Best length of trip for babies/ young toddlers

[justme0729]

We live 1 hour away from WDW and want to plan a trip for next year with a 6-12 month old and a 2 year old. I'm wondering what length of time you have felt to be the best for a trip with young kids. I'm leaning towards 2 separate trips that are 3-4 nights each because if they don't end up sleeping well (my 18 month old now didn't sleep well on our last trip), we won't have to endure a whole week of limited sleep and I feel that by the end of a longer stay, she gets a little tired of the parks anyways. I'm curious what your ideal length of stay would be, especially if you live close?

 

[sponica]

I don't live close by, and by far one of our best trips was 4 park days (arrived monday PM, parks Tues-Friday, departed Sat AM), we had a 20 month old at the time and she was ready to go home when we left.

I've done 7-8 day trips since then, and they're just too long for my younger one (she doesn't sleep well away from home). If I lived closer, I'd definitely do shorter trips rather than a big long one.

 

[Random Ninja]

We live an hour away too and have found that 2-3 nights was the sweet spot at those ages. We tried a 5 night trip at 16-months and that was too long. Now that’s DD is 3, we’re going to try a week trip with the grandparents to their beach condo. If she gets squirrelly, at least there will be more hands to help.

 

[MamaMermaid]

We are 2.5 hours away and have always found 3 nights to be great. My son is 5.5 now but at that age, 3 nights was great. Maybe 4. I wouldn't go longer yet!