As an amusement park, Disney World … kind of sucks.
There are far better parks. I don’t understand the fascination with Disney.
Also: Paying to skip lines sucks too. Poorer people spend a fortune to get into overpriced parks, then end up wasting all day in line because of privileged yahoos cutting lines.
Totally, and yeah, I wasn’t saying that it’d destroy YOUR relationship 
Just that I’d seen it do that and it was WEIRD to see.
I’m more a “grab a hostel and walk 30 miles around your city in 3-5 days” type person anyway when it comes to vacations. Disney is my anti-vacation.
It’s still worth researching wait times with other apps and sites. I’ve saved a ton of time doing it the legal way with those. Parks are also getting better at posting wait times from far away from the key rides.
Equally so, it is worth being very nice and friendly to all staff, especially ones who break broken ticket machines. Once in awhile they may slip you an expediter.
Maybe we should go on vacation together.
The last stay in a hotel vacation we took was Toronto, it’s our home away from home, we love it there.
The first night we walked over 10 miles through downtown just enjoying the Christmas sights and soinds. Same thing when we went to DC for March For Our Lives. We got to support the youth in our country and walk for miles around DC.
Glad we’re not the only ones that enjoy walking around, it’s the best way to get to know a city.
If I ever went to Disney, I’d research the hell out of it beforehand, and stay on the property in a hotel with a monorail, and probably never bother scheduling anything or do anything with the tons of research I did, because that’s how our trips usually go. I research beforehand, we do everything on the fly with a modicum of prior knowledge, and walk or drive around, looking at Shiny! stuff.
But I hear from the #1 Daughter that pre-planning Disney is the only way to enjoy it, according to her many (now 40-year-old) friends who love the place.
The last time I was at Disneyland, right before the pandemIc shut things down, I downloaded a free guide from a Web site and did just about every ride in both parks in two days in the order suggested without feeling rushed. The third day I re-did some of my favourites.
The guide assumed one bought the three-day pass with Fastpass option (which I did, with the local’s discount). I also went on an off-peak day (weekday in February) and wasn’t dragging kids along, both of which helped. The Fastpass is what made the difference, though, and now with it no longer being a flat fee add-on it’s going to be more expensive to pull that off.
It’s become pretty clear to me that what kind of experience you have at Disney parks changes drastically depending on how much money you have to spend.
Eyes Wide Shut, The Ride!
My only experience with Disney was with a super-fan (she and her sister each had a season pass with guest), who took me twice to Tokyo Disneyland. She knew all the shows, all the rides, and even most of the actors, many who knew her by name.
Since she went there almost every weekend, she was super chill about the whole experience. The only thing she really pushed was the small world animatronic show, the parade down Main Street, and the evening fireworks. The rest was mainly a walking tour of the park with stops for any of the rides if I wanted.
The experience was a lovely, low pressure walking tour of Disney’s make-believe biomes.
They could provide a status board via park wifi. Pull out your phone, take a look, decide.
(They’d probably mess it up with some virtual lineup save-a-spot system. No, keep it simple.)
I can neither confirm nor deny that hypothetical
By some miracle, both of my kids (now 17/13) had a serious aversion to people in big mascot costumes and neither of them have much use for roller coaster (which I like) and so never even suggested we go to Disneyland. I have a ton of friends that go on the regular and the planning their fast passes – making dinner reservations months in advance – the notion just stresses me out. Happy to have missed out on that.
According to the article, they haven’t been charged with anything yet, just kicked out. I’d bet the biggest charge they could get would be receiving stolen property; it’d have to be an insanely blood-thirsty prosecutor to charge a normal person with some sort of felonious hacking charge (but stranger things have happened).
Disneyland probably isn’t for everyone but FWIW only a small fraction of their rides are roller coasters. Plenty of slower-paced rides and shows for those that prefer that kind of thing. Six Flags it is not.
Depends, If the person was selling a service and touring people around Disney like a Plaid-VIP guide, I bet Disney will protect their right to be the only people doing that.
Now that Star Wars is a Disney property it wouldn’t be entirely unsurprising if they just unleashed Boba Fett and some other bounty hunters to hunt enemies of the House of Mouse for the crowd’s amusement.
Depends entirely on what Disney wants in this case. An argument could be made that by having this kind of VIP pass (this is what the rich people use when escorted around Disney) , he stole value from Disney. It’s a stupid argument, but Disney could say something along that line and claim that felony level theft by deception occurred.
This is a good point! The value of the ipad isn’t just the (considerable) hardware value, but the value of what it’s being used for. I think it makes sense.
Attaching any (poorly defined) “computer crimes” to it would, however, be ridiculous and malicious, IMHO.
It’s probably something more mundane, like ‘loss prevention’ or ‘asset protection’.
It is Disney and they are likely something whimsical like “Asset Protection-eers”
