R.I.P. your vacation plans to US National Parks

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Anonymous wrote:National parks are poor people vacations anyways.

We paid $30,000 last year for 4 of us to spend a week seeing Yellowstone with our every need attended to: expert guides, input from the researchers who study the animals there, high powered binoculars and scopes, retrofitted tour vans with charging ports and the ability to pop their tops for roadside photo taking opportunities, welcome gifts, daily hotel breakfasts and picnic lunches in the park with appetizers and desserts, served on tablecloths with actual dinner plates and silverware, access to cold beverages and snacks at all times, all the nicest accommodations in the area, our luggage magically appearing in each new hotel room without our having to lift a finger, multiple course dinners, alcohol included, transportation to and from airports. Because we didn’t have to plan, organize, study maps, spend time behind the wheel, pack lunches or find restaurants or check into hotels ourselves, and we had experts guiding us, we were able to maximize our time viewing wildlife and thermal features. We saw so much more than if we had taken the trip on the cheap.

$30,000 to go to Yellowstone? Honestly. I’m just shaking by my head. Hope it was worth it. A trip to Yellowstone is not that hard to plan. It’s Yellowstone, not Papua New Guinea. I don’t know how on earth you could spend that much there if you tried but I guess some people just love spending money. If I was spending 30 grand on a trip, it sure wouldn’t be to Yellowstone.

I didn’t post to try to convince people to drop that kind of money on Yellowstone. I posted because Yellowstone attracts all kinds of people, even people who aren’t poor.

Yes and I think there is only one ignorant troll trying to get a rise out of people.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I started a thread on here a while ago about this. National Parks rely on seasonal workers, and this year, they aren't going to be hired.

Though not federal hiring, ki and beach towns are going to look very different next season if they limit visas.

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We were at Acadia last summer. They employ a lot of retirees as their summer workforce. This is going to be devastating to them too, in addition to the tourists. They were able to supplement income and stay at the park, in RVs I believe. I’m guessing the same is true at other national parks.

And yes there were many international tourists there too. Sad.

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So much winning.

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Anonymous wrote:It goes beyond your summer vacation. This is wrecking the cultural and national heritage for future generations as well.

Yup. There is a reason ISIS attacked and destroyed world heritage treasures. If you want to control and subjugate you population,.you need to erase prized heritage from before and start all over again. This is literally year zero kinda stuff. Destory Amercan heritage so the tech oligarchs can stay over again with a blank slate and control the country after wiping out any memory of our constitutional Republic.

+1. Ironic that Republican Teddy Roosevelt was the one who wanted to preserve our natural heritage. Also ironic that he cleaned up disease and filth in New York City via public health initiatives that will be dead now under RFK Jr.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I started a thread on here a while ago about this. National Parks rely on seasonal workers, and this year, they aren't going to be hired.

Though not federal hiring, ki and beach towns are going to look very different next season if they limit visas.

*Ski

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:National parks are poor people vacations anyways.

We paid $30,000 last year for 4 of us to spend a week seeing Yellowstone with our every need attended to: expert guides, input from the researchers who study the animals there, high powered binoculars and scopes, retrofitted tour vans with charging ports and the ability to pop their tops for roadside photo taking opportunities, welcome gifts, daily hotel breakfasts and picnic lunches in the park with appetizers and desserts, served on tablecloths with actual dinner plates and silverware, access to cold beverages and snacks at all times, all the nicest accommodations in the area, our luggage magically appearing in each new hotel room without our having to lift a finger, multiple course dinners, alcohol included, transportation to and from airports. Because we didn’t have to plan, organize, study maps, spend time behind the wheel, pack lunches or find restaurants or check into hotels ourselves, and we had experts guiding us, we were able to maximize our time viewing wildlife and thermal features. We saw so much more than if we had taken the trip on the cheap.

Your sexual needs? That’s the only way this absurd cost is justified. God forbid you check into a hotel by yourself!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I started a thread on here a while ago about this. National Parks rely on seasonal workers, and this year, they aren't going to be hired.

Though not federal hiring, ki and beach towns are going to look very different next season if they limit visas.

*Ski

So, basically, we are going back to the 80s when college kids couldn't get good paying internships (now that businesses are cutting back), and instead worked in ski or beach towns, or cracking crab.

My kid has two internships during the year, one paying $40/hour, and the other paying $25/hour. While they love to ski, I think the internships would be better for their future.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:National parks are poor people vacations anyways.

Tell that to the millions of people who come from across the world to see them.

Have you been to Yellowstone lately? You can barely move for all of the Chinese people. I doubt they are poor.

Two years ago we took the Shuttle in Zion to and from The Narrows. Both times we were the only non-French on the shuttles. They were incredibly rude and the BO. 🫤

My god, the stereotyping. They probably all talked about the loud, fat, poorly dressed Americans on the shuttle.

[Anonymous]

I have found the crowds at National Parks disincentivizing even in good years. I'm not sure they are for us until we can travel during the school year. And even then they may still be too crowded.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I started a thread on here a while ago about this. National Parks rely on seasonal workers, and this year, they aren't going to be hired.

Though not federal hiring, ki and beach towns are going to look very different next season if they limit visas.

*Ski

So, basically, we are going back to the 80s when college kids couldn't get good paying internships (now that businesses are cutting back), and instead worked in ski or beach towns, or cracking crab.

My kid has two internships during the year, one paying $40/hour, and the other paying $25/hour. While they love to ski, I think the internships would be better for their future.

Yeah I imagine unpaid internships will be back without regulation, too.

The lack of seasonal workers was a big deal under the first Trump administration as I recall too due to visa issues.

[Anonymous]

National parks are literal treasures that need to be protected. This is such a dumb move.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:National parks are poor people vacations anyways.

Agree. And yes, even Yellowstone.

Ignorant. I paid 700/night two years ago during peak season. Nothing poor or cheap about it. But that's not the point of national parks. I'm assuming you're a dumb striver who has to show everyone how much new money you have by buying expensive purses and sunglasses.

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Anonymous wrote:The new admin exempted NPS from the hiring freeze the other day.

According to Alt National Park Service, a ton of probationary employees got fired.

And probationary employees can have 10-15 years for service, but were on “probation” because they were recently promoted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:National parks are poor people vacations anyways.

Agree. And yes, even Yellowstone.

Are these two posts satire?

No, they’re just from dumb people.