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Post by baymaxfan on Jan 28, 2024 12:56:03 GMT -5
DW and I got into a discussion with DS (20) and DD (17) about how much time they have spent on a Disney property (parks, non-park DVCs, Disney cruises). We concluded that about 5% of their lives has been spent in the Disney environment. That would be an average of about 18 days per year. Sure, there were years where it was closer to 15% (~60 days). But there were also years of zero (thanks, COVID shutdowns).
DW and I are not sure we are even at 1%, as there were many years growing up and as young adults with zero Disney days. With all Disney logins linked, I wish they actually kept a running tally of how many times you went to each park.
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Jan 28, 2024 13:46:56 GMT -5
I'm in my 40s so no way is it even an appreciable percentage. But I can say that growing up going there, it became part of who I am from those very early, impressionable ages so I feel like I have a high percentage. In reality the percentage is not like what I feel, though.
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Post by MinnieMom on Jan 28, 2024 13:47:42 GMT -5
What a fun question! Best guess for me - less than 1%, assuming every year I had an AP I went 60 days and discounting the nominal days from 1 childhood trip and 1 college trip. Assuming half those days for DD and relative age, I think her total might be more like ~5%.
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Post by pooh bears mom on Jan 28, 2024 18:42:25 GMT -5
We spend about 21 days there per year.
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Post by BWV Dreamin on Jan 28, 2024 18:58:50 GMT -5
1%. When we go back in 2025 with the fam, it will have been four years since we’ve visited Disney! Those darn cruises…LOL.
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Post by helenabear on Jan 28, 2024 20:14:52 GMT -5
I wouldn't want to guess. I went fairly regularly in my childhood. Not always yearly, but at most every few years. But then once I was about 25 I was going once a year to 3 or so times a year. Covid kept me out (park was closed when we could travel mixed with an employee who quit keeping spouse home) one year and a job situation for my spouse and me not wanting to take a 2yo solo did another year. Kid first went at 5 months and regularly since. Though I still don't want to math that lol.
I can say kid spent 4.1% of last year at Disney. I spent 5%. Spouse spent 2.7%
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Post by bakerworld on Jan 29, 2024 9:13:34 GMT -5
I think since '77 about 53 times. I actually thought it was more than that but I guess not.
According to Google: What is 53 out of 47? Solution: 53/47 as a percent is 112.766% - I don't think that's right. I probably asked the question wrong.
So if I change the years to my life years instead of the years we've been going to WDW the percentage dropped to 79.10%. IDK, it still seems high.
If I do our youngest Google says at 12 trips over 35 years = 34%. I still think that seems high.
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Post by baymaxfan on Jan 29, 2024 10:23:07 GMT -5
I think since '77 about 53 times. I actually thought it was more than that but I guess not. According to Google: What is 53 out of 47? Solution: 53/47 as a percent is 112.766% - I don't think that's right. I probably asked the question wrong. So if I change the years to my life years instead of the years we've been going to WDW the percentage dropped to 79.10%. IDK, it still seems high. If I do our youngest Google says at 12 trips over 35 years = 34%. I still think that seems high. Your construct is a bit off  . You essentially calculated how many years of your life, on average, have you gone to Disney - e.g. I am 20 years old and have gone to Disney 20 times so I have gone, on average, 100% of every year I've been alive. The question is what percentage of your life. You have been to Disney 53 times since 1977. Assuming each vacation was 7 days, that would make 371 days at Disney in those 53 visits, or roughly one year. Since 1977, you have spent about 2% of your life at Disney. Since your youngest is 35, I'm guessing you were born prior to 1977. So, you would also need to factor in your younger years when you might not have gone at all. For your youngest, it is closer to 0.5%. |
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Post by baymaxfan on Jan 29, 2024 10:31:12 GMT -5
It sounds like a lot of us are similar - ~1% for the adults (only because we didn't go much or at all when younger) and our kids are closer to 5%.
If you think about 5%, it is kind of a crazy number. That is about 18-19 days of actually setting foot on a Disney property every year for, in my case, about two decades. I was trying to think about something else DS and DD have done that much in their lives. I only came up with school for them.
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Post by Adelard of Bath on Jan 29, 2024 11:06:14 GMT -5
Wife and I do one long trip to Disney every year: two weeks (usually 15-18 days), on property, I consider this pretty fortunate. This is 3.8%. I know there are definitely people who do more than 15-18 days per year.
But I'm getting old; there are many many years of zero percent in there, bringing my numbers down. Young people brought up in Disney families have an advantage there!
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Post by nickys on Jan 29, 2024 12:41:31 GMT -5
Mine is higher than I thought.
14 weeks out of 3163 weeks so 0.44%. Seems high to me.
If I take it from when we bought into DVC then it becomes 11 weeks out of 676 weeks, 1.63%.
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Post by a1000monkeys on Jan 29, 2024 13:25:41 GMT -5
Hmm. Not sure of the percentage. We go to a Disney property at least once per year but we mix it up on where. We went to WDW this past NYE, will go to Disneyland next NYE and the year after that we may spend Christmas in Tokyo Disneyland. However, our trips to WDW are about twice at least long as trips to Disneyland or Tokyo Disneyland.
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Post by tomandrobin on Jan 29, 2024 16:20:41 GMT -5
Well....A lot, considering I live in Maryland.
Last year, we spend 28 days at Disney World.
This year, we are planning 27-29 days spend between WDW and DCL.
It wasn't always that high, but as we have gotten older and since joining the Club, our time spent has increased a lot.
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Post by dougdisney on Jan 29, 2024 19:11:40 GMT -5
Mine is higher than I thought. 14 weeks out of 3163 weeks so 0.44%. Seems high to me. If I take it from when we bought into DVC then it becomes 11 weeks out of 676 weeks, 1.63%. Once we bought into DVC the % definitely went up. |
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Post by Brian5581 on Jan 29, 2024 22:50:06 GMT -5
A lot. Since moving down here, a lot more. I’m good with that.
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. You essentially calculated how many years of your life, on average, have you gone to Disney - e.g. I am 20 years old and have gone to Disney 20 times so I have gone, on average, 100% of every year I've been alive. 
