What a fun thread!
DH went in 1973 with his older DB and a couple of his friends. My first time was on our honeymoon in 1978. I was only 18 and DH was 21. I had always wanted to go to
Disneyland since watching the Wonderful World of Disney on tv since I was a little girl. I am amazed looking back at how clueless I was then about WDW. I didn't know there was anything there but the Magic Kingdom. I didn't know about the Contemporary or the Polynesian until I saw them that day. I remember reading about River Country as we left that night and thought how fun it would be to go there but we didn't have time. We only had a week and there were so many things we wanted to see and do in Florida. Plus, we drove to and from Missouri.
Once I started writing this, I simply had to go and find my honeymoon memorabilia. I had the prices for the ticket books--a 2-day 16 ticket adventure book was only $16 for Adults, $14 for juniors (ages 12-17) and children (ages 3-11) $12. This also included RT transportation to the Walt Disney World Village. An 8 adventure ticket book was only $8.50 for adults and a 12 adventure ticket book was $10. Transportation and MK admission was $6.50 for adults. We still have a couple of tickets left in our ticket books. I can't believe we didn't use them all!!!! What were we thinking....oh, that's right, it was our honeymoon!!!
I also had kept the receipt from the hotel we stayed at in Kissimmee. It was the Colonial Motor Lodge at 1815 West Vine Street. With tax our room was only $25.44 per night.
I do remember the Jungle Cruise, it's a small world, Space Mountain, and the Main Street Electrical Parade from that trip. To this day, the Main Street Electrical Parade is my favorite and I still miss it!!!!!
Our next trip was in 1989 with our 2 children, ages 7 1/2 and 4 1/2. That time I knew a little more and we stayed at CBR for 5 nights. We drove then too and went to the beach in Destin and Daytona, St. Augustine, and the Kennedy Space Center. I remember thinking that this was probably the one and only time we would take our kids to WDW. Was I ever wrong!!!!!!! Since then we have been 25 more times--many of them with one or both of our kids!
Sorry this post got so long. I just got all caught up in reminiscing!!!!!!!
Donna