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How long is your ideal WDW vacation?
How long is your ideal WDW vacation?
What day of the week do you leave/return? Any particular reasons?
We've always gone for a week or less. This time we are considering 8-10 days. Typically we leave on Friday and arrive on Saturday (we take a 14 -15 hours car ride). Then leave on a Saturday, returning home Sunday.
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CS- Oct.2006 *Honeymoon*
ASM- Sept. 2009 BLT- Nov. 2010
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BLT- Jan. 2014 WLV- Nov. 2015
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SSR- Apr. 2018 BC- May. 2018
BC- Aug. 2018 BLT Dec. 2018
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Our trips have ranged for 3-4 days up to 14 days. Typically, though, we go from 7-10 days.
Our arrival and departure days vary. We have arrived on a weekend as well as mid-week. Arrival and departure days are more driven by airline costs and time off availibility than by any other reason.
Linda aka: Faline
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We have stayed 7 nights and 8 nights. I would love to stay for 11. Maybe someday.
Jen
Massachusetts
October 1995 - Carribean Beach
November 2007 - All Star Movies
August 2016 - All Star Music/Port Orleans Riverside
August 2019 - All Star Music/Polynesian
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....after seeing "what's to do" at WDW, a minimum stay of 7 days is required to get stuff done and make the trip worth it (in my opinion of course)
....our trips are for 9 days at WDW. We drive to WDW from Jersey ...so, it's a drive day on a Friday, stop for night in Ga. ...get to WDW on Saturday morning by 10am. We leave on a Monday ...and drive home in one day (Labor Day
....this way we get two weekends at WDW.
April '04- POP
"Jersey Week" '04 - ASM
"Jersey Week" '05- POP
"Jersey Week" '06- POP
"Jersey Week"'07- DCL & POP
"Jersey Week" '08- POP
Dec '09- Jan '10- POP
Aug-Sept '10- POP
Aug-Sept '11- POP
Aug-Sept '12- POP
Aug-Sept '13- POP
Aug '17 - POP
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We have done lots of different stays, from as little as 2 nights to a much as 12 nights. I find our trips that are around 9 nights to be the perfect amount of time. It gives us enough time to be able to relax and enjoy ourselves at a slower pace, yet it's not too long.
The one time we did 12 nights the last few days started to feel repetitive. And we really felt we had been away from home too long. We were so ready to go home by that point.
On the other hand, even a full week(7 nights) sometimes just doesn't feel like enough time and we aren't ready to go home just yet. So for us 9 nights is perfect!
Denise
Resorts we've stayed at in 20+ trips: ASMo, ASMu, ASSp, PC, CSR, CBR, POR, POFQ, WL, AKL Jambo, AKL Kidani, Poly, Contemporary, BC, YC, BWV, OKW, SSR, Swan, Shades of Green, Vero Beach, Disneyland Resort
Next Trip: ???
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Our most recent trip was 8 nights, 9 days and honestly it was a bit long.
We'll go back to six nights, 7 days after this at least as long as it remains just two adults.
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Originally Posted by faline
Our arrival and departure days vary. We have arrived on a weekend as well as mid-week. Arrival and departure days are more driven by airline costs and time off availibility than by any other reason.
This is us, too.
Carrie
CBR: 2/21-2/25/17
POR: 6/4-6/11/16
POFQ: 11/15-11/19/15
8/28-9/1/14 -DL-Dumbo 19.3 C2C
POR: 1/7-1/14/14 -Dopey 48.6
POR: 6/11-6/17/13
ASMu: 1/11-1/15/13 -1st Full 26.2
ASMu: 9/22-9/28/11
ASMu: 6/7-6/13/11
Pop: 1/30-2/6/10
Pop: 2/1-2/7/09
Pop: 1/08
ASMu: 05/06
Off-site: 12/93
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We've found that 9 or 10 days is perfect for us. We still don't fit in everything we want to do, but it lets us move at our own pace and we can fit in a lot, which makes it a more satisfying trip for us.
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Our first several trips were 4 days in the parks (with hopper usually), but in recent years we have increased it. Once we stayed for 8 days, but it seems that 7 days is about right for us. We leave the house on Friday night after work and go about 1/2 way, about 6 hours. Because we get up early for work (used to getting up early)we are out and on the road by 6am the next morning and make it to WDW Resort by noon. We normally leave on Friday or Saturday morning and drive straight through to get home.
I can't wait until December!
1980 Disneyland
2004 & 2006 Pop
2008 AKL
2010 CBR
2011 POFQ & WL
2012 CSR & Contemporary
2013 Villas @ WL Christmas Family Trip
2014 YC 25th Anniversary Trip
2015 AoA Spring Family Trip
2016 Move to Florida and AP Holder
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We have found that 7 days is too short but 14 is slightly too long (especially if you are back to work the day after you fly home). We have settled on 10 days as the perfect length
Dragongirlx (AkA Ruth)
Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup
2004 - offsite
2006 - Dolphin
2007- WL
2008 - Poly
2009 - WL
2010 - GF
2012 - WL
2013 - WL
2014 - WL
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Our typical stay is 7 to 9 days. We have discussed going for longer just hasn't happened yet
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5-7 days is just about right for us.
