How To Surprise Your Kids With A Disney World Trip

If you were going to surprise your kids at Christmas with a trip to Disney World, what would you do?

Here’s a video of Emily when we surprised her in 2009 on our very first trip.

And here’s a video of us surprising the kids with the trip in 2011.

Here are a few ideas from the readers:

We are surprising our kids with their trip this December. We do an advent calendar every year with activities on it so the plan right now is to have our 12 year old open it up and it will say something like “Get ready to celebrate with Mickey” or the like. We’re still working out the details on when to leave & how to surprise them, but I really want to use the advent calendar. I’m not sure our 2 year old will really get what is going on, but I think it will be pretty phenomenal for our 12 year old! – Gretchen

My husband and I have surprised our two boys twice. They knew about the first couple of trips and had fun preparing and counting down. We had a lot fun knowing a secret and keeping them in the dark. Once we told them we were going to Washington DC for Easter Break. We really were – we flew out of the DC Airport. They had been to DC sighseeing before and knew it was hard to find a place to park. We pulled into a huge parking lot (at the airport longterm parking area) and told them we needed a bus to our hotel. They figured out we were at an airport and that the tram was taking us to the terminal. The second surprise came on the last day of school. We picked the kids up (5th grade and 2nd grade) and told them we were going to McDonald’s for ice cream. We stop at McDonald’s (this was a ‘potty stop’ for the trip to the airport) and got ice cream. We took a picture of them in the parking lot and turned the video on the camera and told them we were going to see the most famous mouse in the world. One son said “Jerry – from Tom and Jerry?” and the other one said “but you promised to take me to Target”. Not exactly the reaction we dreamed of, but they were super excited to find out we would be there for Star Wars Weekend! – Dawn

We surprised our kids a few years ago. I had bought them costumes and woke them up as usual at the hotel and told them to go get their clothes and get dressed. When they opened their suitcase they had costumes to put on. They were so excited. – Sarah

My husband and I surprised his two teenage sons with a trip to Disney on Christmas last year for that following February. I order custom M&Ms and secret decoder rings (think A Christmas Story) – “Santa” wrote a letter to each of the boys requesting they decode a secret message explaining their final Christmas Surprise … the boys each had a bag of M&Ms and there were numbers on the M&Ms – those numbers matched up with letters on their rings. (UR) (GOIN) (TO) (DISNEY) (but the letters were actually numbers on the M&Ms) It took them about 10 – 15 minutes to figure it out – both working together to see who got what numbers figured out – they were quite surprised and had alot of fun! – Amy

If you were going to surprise your kids at Christmas with a trip to Disney World, what would you do?

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