Negative people

[colorado snowchick]

I get the same response as well. I just say don't be a Disney Hater. Heehee. I also tell them that they have ZERO idea what they are missing out on. I then try to educate them a little so they have a better idea of what it is like being there as an adult. But in the end why care what they say. and do not let them spoil your excitement. I try to go to Disney 3 times a year. But this year I am only able to make it for Christmas and New Years.

 

[lenny l]

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[colorado snowchick]

To Lenny:

In that situation I would say. I do not want my holiday ruined by some random union strike. But, we can not convert them all. I like to think of it as they have no idea what they will not enjoy. It is strange that in the UK people are not as accepting of WDW. Is it because it's part of American culture or because it's an "evil" corporation? Neither of which makes a bit of sense to me. Here in Georgia (U.S.A) there are people who look down upon it as well but I have never been overtly criticized about it. The beauty about WDW is it is so close.

I think some of it could be they just a lack of knowledge. I know adults that have never beento Disney

 

[lenny l]

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[My Grandpa]

Just ignore them. There really are 2 kinds of people when it comes to the World: Those who get it, and those who don't. I have a few co-workers who really get it and that's fun. But stick with the community right here ... you've got a lot of support.

Plus .. when you find those who get it ... it is so much fun. Last weekend (long story) this couple with an 8 year old DD were at our house. As they were in the car getting ready to leave and the DD's window was rolled down I noticed her Mickey ear studs. I made Dad put the car in park and we proceeded to have a lengthy conversation about the World and favorite places and things to do - it was like we had been friends forever!!

 

[disneylover1959]

Originally Posted by ClareH37
I get it all the time here in the UK people think you're seriously 'odd' if you're an adult going to Disney without kids, yet alone solo

The most negative comment I had though was actually on the bus to MK one morning when a horrible woman sat opposite me (I say horrible because all she did was moan, moan, moan) looked in my direction and said 'MK is for kids, why would adults want to visit'?! I couldn't let a comment like that go so replied (with a big smile across my face), 'because MK is the happiest place on earth and miserable people aren't allowed in'

You are my hero! I only wish I could come back with a clever comment immediately and not come up with what I want to say hours later.

 

[feistygalkmc]

You know I think a lot of us get that, most of the people who make those types of comments have never been and just don't 'get' it. The funny part is whenever I get back and people are looking through my pictures they always say, oh it looks like you had lots of fun lol

 

[beansmom]

i think at this point, i'd just make up outlandish things like 'i'm sailing to Tahiti on a raft made of milk jugs and popsicle sticks' or 'I'm hanging out on the Riviera with Johnny and Vanessa (the Depps) and the kids'.

People are such a nuisance sometimes...maybe there's a bit of jealously there, too.

 

[princess sparkle p]

When people ask me why I'm going back again, I tell them that I'm just lucky. What can they say after that !

I am sooooo going to use that!

Just ignore them. There really are 2 kinds of people when it comes to the World: Those who get it, and those who don't.

Exactly!

I am past the point of tired with people that feel the need to give their input on our vacation destination which is always WDW or DCL, especiallly since we took the dive with DVC. Of course they also feel the need to complain that we take too many vacations...they need a vacation!

 

[Philleigh]

When DBF was in his '20's (over 20 yrs ago), his boss, who was from eastern Europe, went to Epcot. When he came back he told DBF, "Don't go to Europe, go to Epcot. You can eat in many different countries and then go back to your room with an American bed and American toilet." DBF finally got to go for first time at age 49, and said that he totally got what his boss meant.
I agree that variety in travel is good, but our most relaxing and enjoyable trips have been to WDW, plus it's nobody's business if you go every year or more. I think the people who say WDW is just for kids must be ignorant about what's there - or think that only kids enjoy nice restaurants, adult beverages, spa treatments, beautifully themed resorts, shopping, musical entertainment, excellent service, and so on.

 

[tlionheart78]

Thought I'd weigh in my two cents on this. I haven't had this happen to me...yet. When I got back from my first solo trip, I was still on such a euphoric high that I said that I these solo trips would be a regular thing for me. And so far, my family and even my co-workers have been rather supportive. None of this "Disney is for kids" stuff. Everyone was glad I had a great time.

But, in the case that I did have such negativity thrown at my way, I did have a few comebacks such as:

Person: "You went there last year!"
Me: "Yeah, but not during this event"

Person: "Don't you ever get tired of the same stuff?"
Me: "Not really. Besides, there's a new attraction they just finished..."

