I have been at Disney 2.5hrs.....

And I already loathe this place.

Happy family vacation.

Is your kid having a good time?

I know the feeling. If I had to actually live in kissimmee florida I would probably kill myself.

I'll be there for work in November...is it really that bad?

You should have brought your dog.

Ouch.

It's more entertaining during "Gay Days", there is a crop duster plane that pulls a sign around Kissimmee telling all the gays that they are going to hell.

Ranger50 wrote: And I already loathe this place. Happy family vacation.

Step thru the back gate to Epcot, wander around the lake to Germany, go in and hit the sausage buffet and have a few liters.

If it doesn't rub on your nastalgia spot then I can see how it's charms might be lost, I live in CA so it is Disneyland for me which is a bit closer together and you can hit all of the more adult rides in a day.

Oh and things you can appreciate no matter your age: cleanliness and adherance to theme.

Yeah Disney's just for kids. The Universal park nearby is a lot more fun.

I usually find that if I'm determined to have a lousy time, it typically works out.

We're supposed to be going this next summer. We shall see...

Zomby Woof wrote: I usually find that if I'm determined to have a lousy time, it typically works out.

QFT

I plan on never going. I never went as a kid and never watched any Disney movies growing up and I turned out fine (kinda).

imirk wrote:

Zomby Woof wrote: I usually find that if I'm determined to have a lousy time, it typically works out.

QFT

+1. You seemed pretty intent on hating it long before you ever got there, so I don't see how it could have worked out any other way. Take a deep breath and remember why you're there. Enjoy it for what it is...family time.

mtn wrote: Is your kid having a good time?

^^ this

This is all that should matter. Just because you're loathing it, doesn't mean you should make everyone else loathe it with you.

Plus as said in your previous thread, there is a lot of stuff for adults to do, you just have to go there.

I don't know if you're going to be able to detach yourself from the fam and maybe you and the wife can go hit up Downtown Disney or even the plethora of restaurants in all the different resorts.

Epcot is the place for adults for sure theme park wise, maybe even Hollywood studios, but if you're in the Magic Kingdom right now, I could understand why you'd be somewhat miserable.

I just hope that somewhere there, you find a place that you actually enjoy.

We're taking our three in November. They will be 1.5, 5, and 7. Perfect age for the older two, we're going to just make do with the little guy the best we can. My wife is all kinds of fired up, she eats this junk up and has been planning ahead now for weeks. I am (and have told her as much) counting on her to build a bulletproof itinerary, since she has the time to do it. So far she's doing a bang up job.

She keeps asking me what I am excited about most, and the answer is "honey, seeing the kids have fun is the important part. My fun doesn't really play into this, and I'm sure I'll probably be miserable for at least some of it. However, xanax."

SyntheticBlinkerFluid wrote:

mtn wrote: Is your kid having a good time?

^^ this This is all that should matter.

berkeley that. My kids have a good time making a couple fridge boxes into a nerf war fort. You can please them with anything new. Disney should be trying to make Daddy the happiest motherberkeleyer who ever laid eyes on a Magic Castle or spent too much money learning the American Dream is not a Disney product.

How hard would it for them to have a few kiosks where Snow White or Minnie is giving rub and tugs? Hell, by day three it could be that lobster character for all most of us would care.

EPCOT ?

Epcot - + a bunch for making your way to Germany, oh there's a pub on the way (england)

I feel for you. I was dragged there by my mother in 1972 or 1973. Our family was at Daytona for the week before the 500. Dad was busy with meetings and hanging out at the track. Mom would take my brother and me to the beach when dad was in meetings and the boys would go to the track with dad. One day mom and some other woman with a kid took us to Disneyworld. Hell, at six years old I preferred the beach and the track. The highlight of the day was the rental car's hood coming open on the highway.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: Disney should be trying to make Daddy the happiest motherberkeleyer who ever laid eyes on a Magic Castle or spent too much money learning the American Dream is not a Disney product. How hard would it for them to have a few kiosks where Snow White or Minnie is giving rub and tugs? Hell, by day three it could be that lobster character for all most of us would care.

Costume shop + wife + kids in bed after a long day running around Disney = Daddy changing his views about Snow White. Or at least that's what I've heard...

My memory of Disney that seems to sum the whole place up (when I'm in the wrong mood, anyway) is the sight of a harried-looking guy plus wife plus multiple kids plus old lady in wheelchair, and the guy is saying, "Wait a minute, hold on, everybody: a bird just s**t on Grandma!"

Universal was better: at least they seemed to know what "irony" is.

There were supposed to be two asterisks in that. But you get the idea.