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I don't know about snobbery, for me it's more a sense of bafflement that if you had that kind of money to spend on holidays why you would spend it (in many cases over and over again) on ANY one place and especially on a fake 'world' when the real world is so amazing. If money and worries about carbon emissions were no object, I can think of so many amazing things I could do with my children that would be great fun but would also teach them something about the world, spark interest in things like history or music or give them an insight into how other people live.
Exactly. And its so fricking expensive. I could understand if it was Butlins or something that's cheap and cheerful but this would make a decent chunk in a year's salary. And for what?
Why not save yourself thousands of pounds and go somewhere where you can afford two rooms. And not get rinsed every day at a theme park.
Well, obviously a Disney holiday will not be for everyone.
When we travel to Florida, we tend to travel around and see different nature reserves, springs, museums, cities and beach towns. We fish and sail and take airboat tours. We dive with sharks or paddle board along the coast. We shop in antiques malls or normal malls. We go to water parks, zoos or marine conservation centres, like the one in Clearwater where the dolphin without a tail fin lives. Theme parks and Disney actually play a very small part of our holiday.
There is a lot to do and renting a car and moving about is straight forward. En-route you can fly to other pets of America and for a few days visit New York, Atlanta, Chicago, Houston or maybe Toronto. You can take a few days out to cruise or sail across to the Bahamas or other parts of the Caribbean. Or you can simply relax...and because everyone else is at the theme parks, the pool area are always empty and you more than likely have the place to yourself...there’s certainly never a battle for loungers.
We also like to visit other places and luckily we have enough time off in the year to travel elsewhere at Easter or half-term.
As our child gets older, we’ll likely visit other places as well or do Route 66. Simply put, America has quite a lot to offer and you will never do everything in just one trip.