A Trip Down Disney Memory Lane… For the Record
Last week, we decided to go to Walt Disney World to celebrate my upcoming 45th birthday in December. It is probably more accurate to say that I decided we should go, and then proceeded to steer the talk of going away for my birthday down the road that leads to Disney World. And really, doesn’t every road eventually lead there?
While making arrangements and securing the various reservations — airline, hotel, etc. — we replayed a discussion that we have every time a Disney trip is in the works. How many times have we been? Where did we stay in 2000? Wasn’t that the trip in 2009? And so on…. I finally decided to sit down and compile the details of all of our various trips. Tonight I’ve been flipping through photo albums (I used to be so thin back then), looking at planning spreadsheets, going through my collection of Disney card keys and passes, and even Kristin’s old Franklin Planners.
I’m happy to say that after an evening of research, I now have a complete list of all of our trips. The only visits to a Disney theme park that I’m missing are two or three visits to Disneyland when I lived in California. Since I lived in L.A. at the time, I’m not counting those for purposes of this list since they were just day trips. I know nobody else will care about this, and if anyone is still reading at this point I’ll be shocked, but posting here means I’ll always have a place to find it the next time we start that discussion.
Update 2015-06-01: I’ve updated the table with additional trips after the original post. I’ll probably move this to a page so I don’t have to keep going back to the post to make edits.
Dates | Disney Hotel | Resort | Traveler(s) |
07/01/1989 – 07/02/1989 | n/a | WDW | Kristin |
03/15/1994 – 03/17/1994 | n/a | WDW | Scott & Kristin |
04/15/1996 – 04/19/1996 Honeymoon |
Dixie Landings | WDW | Scott & Kristin |
01/20/1997 – 01/20/1997 | n/a | DL | Scott & Kristin |
09/12/1998, 09/17/1998 | n/a | DL | Scott |
10/22/1998 – 10/27/1998 | Yacht Club | WDW | Scott & Kristin |
04/13/2000 – 04/16/2000 | Dixie Landings | WDW | Scott & Kristin |
10/05/2002 – 10/07/2002 | n/a | DL | Scott |
12/13/2003 – 12/16/2003 | Coronado Springs | WDW | Scott & Kristin |
06/03/2005 – 06/05/2005 | All-Star Sports | WDW | Scott |
10/04/2005 – 10/07/2005 | Paradise Pier Hotel | DL | Scott & Kristin |
06/08/2007 – 06/11/2007 | Wilderness Lodge | WDW | Scott & Kristin |
04/04/2008 – 04/06/2008 | Pop Century | WDW | Scott |
12/12/2009 – 12/18/2009 | All-Star Sports | WDW | Scott & Kristin |
08/18/2011 – 08/23/2011 D23 Expo |
n/a | DL | Scott |
01/28/2012 – 01/29/2012 | Caribbean Beach | WDW | Scott & Kristin |
01/29/2012 – 02/05/2012 | Disney Dream | DCL | Scott & Kristin |
06/15/2012 – 06/17/2012 | All-Star Sports | WDW | Scott |
10/27/2012 – 10/28/2012 | Yacht Club | WDW | Kristin |
08/07/2013 – 08/12/2013 D23 Expo |
n/a | DL | Scott & Kristin |
12/12/2013 – 12/15/2013 | Animal Kingdom Lodge | WDW | Scott & Kristin |
5/22/2014 – 5/24/2014 2014 24-hr event |
Pop Century | WDW | Scott |
11/21/2014 – 11/24/2014 D23 Destination D |
Port Orleans – Riverside | WDW | Scott |
5/22/2015 – 5/26/2015 | Boardwalk | WDW | Kristin |
8/12/2015 – 8/17/2015 D23 Expo |
Disneyland Hotel | DL | Scott & Kristin |
9/4/2016 – 0/7/2016 | Port Orleans Riverside | WDW | Scott |
9/9/2016 – 9/12/2016 | Disney Dream | DCL | Kristin |
10/11/2016 – 9/16/2016 | Aulani (DVC) | Hawaii | Scott & Kristin |
11/18/2016 – 11/21/2016 D23 Destination D |
Polynesian Villas and Bungalows (DVC) | WDW | Scott & Kristin | 7/16/2017 – 7/19/2017 D23 Expo |
Paradise Pier | DL | Scott & Kristin |
9/29/2017 – 10/2/2017 Epcot35 |
Beach Club Villas (DVC) | WDW | Scott |
2/17/2018 – 2/21/2018 Invited to Wedding |
Pop Century | WDW | Scott & Kristin |
4/10/2018 – 4/15/2018 Epcot Flower & Garden Festival |
Beach Club Villas (DVC) | WDW | Scott & Kristin |