Would you encourage your business to do an event at WDW?

I feel the SAME WAY! The best way to plan it is to take vacation the week before or the week after and make sure you get some "alone-time" without the rest of the company there.

I'd probably end up holding my tongue a LOT when I'd hear my co-workers make incredibly wrong statements about the parks, too! I imagine there'd be some time worked in for park touring, and I'd hate to go with a bunch of newbies who didn't love the place as much as I do -- with the fear of being ostracized at work for my Disney knowledge.

(Does that sound bad?)

Ha! I never thought about how annoying it might be to be around a bunch of neophytes who are stubborn. Or even worse if they turned me into the tour guide. Lots of dangers lurking in that arrangement.

It wasn't exactly business but my softball team went down to Disney for spring training. All day we were at their sports complex lifting, practicing and scrimaging other teams from around the U.S. while the glorious parks were just out of reach! While it would seem torturous to be there but not be in the park all day, it wasn't! We went to the parks around 6 each night after the playing was done.

If we stayed home we'd practice anyway or if you went to a workshop you'd be sitting all day anyway. But knwoing Disney awaits you as soon as you are done, makes it even better!

I loved experiencing it with my coaches and team even if we couldn't do everything and we had to pick and choose our activities. I think a business meeting there would make an unanticpated workshop much more anticipated!

Jess has some good points. I think I could have a great time in that situation, but I would have to find a way to enjoy the parks sans coworkers.

Brad, I agree with you. I would never encourage a buniness trip to Disney. I know I would not be paying any attention to work. My mind would be thinking I would rather be ...(fill in the blank with any of the 100's of things there are to do). But with that being said, part of me would say well any trip to Disney is better than no trip.

I'd love to have a work trip to Disney (even DLRP would do). We use a lot of Bentley CAD software, so my best chance would be if they had a user conference there, they always seem to have them near their head office in PA though.

Yeah, unfortunately the World is a pretty long drive from PA. Thankfully we have lots to do here in Hershey to hold us over.

That's an interesting point. It's hard to get a trip to a theme park if you have a good one nearby. I wonder how often Las Vegas companies have meetings in other cities?

That's a good question cdub. I wouldn't think they would go elsewhere too often. That said, I think some companies would travel elsewhere for the very reason that Vegas has everything. Sometimes you want something different, no matter how "great" your environment is.

Plus I think part of the value of an off-site conference is to get away from your usual environment. This lets you focus one what you're there for (at least supposedly) and think outside the box.