Personally, I didn't see anything rude in Alison's post...and the smilie she used was just highlighting the point of "no". We all use that smilie.
The rest of it...in terms of you thinking she was "frowning at me like I'm some moron who doesn't know the difference. Like I'm denigrating the lesser park of
Disneyland."....well.....
perhaps you might need to think about why it is you think like that about yourself.