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As a Florida-based journalist who writes about Disney World quite a bit, I’ve been taking my kids to the Central Florida theme parks for years.
When my husband and I relocated our family to Florida from Maryland in 2016, we immediately signed up for annual passes and started visiting its parks almost every weekend. My kids were 6 and 8 at the time, and we made lots of great family memories at Disney.
Now, my kids are 14 and 16, and between their own busy social schedules and occasional bouts of teenage angst, neither of them is really into the theme parks anymore. They rarely visit with me, and I’m the only one in the family who still has an annual pass.
They’re good kids, though, and they know I still love a bit of Disney magic. So recently, they agreed to go to Disney World for the weekend as a family if I promised to find non-theme-park things to do to fill our time together.
Here’s what it was like to take a Disney World vacation with my family without setting foot in a theme park.
