What is your WDW vacation alternative?

[mousefan73]

There’s a strong possibility we might replace our August WDW trip( was a FD bounce back) with DLP. We are in Europe and that makes sense. Florida seems to be heading in the wrong direction case wise, so even if we could do our trip as originally planned, we wouldn’t.

 

[Kestryl]

We are going no where. Work will ban me from returning to on site if I leave the area.

I’m surprised more people aren’t under these kinds of restrictions.

 

[DisneyJamieCA]

We are going no where. Work will ban me from returning to on site if I leave the area.

I’m surprised more people aren’t under these kinds of restrictions.

It’s easier for us since we’re still working from home with no current plans to go back into the office.

 

[teller80]

One of the things on my bucket list has been to go backpacking, and this just might be the year for it. My daughter is an avid backpacker and has offered to go with me as an introduction. Unfortunately her vacation is the first two weeks of December and most of the country is a little cold, so she's thinking of Big Bend NP in Texas and I'm looking into it.

We have a December trip booked at PO French Quarter, but I'm thinking we're going to cancel.

 

[Kestryl]

It’s easier for us since we’re still working from home with no current plans to go back into the office.

That’s true. I’m mostly working from home, but I have to go in around once a week for certain things that I can’t take off-site.

Still, I wonder a lot because I haven’t heard of anyone else in our area or in our families who are under the same restrictions. Either my workplace is taking this too seriously or everyone else isn’t.

 

[RamblingMad]

Sounds like fun. Disclaimer, I am a scout leader with 3 kids in scouting. Camping used to sound like fun. Lol.

Camping is fun. You’re probably taking the be prepared part too far.

 

[DisLiss]

I wish my DNA allowed that. I cannot hang around the house, I would go mad!

We don't have much choice between needing to now have even more money available for our make-up Disney trip in order to go the same number of days (It will cost us approx. two grand more to go 9 months later, which is a huge bummer, but it is what it is.) and needing to work around social distancing. Luckily we have a decent sized yard with a lot of possible activities.

 

[robinb]

It looks like my October vacation is going down the tubes because I don't have park passes yet.

My DH saw something on CNN about travel to Iceland. They test you for Covid and if you're OK you have free rein of the country. If you're positive, you are under 14-day quarantine.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/iceland-reopens-coronavirus/index.html
My DH really wants to go .

 

[HeatherC]

We live in Massachusetts - renting a cottage right on the beach in Cape Cod. We figured we might as well stay in our own state and not deal with any quarantine issues. We enjoy the beach, so it will be a good trip for us and feels pretty easy to social distance there.

We usually do Feb (or Apr) Disney trips or Florida beach trips. We were planning WDW in Feb 2021. We have determined that is probably not going to happen..I'm not sure we will be comfortable flying by then - esp my parents who are healthy, but are in their 7os and being careful as far as covid. Unfortunately everywhere within a reasonable drive from here is cold in February. So I have no idea what we will do instead. We don't ski and I really like getting away from winter weather for a week.

I’m also in MA and feel your pain about the escape from winter in February! We had a cruise planned but just cancelled it today. Our three adult kids were going to be going with us so we’re bummed it isn’t happening and now I’m sitting here going....it’s gonna be a looooooonnnng winter. I just hope our cases keep declining. The way things stand now I don’t plan on leaving New England anytime soon...and we love to travel. Very strange not to have trips booked.

Enjoy your week on the Cape! Always a great time!

 

[Mango7100]

It looks like my October vacation is going down the tubes because I don't have park passes yet.

My DH saw something on CNN about travel to Iceland. They test you for Covid and if you're OK you have free rein of the country. If you're positive, you are under 14-day quarantine.

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/iceland-reopens-coronavirus/index.html
My DH really wants to go .

Iceland is fabulous. If not for the months of darkness in winter I could live there. Seriously. We did a week Road trip and some days we didn’t see more than 5 people. The landscape was like something on a different planet.

We rented a house on the Atlantic side of Florida with a private pool. We will drive and bring most of our own food. We can go to the beach early in the morning before the heat and crowds. I just want a change of scenery. We have a resort stay at SSR 7/2-7/7, but I’m not sure we will keep it due to the case numbers increasing in Florida. Though I trust Disney restaurants and properties to enforce the rules of masks, decreased capacity, and distancing a lot more than I do my local community...

 

[chaboyd]

Changed my August Disney trip to December, but lost my Sun and Fun room discount. Not sure I'll be able to justify going if there isn't any kind of discount available, even though this is a 50th bday present for me and 21st for dd.

We booked a beach house in August at Cape San Blas as a consolation trip.

