wow, just wow
wow, just wow
I live 2 hours from DW and wouldn’t go there to throw up......glad I went a few times in the 70s when it was new and still magical for kids.
Side note. I saw a documentary a few years ago about Orlando’s efforts to bring DW there and they interviewed several city council members and the mayor at the time......every one of ‘em said if they knew then what they know now they never would have brought DW to Orlando.
I’m old enough to remember when Orlando was a sleepy old Florida town full of orange groves.....and it was sure as hell better then.
I just realized that Mickey Mouse looks like a soyboy.
My wife and I were roller coaster fanatics in the 1990s. We used to fly our small plane to Southern California frequently. Disneyland season passes with blackout dates renewed for around $60. Magic Mountain, Knotts Berry Farm, Universal Studios, and other season passes without blackout dates were $40 to $50 or less.
We burned mostly Autogas in our airplane which was considerably cheaper than buying two airline tickets. We flew to an uncontrolled airport just North of the Los Angeles airspace system where it cost us about $2 a day to park the plane.
Working as a fire fighter I had 4 days in a row off most weeks. My wife worked as an “agency nurse” so she had a flexible schedule as well.
We would fly down and ride our folding tandem bicycle that we kept in the back of the plane to cheap but nice motels that were in the “Entertainment Book” for half price. Our favorite was about $20 a night and included a very nice all-you-can-eat breakfast. We would get up early the next day ride over to Enterprise and rent a car as soon as they opened up and get to which ever amusement park we chose for that day pretty early.
We had our sometimes weekly mini-vacations planned down to the letter for efficiency, economy, and maximum fun. We never had any desire to go to Disneyland on one of their busy “blackout days” ever anyway. All the season passes we purchased included additional free perks that we took advantage of. We didn’t go into debt doing this.
I was shocked at the prices when we went to Disney World in Florida about 20 years ago. We did a lot of research on how to do that for the least amount of money. Fortunately, we had friends and relatives that we were able to because the nearby accommodations were pretty expensive as well. Of course, as the chart shows admission was around $40 a day which we thought was ridiculous at the time, and the roller coasters were not as good as what we were used to.
There are probably still ways to get admission to amusement parks for much less than most people pay, but with the additional nonsense you have to put up with these days... We had a lot of good adventures 30 or 40 years ago; but who would want to go to most parts of California now for entertainment? It is not the same place anymore. Thank goodness my wife and I have memories from what was a great time in our lives.
and those kids won’t be able to support THEM when they are retired and BROKE