Mmouse1588
Mouseketeer
- Joined
- Dec 16, 2018
We just got back from disney world today. We stayed 3 nights at animal kingdom lodge and 4 nights at polynesian. I have been to Disney like 20 times. My husband was with me the last 5. The last 2 times was with my toddler and husband as well as some of my immediate and extended family. This year we decided to invite his mother in law. She was thrilled. She could not afford to to so we had to decide to pay her way and both decided yes we would. I originally booked port orleans riverside 2 rooms. Then with crunching numbers thought id rather do 1 room for all of us but at a deluxe since the cost was the same (ish). My MIL is usually easy going. Was a little worried about room share but overall not too concerned. She is also usually very involved with our toddler. This was her first trip to disney. Everytime i asked her any concerns or questions whem booking she just kept saying whatever Max( our son would wanna do) she also wanted fast passes only for rides he could get on. As soon as we landed in Disney she let me know shes a really really bad snorer. Tbis was not good news since my husband and I are incredible light sleepers. She was so loud the first night i rush ordered us ear plugs from Amazon at 3 am . So that helped a lot. We did 6 park days and did 4 hrs in morning 4 hrs at night. Pool time resting in between everyday. She is 53 btw. She was a so bad at tolerating the heat that just being outside the hotel for a few minutes was really hard for her. She insisted the room be 65 at all times and i was literally shivering anytime i was in there for more then 15 mins but when i bumped it up to 69 like after showers or pool she would re adjust almost immediately barely interacted with our toddler in ac or outside which was not at all what i was expecting. She kept saying before the trip how she was going to be there all about our son and i cleared all fast pass booking with her and my husband multiple times before and after booking. While there my husband got upset with me anytime we were going on a ride too big for our kid and she didnt have a pass for. Which was Everest, rock n roller coaster and space mountain and thunder mountain. We rode all other rides together as a family. There was not once not ever where my husband son and i or just my husband and i were alone in the room. She was always always with us in the room. There were several times she was alone in the room as we took our son places she declined to go. The last day at the parks my husband and i had a total blow out fight just awful. Bc i felt the whole time i was trying to please her or my husband was making her #1 priority over myself and our son. Now after working sooo sooo hard (both of us) for nearly 10 months to save for this trip i found myself crying uncontrollably on the last night alone on a bench. I learned so many things i dont want to say i regret it because i am Disney obsessed and looked so much forward to the trip. My husband said we're never ever going again and I think this is so unfair since its literally my favorite thing place on planet earth. I think he will go again but I dont ever ever wanna bring his mother ever again. I felt like all i did was worry about pissing husband off bc i wasn't catering to his mother the way he wanted all while taking care of a strong willed extremely active toddler. In return he said hed go again but not with my family then either. Even though this has been my families thing since i was 1 and even into my adult life before i met him. I guess i just need to let the whole trip cool off and figure out my mistakes but I am just so deeply saddened coming back from disney and it isn't bc the trip is over as usual but because i am so disappointed with how unhappy I was on this trip.