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txdisneyfanatic
03-28-2012, 09:17 PM
Just thought it would be interesting to see how often people visit WDW! We have some friends who will be going for their 47th time this summer (from TEXAS)!!!! Please share......

Can anyone beat 47 times?! I've been 7 and have friends who think that's insane! But of course, they don't feel the magic! :)

spoiledraf
03-28-2012, 09:21 PM
16
If it were less than 1072 miles away, it would likely be more. :mickey:

Ed
03-28-2012, 09:34 PM
Lost count after 50, and that was three or four years ago. :shrug:

Christine
03-28-2012, 09:41 PM
I'm with Ed- I can't count!

buzznwoodysmom
03-28-2012, 09:59 PM
I am pretty sure my Christmas trip last year was trip number 15. We might be going back in July so that will make 16.

We live 12 hours away. If I lived 6, or even 8, hours away I have a feeling there would be many more trips. It's the getting there that keeps us from going more often.

Belle of the Ball 051411
03-28-2012, 10:08 PM
7 times.

Dopey's Girl
03-28-2012, 10:17 PM
April will be 29, and Icot15 will be 30.

Before 2004, I had only been 5 times. So in 8 yrs. I will have been 15 times. I wish I had thought to tally how much money I have spent. Then again, maybe not.

drjny
03-28-2012, 10:39 PM
My 32nd trip will be in August 2012.

Itchy
03-28-2012, 11:02 PM
Well!!!

25 with the trip in September and a 1050 miles away.

58 days to trip 24...:blush:

God I love that place....:mickey:

Goofeygal
03-28-2012, 11:16 PM
Been to many times to count. Been going for almost 18 yrs and alot of the times it is 2 times a year. The last few years we go 3 - 4 times a year. We were there 2 months this year and did the parks over half the time we were there. So needless to say we are Disney geeks and proud of it.:mickey::blush:

Melanie
03-29-2012, 06:47 AM
I'm with Ed and Christine. Too many to count. It's tough being local. ;)

greengeen
03-29-2012, 07:14 AM
Our next visit (in May) will be #68. We live in Florida and usually go for 3 days at a time. And we own DVC.

TinkerbellT421
03-29-2012, 08:06 AM
Our trip in December will be trip number 8 :mickey:
(7 with DBF and 1 when I was a child with the family)

disneymom15
03-29-2012, 09:39 AM
I'm also one of those with "too many to count" as my answer. DH, DD and I started going in 1995, we've gone every year since with at least 2 trips to as many as 4 trips a year.

LandFan
03-29-2012, 09:53 AM
This fall will be 15 for us to WDW, twice to Disneyland and once to Disneyland Paris (back when it was still called EuroDisney in the early 90's, lol).

Disney4us2
03-29-2012, 10:09 AM
We have been to WDW only 5 times. We are at Disneyland at least 2-3 times a month.:mickey:

disneymomma2010
03-29-2012, 10:11 AM
6 times and my friends think I'm crazy too!
Everyone who has been too many times to count...Ive got to say, i'm a little jealous! :rub:

TiggerDeb
03-29-2012, 10:21 AM
16 as of September of 2011-- making plans for 17th in September of 2013. If I lived in Florida, it would be a lot more.:mickey:

MPoppins
03-29-2012, 10:53 AM
58 times! My co-workers think I'm nuts. Maybe I am...:blush: I love the parks more and more every single time we go! :mickey:

elmjimmlm
03-29-2012, 11:03 AM
July will be 11 and December will be 12 :thumbsup:

DVC2004
03-29-2012, 11:09 AM
Lost count as well, took 2 trips as a kid then have been going anywhere from 1-3 times per year every year starting in 2001. In the last 12 months, we have gone 3 times (June, Oct, and Feb). If I had to guess it would be more than 30 but less than 40. We've also been on the cruise 3 times and have been to Disneyland about 5 times.

kirbmajik
03-29-2012, 11:29 AM
1st Post:pick:

22 times last year, too many to count all together. Epcot is our adopted backyard!

shadowden
03-29-2012, 11:46 AM
7 last summer; 8 this coming June.

