I've already given up a lot of the planning. I don't make most dining reservations until the night before, and other than making park reservations, there isn't much else. The days of having a touring plan are long behind me at this point. I do have an idea of what attractions I want to prioritize with G+ or LL, but that's not really planning so much as "I know I want to do that."
However, I am starting to find that the
doing is a hassle. Some of the things that make WDW unique--and in particular the scale of the place--also makes dealing with it something of a pain. It's never easy to get from one thing to another (Transportation Board motto:
there is no pixie dust in transportation) and the attractions are all spread out across four parks that themselves are physically large. DLR packs almost the same attraction count into two parks, five minutes walk from each other, each of which is smaller than the smallest park at WDW.
It's not that my other vacations are not active. I spent a week in the Smoky Mountains hiking and bouncing around Dollywood. We just got back from an extended visit to Hawaii with lots of snorkeling and hiking. (Aside:
the manta ray night snorkel on the Big Island is
fantastic. Do that.) We put on plenty of mileage when we spent a week at Universal Orlando this past March.
But somehow a visit to WDW is physically and mentally tiring in ways those are not.
I'm part of the Exodus. My last visit to WDW was March of '22. I won't be back until May '24 at the very earliest, and more likely February of '25. It's not that it is too expensive--we are happy to spend money on vacation. I think a lot of it is that I've Been There Done That, and there are just other things I'd rather do. Those aren't necessarily non-Disney--we are toying with DLRP in May of '24. We are planning the Shanghai-Hong Kong-Tokyo tour when my daughter finishes her doctorate. I'd like to get back to DLR. But I don't have a burning desire to get back to WDW right now.