To not understand parents who go to Disneyland without their kids?

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I know I'm being irrational. I know it's none of my business.

BUT.... I've seen a couple of friends over the last year or so, who have children the aged who'd enjoy Disney, and yet they go to Disney without their kids.

I cannot understand it!

@MaggieMistletoe somebody needs a hug

There are a great deal of rides, attractions and bars that are not suitable for younger or older children.

Either way, no problem at all to have an adults only Disney trip if you don't want a child-centric holiday.

Some people need to learn that the world doesn't revolve around children, nor does Disney.

Plus it's fucking expensive and if you know your children are going to be whining in the heat, leave them at home.

But not from a giant Mickey Mouse please.

@MaggieMistletoe didn't have the conviction to stick to your paedophile comment?

That's right clever clogs, I reworded it more subtly.. all of 2 seconds after I posted it. What a sleuth you are!

There are documented incidents of paedophiles at Disneyland, a quick internet search will provide numerous newspaper articles.

Yes this sums it up.

There's nothing wrong with adults enjoying disney. Let people enjoy what they like if it's harmless.
But I wouldn't go without my kids just because they'd absolutely love it.

Do you know the kids actually want to go? We went a few times over a couple of years, the last time my DS (11/12 at the time) decided he didn’t want to come. Yes my DD still came but I’d have been going with my adult sister & niece if she didn’t. The experience without children is totally different.

Totally agree. There was a guy at work - divorced and new girlfriend. Took the girlfriend and not his kids. Reliving his youth obviously. He was a knob so......

I hate it when adults take over kid's things, cos then things start getting weird soon after that as the company starts pandering to the adults with the money... example: Disney movies, Harry Potter fans, over-priced Lego.

Leave things for the kids! Grow up!

@MaggieMistletoe am howling at moronic 🤣 indeed it seems the best word to describe it can't imagine why anyone would willingly want to go to Disneyland, kids included

When I went this summer I was stunned by the amount of adults, specifically adult groups, with no kids in sight
of course I don’t know if they left kids at home or just didn’t have any, but clearly there is a strong interest from adults as well as kids

If I could afford a holiday without kids or at all it wouldn't be to bloody Disney land.

Pre children my husband and I went to disney a lot - we've been to paris, florida, LA, and Tokyo, and I can assure you neither of us are pedophiles, ND maybe but definitely not pedophiles.

We haven't been without our children. However, I don't judge if others want to. There's a lot of things geared towards teenagers and adults there.

I was amazed that adults went to Disneyland on their own. Each to their own though.

On our last visit to Disneyland Paris, we met a woman with a young daughter on our way back to London. While chatting, she told me she had met a man there who had sort of hooked up with her. She was very flattered. I would have run for the hills. Some fellow on his own in Disneyland, who then approaches a mother and her daughter to hang out with them.

I love Disney land.
However I've never been without small dc.
I met a dm and dd once who went every year. They would have been 40 and 60's.
Everyone likes different stuff.

Selfish fuckers

I don’t get people who go on holiday without their young kids full stop tbh.

Of course a weekend away is needed from time to time if you are lucky enough to get childcare, but I just don’t get it when people go halfway across the world for more than a week leaving young kids at home.

People tend to fall into 3 camps on stuff like this (ditto lego, online gaming, festivals, anything that might be related to childhood or teenager-dom)

• it's not my thing, but I get why you'd enjoy it
• it's not my thing, and I dont understand why you'd enjoy it
• it's not my thing, I don't understand why you'd enjoy it, and I think you are weird for liking it

I've never met anyone in the third camp who wasn't at least a little bit of a nightmare - the kind of person who gets in a huff because their old work colleague didn't text them to wish little Timmy a happy 12th birthday. You know the type. Follows 6 million made up social 'rules' to the letter, thinks anyone who doesn't is 'rude' and can't comprehend the thought of liking something they have deemed 'childish' because they 'like' things within an accepted realm of what they think they are supposed to like, have never even been remotely curious about anything else, and therefore think people are weird if they want something different. Lighthearted... mostly.

It’s a theme park. So there are rides that attract all ages.

I just don’t get it when people go halfway across the world for more than a week leaving young kids at home.

Really don't get it? Or just not something you're comfortable with yourself?

What’s an acceptable age to go to Disney then? Do people get too old?

That's right clever clogs, I reworded it more subtly.. all of 2 seconds after I posted it. What a sleuth you are!

Not a sleuth at all, just happened to see the original post and when I went to re-read it to see if you were being as nuts as you sounded you had retracted, if you're going for controversial you may as well stick with it, especially when the whole audit trail is there under edited.

Just curious if those who don't like adults going at all feel the same about all theme parks? Is Alton Towers acceptable?

It does seem a bit pointless to want an adults-only holiday but then choose somewhere filled with other people's annoying kids (who are always 100x more annoying than one's own kids).

Which makes me assume that any parent doing this is either planning to get heaps of photos (with the characters/props, etc) for Instagram, or they intend to go on the bigger rides their own DC are still too small for.

Still, that's up to them, I guess.