Why do poor people spend so much money going to Disney World?

Disney ruined Star Wars!!!! I'm so ticked off at them after this weekend.

I've spent over 100 days at Disneyland. Our family even had a season pass for 3 years, although we live in NorCal. It is definitely our kids #1 pick for a vacation. We've also been to most of the National Parks (Yosemite, Yellowstone, Grand Canyon, etc.) and many major cities (NYC, Philly, Boston, Wash DC, Miami, etc.), but the place that they want to keep going back to is Disneyland. It's more than the rides, it's the experience of being in the movies, such as CarsLand. We currently have a season Pass to Universal, and the Harry Potter world makes you feel you are in the movies.

My wife and I have been to Europe (Italy and France) without our kids, which we enjoyed more than Disneyland. We plan to go to Spain as a family in the next few years, but the kids think they'll be bored with churches and art museums, and would rather go to Disneyland.

I think the historical aspects of Europe make it appealing to adults, while the movies and the fantasy aspects make Disneyland appealing to kids. So, I think a family vacation at Disneyland is money well spent.

People who make poor choices with their money also happen to be poor. Pretty simple

poor people be crazy wrote:

John Utah wrote:

Selfish parents often rationalize in this way.

We usually let the kids pick where they want to vacation. When the 10-year-old picks, we usually end up camping somewhere. When the 12-year-old picks, we usually spend a week in a domestic or European city. Neither kid has ever even mentioned Disney in the conversation.

Why do people constantly lie on LRC.

asdffasdfasdfasdf wrote:

Why do people constantly lie on LRC.

Are you just now figuring out that people on the internet lie?

Are you just now figuring out that people in life lie?

Are you just now figuring out that people on LRC lie?

Moran.

asdffasdfasdfasdf wrote:

poor people be crazy wrote:

We usually let the kids pick where they want to vacation. When the 10-year-old picks, we usually end up camping somewhere. When the 12-year-old picks, we usually spend a week in a domestic or European city. Neither kid has ever even mentioned Disney in the conversation.

Why do people constantly lie on LRC.

Why do people on LRC assume that anyone whose preferences differ from their own must be lying? Disney doesn't make the top ten for vacations for my own childhood. I loved our family trips to San Francisco, Boston, London, and France. I had a great time camping in Canada and a few places in my own state. Disney was fun, but it was never my number one choice, even when I was a kid.

A) My kids disliked Disney almost as much as I did, the one time we went. The one part they enjoyed was Epcot. And that's my favorite too. They serve adult drinks there.

B) I call bullsh*t on the OP letting the kids pick the vacation.

C) Entirely true that poor people seem to love to dump all of their cash into Disney. No clue what their motivation might be there. Some people who live down the street from me -- in the street's one remaining dumpy house left over from before this area began its mini-gentrification -- are the only people I know who have a Disney timeshare. Four or five trips a year. WTAF?

MeHereYouWhere?! wrote:

DifferentPlan wrote:

We take ours to southern civil war monuments instead.

Yeah! The South will rise again!!!!!

Trewer words were never spoke!

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A) My kids disliked Disney almost as much as I did, the one time we went. The one part they enjoyed was Epcot. And that's my favorite too. They serve adult drinks there.

B) I call bullsh*t on the OP letting the kids pick the vacation.

C) Entirely true that poor people seem to love to dump all of their cash into Disney. No clue what their motivation might be there. Some people who live down the street from me -- in the street's one remaining dumpy house left over from before this area began its mini-gentrification -- are the only people I know who have a Disney timeshare. Four or five trips a year. WTAF?

(A) is the correct answer. It is the only place/reason I go. Going around the world drinking/eating in nice weather is a pretty good deal. But otherwise agree wholeheartedly with the sentiment of this thread.

I went to Disney World as a kid in 1977...it was just ok.

Had way more fun on other trips to the ocean or The Badlands or the Pacific Northwest.

We never took our kids to Disney World. They actually like amusement parks, so we have taken them to a few of those (Cedar Point, Kings Island, Hershey Park, Busch Gardens Tampa, Dollywood). If you know when to go, Kings Island just north of Cincinnati can be a great bargain, and Hershey Park is way better than many know...some great coasters there, and if you go the first week of June when the local kids are still in school, you can ride with no wait. Cedar Point can be very crowded, so you have to be careful when to go.