Like most others, it would be more if we lived closer. But +1,000 miles away puts a little bit of a damper on the day trip concept...

azcavalier
03-29-2012, 11:46 AM
I think it's 12 times. But the first time was ten years ago. We go every year in the fall, and sometimes just the DW and I go for our anniversary in the Spring.

This year we're going in November with a family that's never been there, but we're leaving our older children home so they don't miss school. However, to make it up to them, we're going to DisneyLand in January the week after the MLK holiday!

shadowden
03-29-2012, 11:46 AM
1st Post:pick:

22 times last year, too many to count all together. Epcot is our adopted backyard!

Welcome!

EeyoresBestFriend
03-29-2012, 12:19 PM
I know how lucky we are since many folks can only afford to dream of going or save for a long time for that one trip. I save for at least a year for each trip and I feel darn lucky to be able to go!

We have been amazingly fortunate for this September will be number 10 for us! :cloud9: We are 3090 miles from our second home!!

gottaluvtink
03-29-2012, 12:26 PM
Didn't start going until I had my own kids. Since then, it's been 18 times and counting. Next trip, May 2012 and one already planned for January 2013!!! Never get tired of Disney vacations.

PopPhan
03-29-2012, 12:41 PM
kirbmajik... :welcome: to INTERCOT!!!

I've made 9 visits to WDW since 2003...Dying to go back!!

whitney37354
03-29-2012, 12:52 PM
Just twice:(, with 24 years between visits. DH has promised DD that he'll take her again, but it will be a few years, because of the expense. My bucket list is to stay at least once at all WDW resorts (except Shades of Green, Swan, & Dolphin). Two down, many to go!:mickey:

mom2Z&A
03-29-2012, 12:52 PM
Planning trip #6 (trip to DL doesn't count here)...

After reading the previous posters here...looks like I've got a ALOT more planning to do to catch up! :joy:

:rocks:

Tygger7
03-29-2012, 02:49 PM
Hmmm...one trip to Disneyland. Definitely need to go back for a longer visit.

If I'm remembering correctly, I've been 13 times. The 14th visit will be in Sept. with my mom (and our first vacation alone together). I've got the 15th visit pretty well planned out too...taking our DD19 and her boyfriend for 2 weeks in May 2013. Can't wait!!

Our daughter plans to move to the Orlando area after she graduates from college. (She is majoring in graphic design and hopes to work at WDW.) Of course, we'll have to follow her...planning early retirement and moving close so we can visit much more frequently. :mickey:

Wolf
03-29-2012, 03:30 PM
Number 8 will be this October, we didn't start going until 2003 though!! We'll catch up to yall one day!!

Tinkerbella16
03-29-2012, 03:39 PM
This years trip in September will be trip #19 for me!! I haven't been there in 4 years and thats the longest I've gone without going "home".. I am so excited!!! :mickey:

bringbackhorizons
03-29-2012, 04:07 PM
This year will be my 10th trip over 22 years. If I lived closer it would be more often (I'm a 9 hour flight away....:()

darthmacho
03-29-2012, 04:24 PM
NOT ENOUGH!

We've been just 4 times, with a 5th coming up in August. Part of the reason was that I was 27 before I went for the first time in 1998, and while we managed to get right back in 1999, we were saving for a house and having children which most of us know can be expensive, so we only managed to fit in a spontaneous 2003 trip until we finally got back with the kids for our first family-of-four trip in 2010! The good news is that our minimum stay has been 8 days, and this year's trip is an epic 14 days long! While I would have liked to get to WDW more often, I feel blessed that we've enjoyed the trips we've managed to make so much.

