Your Ideal WDW Vacation Length

anim8rguy72 · Post by **anim8rguy72** » Oct Tue 28, 2008 9:51 am

What is the average length of your WDW vacation? For example: When we go, it's usually on a 5 day park hopper. This way we can hit each park for a full day and have an extra day to go back and catch things we missed or to ride our favorites again. We always go for 7 days so that enables us to have 2 extra days to just relax and explore other parts of the resort.

pixiesparkles · Post by **pixiesparkles** » Oct Tue 28, 2008 10:29 am

We always have made our trips 8 days long. Living in Michigan, we always have to allow for 2 days of travel hassles. That leaves 6 full days filled with Disney fun.

spodie · Post by **spodie** » Oct Tue 28, 2008 10:46 am

Our trips vary, but if we're just doing Disney (no cruise), we usually go for 6 nights/7 days. That gives us plenty of time to see everything without being rushed. On the 7th day, we hit whatever we want to see in the morning/early afternoon and then start heading home.

sherabby · Post by **sherabby** » Oct Tue 28, 2008 10:53 am

Our first trip in 2007 with my son we stayed for 6 nights but this year we could only afford the trip for 5 nights. I like to have time to go to the water parks. Now that we saw a lot in the last two trips we can probably take it easier for our next trip.

MetalRage · Post by **MetalRage** » Oct Tue 28, 2008 10:57 am

It depends for us. Its usually 2-3 days, 3-4 days, and if im lucky 4-5 days. We sometimes dont stay long cause we live 2 hours away so we go every year.

99Soulz · Post by **99Soulz** » Oct Tue 28, 2008 10:58 am

We typically do one trip a year for a week (7 or 8 nights). This year we are doing 2 trips but only for 4 nights each. Hmmm, not sure which is better, a full week vs. 2 shorter trips??? The nice thing about long trips is that you actually get to relax and get in full vacation mode but having 2 trips gives you shorter time between trips. There's probably a bunch of pros and cons for each.

Future Guy · Post by **Future Guy** » Oct Tue 28, 2008 1:38 pm

I'd like to do 5 days; however the most I can reasonably afford is 4 days/3 nights at a value resort.

Joe90 · Post by **Joe90** » Oct Tue 28, 2008 3:17 pm

14 days out of every year I live at WDW.
A 14 Day park hopper plus pass means I can wander anywhere anywhen and I am never rushed to see or do anything. Although it always seems like I never manage to do everything

Iamthecaptain · Post by **Iamthecaptain** » Oct Tue 28, 2008 10:00 pm

Since I'm only a couple hours away, I get up there a few times a year so my average stay is get there friday around 12 and leave sometime late sunday afternoon. Best time was a couple years ago with friends, we spent a week camping at ft wilderness. just hopped around with no real plans, just whatever struck our fancy. With no structure, we never felt rushed or like we were missing something.

Post by **Len90** » Oct Tue 28, 2008 10:56 pm

8 days is the perfect length for me. I found that 8 days is better than a week because it helped us to not rush and squeeze everything in. We were able to take it nice and slow.

zdog · Post by **zdog** » Oct Wed 29, 2008 7:14 pm

8 days is the perfect length, at least as far as our family goes. One week at a time share and stay one day with my brother who lives down there. We get a full week at the park plus a little extra.

hunter88 · Post by **hunter88** » Oct Wed 29, 2008 9:15 pm

my ideal WDW vacation length is 7-10 days that way i spend equal amount in every theme park some time in the water parks if they are open when i go, get the souveniers i want from either downtown disney or the theme parks and lounge around by the hotel pool and get a nice tan.

Post by **Len90** » Oct Wed 29, 2008 11:07 pm

hunter88 wrote:my ideal WDW vacation length is 7-10 days that way i spend equal amount in every theme park some time in the water parks if they are open when i go, get the souveniers i want from either downtown disney or the theme parks and lounge around by the hotel pool and get a nice tan.

Must be nice to be able to tan. I tend to burn. I use SPF45 and by the third day I am beat red.

I found that we used our extra day to go shopping and even explore off property like city walk at Universal.

HSolo29 · Post by **HSolo29** » Oct Wed 29, 2008 11:28 pm

That would be 8 days for us as well. It gives us enough days to explore all the parks, plus a little extra to wander around the rest of the resort.

But even after doing everything, sometimes those 8 days aren't enough and you still don't want to go home.

sallyporsche · Post by **sallyporsche** » Oct Thu 30, 2008 7:39 am

We seem to do 5 days. I'd like to be able to go longer -- 8 to 10 seems like a good idea to me. But, I'm thankful for five and knowing that "next time" I'll prioritize something that I missed on this trip.