I won’t go too crazy on food

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It’s deceptively easy to avoid the crazy food items at Walt Disney World. You have to go out of the way to find some of the biggest and richest meals on property. You can use a budget to force yourself to stick to healthier and simpler items in the parks or food courts. 

And yet, no matter how much self-discipline you attempt to apply, Disney is a magical wonderland of culinary delights. Us mortals are completely powerless to resist its urges.

Whether its the ice cream shop or confectionaries on Main Street USA, or the French bakery in Epcot, or even Ample Hills Creamery at the Boardwalk Resort, there is delicious and deeply unhealthy food everywhere you look at Walt Disney World. It’s a land of temptation, and no matter how good your will power is, you will succumb to its chocolate-covered siren song. 

I won’t fight with the people I’m traveling with

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Generally, this tends to apply to family gatherings at the Vacation Kingdom. But, on occasion, friend groups can be torn asunder at the hand of travel exhaustion, too. 

It is inevitable that, no matter how many ground rules you set, you will grow irritated with people you’re spending an entire week living alongside in a hotel room. You may promise not to snap or take things personally, but as anyone who has traveled with others can attest, that is easier said than done.

Maybe you’ll disagree over which attraction to do next. Or, maybe you’ll struggle to pick a restaurant to try. Whatever the reason, you will find that you get on each other’s nerves and, no matter how hard you try, you’ll have a mini-scuffle.

You can, however, resolve not to take it personally. 

I’ll stay out late

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Between mini golf, shopping, movies, Extra Magic Hours, bars, pools, and special events, there’s always something going on after hours at Walt Disney World. But, sometimes, it can be hard to find the energy to participate in it. 

After a long day spent exploring four of the most incredible theme parks on the face of the earth, while battling the oppressive Florida sun, it can be a challenge to muster up the energy to reconvene for a night out. Sure, you might tell yourself in the morning that you’ll go see that movie at the Disney Springs AMC, or you promise yourself that you’ll check out the scene at Trader Sam’s before heading off to your All-Star room. 

But, as we all know, those are complete fabrications. You will go back to your hotel room and you will go to sleep. After all, you didn’t take that nap you were planning on taking earlier.

It’s too expensive and I’m not coming back

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If it’s your first time to Walt Disney World, and you find yourself having a good time but not truly loving it, then it’s easy to say, “Well, this wasn’t worth the money. We’re not doing this again.”

But, if you’re a Disney fan who’s grown disenchanted with the ever-increasing cost of tickets and resort rooms, and you’ve vowed never to return again, it’s time to admit it: You’re lying to yourself. 

None of us likes to admit we’re so attached to this place that we’ll spend ungodly amounts of money to spend time there — amounts of money that, intellectually, we understand are just far too much. But we need to face facts. Yes, Disney is too expensive, but we’re still gonna go. We were never not gonna go.

Maybe the next trip will be in five years instead of three, or you’ll stay at the Port Orleans French Quarter instead of the Polynesian. But this lie was never going to be true. 

Why else would you start planning your next trip the moment you get home from this one?