A Trip Down Disney Memory Lane… For the Record

Disney MemoriesLast 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