Telling the children?

[Elodie]

When do you tell your children? I usually like the girls to have a bit of time to look forward to a Disney holiday, so we’ve always told them a few weeks / months in advance of a DLP holiday (with some kind of fun reveal.)

I do have a bit of reveal-regret that we told them about staying in the DLH about an hour before we arrived, when we stopped at an Aire on the way. (They knew about the holiday, but I always wish I’d kept the DLH bit a secret right up until the end, and just let them figure it out as we drove up.)

I think that’s now colouring my opinion on whether to wait to surprise them with our first WDW holiday, or tell them in advance. (They know we are planning to go, just not when, so they’re still involved in the planning and anticipation.)

How soon (and how) do you tell your children?