Does anyone fall out of love with Orlando?

[Myakka17]

By Orlando I mean the parks, we were last here in 2014 yet nothing seems new or exciting just the same old...
Maybe we were spoilt in LA I don’t know. In some respects wish we’d booked another holiday but on the plus side at least Orlando is out of my system and I won’t feel pangs if jealousy when I hear others are visiting.lol.
I think we all feel there’s a big wide world and we want to experience other places.
Does anyone else ever feel the same?

[cornishfrogboy]

We have fallen out of love. Not Florida and most certainly not the USA, just the Parks. They now seem an increasingly overpriced gouging exercise and for us, the fun has gone after 10 amazing vacations since 2005.

We have not gone to Disney on any of our last 5 visits (we did when in California a couple of years back and remained underwhealmed). That has left Seaworld, Busch and the Universal Offerings. This year, they just did not seem to have the same magic and only Discovery Cove felt special. We have simply been too often.
When the boys were asked to pick the three best things that they had done during the Orlando phase of the vacation, they were unanimous..
1. Horse riding at the Lazy H ranch.
2. Rainbow river at Dunellon.
3. Airboat ride with Buffalo Tiger on the Tamiami. (they had previously become bored with Spirit of the Swamp and Boggy Creek).
Discovery Cove came 4th.

Next year it is SFO, Monterey, San Luis Obispo, Seattle and Vancouver with not a theme park in sight.

The USA still has loads to offer us and we are planning on..
1. Driving from San Diego to New Orleans over 3 weeks.
2. Visiting Hawaii
3. Possibly Detroit and Chicago before heading down the 66.

The only park that would conceivably figure in the future is another 6 Flags. With this in mind, Orlando is most probably in our past.

[tocpe321]

Yes. We are recently back from our first Florida trip that didn’t include Orlando. We didn’t miss Orlando.

We’ve been to Disney and other theme parks on 5 holidays. 4 were pre kids. We felt that we’ve done it now, but never say never. We used to get so excited when we were going and we have great memories.

It’s brilliant that so many still love the area. I appreciate that many go to the area without doing the theme parks and that they have fantastic holidays. It’s just not for us.

Hopefully we will continue to visit Florida and especially other parts of the USA

[mickey house]

I have considered divorcing Orlando, but she holds fond memories for me and my wife going back 30 years. That first morning walking out of the grosvenor resort Lake Buena Vista and the heat hitting us, the lizards, the thick blades of grass was something new to us. We walked to the crossroads into a supermarket that had carpet on the floor. We laughed, we joked, we smiled and even hugged (most of which rarely happens now because we are an old married couple).

[tspill]

Not fallen out of love so much and fallen in love with other places. There are so many other places to see. Though we do still go regularly to Florida to relax.

[JLH]

Here now and water parks aside we wouldn’t miss it if we didn’t come back - we are having a good time but I wouldn’t be gutted if we never returned. This is our fifth visit and never thought I would say that !

[Rik666]

It's the same as anywhere, if you visit the same place 5, 6, 10 times, you will fall out with it.
Tho I do know people that go to benidorm every year for past 20 years! Lol
The magic of Orlando is to keep it magic, taking kids on their first trip, seeing their faces, that's the magic.

[Gill H]

We haven’t been able to afford to go since 2014 but I don’t see how you can say there is nothing new or exciting since then?

[Gill H]

We haven’t been able to afford to go since 2014 but I don’t see how you can say there is nothing new or exciting since then? Pandora, Galaxy’s Edge, Toy Story Land, new fireworks shows, new restaurants, Disney Springs completely transformed...? Lots that we want to see but it takes us at least 5 years to save up each time.

Next year we are hoping to do Tokyo (4 days in Tokyo itself and 4 days in Tokyo Disneyland/Disneysea. Really excited about that.

[Tinkerbell]

Simply yes.