will be a while. In the meantime I'm going to console myself reliving the trip going through photos and writing my first trip report here!

 

[Watchtower]

I'm sure the lucky one's who live down the street from DLR don't get those blues. They can just go tomorrow, or next week, or next month. Those of us who live a plane flight away, or days of driving aren't so lucky. Those of us who don't have high-paying careers who can't afford to take spontaneous "why not" trips whenever we want aren't so lucky. We can only afford the cost/time off from work every 1.5 to 2 years. We stay for 4 days minimum, 5 days most of the time, and every trip when we're packing up to check out of the hotel, the tears start to fall as the sting of leaving sets in. I know at that point that it's going to be many months before I can return to my happy place. When the blues start to set in, I just start planning for the next trip...usually on the flight home.

 

[Meemoo]

Yep got them here too. Crazy busy year at work next year so nothing to plan for either.

For now my fix is coming from the podcasts, fresh baked and frequent checks of wait times on the app!

Yes, DLR Prep School & Fresh Baked are great, gets me my fix in between trips!!

 

[GatorChris]

That just means your trip was too short! Back when WDW was our place to go, we originally would just do a Saturday to Saturday trip. That just wasn't enough. We started extending it by 2-3 days. By the time the trip was over, we were Disney satisfied and ready to go home.

This year with the AP we got, we were really able to get our fill of DL. We don't have a trip anywhere on the horizon and for the first time, I don't have that desire to go back right away. I'm sure with a few weeks or months going by, it'll come back. I guess you just have to being a Disney glutton, get fat on it, and then you can overcome the blues. For a while, anyways.

 

[lennon2004]

I know the feeling. Facebook just showed me that I was there on this date last year. DH and I were lucky to live 5.5 hours away for a year and a half, which meant three trips for us. We recently moved across the country and while I'm excited to be able to go to WDW now, I do miss DL!

 

[Winnowill]

From Phoenix, it's exactly the right distance to be a) too far to get to very often but b) tantalizingly close. So we maximize the time we do get, but don't expect more than a visit a year.

 

[Meemoo]

That just means your trip was too short! Back when WDW was our place to go, we originally would just do a Saturday to Saturday trip. That just wasn't enough. We started extending it by 2-3 days. By the time the trip was over, we were Disney satisfied and ready to go home.

This year with the AP we got, we were really able to get our fill of DL. We don't have a trip anywhere on the horizon and for the first time, I don't have that desire to go back right away. I'm sure with a few weeks or months going by, it'll come back. I guess you just have to being a Disney glutton, get fat on it, and then you can overcome the blues. For a while, anyways.

This was the general idea of our last visit. We got the maximum park hopper which was 10 days for Australian residents. I wanted to come home really over it, almost hating it even Good thing is I have more planning in the works. Never been to WDW or on DCL so its exciting to be planning something completely new.

 

[BatBunny]

I think it's a general symptom of all DL fans that aren't local to the area. We got them the day we had to leave (actually messed up and hung around DTD before hitting the airport). Fortunately there's places like this and wonderful people like Fresh Baked Disney to help cure the Not-At-Disney blues.

 

[FreshBakedDisney]

I think it's a general symptom of all DL fans that aren't local to the area. We got them the day we had to leave (actually messed up and hung around DTD before hitting the airport). Fortunately there's places like this and wonderful people like Fresh Baked Disney to help cure the Not-At-Disney blues.

YAY!! Thank you for repping Fresh Baked

 

[ClaraOswald]

I'm right there with you! It's been almost a year since our last trip. And our next one won't be until March 2017 (if we're lucky.) I miss it.

I miss WDW too. Haven't been there since 2012. Probably won't return until 2019.

 

[4Mickeys]

lol still got them and we went September 2014 also from Australia! That's why I am still on the DIS everyday lol. Lucky you to be able to be in a planning phase for another trip. I am still in the paying off our last trip phase and hoping that we might be able to go back in a few years after Star Wars Land has opened.

 

[Meemoo]

YAY!! Thank you for repping Fresh Baked

Thanks for dropping in on my post FreshBaked - I love you guys! Tried to find you whilst I was over at DL but no luck, maybe next time!!

 

[sherilaine]

I have certainly been there. We went three years in a row, and I had the blues after we left the first two times. However, after our last trip in March of 2014 it wasn't the same - it was like we'd finally had our fill or at least a sufficient amount of Disneyland time. The kids started asking again not that long ago as to when on earth we'd be returning so due to a very cheap airfare found, we have changed our plans and are returning end of February for another trip. It is nice to see that at least a few things have changed in 2 years as that makes it more exciting to return.

I have often wondered though how great it would be to live just close enough to be able to do a few trips per year (even if it was a 10 hour drive) and be able to sort of keep that magic going all the time - but we are a three hour flight away and with the Canadian dollar in the red these days, we'll be lucky if once a year can continue.

Have fun planning your next trip - the planning is so much a part of it - so much in fact that I am almost disapointed this was so last minute as I feel like I have missed out a bit.

 

[tarheelalum]

YAY!! Thank you for repping Fresh Baked

Fresh Baked Rocks!