Great thread! :mickey:

Disney Doll
03-29-2012, 05:44 PM
Wow! We've got some impressive numbers on this board! I didn't go regularly until I was an adult, but my kids are on track to break some records. I'm right around 20 trips and my 4 year old is about to embark on trip #6.

mickeys_princess_mom
03-29-2012, 06:50 PM
May will be Number 29. :wave:

Ian
03-29-2012, 07:41 PM
This upcoming trip in May will be my 53rd trip to a Disney theme park, but only my 50th to Walt Disney World. Been to DL three times, as well.

Sylvia
03-29-2012, 09:06 PM
I've been to DL 6 times. Hopefully, trip 7 will be coming up next year.

I've been to WDW more than 60 times, sometimes solo, sometimes with family, sometimes with friends. It's probably closer to 70 by now, but I've lost count. Did I mention that all except 2 of those trips were for 15-19 days? :blush:

I've also been a WDW annual passholder since the mid-80s.

Some friends think I'm nuts. These are the same people who spend weekends at the Jersey shore, all summer, every year, and never go anywhere else for vacation. :D

natstroop
03-30-2012, 11:41 AM
I've been to WDW 4 times with #5 coming up this winter. I've been to DL once. I think I might have been to WDW one more time when I was younger, but I don't remember. I'll have to ask my parents.

TexansInNY
03-30-2012, 03:31 PM
See below - will rapidly rise upon retirement one day :)

Belle of the Ball 051411
03-30-2012, 03:38 PM
For you folks that go to Disney 2+ times a year, do you take other vacations as well?

Melanie
03-30-2012, 04:36 PM
If we're going to count other Disney Parks as well, I'm going to throw mine in. :D

WDW - way too many to count since 1983
Disneyland Resort - 6 trips since 2003
Tokyo Disney Resort - 3 trips since 2006
Hong Kong Disneyland - 1 trip in 2008

I will get to Disneyland Paris one day, and hopefully back to Tokyo Disney Resort as well (it's incredible). I doubt Shanghai Disneyland will ever be a destination of mine though.

Ian
03-30-2012, 05:00 PM
For you folks that go to Disney 2+ times a year, do you take other vacations as well?We do ... we spend two weeks every July at a lake house in the Poconos. We also typically do a few small trips and maybe one other big one.

Like next year we're doing a 7 day Caribbean cruise on NCL.

zipadeedoodah
03-30-2012, 05:29 PM
This Trip in September will be lucky number 13! That isn't counting the amount of times I visited while I lived in Orlando for 2 years....haha I didn't keep track of those - too many to count. :mickey:

tjstrike
03-30-2012, 06:55 PM
55 days until trip #11 !! :thumbsup:

amd780
03-30-2012, 07:51 PM
13 trips since 1986. I'm having a baby in May, so we may not go back for a while - although I'm hoping for next January for baby's first trip! :mickey:

cinderella1974
03-30-2012, 08:22 PM
I have been 87 times starting in 1974. U have stayed in every hotel and every restaurant.:mickey:

mom2morgan
03-30-2012, 11:39 PM
September will be our 3rd. Coming from Alberta it is rather a major undertaking, so people I know think I'm nuts at even that small number ;-) I always begged my family to take me to Disneyland when I was a kid, and that never happened...so when I had kids of my own, I really wanted to do it at least once. DH had been to WDW as a teen since he is from Ontario (so it's a little closer that Disneyland). In 2006 we went with our girls and our foster son for our "once in a life time trip". WELL....we went back in 2008, went to Disneyland in 2010, and will be back in the World Sept. of 2012 ;-)

datacot
03-31-2012, 04:36 AM
this will be my 11th visit to florida, so at least 11 times to wdw, :mickey:

AgentC
03-31-2012, 08:33 AM
Hmm. I went twice as a child, twice a single young adult. Then we moved to Fl and went once as married without kids. So that is 5.

