PolyTigger
Mouseketeer
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- Mar 11, 2009
So if you go to Aruba its beach, eat and repeat! Everyday is different at Disneyworld.
Not that I don't know what you're meaning (because I totally do) but even that's an assumption on what people do on vacation just like people have of WDW.So if you go to Aruba its beach, eat and repeat! Everyday is different at Disneyworld.
DH and I don't have children, with no plans for any in the foreseeable future. And the couple times we've gone in extended groups with kids, I admit, I prefer traveling with adults. That being said, on our recent visits, I can't help but feel immense guilt for going without any children in tow. It feels selfish in a way, or maybe just immature? To clarify, I do NOT judge other adults visiting and enjoying their vacation, these feelings are all pointed inward and I don't know how to deal with them. Disney is our happy place and is a huge part of our lives, I don't want to stop going. We still take other 'adult' vacations, so it's not like it's because the parks are getting stale.
Does anyone else here battle with this conflict of emotions? It's difficult when I don't like to do the sorts of things most other adults at the parks seem to love like drinking or the scarier rides, and instead I'm waiting in line to meet Princess Elena with a crowd of toddlers.
I don't know how to get past this and it makes me so sad. I've talked to DH about it, but like I said, we don't want to stop going so we still go and I just deal with feeling stupid and guilty the whole time.
Oh AND I can do it all without carrying half a tonne of someone else stuff!Now, I love my children, I really do, and I DO feel bad for them that they cannot come on this trip. I wish we could do another family trip, but that can never happen now. (If you see a small chubby middle aged woman in AP in June crying, come say hi, it'll be me, if I can get a reservation now it's all snow white-ed, feeling sad that a) this was where I had my wedding dinner, and now he can't ever go there and b) Snow white is his favourite and he would LOVE to have seen the new iteration - maybe I should put it on the reservation so I don't scare any staff)
But, the more research I do, and the more I build my plan, the more I realise that I can ...
Choose ANY restaurant *I* like
Eat at any time I like
Get up when I choose
Stay up late!
See the Fireworks (They were always too late or too loud for the children)
Actually look at things in shops instead of wrangling children
Seek out that snack I want to try that no one else likes the sound of
Cocktails on my Free Dining plan? (OK I get it's absorbed in the cost of the holiday but..) Yes please!
Actually, also, Free Dining? Yes please. Cos I no longer have to go in peak, school holiday time.
Forgot something in a shop? In the Room? No problem! No children will care if you are late for something because you need to do something else.
Hear that screaming child? Someone Else's problem. (unless they need actual emergency assistance, obviously)
And so on....
Does anyone else here battle with this conflict of emotions?
Yes I think adults without children shouldn't be allowed in parks unless they are working there. But the good thing is that cast members refuse adults without children on slow motion rides like small world and mad hatters tea party.
Umm, what? Your a troll, right?Yes I think adults without children shouldn't be allowed in parks unless they are working there. But the good thing is that cast members refuse adults without children on slow motion rides like small world and mad hatters tea party.
Words are to good to reply to that poster just use gifs lolUmm, what? Your a troll, right?
Yes I think adults without children shouldn't be allowed in parks unless they are working there. But the good thing is that cast members refuse adults without children on slow motion rides like small world and mad hatters tea party.
He legit made the account to post that to troll and start a debate.Cast member DO NOT "refuse adults without children on slow motion rides". I don't know what you consider "slow motion rides." My wife and I went for WDW this past April and rode almost all the ride ("it's a small world", The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, Jungle Cruise, Peter Pan's Flight, Pirates of the Caribbean, Journey Into Imagination with Figment, Kilimanjaro Safari, Na'vi River Journey, Haunted Mansion, Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress, Frozen Ever After, Gran Fiesta Tour Starring The Three Caballeros, The Seas with Nemo & Friends, Spaceship Earth, to make a few) and not a single cast member asked us not to ride because there were no kids with us.
We were vacationing in California 8 years ago and went to Disneyland Resort. It was the first time we ever rode Toy Story Mania. We ever asked if this ride was for all ages, and the cast member told "Yes, this ride for kids of all ages and those kids-at-heart."
Kevin O'Brien...you obviously don't understand what Walt Disney dreamed about when building the parks...."You're dead if you aim only for kids. Adults are only kids grown up, anyway." or "That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up." or "If you act in an adult when you're a kid you can afford to act like a kid the rest of your life."
He has two other posts that seem legit.He legit made the account to post that to troll and start a debate.