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Why do people hate Disney?
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Anonymous
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A Disney day trip sounds lovely. Totally agree on Tivoli. Exactly how small is Disney in Paris? Smaller than the CA Disneyland? I haven't done a ton of research since my daughter is small, but assuming there are still fun rides and characters and the castle I anticipate it would be a good substitute to the one in FL. Or maybe I am secretly hoping my daughter and future kids won't ask to go to Orlando! Honestly, if I lived in FL or CA we would probably take our kids for the day just like it were any other theme park. Growing up in Texas we would go to Six Flags for a day and while it was a typical hot, gross tourist experience we lived there so not getting to every ride etc was fine because we knew it was something we could do again another month without dropping cash on hotels etc. |
Anonymous
Why? Its entirely different in many ways. For one- its much more specific to a touchstone (books/movies) and narrower focused. |
Anonymous
| We went during an off time — right when school starts. We had fun, but it was so hot. And I can’t imagine going during a time when the weather is nice and the crowds are at a peak. I’m not sure we’ll go back, esp since early September is now a no-go for us. What I found shocking was the number of morbidly obese people. |
Anonymous
What are you talking about? Disney World is almost entirely specific to books & movies. Books & movies form the inspiration for like 95% of the attractions. |
Anonymous
When the weather is nice, the crowds are low. |
Anonymous
I don’t really like any of those books or movies, and my kids don’t either. They loved HP, on the other hand. We even offered to take them to Disney World while we were in Orlando and they said no thanks. |
Anonymous
They don’t like *any* Disney or Pixar movies? Wow. |
Anonymous
I mean they would watch them given the chance, but they never went nutso over them they way they did for HP. Certainly not in a way that would warrant a special, super expensive vacation. Why is this so hard for you to understand? |
Anonymous
It’s not hard to understand. It’s just surprising that they wouldn’t love a set of movies that the vast, vast majority of American kids love. Surely that shouldn’t surprise you? |
Anonymous
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I agree with PP that we shouldn't convince more people to go to Disney -- please stay away!
I also HATE HATE crowds and lines, so I only do WDW on low crowd days, and manage the FP and timing so we really don't stand in lines. Maybe one line that is 30 minutes, and everything else would be basically 10 minutes or less. One thing I really like about WDW is the diversity of experience -- the rides are one thing, but there are also cool playgrounds, fun shows, etc. That's where it has Universal beat, IMHO. I totally don't get the people saying it's more expensive than Europe etc. I mean, I get Europe being cheap if you're going to the less popular countries or if you have family there, or can take weird flight times. But I planned a trip to London before COVID hit, and it was going to be waaaay more expensive than Disney. Finding flights that were not going to crush my kids with the flight arrangements was tough -- there was basically one flight that wasn't a red-eye, and it wasn't cheap. We got a VRBO in London, but again, not cheap (and the hotels were much worse). I had looked into, or booked, activities for certain days, and again, it was adding up. With food added in, it was giong to be easily double our usual WDW vacation -- which is fine, but clearly not way cheaper than WDW! And we've done lots of national park vacations, and they also typically are not much cheaper, if you aren't camping. Lodging in the NPS system is expensive (similar to WDW prices), the flights are usually expensive because the parks are not near hub airports, you need a car rental, if you want to do activities like rafting, horseback riding etc, that's additional. So those trips usually end up about the same, or usually a bit more, than WDW. |
Anonymous
No, not really. My DD was 5 when Frozen came out and was pretty tepid about it. When every other girl seemed to be dressed like Elsa for Halloween, she was a witch. Kids like different things. |
Anonymous
Yes, but it remains extremely unusual for kids to be apathetic towards ALL Disney & Pixar movies. My 4yo also isn’t super into Frozen, but she adores Mickey. |
Anonymous
Ok, well consider us unusual then! I don’t care! We’re not going to Disney World and my kids aren’t sad about it! |
Anonymous
| HP world is like 4 rides, and then a bunch of shopping. I mean, it's cool as a movie set --- they did a phenomenal job with it. But it gets old really fast, especially if you aren't into over-priced shopping. And it is SO MUCH more crowded than Disney as everyone is crammed into the one litle street. |
Anonymous
The thing I thought was lame about how Universal did HP world is that you have to pay for 2 separate park tickets to see the whole thing, since they spread it out. Talk about price gouging! |