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Doc Hawkins posted:They went to Disney World, which is much bigger than Disneyland even before you count the three other huge parks included in the tickets. Same difference to someone who's never going to go  And yeah, they really should have just sprung for fewer days and gone to do stuff outside of the park. There IS stuff to do outside of the parks in Orlando, right? But then, they'd probably get a vehicle, which defeats the whole purpose in terms of saving money.
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totalnewbie posted:and holy poo poo tickets are expensive :O I wanted to say they could just get cheaper tickets but drat. I am never going to Disneyland. My kid wanted to go on one last Disneyworld trip before her graduation and it was cheaper to take a Disney cruise with two staterooms than stay on the park for a week with park hopper passes and reasonable hotel accommodations. 100% of the savings came from the fact food is included on a cruise, but horribly expensive in the parks. That advantage was erased when you added in booze though.
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Feb 26, 2019 18:30
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Fitzy Fitz posted:but why Because it's a family tradition and they went to their honeymoon there, do you need any other explanation other than that Disney has successfully commercialized family vacations that are now regarded as a generational tradition to be handed down from parent to child
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Feb 26, 2019 18:30
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Can you imagine the future dystopian loving hell where parents are like "it's a family tradition" and they buy their child their first iPhone or whatever consumer good
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Feb 26, 2019 18:32
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I got the vibe that the parents are Disney obsessed and the trips were at least as much for them as they were for the tiny kids. It does seem kinda weird to take literal babies on vacations, but hell, it's better* than those people who almost never leave their house until their kids are 4. Those people are weird *as long as it's a vacation you can actually afford
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Feb 26, 2019 18:33
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Krispy Wafer posted:My kid wanted to go on one last Disneyworld trip before her graduation and it was cheaper to take a Disney cruise with two staterooms than stay on the park for a week with park hopper passes and reasonable hotel accommodations. 100% of the savings came from the fact food is included on a cruise, but horribly expensive in the parks. Lodging was like $450/night and didn't even include some basic rear end buffets? WTF?
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Feb 26, 2019 18:34
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totalnewbie posted:And yeah, they really should have just sprung for fewer days and gone to do stuff outside of the park. There IS stuff to do outside of the parks in Orlando, right? Outside the city is the Everglades, so fun if you're into unique undevelopable biomes. Some fishing. Skunk Ape Hunting.
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Feb 26, 2019 18:35
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BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:Because it's a family tradition and they went to their honeymoon there, do you need any other explanation other than that Disney has successfully commercialized family vacations that are now regarded as a generational tradition to be handed down from parent to child This reminds me that I actually have family like this. My aunt and uncle have gone every year for decades, and now my cousins do the same thing. I think I still have some of the silver mickey mouse coins they gave me when I was a kid.
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Feb 26, 2019 18:36
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totalnewbie posted:Same difference to someone who's never going to go You can go see the lovely hotel that Mooney and Halley stayed at in The Florida Project.
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Feb 26, 2019 18:39
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Barry posted:Lodging was like $450/night and didn't even include some basic rear end buffets? WTF? I think you can buy a meal plan, but that also means you're eating park food which is terrible. And it's not like meal plans are inexpensive compared to anything except maybe buying food without a plan at Disney parks. I'm not the best person to look down at people since I just spent a blood curdling amount of money there, but adults who like Disney REALLY like Disney and are highly price elastic. We can be in a terrible recession and a significant number of people will still find a way through those turnstiles. BEHOLD: MY CAPE posted:Because it's a family tradition and they went to their honeymoon there, do you need any other explanation other than that Disney has successfully commercialized family vacations that are now regarded as a generational tradition to be handed down from parent to child My wife's family is like that with commercialized family traditions. Like how obsessed they were with those beloved American Girl dolls handed down from mothers to daughters since *checks notes* 1995.