 

[PamNC]

I'm working through that right now. I have some options in my head - live in NC(obviously) so lots of beaches nearby. I'm thinking through options. A) Catskills in NY - I have a friend that lives there, but I would stay at an airbnb because her place is small. I like to hike and I love small mountain towns so this might be fun and unique. It's a 12 hour drive. B) St. Augustine for a few nights then Orlando to do Universal. I haven't been since 1994 and I always say I'll go but I don't because I want to be at Disney. Thinking this might be my chance to do Universal. St. Augustine is about 6 1/2 hour drive for me. And then I'm thinking about some other beach options like Outer Banks of NC, or Folly Beach/Sullivan's Island/isle of Palms near Charleston. Charleston is an amazing city.

Whatcha' think?

 

[Searc]

If anyone is still planning Disney within the next 6-9 months, I'd make sure you are up to date on ALL the changes, cancellations and restrictions they've implemented, a lot announced yesterday.

 

[Nox]

We're going to Tampa. Possibly going to check out MOSI, the Salvador Dali museum, and maybe something like a zip line park. Check out the downtown area. There are also some cool graffiti/wall murals up in Clearwater that would be fun for photos.

Edit: We are not going to Tampa. Mandatory mask order. So we'll be camping in our living room, because this is still Florida in the summer and it is hot, sticky, and mosquito-y outside.

 

[MamaLema]

We are going no where. Work will ban me from returning to on site if I leave the area.

I’m surprised more people aren’t under these kinds of restrictions.

I am I live in Toronto and we can’t do ANYTHING. We can’t even drive to the next province. Still can’t get a haircut. Playgrounds are closed. Nothing fun is open. 14 day mandatory quarantine if you leave the country.
we are going to hand around the backyard all summer

 

[Snowysmom]

We are canceling our Aug Disney trip. Too many changes and the grandkids will not wear masks. We are looking into booking a condo in NH for the week. In Oct we go to North Conway. We rescheduled our May Disney trip to Nov but that one may be canceled too. We don't have tickets so we can't book the parks next week. Once we can buy tickets I will see what parks are available before I buy tickets and cancel if I can't get what I want.

 

[Kitty 34]

We don't "do" Disney anymore and haven't for years BUT we always go to Mackinaw City, MI every summer with the sons and families . Sooooo......I just booked rooms today at the hotel we usually go to for the end of August. It's going to be a way different trip but I'm game.

 

[Colleen27]

We didn't have a Disney trip planned for this year. I had thought about a last-minute Universal trip, to take advantage of the limited capacity right now, but the discomfort of masks in the heat and the current virus numbers coming out of FL have me rethinking that.

We've been "up north", northern Michigan, twice this year so far. Once to a fairly isolated part of the Lake Michigan shore, once to Frankenmuth (where we had the experience that has us rethinking heading to FL - masks indoors are fine but after a while we need a break, so I'm not going anywhere they're required all day, both indoors and outdoors). We'll be up at least once more this summer, for a five-day trip to Mackinac Island and the Upper Peninsula next month. We're renting a cabin more or less in the middle of nowhere and will be hiking and kayaking and exploring some ghost towns, with just the one day on the Island being anywhere near other people. We're also planning a mountains road trip, through Shenandoah and the Smokies, for mid-July; that one is a replacement for the northeast trip that we cancelled because of the border closures and will be a lot of van camping and campfire/camp stove cooking and hiking.

Depending on how things go, I may or may not plan something for August for my youngest and her best friend. That would be more of a "civilized" trip - she's game for our camping adventures but mainly tolerates them because of her big sister, who moves back to her dorm on Aug. 1 - so if/when/where will depend on what the virus trajectory looks like in our region by then. Because at a bare minimum, a trip that appeals to her involves a hotel with a pool, decent restaurants, and maybe some shopping or activities like mini-golf... all more dependent on things being open than the kind of trips we do when older DD is with us.

 

[Colleen27]

We are going no where. Work will ban me from returning to on site if I leave the area.

I’m surprised more people aren’t under these kinds of restrictions.

DH's workplace was, but it only applied to travel out of state and they announced that the rule will expire at the end of the month. It was nonsense anyway - while it was in effect, the city where the plant is had some of the highest rates anywhere in the country. He was far more likely to catch it at work than anywhere we'd travel to! But mostly we haven't worried about it because he doesn't usually travel with us - he can take off for maybe one trip out of every three or four that my girls and I take - and I work from home even in ordinary times, so we don't have anyone to answer to about most trips.

It will be interesting to see if schools attempt to impose some sort of restrictions about kids who travel over breaks. DD18's university has eliminated all breaks in the fall semester and students will move out of their dorms Thanksgiving week and do the last week of classes and their finals online, so they won't have students leaving for where ever and then coming back to campus, but I haven't heard anything about K-12 schools considering imposing quarantines on students who travel during the school year.

 

[wilbret]

Camping is fun. You’re probably taking the be prepared part too far.

No, I’m talking about camping with 70 kids and families. Lol