Grand Kids to Disney in June
Is there any such thing as discount tickets to Disney Orlando and Sea World? If so how do you qualify for them?
Forum Discussion
Before I had kids and even when they were young, I knew every trick in the book. I planned out every advantage available from free parking to optimal paths, to how to book the best meals. This was pre-fast pass.
But when my kids grew past the age of 6, I found it much harder to plan. One likes roller coasters, the other one's not tall enough to ride, and one of them doesn't like "scary" rides. This one wants to see the princesses, the other doesn't. Yes, I guess you can still play the game and figure out all the advantages, but that no longer fits my style of vacation. I need flexibility.
Are you seriously suggesting to the OP that he plan out his exact vacation 30 days in advance with multiple children? I don't think that's practical. How's he going to know what the "must see" rides are for "his" kids. What happens when one of them doesn't want to go on the roller coaster or scary haunted house?
Disney has become much less enjoyable to me these days because I've already ridden every ride in every park dozens of times. And fast pass is terrible. Sure, it has reduced the size of the lines for the rides, but where do you think those folks went? They didn't disappear? They ended up in the gift shops, restaurants and loitering in the too-small walkways and streets. And attendance goes up every year as Disney figures out how to fill its parks. Couple that with the rise in scooter usage. When I was a kid, there were very few folks using wheel chairs and getting around was easy. Now, the scooters have become larger, faster and there are more and more of them all the time. I've seen entire families on separate scooters blocking the streets and muscling their way through the crowds. With our aging population, retiring baby boomers and epidemic of obesity, I only see more and bigger and faster electric mobility vehicles on the streets and sidewalks of Disney.
Then, they add parades, fireworks, animated lighted castles, marching bands and roving characters to the streets to make it even tougher to move around.
Disney has figured out how to maximize its profits by jamming everyone into every available retail space in the parks. But this causes me more and more stress and less and less enjoyment.
But when my kids grew past the age of 6, I found it much harder to plan. One likes roller coasters, the other one's not tall enough to ride, and one of them doesn't like "scary" rides. This one wants to see the princesses, the other doesn't. Yes, I guess you can still play the game and figure out all the advantages, but that no longer fits my style of vacation. I need flexibility.
Are you seriously suggesting to the OP that he plan out his exact vacation 30 days in advance with multiple children? I don't think that's practical. How's he going to know what the "must see" rides are for "his" kids. What happens when one of them doesn't want to go on the roller coaster or scary haunted house?
Disney has become much less enjoyable to me these days because I've already ridden every ride in every park dozens of times. And fast pass is terrible. Sure, it has reduced the size of the lines for the rides, but where do you think those folks went? They didn't disappear? They ended up in the gift shops, restaurants and loitering in the too-small walkways and streets. And attendance goes up every year as Disney figures out how to fill its parks. Couple that with the rise in scooter usage. When I was a kid, there were very few folks using wheel chairs and getting around was easy. Now, the scooters have become larger, faster and there are more and more of them all the time. I've seen entire families on separate scooters blocking the streets and muscling their way through the crowds. With our aging population, retiring baby boomers and epidemic of obesity, I only see more and bigger and faster electric mobility vehicles on the streets and sidewalks of Disney.
Then, they add parades, fireworks, animated lighted castles, marching bands and roving characters to the streets to make it even tougher to move around.
Disney has figured out how to maximize its profits by jamming everyone into every available retail space in the parks. But this causes me more and more stress and less and less enjoyment.
