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(@azcavalier)
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I know this will vary wildly for many reasons, but I'm just curious. We've gone at least once a year for about 15 years, but this will be the first year that we won't be going, and we're probably not going next year, either. We're saving up our Disney Reward Points by putting everything on our CC (including a used car and our son's college tuition...don't worry, we have the cash to pay it off) and are planning to use it for an all expenses paid trip out to Disneyland at some point. But I don't know when we'll make it back to WDW. It's no longer a priority for our family.


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Posted : August 23, 2018 1:56 pm
P0pPhan
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After my first trip, it was 18 months (give or take) until my next visit. Since then, it has been pretty much once a year, until this past November when I got my first Annual Pass. This year (Nov. '17 - Nov. '18) it will be 3 trips.

Even if I renew my AP, which I undoubtedly will, I will probably go back to once or twice a year.


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Posted : August 23, 2018 2:23 pm
(@CynBeth)
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We try to visit every few years either for Thanksgiving Week or the beginning of Dec.


 
Posted : August 23, 2018 4:41 pm
(@comicguy)
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We go every year in August


 
Posted : August 23, 2018 6:48 pm
(@VacationDisney)
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Beginning with our first trip in 1984 we went every 4 years until 1998! Those visits were with our daughter. After she went off to college we average going either every year or every other year!

We love our trips there, as a couple, and look forward to going many times more!


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Posted : August 23, 2018 9:28 pm
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It used to be an every year occurrence for me. Now it isn't as pressing. I have a few things I'd still like to do (see the Christmas festivities, take my son to see the new Star Wars stuff in Disneyland and Disney World and the Star Wars hotel, Tokyo Disney with my brother) but Disney has lost a lot of the magic for me. There's a whole big world out there to discover.


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Posted : August 24, 2018 5:52 am
(@#1donaldfan)
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We got at least once a year ... depends on what we have going and how the cash is working out .....


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Posted : August 24, 2018 12:17 pm
(@Speedy1998)
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Since 2005 we have averaged once per year, For example we missed going in 2013, but went twice in 2012. In 2019 we will probably not go to Disney World as DD wants to go to Disneyland as her high school graduation present.


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Posted : August 24, 2018 12:55 pm
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I live local, so I go at least once a week or so.... But... it is smart to run the college tuition through your rewards card. I paid for my annual pass for 4 years that way Smile


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Posted : August 24, 2018 4:11 pm
faline
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I'm also local so we pop over for a day every week or so. Before that, we probably visited a couple of times per year.


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Posted : August 24, 2018 4:29 pm
(@rundmv)
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We used to go once or twice a year. I think about 2010 we stopped. Disney got too steeped in IT. And when it failed, it failed huge...and still does. That year, we paid for a "big vaycay," in advance. Totally went all out. They did a "computer upgrade" that night. All reservations and all payments associated with them disappeared.

Their solution? Pay OOP untiltge system comes back up and then they would credit our account. Unbelievable. Luckily for us, I was at a point in my life that I could do that.

I was turned off at that point-blank then they came out with FP+. I was certain I wanted no part of that. We only returned in 2017 because we moved to Tampa. I hate EVERYTHING about FP+. I only go now to appease my wife.


 
Posted : August 24, 2018 6:59 pm
(@njespers)
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We do AP every other year (coordinating our DVC borrow/bank of points). Last AP “season” we were feet-in-Disney every month, but that was unusual. Normally, it’s every other month.

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Posted : August 24, 2018 8:32 pm
ILoveLegos
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It has been years this October. Sold my house in Florida in January. Over the past 7 years, I've been a bunch of other places (all lovely too). May go back for a looksee to WDW in January 2019. 😊


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Posted : August 25, 2018 5:03 pm
(@buzznwoodysmom)
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We started out going about once every other year once we had kids. That quickly turned to once a year, and for a while it seemed we were going about once every 7-9 months. Then we took a year or two off and have gone back down to an every other year pattern. Seems we space our trips out a little farther each time. Too many other places to see and not loving all of the changes over the past few years.


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Posted : August 25, 2018 5:29 pm
(@mnnhfltx)
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When we lived in Florida we would go every month or so, even if it was just a day trip. Even after we moved to Texas, I went with either my son or friends at least once or twice a year to either WDW or Disneyland. Now my son is all grown up with a life of his own and with all the changes in the whole Disney process, I don't think I've been to either park in almost three years. Did hit Disneyland Paris a couple of years ago for the second time. I love my memories of the Disney trips, but I have to agree with Cinderelly--it's lost it's magic a bit for me.


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Posted : August 25, 2018 6:58 pm
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