GRRRR She has just done it again....a rant from me

[J Marley]

What is it with some folk???

When I came back from our first visit to DLP I was talking to my SIL ...her boys are the same age as my pair.I said to her our trip was brilliant and that she should take her boys at some stage...Her reply was I don't want to go there.I want to go to the REAL Disney in Florida???

I bit my tongue....

Well today i was on the phone with her and said we had booked to go back to DLP and this time she said

"What do you want to go back there again for.We are planning to go to the REAL Disney in Florida in 2012"

Well good for you I hope you have a brilliant time but stop putting our holidays in DLP down.It is a real disney park,my boys have a fantastic time and we love it

So what is it with some folk?
Does anyone else have the same negative feelings from friends and family?

 

[Bolanette87]

I have friends like that. It's okay with me though- If they're going be pompous they can have a long haul flight, hours in burning heat, hours and hours queuing for rides, and not being able to go anywhere unless they've booked it.... Fine by me! I'll have the lovely, picturesque Disneyland Paris, which is just as awesome, if not moreso!! I'm sure 'real' Disney is very nice, but DLRP has a special place in all of our hearts.....

Bob xoxox

 

[cap'njack.]

All the time. When I told my work friends that I was going to DLRP in October the response was one of 'Well he can't afford to go to the real Disney so he has to make do with the cheap version'

Many a time I've had to put up with DLRP bashing, including one nightmare journey on the Eurostar to DLRP sat next to a family from the USA who slated DLRP the whole way there.

Leave them to it I say and leave DLRP to the ones who really want to be there.

 

[ukstitch]

Think of it this way:

The more people who think DLRP isn't a real Disney park, the less people there are in DLRP and therefore the shorter queues.

Anyway, if DLRP isn't a real Disney park, then neither is Florida - they're both based upon the original in California, so technically only California is a "real" disney.

 

[mommy2ash]

i dont get that. thats fine if you want to go to america but as is proved by this board plenty of people have a great time in paris and go again and again. personally i wouldnt like to go to america *** it would be too big for me kwim i get flustered when there is too much choice.dlrp will do me and my lo fine. but in saying that if someone said they were going to dl in america i would say i hope you have a good time

 

[tennisfan]

Think of it this way:

The more people who think DLRP isn't a real Disney park, the less people there are in DLRP and therefore the shorter queues.

Anyway, if DLRP isn't a real Disney park, then neither is Florida - they're both based upon the original in California, so technically only California is a "real" disney.

That is exactly what I was going to say

Everyone has their preferences, I choose to ignore people who say DLRP is not the real thing. Most of the time they are jealous as they have never been to any of them. Also you can be at Disney in a couple of hours & have a weekend away there unlike Florida.

Yes I would love to go to other Disney parks but don't have the time or really the funds to go at the moment so I take what I can get.

 

[J Marley]

I am glad folks here understand my rant..I just had to get it off my chest.

Anyway, if DLRP isn't a real Disney park, then neither is Florida - they're both based upon the original in California, so technically only California is a "real" disney.

Rob I did actually remind her of this but to be honest I don't even think she knows there a park in Toyoko or Hong Kong either.

The first time she said it I put it down to jealously...now I put it down to naivety

 

[davewasbaloo]

It's funny when I hear this. As many have said, the "real" Disney park, if there is such a thing is in California. And as much as I like Epcot and DAK, I would much rather be at DLP or DL anytime.

I wrote a blog recently talking about how much of a bargain DLP is compared to Florida, and man, did I get quite a hammering from people.

It's a shame. DLP is the most beautiful MK style parks with the best e-tickets compared to it's siblings. Now if we could have shows and entertainment on the scale of DL, then I would call it the perfect park.

Her loss. FWIW - I think the Magic Kingdom in florida is a poor relation.

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

I know how you feel, i have been to WDW twice and i really do love it there so when i said i wanted to take DD DLRP i had many friends say "why do you want to go there its rubbish" "Oh its just like thorpe park" "Eurodisney is rubbish compared to WDW after one day your hate it"

But i never listened to them, half of them had never been WDW so how could they compare and my other friends had been DLRP like 5 years ago before the studios opened. So i booked my trip and everyone was very suprised when i came back singing its praises and saying that i prefered it to WDW, they was even more astonished when i started booking more trips and even started to say "It cant be that bad if Emma keeps going back" lol.