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Feb 26, 2019 18:43
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Krispy Wafer posted:My kid wanted to go on one last Disneyworld trip before her graduation and it was cheaper to take a Disney cruise with two staterooms than stay on the park for a week with park hopper passes and reasonable hotel accommodations. 100% of the savings came from the fact food is included on a cruise, but horribly expensive in the parks. When I graduated high school Disneyworld still did Grad Nights, where every high school graduate in the state (split across a few nights) could go to the park from 10pm to 4am, as I recall for free, but it might have just been incredibly cheap. It was bedlam. I was going to say don't know how they keep it running, but in writing this post I found they stopped in 2011, at which time the price for participating was 21.59 plus tax.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:This reminds me that I actually have family like this. My aunt and uncle have gone every year for decades, and now my cousins do the same thing. I think I still have some of the silver mickey mouse coins they gave me when I was a kid. I mean, it could be worse, a friend of mine's aunt and uncle are like that with Atlantic City and gave me knives.
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Feb 26, 2019 18:45
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Doc Hawkins posted:Skunk Ape Hunting. Planning my vacation already.
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Feb 26, 2019 18:45
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Doc Hawkins posted:When I graduated high school Disneyworld still did Grad Nights, where every high school graduate in the state (split across a few nights) could go to the park from 10pm to 4am, as I recall for free, but it might have just been incredibly cheap. I vaguely remember reading about this before that it's just a giant drunken orgy.
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Feb 26, 2019 18:46
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Doc Hawkins posted:I mean, it could be worse, a friend of mine's aunt and uncle are like that with Atlantic City and gave me knives. I loving love knives
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Doc Hawkins posted:Outside the city is the Everglades, so fun if you're into unique undevelopable biomes. Some fishing. Skunk Ape Hunting. Outside of Orlando is just swamp. The everglades is much further south. There is nothing worth doing in Orlando, Disney included.
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Feb 26, 2019 18:47
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Hard to describe doing anything Disney theme park related as "on the cheap" but there's certainly a lot cheaper ways to do literally everything she described. Hotels can be found for less than $450/night. Often much less! Many of those places also include free shuttles to the parks, and included amenities like breakfast. They paid $450/night for a single hotel room, the kids were still sharing a bed, and breakfast was not included. You can stay at really nice beach resorts in Hawaii for that kind of scratch. You can spend less than $250/day for food for 4 people. Most of the restaurants there are priced like either the average Applebees or Panera. Ticket prices are pretty much fixed. There aren't really any good tricks there. Much like "doing Vegas", you don't necessarily have to spend a pile of money, but if you want to spend a lot the establishments are experts at separating you from your money. selfposting ahead  I have never spent that much on a vacation, and I did take my family of 5 to Europe for a month last year and spent a week for two in Hawaii earlier this year. Combined cost of both those trips was actually just barely above what they spent to spend a week in a theme park, lol.
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Feb 26, 2019 19:00
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Heh, Vegas is like one of the absolute cheapest vacations possible. Flights and hotels are dirt cheap, even good ones, and you can get roaring drunk for free if you're willing to gamble for an hour. Plus Craps is guaranteed free money every time  People just get owned when they do dumb tourist poo poo like the zip line over Fremont or rent a machine gun or buy a designer handbag from that giant mall
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Feb 26, 2019 19:04
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:People just get owned when they do dumb tourist poo poo like the zip line over Fremont or rent a machine gun or buy a designer handbag from that giant mall But shooting a machine gun isn't dumb. There's a place in Vegas that let's you drive a tank over a car. You going to say that's dumb too?
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Feb 26, 2019 19:14
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Heh, Vegas is like one of the absolute cheapest vacations possible. Flights for sure are super cheap, hotels plus or minus. There are only a couple of hotels on the strip that are "good" by external standards (Wynn/Encore first and foremost) and most of the strip hotels are getting pretty dumpy. Food is expensive on the strip but it's the same big city prices you pay everywhere. Craps is definitely the best casino game!!!
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Battlefield Vegas sounds like the only appealing thing in that whole town tbh
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Barry posted:I vaguely remember reading about this before that it's just a giant drunken orgy. Hahaha, what? I went with my class in 2001 (from Ohio) and it was pretty loving lame. I'm pretty sure there are no alcohol sales during Grad Night. The only band playing that night that I recognized was Three Doors Down. Whatever we paid to get into Disney that night was far too much. Universal Studios was way better.
