It truly depends on how much you'll use it. We have a summer cottage and are out on the water everyday (weather permitting) from June - Labor Day. Kids love it - as for the gas cost, we actually spend less money in the summer on monthly "normal costs" including gas then during the winter. We...
We celebrated DD's 8th birthday at Akershus, she got a chocolate cookie & a card signed by all the princesses. No big deal was made of it. She loved the card!
We were just there in December:
Thought it was great, able to color on the "tablecloth" (paper) was a big kick to the kids, many of the characters would add there own little drawing or name to it too.
Food was good - lots of fruit options, otherwise standard buffet food
Last year that was a great deal, normally we get back less than $200, but some major changes in 2005 (inheritance) gave us back $4000, we then took all the refund in gift cards, gained over $1000 in free money.
In December, of our 10 night stay, we were sick for 5 of the days - which was ok, lay by the pool and let the kids swim all day - they loved it. But, we ended up with 23 CS leftover. My wife casually mentioned it the night before we were checking out to the BCV manager.
They ended up...
We were there in December, had a terrible server, but the food was good. We didn't like the atmosphere though - awfully loud.
It's amazing how bad service will spoil a meal...