help! my family doesnt have disney spirit

[DisneyBound]

Apologies in advance if this has been posted to the wrong board. I wasnt sure where else to put it. I have been planning our family trip for about 3 months. In 95 days, we will embark on the most memorable family experience of our lives together. I have purchased several of the guides, spent hours determining which things were must see's and selected what I thought to be the best resort for us, character meals etc... Not one of the people in my family are excited about this. Nobody wants to hear about it at all, everytime I discuss plans I have made or try to get input from them, they give me the "uuuug, we dont want to hear about disney anymore" and they tell me that I am the only one that wants to go anyways. My 9 year old, who should be at the height of interest tells me these things too! :brick: I have tried several things (including threats) to get them to show some kind of interest. Last week, I tried to bargain with them...they give me one hour a week to discuss disney and I wont bug them the rest of the week about it...no good for them Im starting to want to take someone else's family instead of my own. Is this normal or do I just live with a bunch of party poopers? I refuse to believe that I am the only one bubbling over with excitement.

 

[jojoyner55]

Boy, I'm glad I'm not the only one having this problem!:brick:
Two weeks to go and no enthusiasm from my wife or 15 year old son. Ah, well: I know the magic will infect them when we get there. It always has.

 

[Becky]

:wave:

95 days huh. That puts your trip in September. Score one point for yourself. My first trip was over the Christmas Holiday period. It was so crowded and I swore I would never return. That was 20 something trips ago. Half of those were also over the Christmas Holidays. I learned how to enjoy that time.

One way to enjoy the trip is DON'T over plan. Making hotel, meal etc reservations is not over planning, but deciding months ahead of time where you will be at 3 p.m. on Sept. 23rd is. If you plan to ride something and are walking by something else that looks like fun do it, it probably will be fun.

Over planning ruins any vacation.

 

[Becky]

:sohappy:

Oops, sorry forgot to add something. Your family may not be excited now but just wait until they get there and their mood will change.

For a month after our first trip no one wanted to go back. Then they started to bug me with "When are we going again"? "Do you have the tickets yet". "Can we do Space Mountain first this time"? etc. Talk about an attitude change.:animwink:

 

[Huggups]

OH NO! That's too funny but it does hit home. When my mom and I used to plan to go it's all we talked about until we actually did get there.

Now, when my husband and I plan to go we hardly ever discuss the "D" word and if we do I'm the one to bring it up. But once we get closer to the actual date, he does tend to open up and talk about it. Your family probably will too.

Yeah, right now they are PARTY POOPERS!:brick: But remember they haven't actually been there yet so they haven't yet experience the MAGIC!

And there's always this website for all us Disney fanatics out there. So if you feel an urge to Disney Drivel coming on feel free to post, post, post.

:sohappy:

 

[Married@WDW]

As a Disney veteran who used to make the oft talked about, much hated "laminated schedule," I gave up trying to talk to everyone about it and to tell you the truth, I enjoy myself a lot more and everyone else always has a good time. I chose a few restaurants my husband and I love (and one new one we've never been to before for each trip) and make a few dinner reservations in advance. I pick the hotel we're staying at (as DVC members, that limits us to four choices anyway) and what flights we're taking. And if there's anything I specifically want to do, I make sure I'll have time to do it.

Otherwise, we just go and have fun.

Don't fret about planning. They'll get in the spirit once they're there -- even the most stubborn family members always do!

 

[figmentmom]

And remember - WE'RE enthusiastic about your trip, even if your family isn't!!!:lol:

 

[Jodigrl328]

My boyfriend is taking me in Sept and he is not a big fan of Disney at all. He and my family will definetely sympathize with your family, but I try to get them excited by telling them things that would interest them. Such as with my boyfriend I tell him about the golf courses and the fishing hole and shark reef at TL, things that he would enjoy.

Maybe tell your kids about disney quest or something else that might interest them. Have you bought birnbaum for kids by kids??? Maybe that might interest them.

I know how you feel though, I can't believe everyone doesn't get so excited about seeing the mouse.

