How do you keep a trip a secret?

[Jessie&Buzz]

I know that several of you have said that you haven't told your kids where you were going until you were on the way. I would love to do this but I know I would tell them. I love Disney so much and talk about going back a lot. In fact my hubby gets mad at me for talking about it so much. There is no way I could keep this kind of secret from them.

 

[wdwmomof3]

Me either. I am already talking about the next time we go. I can't wait. :lol: I do think that it would be really neat to do it, buy I could never pull it off.

 

[wdwfan100]

I know 2 different families that managed to keep the secret for their kids. I have no idea how:shrug:. They talked about things fairly openly and never appeared like they were hidding anything. I was worried I would give it away more than they worried about it themselves. It worked out though.

 

[Master Yoda]

Rules for keeping a secret.

Rule 1-Don't tell anyone

Rule 2-See rule 1

:lol:

 

[Pumbas Nakasak]

As above but with the addition of killing anyone that finds out, woodchippers are very handy.

 

[Eyorefan]

The best I have ever done is not told my DD WHEN our next trip will be. She's too old now to be fooled into thinking we aren't going. :ROFLOL:

 

[Nero the dog]

When my aunt was taking my cousin, she told her that they were going on vacation to Greece (were in the UK and lots of people go there every year, its no big deal). The advantage was that my aunt could prepare for holiday without any questions. :zipit:
Then when they arrived at the airport she announced that they were really going to Florida.:sohappy:

 

[disneygirl1]

I have no will power!!! I tell my son as soon as I am thinking about booking a trip to Disney, and then he asks me everyday until we leave "how many more days till we go!" :ROFLOL:

 

[Tinkrbell]

My mom & I booked the trip for my 17th birthday about 6 months before we were heading down. My brother & dad were staying home. My dad knew what was going on, but we decided not to tell my brother in case he would want to go or go somewhere else, we wouldn't have him bothering us for the next six months. My mom, dad, & brother went a cabin at a lake for a week during the summer while I was at camp. My mom told my brother then because he had been in a really good mood the entire week they were there. We managed to keep it from him until about five or six weeks before we were going. He even took it surprisingly better than we thought he would. (My brother doesnt really care for anything Disney-related.)

 

[Pumbas Nakasak]

I couldnt keep the trip quiet because of booking holidays off work, but I did hide the fact that we were going for longer, were staying at the Poly, and had booked Tours, P&PP tickets and the Blue Man Group.

 

[dwayneswife]

We took DD last year as a surprise for her 11th birthday. We would talk with her about WDW and what type of things we wanted to do the next time we went back. Of course, being a stay-at-home mom, I got to talk to my DH quite a bit everyday during his lunch, so this helped with the planning.

The day we left, DH went to work like a regular day and I took DD to school. While she was at school, I packed the car. She had told her dad the night before that she didn’t know why, but for some reason, it felt like we were going on a trip. DH came home an hour or so early that afternoon, changed clothes, and then we told DD we were going on a short trip. Her first response was, "Are we going to Disney?!" Then she said, "No, it couldn’t be Disney because Mom didn’t make a trip countdown calendar like she always does." All we told her was we were going to spend the night someplace we had never stayed before. We stopped that night in Savannah, GA.

All the way down, she kept commenting how things looked familiar, but we still wouldn’t tell her anything. We kept asking her questions about where she would like to go. Even heading down I-4 and seeing the Disney billboards, she still didn’t know. Once we pulled onto property, we told her to look out the window. Believe it or not, she was actually disappointed! She thought we were going to the beach.

It turned out to be a great trip anyway. I don’t know how I managed to keep it a secret, and I don’t know if I ever could again. Then again, I didn’t tell her when her father was coming home from Iraq until I woke her up to get dressed so we could meet the plane.

 

[cinderellafan6]

I can never keep a secret from anyone!! With our upcoming trip, I didnt want to tell my parents that my bf and I are going because they would want to come with us. So he ended up telling them that we were going and said that it is a special trip just the two of us. Which worked out because i cant keep secrets about disney cause all I want to do is talk about the trip and it will be here in 4 days!!!

