A Disney Trip … the perfect length of stay … is

Disnee4Me

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For me it’s two weeks. We only got to do this twice, 2001 and 2002. The DSs were 6 and 11 in ‘01, and 7 and 12 in ‘02. We flew out from NYC on Saturday and arrived early afternoon. Ironically my sister-in-law, mother-in-law and kids drove from CT, leaving Friday morning and arriving around the same time (2 p.m.) on Saturday as we did. We’d checked in (rooms were actually ready --- this was All Star Movies). Dropped our luggage in our rooms, got our mugs, a snack and then after that caught the bus to DTD (now DS). Can’t remember exactly, but most likely we ate dinner at Planet Hollywood or Rainforest Café. And by about 9 p.m. we’d be back in our room. We would get 5 day park hopper tickets, 3 day water park tickets and we’d always do a water park on Sunday, MK on Monday, EP on Tuesday, DHS on Wednesday. We'd always hop over to another park at some point, depending on crowds. We’d take Thursday off, sleep in (because we would open/close the park and never go back to the room all day, just take some long breaks). On the days off the kids would swim and we’d do laundry, reading and relaxing and go to Medieval Times for dinner. Most like, if my memory serves me, we’d do go to Universal on Friday. Saturday we’d do another water park and Sunday relax again. We’d go into town shopping on Monday and back to DTD. On Tuesday we would park hop AK, DHS, EP. Final Water Park on Wednesday, relax on Thursday and open/close out the MK on Friday. We would get a stroller, that my DS 6, 7 would use sparingly with my nephew 4, 5 and sometimes when they weren’t in it, my DS 11, 12 and niece 8, 9 would use it…LOL. Then on Saturday the in-laws would drive home and we’d fly home. Best two weeks for the kids for sure. Plenty of park time, plenty of down time, plenty of swim time.
 

Glasgow

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Wow, jealous of those that can take a 2 week trip .. dunno how you are able to get away with that given job constraints. I can understand when travelling from overseas, since it's such a long trip to get here. But for those who can be away from work for 2 weeks, kudos to you!

For us, 8 nights is generally our butter zone. Arrive late on the first day (hence the 8th night) so we get an early start on our first full day. 5 days in the parks plus 2 extra days for the pool, etc. or an extra night of fireworks at a park.
 

Pumbas Nakasak

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Before you had to pay the equivalent of a third worlds country debt we stayed for three weeks, ok not quite we had3 nights at the HRH and visited Sea World. It gave us time to do back stage tours, para-sailing, etc. You could do everything and at a relaxed pace, well do some-things multiple times and still do commando hours.
Wouldnt dream of that now. A week is more than sufficient. May change when thenew stuff opens so only 5 more years to find out.
 

cdeev8690

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I wish I had the luxury of taking a two week Disney vacation, but I'd be using up all of my vacation, sick, and personal days for the entire year! If I had the opportunity though, I'd definitely stay for over a week. I always feel like there's things I missed out on after my short 6 day visits.
 

DfromATX

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7 nights for us. We take very early a.m. flights out so that our 1st full day is resort and Disney Springs, 3 park days, rest day, then 2 addt'l park days; day 8 is travel home. Perfect for us since we do NOT do Universal or Sea World.

Just like us! Except we don't do a rest day, so we are exhausted by the end lol. Usually our AK day is only half a day so we rest then. One time we did a combo with Universal. It was TOO MUCH.
 

DarthMileZ

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3 weeks for me... done 2 weeks but if you want to do all of disney (including BB and TL) with Universal, Seaworld & Busche. you only get like 1/2 days rest... with 3 weeks you get to have a few days rest and shopping plus you can revisit some of your favourite parks and rides.
 

DfromATX

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Man, I feel bad for the people who say they can't take two weeks off of work to travel. Such a lack of vacation time is really not the norm outside of the USA.

Are you being sarcastic? I thought Americans were known for working a lot and not taking vacations while Europeans took a lot of vacations (and early retirements). I could be totally off lol.

Where I work, we accrue time (5 hours each 2 week pay period). If you have the time, you can take it. Some people have hundreds of hours saved up, which is crazy to me. After you get to a certain point, they make you sell your time if you don't use it. Not me - my time is valuable. I plan on taking 2 weeks off in July. One week only at Disney, but the other week will be doing stuff at home.
 

DarthMileZ

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Are you being sarcastic? I thought Americans were known for working a lot and not taking vacations while Europeans took a lot of vacations (and early retirements). I could be totally off lol.

Where I work, we accrue time (5 hours each 2 week pay period). If you have the time, you can take it. Some people have hundreds of hours saved up, which is crazy to me. After you get to a certain point, they make you sell your time if you don't use it. Not me - my time is valuable. I plan on taking 2 weeks off in July. One week only at Disney, but the other week will be doing stuff at home.


UK's retirement age is the same as the USA!
 

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