After my son was born we started going at least 4 times a year not counting day trips. He's 6 now. :D So maybe 34?

wildernesslady
03-31-2012, 10:57 AM
So far, I have been there 32 times. Before joining Intercot though, I think it was 5 times. No wonder my husband rolls his eyes everytime I'm on here.

Ian
03-31-2012, 11:06 AM
So far, I have been there 32 times. Before joining Intercot though, I think it was 5 times. No wonder my husband rolls his eyes everytime I'm on here.Gilbertsville ... you guys are in my back yard. We're just down route 309 in the Hatfield/Lansdale area. :mickey:

AmandaChan
03-31-2012, 04:26 PM
16
If it were less than 1072 miles away, it would likely be more. :mickey:

I know right? We would have season passes FOR SURE.

DH and I very seriously discussed moving to Orlando for a few years, but we are starting a family right now and we knew that it would be unfair for our kids to not have cousins, etc. Maybe someday when they are older, we might move there for a few years or so.

AmandaChan
03-31-2012, 04:27 PM
I have been 87 times starting in 1974. U have stayed in every hotel and every restaurant.:mickey:

:welcome:

wildernesslady
03-31-2012, 07:16 PM
Gilbertsville ... you guys are in my back yard. We're just down route 309 in the Hatfield/Lansdale area. :mickey:

We are right off of 73. I just listened to the podcast and loved the mention to KOP. I was heading there today. BTW, Have you checked out the new Disney store at the outlets?

Gator
03-31-2012, 07:24 PM
I've been there 6 times, all in the last 10 years. But I've been there 47 days, so that's a lot I think.

Ian
03-31-2012, 10:58 PM
BTW, Have you checked out the new Disney store at the outlets?Yeah, we were up there back at the start of the school year and checked it out.

With four kids, those outlets are like our second home lol!

wildernesslady
04-01-2012, 11:35 AM
Yeah, we were up there back at the start of the school year and checked it out.

With four kids, those outlets are like our second home lol!

I am a Cast Member there. If you come in, please ask for me.
Pat

Ian
04-01-2012, 05:21 PM
I am a Cast Member there. If you come in, please ask for me.
PatOh wow nice ... actually we may be up there next Sunday, so if you're working we definitely will! :mickey:

Georgesgirl1
04-01-2012, 08:30 PM
June will be trip 32 for me and trip 12 for DH. DH's first trip was right after we got engaged. I had to make sure he liked Disney or I couldn't marry him:mickey:

KathyMO
04-02-2012, 08:52 AM
I believe our last trip made 83 times. :mickey:

finaldynasty
04-02-2012, 11:14 AM
DL- 3 times
WDW- 9 times

Hopefully will return around X-mas. I received a pin code a couple weeks ago, but as an educator I can not travel during the promotion dates.

LudwigVonDrake
04-02-2012, 11:18 AM
July 2012 will be my 18th trip :mickey:

Jillirose
04-02-2012, 01:02 PM
12 and my husband had to convince me the first time! I think I enjoy each trip more than the one before :mickey:

Lisaj13
04-03-2012, 01:03 PM
Three. If I lived closer, or the kids were paying for themselves, it would be more.

And I think the kids are on to me. I may say I go because they like Disney, but they're really just the excuse so that I can go.

IloveJack
04-03-2012, 01:08 PM
Our trip in June will make 7 for me, 5 for DH, 3 for DD3, and the first for DD(almost 1).

Had I been able to convince my parents to take me as a child, the number would be higher. If we didn't live 14 hours away, it would also be higher.

MississippiDisneyFreak
04-03-2012, 01:48 PM
Wow, only four for me now...the rest of my family has five I missed the first trip:mickey:

iluvdumbo
04-05-2012, 03:49 PM
10 times, 11 in December. One to Disneyland. :dumbo:

LebelJD
04-06-2012, 09:42 PM
My wife and I have been to WDW together 27 times. I only know because somebody asked in Feb and we counted them up. Next trip coming very soon..;)

We've also been to DL several times but not sure of the exact number.