WDW visits . . .
April 2013 - Yacht Club
May 2012 - Grand Floridian
May 2011 - Grand Floridian
March 2006 - Offsite
2000 - 2004 Numerous trips while in college in FL
January 1989 - First Visit! Polynesian
Next visit:
September - Disneyland (First trip with son!)
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Originally Posted by Dragongirlx
We have found that 7 days is too short but 14 is slightly too long (especially if you are back to work the day after you fly home). We have settled on 10 days as the perfect length
Ditto for us.
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We generally arrive on a Sunday and leave on Saturday, or 6 nights. We would like to stay longer but for now it is not in the mix.
We leave weekends so we do not run into heavy rush hour traffic in the big cities especially Atlanta. We do this since one trip we left WDW on Friday of Labor Day and hit Atlanta at 3 pm. It was not pretty...
Itchy for another trip
Caribbean Beach 1989, 90, 92
All St Movies 1999, 04, 05, 11
All St Sports 2006
Pop 2007, 08 x2, 09 x2, 10, 12 x2,13,14,15,16,17,18,2021,23
POR 2010 x2, 11
Coronado Springs 2019
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Ideal? 7-8 days. Since we can go almost any time (assuming funds), we do not need to be there longer than that. If I only got to go every 3 years or more, 2 weeks.
My dream vacation? Win Powerball and move somewhere close so I can blog from anywhere all day every day.
1 Week at Wyndham Bonnet Creek 06/17/17 - 06/24/17; 1 Week at Orange Lake Resort 06/24/17 - 06/30/17; 1 week at OKW 12/03/17 - 12/10/17
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We've done many lengths of stay, and arrived during different days of the week. I can't say any have been better than others as far as arrival/departure days. Arriving is always happy and usually no problems, departure is always sad whether we've been there four days or fourteen.
I like 10 days or more best, but my family is more on board for about a 8-9 day stay. Some of our best visits have been our short stays, though. More spontaneity, and the knowledge that we can do what we missed some other time-- so we tend to keep a leisurely pace (defying logic that would suggest you might try to do more with less time). Our satisfying short trips have actually inspired us to be less structured during longer trips.
Sherri
Next: Aulani Celebration 10/2018 (50th)
Past Stays: Contemporary, GF, Poly, BC, POP, POR, Dolphin, AKL Kidani, BLT
1990 August Honeymoon- GF
Delighted Disney Return Guest since 1981, DVC (BLT) since 2014
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Originally Posted by ANG
How long is your ideal WDW vacation?
Never... long... enough...
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BC: 9/12, 7/13, 1/14, 5/14, 9/14, 1/15, 9/15, 9/16
GF: 9/16
SSR: 9/13
WL: 5/16
BW: 9/11
OKW: 7/10
AK: 6/09
BLT: 9/15
CBR: 8/07
ASMo 12/14
Offsite: 8/88
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So far my trips have all been 5 days. Its always very rushed and I don't get to do everything I want. Finances have kept me from going last few years but when I do go again it will be for 10 days. I don't want to be rushed and this way I can do everything I want. Also my dream trip is to go by myself for a few days (but DD would never let me get away with it! ).
Three years in Connecticut and loving it
Next trip in Jan 2017 I hope!
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We stayed for seven days for our first two trips and had enough time to do what we wanted. Although it did feel like we had to rush a little. Then, this last trip we stayed for nine days and found that to be perfect. We didn't feel rushed at all and we did everything at our pace. We never felt like waiting for a ride so we would move on because we knew we had another day to do it.
Family Trips (I was very young):
80's - 90's Grand Floridian; Polynesian
May 2001 - All Star Sports
2009; 2010; 2012; 2013 - All Star Movies
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We always go for at least 9 nights, but 10-12 is our perfect amount. In April we're going for 14 nights with our Godson. We can't wait! This doesn't count the2 days driving there plus 2 days driving back.
We find our vacations much calmer and restful when we go longer. We buy 10 day park hoppers with water park fun and more add ons so there is no stress about going to the parks from open to close. Most days, we sleep in, have a leisurely breakfast, go for a walk and a swim, have lunch then a nap then go out to the parks for dinner and rides. We take advantage of evening emh but not morning ones. If the parks are too busy we hop to another one or do the underrated attractions. We've gone enough that we aren't going to wait an hour for Peter Pan anymore. It's fun to go with the flow!
Have a great vacation!
Haunted Mansion Girl
1990 & 1992 Off Site
2002 & 2003 Fort Wilderness
2004 Disney Wonder & Fort Wilderness
2005, 2008, 2011 & 2013 Riverside
2006 & 2008 Pop
2009 Disneyland
2011, 2013 & 2014 Coronado Springs
2012 CB Pirate Room
2015 POR
2016 June & Oct Off Site
2017 Sept Coronado!
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