DanPadavona
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Jul 29, 2004
I have done 2 solo trips and each time I missed my family really bad.
My main motivation for each of these trips, besides missing Disney of course, has been to escape the cold dreary northeastern weather. My wife teaches, and the kids are in school now, so really the only times we can go as a family are during Easter break and Summer. But winter, late fall, and early spring is high time to escape the northeast when you can.
I went once in 1999 during the Flower and Garden Festival. The April weather at WDW is hard to beat - that was a great getaway. The day before I left it was still snowing in NY. The second time I went was in 2002 in late February. What a disaster.
It rained every day I was there, and one day it never got out of the upper 40s. Miserable!
There are definite benefits to having solo time at WDW. You can move very fast, and you do everything on a whim. If you are sitting in MK and suddenly think how nice it might be over at Epcot, you don't have to query the troops. You just go. If you are full of energy, or beat down tired, you plan around yourself. If you want to ride the TTA in Tomorrowland 20 times in one day, you do it. (this is slightly biographical
) You eat what you want, when you are hungry. You sleep in when you are tired. Yeah there are advantages.
I've also noted when you aren't having to watch the kids like a hawk, you "see" a lot more of the parks than you had noticed before.
It's a fun diversion. But if you usually go the family, expect to feel a lot of guilt and miss them terribly.
My main motivation for each of these trips, besides missing Disney of course, has been to escape the cold dreary northeastern weather. My wife teaches, and the kids are in school now, so really the only times we can go as a family are during Easter break and Summer. But winter, late fall, and early spring is high time to escape the northeast when you can.
I went once in 1999 during the Flower and Garden Festival. The April weather at WDW is hard to beat - that was a great getaway. The day before I left it was still snowing in NY. The second time I went was in 2002 in late February. What a disaster.
It rained every day I was there, and one day it never got out of the upper 40s. Miserable! There are definite benefits to having solo time at WDW. You can move very fast, and you do everything on a whim. If you are sitting in MK and suddenly think how nice it might be over at Epcot, you don't have to query the troops. You just go. If you are full of energy, or beat down tired, you plan around yourself. If you want to ride the TTA in Tomorrowland 20 times in one day, you do it. (this is slightly biographical
) You eat what you want, when you are hungry. You sleep in when you are tired. Yeah there are advantages.I've also noted when you aren't having to watch the kids like a hawk, you "see" a lot more of the parks than you had noticed before.
It's a fun diversion. But if you usually go the family, expect to feel a lot of guilt and miss them terribly.
