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The really wealthy families aren’t going to a Disney park either. Their kids have had passports since before they could walk, and the family is going to an exclusive foreign resort for a trip that costs more for a week than most folks make in a year.
Disney, where you have to be told how to have fun, where to take pictures and pay too much for crap made in China.
Long ago when the family lived in Florida near Orlando and prices were a lot cheaper, resident discounts made a whole summer's worth of visits worth it. We realized the hypocrisy when the kids started getting bored of certain rides because they had done them so much, meanwhile some people even then would save up money for a one time visit of a day or so.
But overall the kids did have fun. It was a unique thing to experience.
Fuck this noise. The only classes that matter are the people who are rich enough to own Disneyland, and everyone else. Quibbling over whose shit sandwich is bigger is just dividibg ourselves for their benefit.
Nah there are plenty of edible rich people who aren't rich enough to own Disney Land
I consider it more of a spectrum, those who are rich enough to own Disneyland on the one hand and those who are fucked the most by the system that benefits the people who are rich enough to own Disneyland on the other. Not everyone is equally fucked by the system that benefits the people who are rich enough to own Disneyland. But you're right about the shit sandwich.
As a British guy who worked in the USA for a while, my colleagues couldn’t fathom that I had no interest in going to Disneyland. It was kinda weird the obsession some of them had with it.
Cult of Disney is eerily real. Maybe it's the US version of how some Brits obsess over the royalty.
Where is "bought DVC points on the used market to make going every two or three years a reasonable thing"?
How’s this work? I’ve been saving up for years to take my family and am all ears on anything that can make it more affordable.
DVC is Disney Vacation Club, their own in-house time share thing. You buy points which are attached to a specific resort, means you get 11 months lead time on booking, where anyone else would get like 6 months I think? You can exchange those points for other resorts if you want, but you get knocked down to that 6 months time frame, too.
You can borrow points from next year, and bank points from last year. That's what makes "every two or three years" work out nicely. Unused points can be rented to other people if you can't use them before they expire. Different resorts have more or less expensive points, depending on how popular/nice they are. We've got some Boardwalk Orlando, which are on the pricier side, because we like it for what it is and its location, which is basically steps from Epcot, and not far from Hollywood Studios.
If you buy direct from DVC, you get some additonal benefits that do not carry over to resale market points, but I forget exactly what those are. This vacation time share model is really for people who know what they like, know they like to (and can) go regularly enough, and can afford not just the points but also the yearly upkeep fee that goes along with them. If you're saving up to go once, it's probably not a good idea yet.
Before we had the DVC, we'd go every five or more years, and we usually stayed at Art of Animation. (Pop Century is right next door, similarly priced.) Family of five makes doing a Disney trip with a single room a little tricky, because a lot of the on property resorts are max four. We've also gone once staying off property, which is absolutely cheaper, but adds to travel times in and out of the parks. This can add frustration if you've got small children - but even the far-flung resorts that only offer buses are travel-heavy. On property lodging can offer ample time to go back to the room and take a break if needed - another thing that's easier if your resort is closer to whatever park(s) you've got going on for the day.
If you think that's a lot, my wife is 100x more brilliant with all this stuff than I am.
I went from "goes to Disney Land annually" to "hasn't been to Disney Land for over 20 years."
I'm the opposite: 1 time in my first 18 years, 2 times in my first 47 years, 6 times in 2025.
I wonder what the class system is for annual pass holding Floridians.
meth class
Once dated a girl who's family who had season passes to Disney.
Neither I nor they even live in the USA.
Education levels in the US:
Goes to Disney World
Goes to Disneyland
Goes to Disneyland Paris.
The first two could be swapped, and isn't Disney World "better" in many regards? One reason Disney secretly bought all the land in Florida was to better do what he wanted to do in California but couldn't because of space and regulations.