This is one of the most elitist comments I've ever read on this post. It's discrimination in the guise of the idea that some people deserve a lesser experience than others.
Hmm, let's see. The first time I went to
Disneyland I was five. We stayed in my family's used trailer and probably stayed no more than two days. We did not eat anywhere in the parks nor at any restaurant. All meals were taken in the trailer. Guess what? It was what my parents could afford at the time and I was grateful for the experience. The only negative memory I have is that Dumbo was closed to be refurbished and he was my favorite character.
The next time I got to go to Disneyland, I was seventeen. I went with a friend and her mother on their dime. It was a huge experience to buy a churro. I remember counting out my change and I am now 44.
At 24, I got married. For our honeymoon, we went to Disneyland. We opened our presents first before leaving on our trip because without the cash that our friends and family gave us, we would have had to cancel the trip. We stayed off site and I believe we ate one meal in the park on our two day trip.
Seven years later, and absolutely no vacations in between anywhere not even camping, we were finally able to go to WDW for the very first time. We stayed offsite in some dump that was closing for good the day after we left. We stayed for three days and ate off site. It was what we could afford and we had a blast.
Jump forward two years. We then had 1 eighteen month old child. We went with friends who had older children who insisted it was child abuse that we waited so long to go to Disney with him. This was our first onsite experience at any Disney resort and got us hooked.
Our next experience at WDW was when that child was 8. We stayed at the Port Orleans.
We made this decision because it was what we could afford.
I have now been married for twenty years. We have worked hard for what we have.
Can I now afford to be a DVC member? Yes. Can I now afford to eat in the parks at the sit down restaurants? Yes. Does that make me better than the families that can't?
No. It is with a lot of hard work, a lot of savings, a lot of luck and a lot of gratitude that I am able to to afford these things.
I love America because it allows you to pull yourself up to a higher standard if you work hard and stay focus. And believe me, we had to work. If it sounded like I had a fairly simple childhood, my husband ran away from home at seventeen because he was beaten with a stick for the smallest infraction and denied enough food to eat. He went on to finish high school on his own and got himself into college and paid for that too by himself. And when he was right in the middle of college a four ton fork lift at his work ran over his foot making him take a year off of college and go further into debt.
Do not call me an elitist. If a person can afford a deluxe resort, all it means is that they make more money and want to spend it there. The 'lesser experience' is in peoples' head. If someone believes that the experience they are having is less, it will be because they are ungrateful for what they can provide for themselves. The fact is that all of us on this website, no matter what our financial standing is, should be grateful that we have experience Disney.
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