When was your first WDW trip?

[disney junky]

I was there the within the first couple months it opened...November 1971....15 years old...dad took my younger sister and me out of school for a couple days...stayed at the CR. California Grill was the Top of the World....Johnny Ray was appearing there and shook every hand in the house....

 

[MUFFYCAT]

2000 at the age of 40.

 

[ADisneygirl]

Summer of 1976 when I was 11. My older sister had just graduated from college and was taking a road trip to Florida (from NY) with a friend of hers. She asked my mom if she could take me along and Mom agreed. I got to see a lot of Melbourne Beach too. I remember thinking that Florida felt like a tropical rainforest because it was so hot and muggy! WDW was great! Back then you bought tickets to individual rides, not an all day ticket.

 

[VSL]

Summer of 1998. I was 13yrs old.

 

[daisyduck123]

Christmas of 1976. I was in the 5th grade.

 

[dmslush]

November 2001. I was 29 years old I am now planning my 3rd and 4th trips LOL!

 

[Robinrs]

I fought it like a dog but my son INSISTED on one of our trips to Universal. I was 44 and he was 6 in 2000.

 

[Duckfan-in-Chicago]

I was too young, and my parents are at that age where everything they talk about requires a group discussion.

"Remember it was the year your brother got arrested for disorderly conduct?" "No...it was before then. My brother had already moved when we went." "No...yeah, you're right. Well it was around the same time..." And then the conversation will drift off to one of a million happier times in their lives and they're gone with little chance of coming back to the orig. topic.

The best I can figure it was around Fall of '72.

 

[slo]

1976 - I was 5 years old

 

[ericamanda01]

April 2001 I was 26 and I have been hooked ever since!

 

[GeorgeG]

October of 1986 and I was 40. My wife was worried I wouldn't like it. Wrong!

We went back every year and now live an hour away. Life is good!

 

[SamRoc]

1st trip to WDW was in 1975, the year I graduated high school.

 

[backalleysally]

August 1987, when I was in 7th grade. Long hot road trip but was well worth it!

 

[Pixiedust34]

I think my first WDW trip was in 1975. We camped in a tent at Fort Wilderness.

 

[tevagirl]

I was too young, and my parents are at that age where everything they talk about requires a group discussion.

"Remember it was the year your brother got arrested for disorderly conduct?" "No...it was before then. My brother had already moved when we went." "No...yeah, you're right. Well it was around the same time..." And then the conversation will drift off to one of a million happier times in their lives and they're gone with little chance of coming back to the orig. topic.

The best I can figure it was around Fall of '72.

Duck!


Our first trip was in 1984 and we stayed at Fort Wilderness. Took Amtrak, three women, five kids, two tents and all the camping gear you need for a week. It was a memorable trip.

Had so much fun, we did it again the next year. Not so much fun. The air mattresses kept deflating, one of the mom's developed vertigo and spent two nights hanging over the toilet in one of the rest rooms. (Which she had to literally crawl on her hands and knees to get to.) While she was in there, she wrote out some of the best postcards we ever sent out..."Can't say I wish you were here, 'cause I wish I wasn't.". etc.

After the second night the zipper on one of the tents broke and we were being eaten alive by mosquitoes. We packed up and went to a hotel. Since we couldn't, at that time, afford any WDW hotels, we had to go off site. Which means we needed to rent a car to get to the parks.

All we could afford to rent was a Chevette. Three women and five kids jammed into a Chevette driving around the World.

Took us two trips to get everyone and the luggage back to the train station.

We went back every year but never in tents again.

 

[PrincessJasmine08]

September 1987, I was 2 years old. We stayed at the Grand Floridian and about all I remember is a couple of things in the Magic Kingdom. Looks great in pictures though!

 

[DisneyBlonde]

I went for the very first time before I started college (1980), then again for spring break (1982). After my son was born I started taking him once or twice a year (1992, he was almost 3).

 

[pjb_hockey_mom]

Spring of 1979 and I was 10. We drove down from Virginia (where we were living at the time) and met my grandparents there (they flew down from Boston).

We stayed for 10 days at the Contemporary and it was awesome!!! So much has changed, I wish I could go back to then!

 

[Boston5602]

My Great Aunt and her friend took me and her nephew down to WDW July 1976 , I was 6 years old . we drove down from Boston.

My family took me down several times over the years and then when I was 17 a friend and I went during our senior year of high school.

Now I can't get there enough ( like most of us ! )

 

[luvsmickeymouse]

April 1972- I was almost 12. My kids went for the first time in 1992. They were 2 and 5.