 

[Reccyman]

My DW and I managed to keep our first visit a secret from the kids. We told then we were going to stay in a friends caravan for a week but had to drop thier grandparents of at the airport on the way!

We loaded the car the night before to hide the large suitcases, and drove to the grandparents house first thing in the morning. Picked up the old guys (with no cases, we told the kids they had been sent on ahead) and drove to the airport.

When we reached the airport we asked the kids if they wanted to wave off the plane, which luckly they did. It was only when we reached the check in that we sprang the surprise!! I video'd the whole thing. It was brilliant! We still watch it 5 years later.

If you think you can do it, give it a go. Nothing ventured, nothing gained!:animwink:

 

[disney21]

My DW and I managed to keep our first visit a secret from the kids. We told then we were going to stay in a friends caravan for a week but had to drop thier grandparents of at the airport on the way!

We loaded the car the night before to hide the large suitcases, and drove to the grandparents house first thing in the morning. Picked up the old guys (with no cases, we told the kids they had been sent on ahead) and drove to the airport.

When we reached the airport we asked the kids if they wanted to wave off the plane, which luckly they did. It was only when we reached the check in that we sprang the surprise!! I video'd the whole thing. It was brilliant! We still watch it 5 years later.

If you think you can do it, give it a go. Nothing ventured, nothing gained!:animwink:

what a great secret/story! i'm sure its a great video of their reactions!

 

[MAGICFLOP]

We go twice a year cause we have a 2nd home near WDW. Usually we go in the summer and agian in December. I usually don't say anything about it. Then the day we are going to fly, I just say OK get ready we leaving in 2 hours. Everytime their faces just drop. It is too cool...
This year is the first year that I already gave them the exact date. I am just interested in how they respond..

 

[santa's surpriz]

Rules for keeping a secret.

Rule 1-Don't tell anyone

Rule 2-See rule 1

:lol:

VERY TRUE! I kept it a secret up until I picked up my upset daughter from school and her teacher calmed her down by telling her not to worry about the snow the next day b/c she was going to Florida that evening! Her plane would land and it be warm outside! My daughter associates one thing with Florida...Disney World! I had managed to keep the secret for 7 months from her so I was a little disappointed but it all worked out but I learned tell NO ONE!

 

[Tiggerfanatic]

Rules for keeping a secret.

Rule 1-Don't tell anyone

Rule 2-See rule 1

:lol:

I'm surprising my niece & nephew with their 1st ever trip in December. It's killing me not telling them, but I know the next 6 months would be torture for all of us if they have that much time to think about it. The only problem, my mother (their great-grandmother) is paying for their airfare, and I just know that she will "accidentally" let it slip out way before I'm ready to tell them.

 

[carenyllie]

After a while, I realized that what I was doing to my 3 year old was probably a bit cruel. We planned our trip about 6 months in advance and kept telling him "we're going to DW. Do you want to go to DW? There's DW on TV, that's where we're going!" We did this every day for 6 months! At the end, he was probably thinking "yeah, right, you keep saying that!" and I'm sure he didn't believe us! LOL! We were in the car about to get to the Contemporary and he just had this really confusing look on his face. I'm sure he was thinking then "OMG, they weren't lying!" The tough thing all week ended up being that he thought "the castle" was DW and nothing else so he would get so upset that we weren't at DW when we were in Epcot or DHS or AK! It was PRICELESS to see him experience everything for the first time though.

 

[ELopez]

We kept last year's trip a secret. Our daughters (then 8, 7, 6, & 1) had no idea. DH and I would discuss it, but always in "code" (We still call Disney: "Delta"!).

On the way there, they thought we were driving to Tampa to visit family. When we stopped for gas. I handed the 6yo a MK map and told her she might need it. She thought I was just giving her something to look at on the drive! The older 2 caught on. They were all ecstatic, and it was great!!

I must admit though, it was so hard - I could never do it again!!

 

[maryszhi]

i can never , same with my parents( except a few times) but its soooo hard