indoshakespeare
Reach out and find your Happily Ever After
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- Jun 7, 2011
Traveling with toddlers can be tough. I've learned that I can usually only do half of the things I've planned for during a vacation with a toddler.
Your comment is uncalled for and mean.I love these types of posts, woohoo, one less family going to WDW!!! The less that go the better for me
I'm really starting to feel this way about WDW myself. We've been going every year recently (going again in Nov) and I am so looking forward to spending a week with my grandkids and letting them enjoy disney. But a part of me wonders if we wouldn't get more value for our money doing a different trip somewhere else. Disney is building so many resorts but no new parks to take the crowd pressure down. So parks are filled to capacity all the time and it's hard to enjoy them when they are that full.
I think many of us are a bit weary of the planning that needs to go into a WDW trip. I do love this magical place, but I have to say our Aruba trip was way easier in many ways. We have another planned for next year and with the exception of booking a few meals at the specialty restaurants, which we do not need to do for a good long while, and booking airfare, I am done. It is an all inclusive and is club level in a suite larger than my home, 2 ginormous jacuzzis, and 4 balconies, and still comes in under $200 per person per day. I could not touch that for a WDW trip.
The thing is, very little planning actually needs to go into a WDW trip. If you just talked to random guests while you're there, I think you'd find a lot of people put about as much planning (read: not much at all) into their WDW trip as you put into the Aruba AI (maybe booking 1-2 fancy dinners for the trip).
I know this board attracts people who like to plan every detail for their trip, but it's not actually necessary to have a good time. To the contrary, I think you'd find a lot of people hate overly scheduled trips and enjoy winging it, even down to what park they go to on what day. Planning is great for certain experiences, of course, but it is a personal choice.
My $0.02,
Overscheduling yourself and burning yourself out to meet a chock-full schedule is a self-inflicted bad experience. Some people seem to think that because you can schedule 180 day ADRs and 60 day FastPasses means you have to, that that's the only way you can have a good trip. It's not. I think if you went back and just winged it with nothing scheduled, or maybe a few FPs, you'd probably have a more enjoyable time.
I have empathy when I read things I empathize with, a missed flight, a hurricane, a sick child, a struggling family member, or a laundry list of other things I can think of. If you are going to WDW up to two times a year you should know it is hot, expensive and crowded, there was very little I read in that post that made me think, oh my how horrible, I can see why you would put a blanket post about how horrible WDW has become and you are never going back. So should we all beg her to stay, and tell her all the good things that could happen next time?? Nope, I will give my opinion which is what this site is, if you hate it and are not going back, that makes me happy because it lessens the crowds, if that makes me a hag then change my name to Ursula.Your comment is uncalled for and mean.
Sometimes, people have issues with their trips. Maybe not you, maybe not me but it happens.
A little empathy isn't hard to give.
I have empathy when I read things I empathize with, a missed flight, a hurricane, a sick child, a struggling family member, or a laundry list of other things I can think of. If you are going to WDW up to two times a year you should know it is hot, expensive and crowded, there was very little I read in that post that made me think, oh my how horrible, I can see why you would put a blanket post about how horrible WDW has become and you are never going back. So should we all beg her to stay, and tell her all the good things that could happen next time?? Nope, I will give my opinion which is what this site is, if you hate it and are not going back, that makes me happy because it lessens the crowds, if that makes me a hag then change my name to Ursula.
I am relatively new to disboards, how does one 'report' disrespectful posts to the moderators?
Thanks!
Thank you! This is really all subjective.
I am only new to this blog but certainly not others.
Comparing bad behaviors does not really justify them, IMHO.
Where should the line be drawn?
This OP came here for other's opinions and input. To be dismissed on their opinion is disrespectful.
Why should we respect one person's opinions (like you are inferring) and not others?
Have a magical day....☺
People's opinions can contradict each other's. That's a difference of opinion; that's not disrespect.
Wow, just wow.I am relatively new to disboards, how does one 'report' disrespectful posts to the moderators?
Thanks! [/QUOTE