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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You should go to Disney once.  There’s no place that compares. It’s the most magical place on earth.  I know grown-ups that go every year.  It’s not just for young kids.  Spend 1 day at each theme park if you can afford it.  It’s memorable. [/quote]

If you think Disney is the most magical place on earth I feel really sorry for you. [/quote]

NP. Disney is the most magical place on earth!!![/quote]

If by world you mean Florida, then maybe? But the world is vast and amazingly varied. There are literally thousands of more magical places imo. I am at the Great Barrier Reef with my family at the moment, and was at Bora Bora last week, and let me tell you, both are way, way more magical than a crowded overpriced park with blinking electronics and crappy food. [/quote]

Sorry, but I have been to the two places this poster mentions and of course she is correct . This post is directed at families of means.

It may sound snobby, but of course the actual WORLD is more amazing than some pre-packaged experience, heavily marketed. To my way of thinking , you are a lazy, unimaginative parent if you just fall in line and sign up for a Disney vacation. Help your child take a much bigger, more authentic view of the possibilities![/quote]

I went to Bora Bora for our honeymoon. I love to travel. We spend $100k on many vacations per year.

For young children ages 3-8, Disney can be magical.

If you can’t afford it, fine. Being all holier than thou about it is so annoying. I’m not flying halfway across the world with my 4 or 5yo. No thanks. 2 hour flight to Orlando is just so easy.[/quote]

Yeah, I flew half way around the world with a 1, 3, and 5 year old and they were up every single morning at 1 a.m. like clockwork and would not go to sleep.  The beach was pitch dark, and the resort coffee shop didn't open until 6.  It was utterly miserable, not at all magical.  But they did love Disney!

And honestly ... it's an environmental disaster for everyone to take their kids to every real magical place in the world.  Over 4 million people a year visit Animal Kingdom for a (actually very nice) "fake" safari in which you get to see lots of animals in a 30 minute trip through a "fake" savannah.  Can you imagine the environmental impact if they all went to Africa on safari?!  My kids have been on the "fake" AK safari -- I'm not taking them on the "real" safari because: 1) carbon footprint; and 2) let those African animals live in peace without every American going over to stare at them and drive through their habitat in jeeps.

And going on the "fake" spaceship launch experience at Epcot (which is pretty fun, and if you're brave enough, actually gets 2.5 G's) -- and is just a fraction of the cost and environmental impact of going up in Space X for a suborbital trip!  It's less than .1% of the price, so if it's more than .1% of the fun, that math works!  I just get aggravated by all the "it's not REAL" posters --- sometimes fake is better than real, for lots of different reasons.

PS We've stayed in all the "real" NPS historic hotels, but Wilderness Lodge is still pretty fun -- I think of it as an homage, rather than a fake.[/quote]

Interesting you brought up Mission: Space and Kilimanjaro Safari. You’re very right about those two.

As for the Safari: Jane Goodell served as a consultant for it (and for Animal Kingdom in general) and has said it is the best-run zoo she has ever seen.

As for Mission: Space — According to NASA, it’s the closest thing to actual astronaut training that regular people can experience.

I think the people tut-tutting about Disney don’t realize the care that goes into these experiences. Another example: of course Epcot pavilions are not actually foreign countries, but Disney hires people from those countries to work at the pavilions. It’s sort of cool to be able to talk to people from a dozen different countries, just by walking around Epcot. [/quote]

I’m the pp. we love animal kingdom and the safari ride. My boys used to love dinosaurs and were in heaven in dinoland. They would run around collecting wilderness badges and had the best time. My boys loved the T. rex restaurant at downtown Disney. There is also something special about Star Wars.

My boys are now 11 and 13 and the magic is gone. They will still have fun but it isn’t the same when they were younger and had hours of fun digging for dinosaur bones. They would jump and dance along with the parades.

Disney is just so well done.[/quote]

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