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Delete friend on Facebook because she has gone to disney without kids again!

241 replies

chocolatelolly · 07/04/2014 19:25

Everytime I see her latest post about what fun she is having it gets me annoyed! Ok bit of background info, she has two children age 7 and age 8, she is currently in florida on her honeymoon. She also went last year with her partner without the children. Am I the only one that thinks this is awful?
Fair enough go on holiday without your children, but disney world?

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Pigletin · 07/04/2014 19:57

OP get a life.

Pipbin · 07/04/2014 20:00

My folks went to Disney World when I was 5.
They left me at home.

ikeaismylocal · 07/04/2014 20:00

I think I would struggle to be friends with someone who went to disney land/world (are they different places?) without children regardless of if they had left their kids at home. I don't think I would have enough in common with an adult who was so interested in disney to justify a friendship.

I would struggle with a trip to disney land even if I had the pleasure of seeing my dc's happy faces.

thebody · 07/04/2014 20:00

I think it's weird to go to Disney full stop.

Can't imagine being in a theme park for longer than a day

I would rather rip my arm off. My kids never wanted to go either. Bloody boring.

VampyreofTimeandMemory · 07/04/2014 20:01

I would have been so pissed off if my parents had gone to Disneyland without me and my DC would be rather annoyed if we did, I imagine!

StickEmUpButDownBelow · 07/04/2014 20:01

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EverySoddingNameIsTaken · 07/04/2014 20:04

My mum went to disney world when I was seven, she was very near with work and they decided to go with the whole team - she bought back presents from disney world, I was very thankful and not jelous! She was in the area, disney world was right there so why not!? Adults are allowed to have fun too. If she's been before and is going back on a honeymoon they obviously really like it! So much so they may be planning to take their kids soon too, you do not know and it is none of your business I think you are being unreasonable.

Cobain · 07/04/2014 20:05

Tbh I don't think I would be to pleased as a child, my adult brother went when I was a teenager and I was so jealous. All the destinations in the world to choose and they pick a child's dream place (unless my DS who wants to go to the Arctic) Epcot's crap though.

3boys3dogshelp · 07/04/2014 20:08

Once as a honeymoon if that what floats your boat maybe although not my choice but twice without yourkids who have never been is just selfish imo.

LizzieMint · 07/04/2014 20:09

It depends on if you think disney is the be-all and end-all for children though, doesn't it? I've no intention of taking my children, they are not particularly interested in disney and so if I were to go without them (not that I would!) I don't think they'd care any more than they would if I'd gone anywhere else, IYSWIM. So it depends. And as you don't know her that well, I guess you also don't know her children and what they might/might not like. If you want to delete her, delete her, but I think it's an odd thing to get particularly worked up about.

pictish · 07/04/2014 20:09

I think it's weird to do Disney sans kiddy, yes.
But if you're in Florida anyway...

Tinkerball · 07/04/2014 20:10

Does everyone think it's perfectly reasonable to go to disney without your children who are 7 and 8 and who have never been?

But shes not just at Disney is she, you've said shes at all these other places to, why focus on something that might only be a few days of their Honeymoon to Florida!

HollaAtMeBaby · 07/04/2014 20:14

I think there's something very wrong with adults who choose to go to Disney for an adults only holiday.

LEMmingaround · 07/04/2014 20:14

Yeah,delete her - she'll think twice next time!! Hmm

3boys3dogshelp · 07/04/2014 20:14

Surely any 7 & 8 year old children whose mum is so obsessed with Disney its her honeymoon of choice are going to be into it too? I know some people hate it, some families choose not to watch tv so its not on the kid's radar iyswim. Unless she hides the dvds and toys in her bedroom too..

MaidOfStars · 07/04/2014 20:16

Oh those poor kids, am imagining their little faces pressed up against the window, waiting for Mummy and Daddy to come home with tales of Mickey.

Not unreasonable for adults to go to Disneyland though, where 'Disneyland' is shorthand for all the animal/water/film parks. And the shopping and bars, of course.

kilmuir · 07/04/2014 20:17

Unreasonable to go to disney. Over rated

Sparklysilversequins · 07/04/2014 20:18

OP I agree. Selfish cow.

GreenLandsOfHome · 07/04/2014 20:19

Yanbu

It would put them pretty low on my list of 'decent parents' tbh.

I have been on holiday without the dc before. I wouldn't go somewhere I know they would love though. It just seems so uncaring.

Sparklysilversequins · 07/04/2014 20:22

I'm always interested to know, on the "I Hate Disney" threads, how many of the haters have actually been there.

I found it utterly magical and I am a right old misery guts. Universal and Harry Potter even better.

caramelwaffle · 07/04/2014 20:22

Let's face it.

Many 7/8 year olds will be too short for a lot of the "good" rides.

On balance - yabu.

It's their honeymoon.

Original poster
chocolatelolly · 07/04/2014 20:23

Fair point tinkerball, I would like to see this from a different point of view, because my point of view is winding me up. We went last year with the children, not my ideal holiday but the children said is was the best holiday they have ever been on.
The get a life comment is very juvenile, just because something annoys us and we take a few minutes out of our day to comment, it doesn't mean we don't have a life Hmm

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Melonade · 07/04/2014 20:32

The Disney bit, twice, just seems to be rubbing it in. While I certainly don't agree that people cannot go on holiday without their kids, there is some consideration missing here, especially in plastering it blatantly over FB.

But then I was that kid who was left behind while their parents went on holiday. If they had gone to flippin' Disney it would have made me feel even worse, whether or not I was a Disney loving child. I remember a few adults muttering about my parents leaving their child behind, so thank you OP for being that adult.

formerbabe · 07/04/2014 20:33

Its a bit odd. I wouldn't go to soft play and leave my kids at home!

I wonder how her dcs feel when they see the holiday snaps!

DoJo · 07/04/2014 20:37

If you don't really know her that well, then you have literally no idea what might be going on in her family. Her kids might hate the idea of going to Disney and be doing something much more fun while she's off on her honeymoon. Surely it's her issue to sort out with her kids, so YABU to be so annoyed - for all you know her kids are less bothered than you about it.