That one time we went to Disney World by ourselves!!
About 20 plus years ago, my husband and I took our 3 children to Disney World. We had one pre-teen, one high schooler and one college kid. We wanted to save money at the time, so we decided to pile in an SUV and drive from central Oklahoma to Orlando. This perhaps was not the best idea. While amazing memories were made, mostly at the beach along the way and the alligator farm on the way home, my husband declared that we would never take a family vacation again, and we didn’t. BUT, now that I’m an agent, I decided to give Disney another go. Mind you, I am in my later 50’s and my husband is 10 years older (you do the math).
For our sans kids trip, we decided on a 4 night stay with 3 full days of park hopper passes, and we utilized every waking moment of the trip! In fact, there were a few times we had to find a park bench to nap! LOL I arranged a transfer from the airport to our hotel that was easy peasy and took the stress out of trying to find the uber pick up at the airport. We stayed at Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge and once we got there, my “wants” got the better of me, so we upgraded to a Savannah view room. I wanted to have coffee looking at the giraffes! I was expecting so see them in the morning and the evening, but one thing we noticed was that the animals were more active outside of our room, during the middle of the day when we happened to come back to our room to refresh. But, I would say, the extra cost was worth it, in my opinion.
I loved staying on property so we could get an early start in the parks. Animal Kingdom will forever be my favorite Disney World park, but I do love eating and drinking my way through Epcot, but I only got about two countries in before I got full! I need to learn to pace myself. It’s also nice to have easy access to transportation to get from one park to another and back to our resort. As older Disney World attendees, it was a lot of fun to get on the bus to go back to the resort and see all the families with small children getting on, a lot of the children screaming and crying, and Jeff and I giving each other that knowing look, like “thank goodness that is not us”!
Our trip was during Mickey’s Very Merry Christmas Party that was a ton of fun and I ate enough cookies and hot chocolate in one night to last me a lifetime. There were a few moments that we thought it would be fun to bring our grandkids back and then we saw children having meltdowns and we decided, it would be more fun if their parents brought them. We also got to experience the Candlelight Processional that was a part of EPCOT’s International Festival of the Holidays. This was a very powerful presentation where there is a celebrity narrator that reads the biblical story of Christmas accompanied by an orchestra and massed choir. The celebrity that was featured when we were there was Whoopi Goldberg. I wasn’t sure what to expect, if I’m being honest, but it was spectacular, and I would love to experience it again.
There is so much more I could share about this trip, and if you have any questions, do not hesitate to reach out to me at https://www.vincentvacations.com/agents/jeanetteblevins/travelform . If you have a chance to go to Disney with your significant other, without taking the kids, I would highly recommend it! It was certainly one that we will cherish the moments together for a long time to come.
