I have a little Sony PowerShot (ELPH). We took that, my iPhone 7, and my husband’s Google Pixel 3 camera.
My husband’s Pixel blew the rest out of the water.
Part of that was that with a regular point and shoot, you have to set it up just right. And with the on-the-go timing of the parks (and continuously handing your camera off to others to take photos), there really isn’t a lot of time to fiddle with the settings.
Which means it turns into an auto vs auto setting battle, and the cell phone camera could adapt much better than my little point and shoot.
There was also this weird thing we noticed after the first day- if we had handed off my camera to someone to take a photo, we got one picture. If we handed them the Pixel, we got a few options to pick from.
I am still considering an upgrade for my point and shoot, though at this point I’m considering some of the more portable DSLRs or mirrorless.