Funny thing now the people who dissed DLRP so badly to me want to go there now and that really gets my goat.

 

[ukstitch]

The best cure for this thinking is to just go to DLRP.

I have to admit, we used to think like that after we went to florida, but one summer we decided to go to DLRP anyway and now we've been there once or twice every year since.

 

[Natasha&Matt]

I hate people like that! Everytime we say to our friends we are going to DLP they say why are you doing that for it will ruin yout memories from your Florida trip??!! i think not! nothing could ruin that and goin to Paris would only give me more great memories =)

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

I love WDW, it was my first Disney experience and one day i really hope i can take Kyra.

I remember when i got home from my 1st DLP trip and i got into bed and cried, i just had such a magical time i really was so sad to be home which of course has led to me booking lots more impulsive trips lol.

 

[SandraVB79]

the "real" Disney is in California, there is the one that Walt built.
And IMHO, DLP is Disney-er than WDW.

 

[J Marley]

I can imagine what will happen..........

They will go off to Florida and get bitten by the Disney bug.When they return home they will look into booking DLP so they don't have to save for another 4 years to get another Disney fix.....

I will have a small snigortle

 

[MJ_always]

Argh yeah thats really annoying! The ammount of people that just dont seem to understand that DLP IS a 'real' Disney Park and is just as amazing and as magical! Some of my family have been like that.
We've been to WDW and DLP and i love them both! Plus DLP is closer and cheaper too which is great.

Ashleigh x

 

[hildasmuriel]

What is really sad to me is that she is missing 4 years of her children's life saving to take them to the 'real' Disney. Who knows what will happen between now and then - she could be missing 4 wonderful holidays to DLRP and may even find that after 4 years of scrimping that the 'moment' has passed and it is not the big thrill she hoped for.

 

[thelittlemermaid83]

What is really sad to me is that she is missing 4 years of her children's life saving to take them to the 'real' Disney. Who knows what will happen between now and then - she could be missing 4 wonderful holidays to DLRP and may even find that after 4 years of scrimping that the 'moment' has passed and it is not the big thrill she hoped for.

Completely argee with that

 

[Tillybud]

What is really sad to me is that she is missing 4 years of her children's life saving to take them to the 'real' Disney. Who knows what will happen between now and then - she could be missing 4 wonderful holidays to DLRP and may even find that after 4 years of scrimping that the 'moment' has passed and it is not the big thrill she hoped for.

agree with this fully !!

My sister took her kids to DLP in 2005 and promised them afterwards that they would go to the 'real' Disney, we've had 3 trips to DLP since then and each time her kids have asked when they are going again ... poor little things haven't had either DLP or the real Disney (using her words) since their first and last trip in November 2005 ... my sister can't understand why we love it so much and why we keep going back but for us it's a wonderful, safe holiday and the memories it gives us are priceless. Perhaps one day when dd is older we may venture further to experience the magic but right now we just love DLP and I'd go again tomorrow if I could. Our son is 16 and we thought perhaps this would be his last year of wanting to come with us and even though we're booked again for October he's already asking when we're going next year ... we love it

 

[J Marley]

What is really sad to me is that she is missing 4 years of her children's life saving to take them to the 'real' Disney. Who knows what will happen between now and then - she could be missing 4 wonderful holidays to DLRP and may even find that after 4 years of scrimping that the 'moment' has passed and it is not the big thrill she hoped for.

That is very true

 

[J Marley]

My sister took her kids to DLP in 2005 and promised them afterwards that they would go to the 'real' Disney, we've had 3 trips to DLP since then and each time her kids have asked when they are going again ... poor little things haven't had either DLP or the real Disney (using her words) since their first and last trip in November 2005 ... my sister can't understand why we love it so much and why we keep going back but for us it's a wonderful, safe holiday and the memories it gives us are priceless. Perhaps one day when dd is older we may venture further to experience the magic but right now we just love DLP and I'd go again tomorrow if I could. Our son is 16 and we thought perhaps this would be his last year of wanting to come with us and even though we're booked again for October he's already asking when we're going next year ... we love it

When we came back I was showing the pictures to my 2 nephews and they said ..In a couple of years we are going too.

What a long time to wait and neither of them had any concept of what park it was ....To them it was simply a Disney park. They couldn't care less where in the world it was.I honestly dread to see their wee faces when my 2 tell them we are going again