 

[cuteypatooty78]

I know how you feel....I bring it up practically everyday about how excited I am to be going but alas, no one in my family LOVES Disney World like I do. Here's one of my posts from the chit-chat forum:

I just can't contain my excitement any longer...I arrive at WDW on Sept. 15th but its just too far away! I want to leave now!!! It saddens me to think though that after the trip is over I won't be going back to WDW for a very long time...why can't my parents be as excited about Disney as I am??? I'm 24 but am disabled so I can't go by myself and my friends have jobs to go to. *SIGH* I love WDW SOOO MUCH!!! :sohappy:

I guess we all have those family members that don't get that Disney magic feeling.

 

[Huggups]

Originally posted by Married@WDW
As a Disney veteran who used to make the oft talked about, much hated "laminated schedule," I gave up trying to talk to everyone about it and to tell you the truth, I enjoy myself a lot more and everyone else always has a good time. I chose a few restaurants my husband and I love (and one new one we've never been to before for each trip) and make a few dinner reservations in advance. I pick the hotel we're staying at (as DVC members, that limits us to four choices anyway) and what flights we're taking. And if there's anything I specifically want to do, I make sure I'll have time to do it.

Otherwise, we just go and have fun.

Don't fret about planning. They'll get in the spirit once they're there -- even the most stubborn family members always do! [/B]

FYI:

You can stay at almost all the Disney hotels through DVC with the exceptions of:

Boardwalk Inn (not the villas)
All Star Resorts
Pop Century
Wilderness Lodge (not the villas)
Dolphin & Swan (not Disney owned)

Just so you know there are plenty of room options available. The only drawback is that the points are more to stay outside the Vacation Club resorts.

 

[MonorailBlack]

I like this post, very interesting. I am a huge Disney fan and it was not until 3 years of dating my now fiance till we went to Disney. I really did not say much until we got there, and boy, she is hooked. we talk about it ll the time, go to the Disney store all the time!!! So, I guess what I am saying is that keeping the trip on the low worked out for me. I also find some people tend to think about their problems (Ie work) and cannot enjoy themselves. See, Disney is a place where you CAN leave your troubles at the door and enjoy yourselves; dont worry your problems will be there when you get back. People cannot conceive how fun and magical this place is until they experience it and then they go home. I guess you can call it the Disney AfterShock!!! The people get home and say, shoot!!! That was fun!!!! I want to do it again. So, in all, they will love it, let it sink in.
:king:

 

[pupu kala]

We're going in 95 days, too! My boyfriend is the same way. He's not a "ride" person, because the rides he knows are the "spin and puke" type. He's not sure what to expect. So he says he's going into it with an open mind, but he's not all that excited about it.

I'm trying to keep it low key, but it's hard because I'm so excited about it. I've been lucky in that he's mentioned the trip to his parents and a few co-workers who have all been to WDW, and he's only been hearing positive things from them.

 

[dznynut]

All this sounds so familiar...

My wife and I (and the kids) LOVE WDW and have been three times over the last couple of years. Each time we come back we always try to convey how much fun we had to our bro and sis in law.

They just don't get it! We are going again this August and managed to talk them into going with us. I always get the feeling of (man, I had better not say anything about the "D" word so not to offend) when I am around them.

We're a normal family, we all work hard, and always look forward to our WDW trips.

I just hope they like it as much as we do. That would su** if they did not catch the "Disney Magic" .

I just have to learn to keep my mouth shut when I am around them. :hammer:

I do think they will have a good time because they never go anywhere. WDW is a good place to start.

 

[figgyfan]

My husband wasn't big on Disney when I met him. I was "raised Disney", and couldn't understand why he wasn't as enthusiastic as I was.For years I thought about all of the wonderful trips I had taken as a child, and kept my obsession to myself. Unfortunately, all those years I was watching my parents and two brothers head back down every year or so.That was very hard to deal with.I felt left out and miserable.
I decided to start a fund, and not mention a world of it to my hubby. When I had enough, it was around the time that one of my brothers moved to Clearwater. We made our first trip....to "visit Uncle Jason" My husband was sooooo hooked!!!Every now and then he will look over at me and say "I wanna go to D'iney Weald" (This is exactly the was my four year old used to say it before speech therapy.)