Forgot about the freaks that have season passes and go to Disney constantly. They are fucking loons. Can confirm. Do live next to Orange County.
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There are a surprising number of "Disney Adults" that go many times per year, and I have no idea where they are all getting the money for it. Sure, a lot of them don't have kids, but that alone doesn't really save enough money to do this.
Disneyland annual pass is $600- $1700 per year, per person, depending on what perks you want. Disney World is $1500. It’s mainly people who live close enough not to need hotel accommodations or have friends and family in the area to stay with. You’re not buying souvenirs and eating at Victoria and Albert’s every trip when you go all the time.
https://disneyland.disney.go.com/magic-key/
https://disneyworld.disney.go.com/passes/
Also, I think a lot of these Disney Adults (TM) are their own version of “horse poor.” And from my experience, there is a large overlap in those two groups.
I've met a few of those Disney Gays that do it
They terrify me to my core
If we want to break it down, a trip to Disney costs between $2,000 for a short solo trip up to $15,000 for a family vacation.
For most Americans, that's out of reach financially. It would be irresponsible to spend that much on a vacation, and they will never have the means to do it. They will watch people on TV and social media take trips to Disney, and resent that such things are possible while they struggle to pay rent and medical expenses. In a room of 100 people, this category is like 60 of them.
Then you have the next group up, the rapidly vanishing upper middle class for whom a Disney vacation has always been a dream. They also cannot afford the trip, but they are willing to sacrifice and go into debt to make a magical memory. It is still irresponsible to spend so much on a vacation, but for those four happy days of childhood bliss and nostalgia, they will make it happen. These people are most likely to hate the experience because they don't have the cash to pay for all the extra bullshit like fastpasses and magic bands, the on-property hotel rooms, or the overpriced souvenirs. They will push the limits of their credit cards, only to fall short and go home tired and spiteful. The top half of this group might enjoy the trip, but they will be looking for more cost-effective vacations next year.
And on top you have the elites for whom spending $5,000 - $20,000* is no big deal. Visiting Disney is a status symbol, and making the annual schlep is about checking out the latest rides and obtaining the newest swag. These people will experience the best the parks have to offer, and will appreciate it the least. In that room with 100 people, this is one person.
It doesn't have to be Disney, that's just an easy example that most Americans can relate to. It could be any vacation destination, or buying a boat, or skiing, or practically any luxury activity or hobby you can name. Tickets to a sporting event or concert, taking a cruise, going to college, saving for retirement, orthodontia, treatment for chronic diseases, these are all modern luxuries that Americans have learned go part and parcel with the circumstances of your birth, fortunate or otherwise.
Most people cannot afford it, some people can indulge at great cost, and a very select few revel in the experience in a way that makes it seem desirable to all.
- prices went up while writing this comment.
2,000 for a short solo trip up to $15,000 for a family vacation
How?? Isn't it just a day trip to an amusement park? Or maybe two days if its a big park?
Let's do a quick hypothetical. A solo traveller from De Moines, Iowa going to Disney Orlando. We'll be leaving on 28th July and returning 30th, giving us one full day at the park. I picked those dates for being approximately the cheapest option on an Expedia search for flights.
- Flights: $357 return
- Hotel (at Disney): $288
- Park entry (using the "1 Park per Day" option I got when trying to book the hotel): $823
That's $1468, before you add in even basic meals, let alone snacks and souvenirs a person is likely to want on a theme park holiday, or travel to and from the airport. And I chose there to look for dates that were cheaper. A real person might not have that option.
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Yeah I don't know how anyone is able to go to Disneyland right now. I just got a thing from the government saying that I need to pay back a benefit they mistakenly paid and that is $120 and gonna, like, bankrupt me. How are people going there? HOWWWWWWW
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I went to Disneyland in Orlando once .... it was in the spring and it was a grey overcast and miserable day so we thought it would be a good time to go there because it wouldn't be so busy.
I got to the parking lot, saw the lineup stretching outside the gate with people standing in the rain and I thought ...... I'm not doing that.
You can't see the gates from the parking lot. You're saying you paid for parking, took the monorail to the entrance, and then decided not to go in because the front line was long?
This was 20 years ago .... 1997/98? ... holy shit that's almost 30 years
I don't remember where we were or what we had to do. All I remember is that we pulled up in the car to try to figure it all out and all we could see was a long line of people in rain gear and I thought there is no way I'm going to stand in the rain to even start to go inside.
I'll stick with Thomas Amusements in Newfoundland, thank you very much. The worlds most terrifying death traps available this side of the Atlantic. When the planes from 9/11 landed, tons of people were brought into homes all over. Mine included. The couple who stayed with us went with us to Thomas Amusements which is a traveling amusement park and about as safe as you'd imagine. They were horrified. I was thrilled.
Travelling amusements parks are the best ... I'm in northern Ontario and I've been to lots of them over the years growing up. It's an absolutely beautiful thing when you can see the grease bearings leaking all over the bright colour paint. That feeling of being locked inside spinning metal cages or being thrown around a mechanical apparatus that may or may not have had its safety check that year. And when you were inside one of those spinning metal boxes of death and you felt a bit of moisture, you had to wonder to yourself if it was from the rain the day before or the puke of a neighbouring passenger/victim. No better combination than to eat way too much sugar/fat/salty food with soda sugar water and then spin your body around in unnatural ways in questionable and unsafe machinery assembled by someone who failed high school shop class.
Always gave me a laugh when I remember the Simpsons had .... The Tooth Chipper
Missing the can afford to buy out the park for the day class
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Unless you live in florida because they get steep disney discounts
The discounts aren't what they used to be.
there's always been absolutely wild loopholes to get discounts at disney. the face price is only there for the rubes that think that's what everyone pays
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