2025 Travel Plans

Following last years "2024 Travel Plans" post... As the park season (and year) come to a close, what is on the radar for everyone for the next year?

We currently have nothing set in stone just yet for 2025, but really close to booking an April trip to Japan (first time for us into Asia). Tentatively, flying into Osaka and out of Tokyo (with stops in Kyoto and Nagoya along the way). It would include a few parks, but mostly this trip is for the cities/culture/food/etc... Park wise, we would go to Universal, Fuji-Q, Nagashima Spa Land and Disney Sea (not sure if we will bother with Disneyland), along with Tokyo Dome, but that is kind of given due to it's location in the city. I have the draft itinerary laid out, but just trying to get the right dates (avoiding "Golden Week") and watching airfare... Prices keep bouncing so just trying to catch it at the right time for Premium Economy as I can't do anything less on 12hr+ flights.

If that doesn't shake out for whatever reason, we likely will return to Europe again in some form on a longer trip visiting some new countries to us. I'm thinking something like flying into Krakow for a few days to kick it off (sightsee and visiting Energylandia) before flying to another country or two TBD (Italy? Spain? Finland? Portugal?). If we do the Japan trip in spring, we would probably just end up doing a short/easy trip in fall... The front runner here being Poland and then Germany/Austria again. Poland would be new to us and specifically heard Krakow is pretty amazing. Germany (Munich specifically) we just love, so hanging out there a few days and going back to Austria via day trip on the train would be a good time. A laid back, don't have to think about much type of trip as we have been a few times now to Germany.

And while not in 2025, we are headed to Prague for a few days in the coming weeks. This actually replaced our HHN trip, mainly because as I was prospecting random trips it ended up being cheaper than flying to Orlando for HHN all-in, plus this year didn't exactly look the most appealing to us... So yeah, easy choice there! Of course as beer nerds we will be going to Pilsen for a day and visiting/touring Pilsner Urquell and the underground cellars and such while there. But honestly, the cities just look so amazing, so it should be a really fun trip.

So as of now, that is the plan for the big trips... Ideally the big Japan trip in spring and the smaller Euro one in fall. Nothing really on the domestic radar outside of maybe Epic Universe depending how that all shakes out... Or a chill weekend staying at the TWA Hotel at JFK to plane spot and such at some point and doing some more exploring within Brooklyn.

Just activated my key to DL so I’ll have multiple trips to there and Knotts this year. I’ll also have the usual suspects of CP, KI, Dollywood, SDC and BGW. I’m Planning on going to Universal to experience Epic and HHN this fall. Also will be doing a trip to Toronto and Ottawa so will go to CW for the first time. The trip I’m most looking foreward to however is this summer I’m doing a Adventures by Disney tour of the British Isles and while I won’t hit any theme parks in the UK (will be doing cultural stuff like castles, museums, Giants road, etc) I do have a few days booked at Disneyland Paris as a pre trip.

Having a four month old baby at home slows down the travel planning :)

At the moment the only park I'd really like to get to in the near future is Six Flags Qiddiya once it opens.

From a coaster perspective, I am hoping to get back to Port Aventura, that was the plan for this month just gone but we went to NYC instead.

Main holiday next year is South Korea so we will probably up at a couple of parks then but it's certainly not a coaster trip.

SteveWoA:

not sure if we will bother with Disneyland

I thought it was worth it. Looking back I would have liked 2 days at DisneySea and 1 at Disneyland.

My wife and I have a few nights at 1 of the new Universal hotels booked for an Epic Universe trip when it opens. Other than that we don't have any park trips booked. We may go to Salt Lake City for the Kilby Block Party in the spring so a day at Lagoon will be in order if they are open and we also have tickets to see Oasis in Dublin.

Ironically while I have visited 14 parks this year (will probably have 15 total by end of the year) most were unplanned trips, only formulating 1-2 weeks prior.

For 2025, I have my internships so I am not sure what the future holds. I plan to intern in Allentown, so definitely Dorney/SFGAdv during the summer. Cedar Point and KI are probably in the cards for spring and fall. I hope to do SFGAm or Canada's Wonderland, and (hopefully) Epic Universe in November '25. I really don't know what the plan is.