Person: "Don't you know there are other places to vacation to?"
Me: "Yep, but I feel truly relaxed and at ease with myself in the parks"

And if I was thrown that "Disney is for kids" junk, I'd tell them to go solo for themselves and see for themselves. It's like a friend of mine at work told me this afternoon, Las Vegas is his place where he can truly be at ease with himself. Whereas for me it's the magic of the parks that make me want to go back again and again.

So, even if I do get thrown the negativity, all the memories I've had will easily shake off what all the critics have to say.

 

[SydneyFalco]

I find I'm afraid of the comments more than I actually get them. Besides, most of the other folks I know right now can't afford vacations, so I'm usually feeling more self-conscious about taking a vacation at all.

I also wouldn't brand a lot of these sorts of remarks as "negativity" either. If I had friends who were going to the Amish berry-picking festival every year I might have occasion to arch an eyebrow. It wouldn't be a negative eyebrow; I just wouldn't be getting their "thing". This is our fetish, after all. Not theirs.

 

[kmrein]

we get this fairly often from extended family and some friends. My favorite is, "You DO know there are other places in the world to travel to, right?"

I think you just have to brush it off, if you can. Lately, our standard answer is "well, we're just doing our part to help the tourism economy" and then we usually move on.

I don't understand why the care so much about OUR vacation?

Bottom line, there are Disney and non-Disney people in this world and I guess we just have to keep feeling sorry for the "non-enlightened" ones!

 

[Csaks]

Next week will be our 5th time in 10 years. We are without rug rats and just love the place. I have two friends that use to bug me endlessly. I figured out a way to shut them up, see if you agree.

One loved to go camping with his $30,000 trailer to the same park multiple times a summer. When I pointed out that he spent more on his vacations, between the trailer payments and park fees, going to the same place over and over and asked him why?
I'm sure you have "Done everything and seen it all" so why keep going back to the same place?
Reply: My family loves it.
My reply: Exactly.

Second one loves going to tropical areas sitting on a beach for a week and drinking endlessly. He had the same general inquiry, Why keep going back spending all that money?
I replied: We go for two weeks pay the same as you do for one. Besides doesn't one "5 Star" swim up pool bar in Mexico look the same as one in Jamaica? Funny he didn't say much after that!

Generally those people have never gone to the World and think it is just like your local amusement park and can't figure it out. My wife was the same till our honeymoon and here we are 10 years later "Going Again". I've created a monster.

 

[Wasre]

I get the comments all the time from some of my co-workers who just don't get it either. As far as I'm concerned though, I'm not sure I want them to get it. That's just extra bodies to get in my way when I go next. I just don't need that kind of competition on Buzz Lightyear....

For the last 5 years (maybe longer) I'd go to DLR since I'm on the Left Coast of the US. Just for curiosity's sake, I decided to look at tickets and accommodations in the World for the first time in February last year. Including plane tickets, the cost for me was comparable to a trip to DLR or even Vegas for me as a solo, and I got to split my resort time between All-Star Movies and Saratoga Springs Resort. I spent 3 days in ASMo and the rest of the week in SSR. This last trip I stayed in ASMu. When I go back down in December, I'll be in CBR. Looking forward to experiencing a "new" resort. And I'll be meeting other DISers while there and spending time with someone special to me who is just as big of a Mickey fan (if not a bigger fan than me, like that's possible. )

I wish I could have celebrated my 40th b-day in either the World or DLR this year, but oh well. When people ask me why I'm going back to the World, I usually have some kind of quick retort available. I also add that for some reason it's actually cheaper for me to fly diagonally across the country than it is to fly a third of the distance directly south.

Only one of my co-workers seems to get the concept of why I keep going back. He likes to travel to Japan every year or so. He enjoys his time there and understands that everyone has the place they feel relaxed in.

Next time I get asked why I'm going back I will have to remember that line about MK being the Happiest place on Earth and grouchy people aren't allowed in. That's just perfect.

Just ignore the nay-sayers that don't know or understand, but don't try to educate them too much. We just don't need the competition for Mickey and Donald's time.

Enjoy your trip(s)!

 

[Olallamom]

Some people give me a hard time about it, but I don't care.
I have travelled a lot of different places and right now I just enjoy the heck out of my trips to Disneyworld.
Most people that question me about it haven't ever been before or they think it is like going to Disneyland.
We are adults and we can choose where we spend our time and money. It isn't anyones business.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

My co-workers get it (several are DVC members). My friends get it (they're all jealous that DH and I get to go). The people who sigh and grumble and make a fuss every time we say we're going to Disney? My parents. I really don't get why, because they like Disney too (and don't think it's for kids). They just think we go too often (we haven't been since 2007).

