Our longest trip has been 8 nights. We managed that twice.Five or six nights is our sweet spot, but we are DVC and visit 2 and sometimes 3 times a year. Our upcoming trip beginning on Monday is only 4 nights, but we are returning in September for 7 nights. Our longest trips have been in the 10-day range; pre-DVC we often did split stays (monorail resort/moderate) to keep the cost down.
This is our new reality. I used to take 15-17 day trips and camp at the Fort. I work remotely, so I worked there some mornings/afternoons and we would just relax....We usually go for a week. DH does not get a lot of vacation time and Disney isn’t the only place on our travel list. That gives us a week to go somewhere else plus a couple of weekend trips a year.
Nice! What's her area of expertise?My daughter is a CM so I visit a few times a year. I go for 5/6 days for Spring Break and my longer trip in July for about 10 days. I also make 3 or 4 trips for long weekends. Normally flying out on Thursday early evening and coming home on Sunday or Monday if it's a holiday.
That seems likely- I think the most I ever accomplished was in my first trip, spending 5 days in the parks. I did EVERYTHING, but only exactly once for the most part. The 7-10 day trips were all full days, but the middle part was MUCH lazier, and nearly every trip there was some regular thing I didn't do, like skipping the Tiki Room or not having time to go to the Mexico Pavilion or something, despite doing multiple rides and attractions repeatedly. Because you have so much time, you don't feel the need to "cram everything in" and so you get casual enough that things can slip by.Our longest trip has been 8 nights. We managed that twice.
Surprisingly we noticed having 9 days didn’t make much difference over 6 or 7 days - didn’t accomplished more. That could be the mindset feeling less need to hurry?
Yeah, I sometimes marvel at the people able to go to Disney multiple times a year (like ChunkyMonkey's old trip reports where there was a new trip seemingly every month or so), but the logistics of living here mean I have to spend about $800-1000 round-trip just to fly down- I can justify it once, but not for two short trips.I go on a few, shorter trips every year, however, I live in the US near an airport that offers direct flights on an inexpensive airline. I equate your airfare conundrum to what we face when we want to travel internationally - in that case, we set aside as much time as we can. Our last trip to Europe, for example, was almost three weeks long. I justify it by telling myself this is 3 trips to Europe, but with the cost of only one, round-tip airfare ticket. I would much rather spend my money on trip costs like hotels, food, experiences, souvenirs than a seat on an airplane, so, if I were in your shoes, I would probably opt for the longer trips. Whatever is most cost effective!