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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Man, OP, you are a glutton for punishment.  Disney vacations every other year?  I can’t imagine anything worse.  I’m with the 70 year old poster above - your parents will be relieved![/quote]

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You know what is worse? A cruise or a beach rental where your vacation becomes a miserable oblication designed to entertain rude boomers who invite themselves. Our grandparents NEVER invited themselves or horned in on any of their adult kids vacations. Yet now those boomers expect every adult child’s vacation to include and cater to them. They are just so so special.

I’m not a Disney person but my husband loves it because it’s easy to plan and the kids always have fun. One kid still enjoys going as a teen while the other one is happy to do normal Europe vacations. If OP and her family love Disney more power to them. It’s their vacation.

The other reality that the boomer chorus is ignoring is that people who have already made your vacation miserable and invite themselves along are not going to magically become fun and pleasant people if you change the venue. Disney is actually quite easy for grandparents to go slower, hang around the hotel, sleep late, eat longer breakfasts, go to bed early etc. The key is that they have to be considerate enough to not insist on tagging along for everything. They need to be independent not selfish.  If they aren’t doing that and instead badgering the OPs family to curb all their activities to be on boomer time then it will likely be just as bad if not worse at a different venue. [/quote]

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