Originally Posted By DEDE71755 I am planning a trip to DL and this is the first time I will be going by myself. Usually my kids go with me but they are adults and can't go with this time. Been wanting to go for a long time by myself. but not sure how to plan a trip for one. Does anybody have any good tips? Thanks ahead of time.
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x I'm planning a solo trip for myself too. I would suggest doing what you want to do that you normally can't do when others are with you. I already have my ressies at the hotel where we usually stay, and I have big plans for my days in the park. I am actually very excited, especially since I'm going to be (possibly, depending on their schedules!) meeting up with the Shivas and the iamsallys LOL If you're less than 60 days out, go ahead and make your PS arrangements now. Also, take a look at the calendar and decide what you want to do in the way of Fantasmic and/or the fireworks, so you can plan around those schedules. Have fun...I went "solo" on July 17, but I technically wasn't alone, since it was the big LP meet.
Originally Posted By DEDE71755 thank you so much for the input Pirate Princess. I can't wait to go. it will be a few months as I am going at the end of february for my 2nd 40th birthday. LOL
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf I find when I go alone, at least at first, I find myself doing what I normally do: bouncing from one attraction to the other, getting fastpasses, etc. But that makes the drag. I highly recommend taking your time, sitting in a nice place and watching the diverse people walking by, listening to the words people are saying, sipping on a coffee, and just enjoying spending some relaxing time in the happiest place on earth. For me, soaking it in this way is only possible when I am alone.
Originally Posted By DEDE71755 Thanks Eightdwarf. When ever I go with the family we always take time to just people watch and take it easy.
Originally Posted By EighthDwarf I never get the chance to do that with my family (I have a 4 and a 7 year old). So going to Disneyland by myself is a speacial treat.
Originally Posted By Disney Joy Solo is the best.... I started a couple three years ago. It is the best therapy. I can do what or don't want to whenever I want. I don't have to run around to get all this stuff done. I been tons of times so I can relax, watch people, and see what its like to do any thing I darn feel like. Totally COOL...
Originally Posted By x Pirate_Princess x Solo meet would be fun...then we can invade the single riders lines at Splash and Screamin'! LOL
Originally Posted By pecos bill No one in my current group of friends and family has the "Disney bug" like I do, so solo trips have been my thing for awhile. It is so much easier to go with the flow. I kind of liken it to the Forrest Gump feather, just kind of float and drift around, and end up wherever you are. Hungry? Stop and eat! Wanna ride Pirates three times in a row? Have at it! No whiny kids, no friends saying they dont like the place, no arguments over where to go, just the most important person in your world...you!
Originally Posted By coffeesnob I have been doing solo trips to DL for 15 years now. Last Nov I was there, and having a hard time in real life, and found myself just going through the ride routine without getting any joy out of it. Anyone who knows me will drop down dead if they see this (they also call me a tyrant...I don't know why): so I stopped the ride routine. I picked up the map and found things I never stopped to see before, ate at new restaurants, saw Aladdin, Fantasmic, a different porch on Main St...there were so many things. I was shocked, and it was a whole new vacation after that.
Originally Posted By ShivaThDestroyer >> Solo is the best....<< Disney Joy, Although I can appreciate what you're saying, the very best is being at DL with your very own clones. Tinkeroon and I have been going to the park for about 40 years and we always have lots of fun but it's just not he same without our 2 other quarters. iamsally and rhodri are so much like us that if we are in the park without them, or they without us, we each have a nagging feeling that something is missing. We like all the same things, do all the same things and work the park exactly alike. They enhance the park for us and we hope we do the same for them too. I know this sounds really strange but it works for the 4 of us.
Originally Posted By Disney Joy Shiva ~ Na it doesn't sound strange. It depends on the person and who they are, and what your clones like and want to do. My clones - and my other half all want to do something else, and sometimes wonder what's wrong with his wife or their Mom who always want to go to "Disneyland AGAIN" Actually they are now finally getting it.... My husband prefers to fish. I could not get him to understand why I need to go so much until I got him to compare it to sitting for hours to catch a fish. He would go if I ask him to, but he would not enjoy it at all, and ruin my trip, but he loves me to pieces and would do anything I even thought I wanted done. Now that is so sweet. He has accused me of having something going on with Mickey. :O)) My 4 kids - now 35-33-24-and 21 ~ since they were grade school, middle school we went to DL every year. None of them are DL fans like me....sure they would like to go but no big deal if they don't. Strange to me.....they said I overdosed them on DL. My grandkids 16,13 like to go but would take another say Christmas gift over going. I also took them for years.....I think they would enjoy it more with their age and not Granny ~ althoug I am a young Granny - started early- that's another story. :O) My other 2 grandkids, 7 and 2 in Dec now they would love to go, and I am taking them next August 08. Well maybe not the 2 yet, but I can't wait until she sees Mickey. She's into Mickey already, so is the 7 year old now that he has missed a couple of years. When the baby was born, he said he couldn't leave her. Well he's over that now and ready to go. I never ever ever dreamed years ago I would go solo ~ in fact one year I saw a man alone in line and thought how sad. He didn't look sad, but I could not understand that. Now I do. AND it's one of the best experiences in my life. Some people don't like to be alone, or in your case - you and your clones do the land together. Some like me ~ especially being a only child~ having so much going on with kids and grands ~ love to get away to the land and feel carefree for a week a year and the other week of the year live it up with a couple grands at the land. It's like having my cake and eating it too. Get this ~ my hubby says he is going next August with me and the grand 7 - hee hee ~ I am not holding my breath. :O)))))
Originally Posted By pecos bill Dont get us wrong, or at least me. If I had the choice, I would rather be with friends or family, but that just isnt the case lately. So in the meantime, I am going to accentuate the positives of traveling solo.
Originally Posted By ShivaThDestroyer Disney Joy, your kids sound just like ours! (I'm thinking maybe mine were switched at birth in the hospital) I've never been to DL alone but I'm sure I wouldn't let that stop me if there was no other alternative. I'm really blessed that Tinkeroon, and our best friends, iamsally (RAM1984) and her DH (rhodri),love the park just as much, if not more, than I do. We're always together, even when we're not at DL. It's funny that we had to go 350 miles away from where we live to meet the couple who have become so much more than just friends. It's even funnier that we both live in the same city. We've also had the good fortune to be in the park twice now with xPPx and have just about adopted her. She can fly solo with us anytime!! The same offer holds for you, pecos bill or any of the others who have posted on this thread. We would love to meet you if we should happen to be in the park at the same time.
Originally Posted By Disney Joy Thanks Silva, I really enjoy the alone time, but I will keep that in mind. I am a real solo woman. It might sound strange..but I truly truly enjoy the alone time and it brings me Joy. I am so busy doing nothing I am surely not lonely. AND one of those women who doesn't care what others think so I just walk around smiling for a week and dread the day I must leave the Land. But by then I miss the hubby and the grands ~ oh and the kids also..... hee hee Then in about 6 months Mickey starts calling again if not sooner.... Aug 08 will be a blast - grand 7 is already excited. :0))))
Originally Posted By TXDISNEYNERD DEDE - I hope you have a wonderful 2nd 40th birthday. I'm getting ready in 2 1/2 weeks for my 2nd 39th birthday. <g> I don't think it is weird at all to go to DL by yourself. You have a lot of freedom that way to go and do anything you want. If I lived closer, I could see myself doing that as I am the big Disney nerd of the family.
