Aren't You Tired Of Disney World?

[hokielutz]

Depending on your leisure activities....

There are

99 holes of Golf to play.

If you are a die-hard rabid golfer... that at least 3 days of club swinging on 6 different courses.

For those who are mortal souls... almost a whole week could be used up to play every Disney championship course.


(this also assumes that you are traveling without a wife & kids)

 

[hokielutz]

For the same price she could take her kids to Mexico, Norway, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Morocco, France, the UK, Canada, Africa, and Asia.

And the best part is... when you visit Mexico at Epcot... you can drink the water and eat the beans without making a run to the emergency room.

 

[Littlefitzy2004]

Its the perfect getaway and has everything you ever need.. I feel bad for those who don't see that or have never been.. There loss My Gain

 

[Rockin Roller]

you can take on everest in just 3 minutes

 

[slappy magoo]

ignoring all the marketing-style "where else can you shoot at aliens & dine with princesses & travel all around the world in a day" shpiel (which is lovley but would do little to convince a skeptic of anything Disney) there are still good reasons to go to WDW.

In fact, for people who just want a recreational vacation, there's plenty to do at all of the resorts without ever stepping foot in the parks, & staying in one resort allows access to all (most) of these activities. Biking & swimming & parasailing & spa treatments & tennis & horse-drawn carriage rides & clubbing & drinking & (some) fine dining & lounging poolside & campfire singalongs & movies under the stars & golf & mini golf & the occasional decent concert @ house of blues, & lounge-style entertainment & unique shops & boating & testing out a race car & educational tours & fun (albiet corny) entertainment (hoop de doo, luau, comedy warehouse, adventurer's club)...

Short of sightseeing @ genuine landmarks in other parts of the world, & winter sports activities, many of the things people might opt to do at any other resort, you can do at WDW.

know what you can't do at any other resort?

Ride tower of terror.

and there's someone in your family who's itching to ride tower of terror.

so let 'em do tower of terror while you lounge poolside with a margarita.

 

[DSNYKID]

Looks like a good list of stuff we are all compliling to explain our desire to revisit WDW over and over. This thread is not about convincing non-believers that WDW is the only vacation... it's about having a nice LONG list of reasons when the non-believer asks us why we continue to revisit. After listing all the things that are possible in the WORLD.... they might just say....ahhhh..I get it.:hammer:

 

[jedimaster1227]

You can start a thread about why you will never get tired of Disney... :lol:

 

[doop]

Luckily I am graduating next year so I am using that as an excuse to go, "Come on, we have to go once before I graduate!" Plus Disney is the ultimate vacation, you can do just about anything, I can't imagine having more fun anywhere else.

 

[Horizons1]

I outta show this list to my friends who always ask "What is there to do at WDW?" I think the more appropriate question would be what isn't there to do at WDW!

 

[jcc0621]

Let's face it. You and me are always given a hard time by folks who just don't understand why we prefer Disney World over any other vacation destination. If they havent been there, they just think it's some amusement park with kiddie rides. And we all know it's not easy to explain what Disney World is really like. I usually start by explaining that Disney property is on exclusive land about the size of San Franciso.


Aren't you tired of Disney World? Isn't it the same exact thing over and over? Think of all the cool stuff we can do. I'd like to compile a list of things that can be done at WDW so we can be armed and ready when we are asked by the non-believers.

Example:
1. You can go boating at Disney World
2. You can lay on the beach at Disney World
3. You can go on a bass fishing excursion at Disney World
4. You can go to dinner theater at Disney World
5.
6.
7. ?

what you got to add?

Ill never go tired and every trip back is a different experience.

Go Bears!

You can breakfast with a British Nanny, Lunch with a little blue alien and Dine with Royalty. You can see a luau and then party till the wee hours. You can shop and shop and shop and see new things all the time. You can have ball riding rides with a 3 year old and relax at a 5 star restaurant themed after a National Park. You can create fantasy, look to the future and go on an African Safari. All withou leaving the Good Old U.S.A

 

[v_misses_epcot]

And the best part is... when you visit Mexico at Epcot... you can drink the water and eat the beans without making a run to the emergency room.

And what is wrong with our beans and water?? Unless you're talking about the bad side of mexico or the parts that are too poor to have good water running, I don't understand how our water is bad.

 

[dixiegirl]

How else can you go to Italy, germany, china, canada, and many other contries all in one day??? Oh and eat and drink from each one too??.. Thats's the most fun!!!!

