VandVsmama
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- Joined
- Mar 28, 2011
I watched today's broadcast/podcast on YouTube and the discussion about "How to Avoid a Disney Divorce" struck a chord with me and I'm curious what you guys thought about the topic.
My DH enjoys our Disney trips, but there are times when he totally OD's on it...to the point where he says regularly, "Can we NOT do a Disney trip this year?" I'm totally on board with doing other types of vacations, but my DH, God bless him, doesn't have the best imagination on this sometimes. His recent suggestion was for us to spend a weekend in Denver. Doing what? "Driving around and looking at stuff." What sort of stuff? He doesn't know.
In our family's case, we live closer to Disneyland rather than WDW (we live in AZ). So when we do a Disney trip, it's usually to Disneyland. For our family, I've learned that there's a magic formula for DH enjoying himself 3 days in a row at Disneyland:
A couple of summers ago, we went to WDW for the first time...in June. We went because DH had to be in Orlando for a work convention. DH was frustrated because the work convention was so tiring yet he wanted to go to more of the parks with us and just couldn't spend as much time with us in WDW as he would have liked. So I sweet-talked him into an adults-only trip to WDW. We're planning on going at the end of January 2021. I sold DH on it with a few things:
I think some time down the road, there will probably be a mother-daughters trip in our future. I've mentioned it before to DH, but he usually feels torn because he doesn't want to miss out, yet he OD's a lot more quickly on Disneyland than I do.
My DH enjoys our Disney trips, but there are times when he totally OD's on it...to the point where he says regularly, "Can we NOT do a Disney trip this year?" I'm totally on board with doing other types of vacations, but my DH, God bless him, doesn't have the best imagination on this sometimes. His recent suggestion was for us to spend a weekend in Denver. Doing what? "Driving around and looking at stuff." What sort of stuff? He doesn't know.
In our family's case, we live closer to Disneyland rather than WDW (we live in AZ). So when we do a Disney trip, it's usually to Disneyland. For our family, I've learned that there's a magic formula for DH enjoying himself 3 days in a row at Disneyland:
- whenever possible, stay at a close hotel within walking distance (i.e., on Harbor Blvd)
- get to the parks for rope drop
- leave the parks by ~ 1:00 pm and take a break at the hotel
- use early and late park hours strategically to reduce DH's wait time in line to 15-20 min or less. If it's >20 min, we skip it and do it later.
A couple of summers ago, we went to WDW for the first time...in June. We went because DH had to be in Orlando for a work convention. DH was frustrated because the work convention was so tiring yet he wanted to go to more of the parks with us and just couldn't spend as much time with us in WDW as he would have liked. So I sweet-talked him into an adults-only trip to WDW. We're planning on going at the end of January 2021. I sold DH on it with a few things:
- we can go horseback riding one afternoon
- the weather won't be super hot
- we can pay for all our meals ahead of time (dining plan!), so DH, you won't have to stress about how much it all costs because it'll all basically be paid for
- the kids won't be whining about not wanting to wait for DH and how they want to go on another ride and...and...etc., etc.
- we can spend a day at Cape Canaveral (something that really interests him and it's not related to Disney at all)
I think some time down the road, there will probably be a mother-daughters trip in our future. I've mentioned it before to DH, but he usually feels torn because he doesn't want to miss out, yet he OD's a lot more quickly on Disneyland than I do.