When is enough enough?
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| Mon, 05-22-2006 - 7:44pm |
I'm not sure what advice I'm needing, but if you read this and you have any thoughts, let me know.
We're planning for May/June 2007. Right now, the dates *I'm* looking at are May 25-June 2. That's eight nights and nine days. We'll have 8-day park hoppers. We will arrive leave home on the evening of the 24th, drive through the night and arrive probably by 10:00 am on the 25th at our resort. DH wants to cut a couple days off the trip, because he thought our 9 night trip in 2004 was waaayyyyy too long. Part of that couldn't be helped because of the hurricane, but that's not the point.
I'm afraid to shorten it too much, because I'm thinking it will be fairly crowded and we won't get to do much. I do have tentative plans for most of Memorial Day weekend to stay out of the parks, at least if it's terribly crowded. That's something we don't usually do; we normally go to the parks every day, and we like it that way. I just feel like we'll be missing out if we cut the trip short. We won't be going back for at least 2 years after that trip, and that's going to depend because we'll have 2 kids in private school.
So, how much is enough? How do you decide, and know what's right to do? How do you keep from feeling like you've short-changed yourself on a good vacation?
Edited to add: Playing around on Disney's site, it looks like if we cut it down to 6 nights/7 days, we can stay at a moderate for pretty much the same as I was planning to spend, of course based on this year's package rates but that's all I have to go on right now.
So what do you think?
Edited 5/22/2006 8:38 pm ET by bigbabyblues

Steph,
I am going to be no help here. Last year we had seven day park hoppers. It was only around a $10 difference to buy the extra day. (I think I remember that correctly.) Anyway this year we are going for 11 nights. :o) Good luck. When you drive though it is hard. We drive as well. The drive there wasn't too bad because we were excited but man the drive back was awful! I actually wanted to cry when we left..............
I'm going to tell you to go for as long as you possibly can afford to both financially and time-wise from work/school.
Val, Co-CL Disney Vacations
I just want to add that we went over Memorial weekend in 2004 and it was not busy at all, we walked on to most rides or had a 10-15 wait. The longest waits we encountered were for Splash Mountain (1 and 1/2 waits) but we fastpassed it. MGM was completely dead on Memorial Day, no waits or 5 min waits. I really think it was a great time to be there!
Good Luck
Tawnya
I'm with Val. I say if you can afford it and have the time, go for it!
I learned not to base my future trips on ones already taken. Several years ago, we stayed for ten days. When it was time to go, none of us was ready to pack up and head home! We were all sucked into the magic of Disney. Now, this last trip in March, well, I was counting the days until we came home. However, I'm already looking forward to our next trip!
I would be willing to bet that your dh has a great time on this trip!
~~Laura
Thank you Tawnya, that is great to hear! I'm having visions of shoulder-to-shoulder crowds, 2 hours waits, etc. I like you report MUCH better!
Steph