 

[LudwigVonDrake]

What do I care what people think? I love all things Disney and that's all that counts! :sohappy:

 

[hokielutz]

And what is wrong with our beans and water?? Unless you're talking about the bad side of mexico or the parts that are too poor to have good water running, I don't understand how our water is bad.

I was trying to make a funny stereotypical reference...

Regardless, my statement was also based on personal experience... when I traveled to Cancun several years ago with a tour group... the tour guide advised everyone to avoid drinking tapwater and just drink bottled water. So we did. Maybe it was an overly cautious warning?
Then one stop we made... I had a glass of ice-water at a restaurant... and got sick shortly thereafter. Can I 100% blame the glass of water, or the food? Can't say for certain. But since I drank nothing buy bottled beverages for the entire trip except for that one restaurant... its possible tap water at that one place was bad.
Needless to say Pepto and I were friends for the next two days.

 

[eroyee]

:wave: THANK YOU for this thread. I just got this from a friend this morning when I told her we were going back in December. I was so frustrated!! She said, I cant imagine going there AGAIN. theres too many other places in the world to see. There is........ I didnt know that!!!!!!:lol:

 

[DisneyDragon]

I've travelled all over the world, and I've done many trips to WDW (and other Disney parks - Paris and Cali).

I loved seeing the Pyramids at Gizeh, the Acropolis in Athens, the Buddha on Lantau, the Forbidden City, Piccadilly Circus, etc etc etc...

But I also love going back to the safe, predictable and most importantly FUN Walt Disney World. I don't have to worry about getting robbed at knifepoint (except in that bad neck of the woods near IASW...heh). I don't have to reconsider ice in my drink, if the fruit has a peel or if that 'chicken' is really chicken.

As for the primary features, the parks and attractions, well, very few other theme parks can even compare. Yes, I wish WDW had a comparable to Spiderman or MIB (yes, yes Midway coming soon), but for the most part, the attractions are just so unique (okay, maybe not the 'Dumbo'-class attractions...).

And the proximity of things that are normally scattered across my home city...restaurants like Whispering Canyon (that are anything but), mini-golf, bars (lounges) with atmosphere that don't always just play boom-chicky-boom music (which is great for dancing, but not necessary ALL the time), or plenty of unique shopping.

99 holes of golf - not bad, but there's more than that with a very short drive from my office. However, none have a Mickey shaped bunker...

The monorail - that's pretty slick to ride, but it's not unique. Other cities have them...hmmmm the ones in Las Vegas look awfully familiar.

In a roundabout way, what I am getting to is that the synergy of all of these elements, a fusion into one whole, is the real draw, at least for me. Disney merges a variety of elements - some extraordinary, some mundane - into a single entity. When you experience THAT seamlessly, there isn't a lot of room for real world stuff.

And that's why it can compete with travels abroad...

 

[CelticRose]

You forgot something on that note;

ME- yea your right every wave that comes in is never the same. :veryconfu

But on a serious note, for me when we pass under the welcome sign, all of our problems that are outside the world stay there, and in all 15 visits we have had, have never followed us in.
next visit, April 10th to 15th. CAN'T WAIT!!!!

DITTO, leave you woes and cares, the daily grind of the office, all that once you hit that Magical Sign.

I had someone tell me I have been there too many times, I didn't realize I had exceeded my lifetime limit :brick: She is now on my list to avoid:fork:


Let your inner child play.


:sohappy: 98 days and I am there :sohappy:

 

[hokielutz]

The monorail - that's pretty slick to ride, but it's not unique. Other cities have them...hmmmm the ones in Las Vegas look awfully familiar.

...

Well it was pretty darn unique when it was first installed in Disney land and WDW. Of course we all know the Las Vegas TA bought and used our old trains until they could have new ones made for their system.

 

[Captain Barbosa]

You can win an overnight stay in Cinderella's Castle...

 

[smk]

DITTO, leave you woes and cares, the daily grind of the office, all that once you hit that Magical Sign.

I had someone tell me I have been there too many times, I didn't realize I had exceeded my lifetime limit :brick: She is now on my list to avoid:fork:


Let your inner child play.


:sohappy: 98 days and I am there :sohappy:

My new response! :lol: I am currently planning a trip in June, wishing it would get here tomorrow, and this thread is making happy and sad all at the same time. Happy because I know what it means to drive under the sign and sad because I know that I have months left until then!