"Why don't you go someplace different?" they say, "Like Europe?!" Mom and Dad, I know the two of you are having a grand old time tossing away my meagre inheritance on flights across the pond, but for the price of your airfare DH and I can have an entire Disney trip. Trust me, we'd love to go to Europe...but we kind of like having a roof over our heads too.

"You should go on a cruise! You can get them cheap out of domestic ports!" Guys, I grew up on boats, and I know you love cruising, but for all of DH's wonderful qualities, a strong stomach is not among them. Perhaps you have forgotten the one Caribbean cruise the two of us did take, however, I will never quite forget poor, puking DH telling me with absolute sincerity (at the time) that he hated me and never wanted to go on vacation with me ever again.

"But you've been so many times, there can't be anything new there!" Okay, first, there's ALWAYS something new. Regardless, we'll be staying at a new resort and spending time at the F&W festival like we've never done before, not to mention checking out Universal for the first time. That being said, the people who just a couple weeks ago went to visit Kelly's Island for the thousandth time, should not be the ones to talk. You know what's on Kelly's? The glacial grooves and one nice restaurant. Seriously, how many times can you look at scraped up rock and pretend to like Italian home cooking?! And yet you're on me for going to a place with 4 theme parks (and access to several more), 2 water parks, 2 excellent miniature golf places, a videogame Nirvana, high quality restaurants, interesting hotels, acceptable nightlife (sniff...I miss PI) and a shopping paradise!

"Don't you ever go anywhere else?!" Umm...yes. Remember how we went to Kentucky with you a few months ago? Remember how we spent 2 weeks roadtripping the American West last year? You know how we actually are planning for Europe next year? It's not that we don't go anywhere else, it's just that we go to Disney periodically.

Sigh....I really am kind of getting sick of them.

 

[dormouse72]

Every year my friend and I and our combined five children spend a week at an all-inclusive resort in the Caribbean with a pool, a beach, and all the ice cream the kids can eat. Every December we take the same five children to HersheyPark for a weekend usually spent freezing our behinds off waiting for the kids' lips to turn blue on the same five rides that are open (and running on the Factory Tour ride to get the free candy they hand out at the end). We have been doing this for seven years and no one ever questions me about it.
However, she never wants to come with me to Disney because she's "been there already" and "wants to do something different".

No one ever mentions that we keep taking the same kids everywhere!

Don't get me wrong - I love my week being lazy in the sun (I'm too much of a Disney Commando to sit by the pool at WDW) and I love drinking hot chocolate and eating fresh kettle corn at Hershey while the kids freeze their behinds off before we go back to our hotel for a massive girls-only pj party. But I love Disney the same way; I just can't afford to go as often. Thank goodness BF feels the same (and feels no guilt at ditching the kids for a grown-up weekend with The Mouse!).

 

[PaulaSB12]

I love going to disney, I have been on group holidays and I just don't like them. I want to wake up on holiday (choosing when to go which you can't do on a group holiday) and choose what to do which isn't possible on an organised trip. I do go to other places as well. I went whale watching in Norway and off to see the bolshoi ballet perform the nutcracker in Moscow.

 

[ToddyLu]

A bit off topic, but one you guys can appreciate

Today at work it happened....a co worker came up to me and said, "My DH tells me that you know EVERYTHING about WDW". Talk about a conversation made in heaven....aaaahhhh, the clouds part and a beam of light shines on me from above.

No I don't know EVERYTHING....but I have been every year since 2002 for 10 day trips, create an Excel spread sheet , way , way, WAY too far in advnace with my planned ADRs...and listen to my 400+ disney songs in my car almost exclusiviely to other music...anybody here have this problem or do this??

Bless her heart....they are going the Saturday after Thanksgiving for 5 days and leaving for home Wednesday. They are doing the QSDP and staying at All Stars...So far so good. Their son has a severe peanut allergy....OK I tell her about prep that Disney can do for that. I tell her about Fastpass, "Huh" she says. OK at this point we are going down hill. I then just pat her on the shoulder and tell her I will leave a Pass Porter with some notes on her husband's desk tomorrow.(He works with us too)

I tell her that I could talk about it for hours but we both had work to do. I tell her that Disney vacationing (the actual art of planning the trip) is my hobby of sorts and give her several websites to visit. I tell her about the touring sites to give her routes to tour the parks...she feverishly is trying to jot this stuff down. I tell her that no matter what I say, advise, suggest...she will have a perfect trip and great time.

I haved ascended in to the realm of Disney efficienado...instead of crazy Lucretia, the Disney Freak. A title I cherish,