The crowds are just too big at Disney World. I have heard that the best day to go there is Super Bowl Sunday, but I don't have any person experience with that.

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B) I call bullsh*t on the OP letting the kids pick the vacation.

We don't tend to do lavish Christmas or birthday presents, so picking the vacation spot sort of takes the place of that custom. I like the idea of giving experiences rather than material things (I'm willing to bet that "he got me the latest iGadget" would be far less likely to make it into my eulogy than memories of places we've gone together and the things we've done together).

We take turns picking, with the kids getting two picks for every one adult pick (so the rotation for picking is kid one, kid two, mom, kid one, kid two, me, and so on). We usually take two trips per year (one in the summer, then one either over winter break or spring break), so we each get to pick fairly regularly.

Not sure why this is hard to believe. Soccer and Little League parents travel all over the damn place at the behest of their kids. Going camping in the Finger Lakes or taking a trip to NYC because your kid wants to seems pretty darn rational to me in comparison.

asdffasdfasdfasdf wrote:

poor people be crazy wrote:

We usually let the kids pick where they want to vacation. When the 10-year-old picks, we usually end up camping somewhere. When the 12-year-old picks, we usually spend a week in a domestic or European city. Neither kid has ever even mentioned Disney in the conversation.

Why do people constantly lie on LRC.

No joke. The 10 and 12 year olds all on their own with zero influence from the parents "picked" the choices that happened to correlate exactly with the preferable outcome of the parents. Right.

poor people be crazy wrote:

We take turns picking, with the kids getting two picks for every one adult pick (so the rotation for picking is kid one, kid two, mom, kid one, kid two, me, and so on). We usually take two trips per year (one in the summer, then one either over winter break or spring break), so we each get to pick fairly regularly.

Not sure why this is hard to believe. Soccer and Little League parents travel all over the damn place at the behest of their kids. Going camping in the Finger Lakes or taking a trip to NYC because your kid wants to seems pretty darn rational to me in comparison.

If you seriously do this, then you are the biggest wimp and pushover on the planet. They're kids!!! They should go wherever the heck you tell them and be thankful that you're gracious enough to let them come along. But oh...we have to be all inclusive and can't let the little snowflake's feelings get hurt. Lord help us if North Korea or China ever invades the USA with all these little pampered kids we have these days that get everything they want. I bet you also have 3 foot deep mulch around your backyard playground so the little darlings don't get hurt.

John Utah wrote:

No joke. The 10 and 12 year olds all on their own with zero influence from the parents "picked" the choices...

I did not make this argument, nor would I. Just about every decision made by any kid is influenced by parenting. Is having zero implicit or explicit influence on your kids' decision making something for a parent to aspire to in your mind?

John Utah wrote:

...that happened to correlate exactly with the preferable outcome of the parents. Right.

Not true. I don't hate camping, but it certainly isn't my first choice of a vacation activity, and I would likely never do it if I didn't have kids. I generally have a wide range of interests, so I can find something to enjoy about any vacation, but my kids don't necessarily always pick my absolute favorite things.

No kids and we go a minimum of twice a year. Love it.

My wife and I also go to Europe twice a year and visit family in Japan annually.

Fortunate to be able to travel for work but Disney just feels like home.

Currently responding from Tokyo Disney. I prefer Disney Sea of the two here.

We've already been to Disneyland and Disney World. Our next trip will be Euro Disney.

How is that possible? Do you and your wife work at all or just constantly go on vacation?

Tell you why we went. It was to see the joy of my 9 y/o daughter when Snow White waved at her on her birthday. Yeah, it's expensive. Yeah, I went golfing once while my wife and daughter toured the resorts. Yeah, you can hike the Appalachian Trail, or go to MOMA, or Europe, but the kids remember Disney.

poor people be crazy wrote:

For the money my brother's family just spent on their Disney vacation, my wife and I could have spent a week in Europe or had a really extravagant NYC vacation. Yet they act like European vacations are pretentious while Disney is the every-man destination.

How can you judge someone’s vacation? For instance, NYC or Europe for a week are incredibly boring to me and I consider that an absolute waste of money.

So, what do you think of that? You be poor for taking poor person vacations. NYC and Europe are for poor college students.