Tony the Tigger
Well-Known Member
No poll answer fit, but we live in South FL (3 hr drive) and get an AP roughly every other year. During that period, we’ll visit several times.
Ya know, I've lived 40 minutes from Disney my entire life. I must say I'm a little bummed that my first trip to Disney was when I was 5 months old so obviously I can't remember anything about it. I do have some videos of me at Disney when I was a toddler though. I really loved the Electrical Light Parade and I saw it in its run that ended in... the early 2000s. I'm not a parade expert so I don't know the year but it had to have been no later than 2004On average, once about every 2.5 yrs. to WDW (not including my 5 DL trips) since our first family trip in ‘01.
‘01, ‘03, ‘07, ‘08, ‘12, ‘13, and ‘16.
We had another WDW trip booked for this coming October for our baby granddaughters 1st birthday, but, after pricing it all out, even her parents thought it was ridiculous (our 3 kiddos were raised big Disney fans, BTW). Looked at Europe, as oldest DD and SonIL (GDs parents) have been twice, but decided it could wait ‘til next year.
Finally settled on our 3rd Carnival cruise. All were priced for week-long trips. The Carnival Vista out of Galveston (which we can easily drive to) to Montego Bay, Grand Cayman, and Cozumel won, hands down...no contest. Was less than half of the WDW trip, and even Europe was 2K less.
We still love us some Disney, and our GD will get there eventually, but, with the crazy pricing and having to drop that kinda’ money, it’ll be when she’s old enough to have some of her own memories.
Until then, she’ll be checkin’ out a bit of the rest of the world...!!!
We try to alternate years - one year a Disney Park trip, one year somewhere else in the world. We've been all throughout the US including many National Parks, to the Caribbean, to the Canadian Rockies, to South Africa, and much of Europe as a result. I highly support your wife's approach.If it were completely up to me we would go every year, during the Christmas season. However, my wife says we have to start seeing other things around the world so looks like it will be every other year. Although things worked out for us to go twice this year because I found a conference being held at the GF.
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