Anonymous wrote:I grew up on the east coast and never went to Disney during my childhood, so, yes, it can be done.

Did you end up in therapy?

Anonymous wrote:I have a 3 yr old and a 5.5 yr old. We can really only afford one vacation a year. DH and I have been doing lots of beaches in the caribbean, yellow stone this year and maybe Europe next year. We don't really want to waste our vacation time and money on Disney. The kids have never asked us FWIW. And they have lots of fun on the vacations we take them. We have done a weekend trip to Hershey which they liked. So what say you, can we make it through childhood without ever going to Disney?

You need a job with more weeks of vacation off.

Anonymous wrote:WDW is awesome, and you don't need to plan anything. That is a myth. I showed up, got my fast passes that morning, which were fine, and the lines sucked but were much better very early and very late.

great trip.

Had a similar experience. Booked dinner and the only fast passes we used were free ones people handed us that they weren't going to get to. We arrived at noon and left after fireworks and did plenty of rides. Only crummy part was the exhaust at the auto race ride, and the line to leave the park via the ferry at the end of the night.

We took our 3 and 5 year olds to the Magic Kingdom, we did the Cinderella castle dinner and skipped all the bigger roller coasters and scary rides. It was magical for them because they still at that age...but if we go back in a few years we could do more rides and attractions that don't keep a little one's interest. DH thought he would hate it but ended up having a really good time because the kids did. Part of it was the really fun waterslide pool at the hotel and cooperative weather. You can do it as part of a beach week vacation or go to the Everglades or something if Orlando is not your cup of tea (it's not mine.)
The other vacations OP mentioned sound awesome too. Sounds like what you need is more vacation time is all.

Never been. No interest in going. Kid is 7. Might change my mind if he begs, but it's never been on his radar either.

WDW is awesome, and you don't need to plan anything. That is a myth. I showed up, got my fast passes that morning, which were fine, and the lines sucked but were much better very early and very late.

great trip.

Oh please don't skip Disney World. It's such an amazing vacation (if you really plan it).
People who don't like it usually go during peak times and don't use the online planning tools that make it possible to spend very little time in line.

There is nothing else like Disney. It's not about the rides - it's the atmosphere.

My 7 year old son has been three times and he talks about how much he loves it all the time. Luckily my husband and I like it too. Also - each set of grandparents wanted to go with him so that's shy we've gone so much recently.

It's pure joy for these kids (but ONLY if the parents aren't totally stressed and by the way - that really is possible)

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What a bunch of stuckup snobs who care way more about appearances than their children's happiness!

As someone who has been to Disney, if you can't see that other people can have fun with their kids in other ways besides a Disney trip, you sound ignorant and unimaginative. But go ahead and keep up the name calling!

Ha ha. I'm neither, actually. We go many other places besides Disney, too. But nice try, sweetie!

So what you are really saying is that you are a single-minded bitch who can't believe people make different choices than you. Well, okay, then. Have fun in the lines...

Actually, it's the OP who is single-minded and doesn't even want to try Disney. She only wants her fancy adult vacations -- screw what a kid might like.

Now if your kids don't like Disney, then no, don't go back.

Oh, and if you are smart enough to go off season, when you can breeze on the rides like we do, then no, you don't spend time waiting in lines.

By off season, do you mean summer, as in July, August? In the disgusting heat and humidity? Yeah... no thanks. You can have it.

Summer is the main season, except for the week between Christmas and New Years and the week of Easter.

The lowest attendance times are September (after Labor Day), October, early November (before Thanksgiving), and early December (before Christmas and after Thanksgiving).

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What a bunch of stuckup snobs who care way more about appearances than their children's happiness!

As someone who has been to Disney, if you can't see that other people can have fun with their kids in other ways besides a Disney trip, you sound ignorant and unimaginative. But go ahead and keep up the name calling!

Ha ha. I'm neither, actually. We go many other places besides Disney, too. But nice try, sweetie!

So what you are really saying is that you are a single-minded bitch who can't believe people make different choices than you. Well, okay, then. Have fun in the lines...

Actually, it's the OP who is single-minded and doesn't even want to try Disney. She only wants her fancy adult vacations -- screw what a kid might like.

Now if your kids don't like Disney, then no, don't go back.

Oh, and if you are smart enough to go off season, when you can breeze on the rides like we do, then no, you don't spend time waiting in lines.

When you have two working parents (not to mention school schedules), not every family can make off season work[i][b]. So, perhaps you can stop dripping sarcasm and realize it's not always about being "smart enough."

Yes, this is our problem. It's a challenge even to make our current vacations (and sick days, and medical appts., and snow days, and reg. days off school when we have to work, etc.) all fit together like a puzzle. I study it and stretch it and finagle things every which way to make our current system even work. So, there's no way another vacation is fitting in there.

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What a bunch of stuckup snobs who care way more about appearances than their children's happiness!

As someone who has been to Disney, if you can't see that other people can have fun with their kids in other ways besides a Disney trip, you sound ignorant and unimaginative. But go ahead and keep up the name calling!

Ha ha. I'm neither, actually. We go many other places besides Disney, too. But nice try, sweetie!

So what you are really saying is that you are a single-minded bitch who can't believe people make different choices than you. Well, okay, then. Have fun in the lines...

Actually, it's the OP who is single-minded and doesn't even want to try Disney. She only wants her fancy adult vacations -- screw what a kid might like.

Now if your kids don't like Disney, then no, don't go back.

Oh, and if you are smart enough to go off season, when you can breeze on the rides like we do, then no, you don't spend time waiting in lines.

When you have two working parents (not to mention school schedules), not every family can make off season work. So, perhaps you can stop dripping sarcasm and realize it's not always about being "smart enough."

We have never been. I did not go to WDW until I was in college. We don't plan on going.

Summer is NOT offseason. Look for times when the offer 30% off. That's a good bet. We've never waked more than 30 minutes for anything and usually less than 10 for most.

I was a skeptic, but it was such an easy, fun vacation that we went back again.

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What a bunch of stuckup snobs who care way more about appearances than their children's happiness!

As someone who has been to Disney, if you can't see that other people can have fun with their kids in other ways besides a Disney trip, you sound ignorant and unimaginative. But go ahead and keep up the name calling!

Ha ha. I'm neither, actually. We go many other places besides Disney, too. But nice try, sweetie!

So what you are really saying is that you are a single-minded bitch who can't believe people make different choices than you. Well, okay, then. Have fun in the lines...

Actually, it's the OP who is single-minded and doesn't even want to try Disney. She only wants her fancy adult vacations -- screw what a kid might like.

Now if your kids don't like Disney, then no, don't go back.

Oh, and if you are smart enough to go off season, when you can breeze on the rides like we do, then no, you don't spend time waiting in lines.

By off season, do you mean summer, as in July, August? In the disgusting heat and humidity? Yeah... no thanks. You can have it.

When is off season?

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What a bunch of stuckup snobs who care way more about appearances than their children's happiness!

As someone who has been to Disney, if you can't see that other people can have fun with their kids in other ways besides a Disney trip, you sound ignorant and unimaginative. But go ahead and keep up the name calling!

Ha ha. I'm neither, actually. We go many other places besides Disney, too. But nice try, sweetie!

So what you are really saying is that you are a single-minded bitch who can't believe people make different choices than you. Well, okay, then. Have fun in the lines...

Actually, it's the OP who is single-minded and doesn't even want to try Disney. She only wants her fancy adult vacations -- screw what a kid might like.

Now if your kids don't like Disney, then no, don't go back.

Oh, and if you are smart enough to go off season, when you can breeze on the rides like we do, then no, you don't spend time waiting in lines.

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