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BMan posted:Battlefield Vegas sounds like the only appealing thing in that whole town tbh Last time I was in Vegas I really wanted to go to Battlefield, but then that shooting happened the night before we were going to go, and it felt kind of not ok to go shooting a big gun right after a mass casualty situation. So we bought some weed gummies and wandered fremont street for an hour then went back to the hotel and watched netflix. That's my GWM story.
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Krispy Wafer posted:But shooting a machine gun isn't dumb. No, but it's cheaper in Cambodia and the food is incomparably better. Does Vegas rent flamethrowers? Does it have skull caves? How about Angkor Wat, it have one of those yet OH MY BAD THERE'S ONLY ONE OF THEM EVER Now I want prahok 
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I'm going to Cambodia later this year would it be BWM to shoot guns there?
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I'm going to Cambodia later this year would it be BWM to shoot guns there? Well, you'll work harder with a gun in your back - GWM! For a bowl of rice a day - BWM  Slave for soldier, till you starve, then your head is skewered on a stake - extremely BWL
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Doc Hawkins posted:I mean, it could be worse, a friend of mine's aunt and uncle are like that with Atlantic City and gave me knives. What's wrong with knives?
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I'm going to Cambodia later this year would it be BWM to shoot guns there? So you're gonna take a Holiday in Cambodia?
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Whatevery you do, don’t try to bring your spent brass into Singapore. And if you do, and manage to talk it down to a warning, make double sure you search every pocket in your luggage for more brass so the next time you go through Chang-i, you don’t pop the same warning and end up in a windowless room for 24 hours. Talking from a friend’s experience...
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therobit posted:So you're gonna take a Holiday in Cambodia? better than disney am i right
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Well, you'll work harder with a gun in your back - GWM! 
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H110Hawk posted:Outside of Orlando is just swamp. The everglades is much further south. There is nothing worth doing in Orlando, Disney included.
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moana posted:The theater productions at UCF are phenomenal. And then go north a bit to Blue Springs and kayak with the alligators and see a billion manatees if it's the right season. And then go east and visit Kennedy Space Center, that's cool. And then shoot yourself, because you've done everything worth doing in central Florida and you're still stuck in central Florida. Can confirm Cape is cool, afterwards wanted to die as there was nothing to look forward to.
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GoGoGadgetChris posted:Well, you'll work harder with a gun in your back - GWM! LOL this is what I get for not reading before posting earlier. Way better joke my dude.
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Fitzy Fitz posted:I'm going to Cambodia later this year would it be BWM to shoot guns there? Get the package where you can shoot an RPG at a cow. https://71republic.com/2018/08/08/cambodia-tourists-buy-shoot-cows/ GWM: the salvagable cow bits probably feed the local villagers.
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I lurk the Disney thread because it is an amazing combination of BMW and very weird adults with expensive childhood obsessions. There are 'character meals' where people pay massive $$ for meals where you get to take pictures with poor people dressed in furry costumes. A well planned out Disneyworld trip seems to involve planning that takes almost all year. You book way ahead, then make sure you get dinner reservations right when the window opens for the dates of your trip. Then you gotta plan out those fast passes for the new Avatar themed rides, then claim they are so amazing that they bring tears to your eyes. To most Disney nerds, the food at Disneyworld is absolutely amazing. Can't forget about those Dole Whips! Disney even has their own timeshare program which is just a stunning ripoff above and beyond the rest of it.
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He did it again! The mad man!
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n8r posted:I lurk the Disney thread because it is an amazing combination of BMW and very weird adults with expensive childhood obsessions. There are 'character meals' where people pay massive $$ for meals where you get to take pictures with poor people dressed in furry costumes. A well planned out Disneyworld trip seems to involve planning that takes almost all year. You book way ahead, then make sure you get dinner reservations right when the window opens for the dates of your trip. Then you gotta plan out those fast passes for the new Avatar themed rides, then claim they are so amazing that they bring tears to your eyes. To most Disney nerds, the food at Disneyworld is absolutely amazing. Can't forget about those Dole Whips! If you don't sign up for those character meals fast you get lovely characters. We got Chip and Dale. I'll leave it up to you to guess how far in advance we made those reservations.
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n8r posted:
THAT'S THE STUFF!
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