Katzateer
04-07-2012, 07:51 AM
I have been over 30 times and we are hoping to retire in the area in a few years so the number should climb:thumbsup:

Twice to Disneyland but that was on the 70's -would love to go back.

The person in our family with the impressive number of visits is our 17 year old. She has been over 20 times and participated in parades and shows so has even enjoyed a little back stage time.

In 3 weeks we are going to WDW together for the Flower show before she leaves for college in the fall. Trips may be far between and few for us together now.

comicguy
04-07-2012, 08:04 AM
This years trip will be 14 times in 20 years!!!:mickey:

Ian
04-07-2012, 09:04 AM
The person in our family with the impressive number of visits is our 17 year old. She has been over 20 times and participated in parades and shows so has even enjoyed a little back stage time.Very cool ... it's great when you can give your kids those experiences, isn't it?

Funny story kinda on a similar note ... not long ago the mother of one of DD9's friends ran into DW at the grocery store. They got to chatting and the other woman says to my wife, "Oh Kareena (her daughter and my DD's friend) was telling me that your daughter has quite the imagination!"

My wife was a bit puzzled and she asked what the woman meant. She said, "Oh well your daughter told Kareena that her next trip to Disney World would be her 22nd time to Walt Disney World. Isn't that funny how kids make stuff up like that!"

My wife started laughing and was like, "Uh, that's not made up. She really has been to Disney World 21 times."

I'm pretty sure the other woman's face looked something like this ...

:jaw:

clou1028
04-07-2012, 09:04 AM
Will be 9 this year. If I was able, it would be much more.

goofygirl67
04-07-2012, 03:54 PM
I've lost count also. The past year it has been 5 times and I go again in May.:number1:

LovinWDW
04-08-2012, 12:04 PM
This July will be my 28th trip, my wifes 20th, my 9 year olds 17th and my 5 year olds 11th. Always want to plan another trip!

Disneywarrior
04-11-2012, 09:55 AM
This June will make #44!

joonyer
04-11-2012, 01:46 PM
Not as many as I'd like!

ANG
04-11-2012, 01:59 PM
Just 3 so far

MrPeetrie
04-14-2012, 08:51 AM
DL = 1
WDW = 13 (Once when I was little and 12 as an adult.)

My DD8 will be making her fifth trip this September and is well on her way to becoming a future Intercotee and Disney-phile
My DS2 will be making his second trip.

Disney Hungarian
04-14-2012, 09:10 AM
18 trips over 28 years to WDW. 3 more trips planned for this year.

julyjewel
04-14-2012, 12:01 PM
My 4th trip is coming up on April 25!

TikiLounger
04-16-2012, 03:58 PM
Our upcoming trip in November will be our 14th.:yay:

Gregandmel
04-17-2012, 09:22 AM
We've been 3 times. If it weren't so far away and expensive, we would be MUCH more often!! The Disney Bug has hit me in a big way!!

However, whenever I say "We've ONLY been 3 times" - I am met with people shaking their heads saying "ONLY 3 times?? We may NEVER get to go!!". So - I am grateful for the 3 times we have gone, and look forward to the next time we will be able to visit! :cloud9:

Mogie
04-17-2012, 11:02 AM
5...And 1 trip to Disneyland...not nearly enough.

minnie04
04-17-2012, 11:12 AM
Wow!! That’s a good question I think we have been at least 50 times no lie :secret: Since 92. I remember calling to reserve and they would say this is your 20 something time. And then it got to 30 something and that’s when we started staying off property and I lost count I wish I would have saved all the room keys. I thought as the kids got older (20/16/8) they wouldn’t want to go as much. Boy was I wrong they want to go all the time...Luckily we are only 3 hours away :mickey:

with family, baseball, friends, just us,

We took advantage of all the Fla. rates back in the day!!!! (much cheaper then now)