Coworker compared WDW to Six Flags!!!!!

[AlyJoy716]

My coworker today asked me how many days until my trip. Of course, any opportunity to talk about Disney, I jump right in. Of course, I told her 7 days. Her response was, "I guess I don't get why people like Disney. It seems just like Six Flags". I about lost it. I asked her when the last time she went was, and she said when she was a kid, but they couldn't ride very much because you had to pay for each ride separately. At that point, I knew where she was coming from. I just couldn't explain everything that is Disney to her, just that we love it! We love the theming, and the magic, and being able to escape from the real world for a week. She still didn't get it. How do you explain Disney to someone who's only been once in the 70's? haha

 

[WizardLarz]

Try giving or sending her the Planning DVD!

My Family does not get why I've gone 3 years in a row! I go for Star Wars Weekends, plus everything else! Even with those trips there are still a few things that I have not done.

Of course with the FantasyLand Expansion and the other rehabs going on this fall/winter I have plenty of reason to go for the next several years!

 

[IhavePDD]

Thats OK if she does not get it. Those people can stay home and leave more room for those of us that would not want to be anywhere else.

"Heaven is the only place better then Disneyworld"

 

[Dismom55]

There is Disney and then there is all the rest, Disney is in a class by itself and well, you just can not explain Heaven to a non believer.

 

[Jazcat]

That's so funny. We went to Six Flags last weekend, and the whole time I kept thinking this is no Disney. We have 15 month twins, so we have a side by side stroller. The place is just not set up for my size stroller. Even from the parking lot, I had to hop a curb with the stroller. I was so mad. Being a therapist, I look at handicapped accessibility, and now with the stroller we need everything to be handicapped accessible. Crazy they are not even in the same league as Disney

 

[minniebeth]

I used to feel like I had to covert every non-Disney lover into the Disney freakazoid that I am...
But I don't even try anymore. I just enjoy our trips, memories, etc. and let them go on their merry way now.

 

[honeydiane1953]

My coworker today asked me how many days until my trip. Of course, any opportunity to talk about Disney, I jump right in. Of course, I told her 7 days. Her response was, "I guess I don't get why people like Disney. It seems just like Six Flags". I about lost it. I asked her when the last time she went was, and she said when she was a kid, but they couldn't ride very much because you had to pay for each ride separately. At that point, I knew where she was coming from. I just couldn't explain everything that is Disney to her, just that we love it! We love the theming, and the magic, and being able to escape from the real world for a week. She still didn't get it. How do you explain Disney to someone who's only been once in the 70's? haha

I need not read anymore. That is like comparing apples or oranges. Give her a dvd of the parks. Other than that give it up. Six Flags may be good for her.

 

[disneypolybride2008]

that is crazy! people need to educate themselves before making such a statement. WDW is like no other place on earth and nothing comes close! Six Flags!! omg. Good thing WE know how awesome it is, they're the ones missing out.

 

[JacksLilWench]

I know exactly what you mean! About a week ago, a coworker of mine was telling me about her honeymoon in WDW and how much it sucked! I was so !! I tried to explain to her that when you go in July, so do a ton of other people and yes, it's hot as Hades. But she wasn't getting it Then she told me she's "never going again, it was horrible." It was so frustrating to hear someone be so ignorant about a place that was so special to me. She tends to be more on the ignorant side anyway, so as far as I'm concerned, I hope she doesn't go back--one less person for me to have to stand in line behind!

 

[Dismom55]

I always tell people if I had it to do over I would pick my wedding day around good times to go to WDW. Of course after nearly 38 yrs that will not happen, but being married on 29 of Dec is rather a busy time to celebrate in WDW, but we did to celebrate our 35th and crowded as it was it was a great time. Attitude is everything!

 

[pixiegirl14]

I dragged my dh to Six Flags last year for the first time.He hated it with a passion.Now that I'm planning the family's first trip to wdw he keeps asking me if it's anything like Six Flags.I keep having to tell him no honey it's NOTHING like Six Flags.THANK GOODNESS!!!

 

[leagirl12]

My company had an event at Six Flags a few weeks after we returned from WDW....well needless to say we hated it. WDW had completely spoiled me and I have not been back to Six Flags since.

My sister and her DH go to Six Flags at least once a year but have never been to WDW. She hasn't been against going but thought they would wait until they have children before they go. She is 25 and they have only been married 3 years.

I was talking to her recently about them going with us next year and telling her how she would love it and it would be a chance to check it out without a stroller. I used Six Flags to sell her on it by telling her it was 10 X's better than Six Flags. Well the SF in Georgia has a few HUGE hills to climb and when I told her there was nothing like that at WDW she was sold. When I added that some of WDW ride lines are actually in A/C it was just the icing on the cake.

 

[ToddyLu]

Now days folks at work just ask me "when is your Disney trip?", so of course I tell them and move on....My MIL gets it, DH gets it, My parents are getting it.

I told my supervisor that she would have to take her little DD5 to BBB, the next time they go...her response..."they have that there?" DUhhhhh, how can people not know this.... I hooked her up with a Travel Agent that is also a Disser and they are going on DCL over Halloween

Another convert in the making ..Mawhhhaaaaahaha

 

[kaetra]

Six Flags is no Disney for sure. But, we live 10 minutes away from "The Six" in IL, so we get season passes nearly every year - we are all into thrill rides and water parks. Plus we know the best times to go and not to go, and we do get a lot of value out of our passes. Our favorite time to go is during Fright Fest!

We also do plenty of quick trips to cheesy Wisconsin (no pun intended!) Dells, and other little things like that. We are just an addicted to Family FUN kind of family!

However Disney World is far, far, far and away my FAVORITE (The Magic!!)! The best of the best, the piece de resistance of all our adventures!

 

[JenSop]

Every once in awhile I run into people who don't get it. But everyone I know - EVERYONE - knows about my "Disney thing." If I have to explain Disney to someone who doesn't get it, I actually have a little blurb of a few sentences that sums it up really well.

Plus, I know Disney so freakin' well and love it so much, that I think people would actually be afraid to say anything negative about it in my presence.