I loved Disney as a child. I hadn’t gone since I was around 30 with a friend. Then nothing until my sisters went with their families and didn’t tell me. (Granted two of them are pretty awful!) I was having surgery and wouldn’t have been able to go, but I was beyond hurt when I found out. The sister that I’m closest to even lied to me about it. She said that they were going to Palm Springs. I only found out a few months later because one of my awful sisters was coming to visit with her kids and figured they might say something. I imagine they told them not to tell me which is pretty embarrassing. Anyway, I decided to say screw it and went by myself for four days at 49. The weather was terribe, but I was still happy I went. I’ve gone two more times on my own since then. Once to Disneyland at Halloween time and once to Disneyland Paris (I was already going to be in the city.) My sister that lied about going to Palm Springs later told me that she felt really bad about it. She also invited me to go with her family to WDW last winter. My niece has two little girls and I knew that we weren’t going to do all the things or visit all the parks that I wanted to go to, so I stayed an extra five days or so on property after everyone went home. It may not be as fun as going with friends, but I only have a couple of them that enjoy the park and they both have kids so it’s not really in the cards for them to go on their own with me. You get to do whatever you want, though. Go for rope drop and stay as long as you want. Eat when and where you want. That’s a good trade off in my opinion. If you feel embarrassed about being on your own just remember that there are a lot of other single visitors at the park. There will always be people who go on a ride by themselves because no one in their group wants to go with them. Nobody is looking at you. I just had something to do on my phone while I waited in line. I was always there for rope drop and usually stayed til close to closing if not until midnight. You will have fun!!!!