What is 1 unpopular opinion on Travel you have?

[portocall]

Going to Disney isn't as much fun as it used to be before fast pass.

 

[Planogirl]

*shrug* We can continue this urination contest if you like, but I'm not the one making personal attacks. Who's the rude one again? Oh that's right, you are!

No you just attacked half of the country. I guess that's better?

 

[RedAngie]

Kids in diapers are easier than toddlers. Went with my sis on a trip when her youngest was under 3 months old. At that age, they may as well be a sack of potatoes. You carry them or push them around, keep them fed and dry, and they are good to go. Her 5 year old sister? She was the one having a melt down and crying.

Keep in mind the theme of this tread is unpopular travel opinions.

Whatever works for you is fine with me.

I didn't want to risk an unpleasant experience by bringing my irritable toddler to Disney until I felt she could handle it. That was after she finished kindergarten and had just turned 6 years old.

As for kids in diapers. not a chance I would bring them. <I> didn't want to deal with feedings, changing diapers, pushing a stroller, etc. in such an environment.

 

[RedAngie]

Another unpopular opinion that might get me crucified here.

It's OK to dump the kids with grandparents (if they're willing) or another babysitter and vacation at Disney without them.

 

[KBoopaloo]

I'd rather sit on my couch watching bad reality TV for a week than spend that week at the beach. Too much sun gives me a headache, it's a pain in the neck to pack everything you need for the day (towels, sunscreen, chairs, sunglasses, snacks that won't melt or be ruined in the sun, a book, a sun hat, etc), using the restroom while in your wet bathing suit is torture especially in public beach restrooms, cleaning up all the sand that gets in every single crevice of your body and your belongings is a pain and I am bored silly after about 30 minutes.

I always think I am excited to visit New York City until about 45 minutes into actually being there and then I am ready to get out but I love visiting most any other city.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

1. I enjoy cooking on vacation (if we have a condo).

2. I don't reuse towels on vacation. When in a hotel I like new everything every day.

3. We visit certain chains over local flavor sometimes: gyu-kaku, din tai fung, bcd tofu house, burger and lobster . . . even el pollo loco and in and out burger . . Chains, but we love them and don't have them at home.

We love visiting regional chains that we don’t have at home, even FF like Zaxby’s .

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Another unpopular opinion that might get me crucified here.

It's OK to dump the kids with grandparents (if they're willing) or another babysitter and vacation at Disney without them.

Disney would absolutely be the last place I’d have chosen for a far-too-infrequent adult only trip. But, I know it works for many

 

[Turn the Page]

Hmm I must have missed all of the posts complaining about how cheap everything is lol

You know, I have to say, while I wouldn't consider Disney World cheap we really don't find it much more expensive than other tourist areas. DH and I were talking about it this winter while at our local ski hill. A lift ticket during the weekend is around $60 and that is only for about 7 hours. The ticket is cheaper than a single day ticket to WDW but it is open much longer too. The food and beverage prices are pretty close to QS prices and the resort prices are easily the same as a WDW moderate, and often more, and that's during the slow season.

Last year DH and I were discussing different places to go for an adults only get away. After running the numbers WDW kept coming out cheaper. Granted, we utilize the kitchenette heavily. We take snacks in with us and often make sandwiches and have bagels and such for breakfast. Part of the reason we do this is to save money but part is because, as someone mentioned up thread, after a few days of theme park food we are desperate for some real food. When we go with the whole family we get a villa with a full kitchen and the vast majority of our meals are made there.

I see people comment frequently that they can go to Europe cheaper than they can WDW. More power to them but the airfare alone would be more than we spend on a week at WDW.

 

[cabanafrau]

Oh please. Don't go to WDW or DL or any theme park for that case if crying kids and kids having temper tantrums bother you. Go to an adults only resort to spend your vacations. I doubt Walt Disney built these parks with the adults here in mind, they were built for children first and foremost. I never understood adults complaining about children's actions at a THEME PARK.

I thought Walt wanted something that people of all ages could enjoy, mostly because of his disgust and annoyance at the pathetic and grubby places that existed when he attempted to take his own children for a day out? It's been a more recent development for Disney Parks to design primarily with toddlers in mind.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

LOL. Same. I pee WAY more often than my kids ever did. I probably stop at every restroom at Disney.

My husband on our most recent WDW/USO trip: "You have to go to the bathroom again!?"

Hey I can hold it but not if we're going on a ride. A show probably but if we're about to head to a ride I'm going to make usage of a restroom and if we're doing a lot of walking around..yup bathroom break we go lol.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

You know, I have to say, while I wouldn't consider Disney World cheap we really don't find it much more expensive than other tourist areas. DH and I were talking about it this winter while at our local ski hill. A lift ticket during the weekend is around $60 and that is only for about 7 hours. The ticket is cheaper than a single day ticket to WDW but it is open much longer too. The food and beverage prices are pretty close to QS prices and the resort prices are easily the same as a WDW moderate, and often more, and that's during the slow season.

Last year DH and I were discussing different places to go for an adults only get away. After running the numbers WDW kept coming out cheaper. Granted, we utilize the kitchenette heavily. We take snacks in with us and often make sandwiches and have bagels and such for breakfast. Part of the reason we do this is to save money but part is because, as someone mentioned up thread, after a few days of theme park food we are desperate for some real food. When we go with the whole family we get a villa with a full kitchen and the vast majority of our meals are made there.

I see people comment frequently that they can go to Europe cheaper than they can WDW. More power to them but the airfare alone would be more than we spend on a week at WDW.

Whenever those types of topics come up I find myself being the opposite with folks so I suppose that's another unpopular opinion.

See I can't compare WDW/USO with other trips.

It's not like we have ever said "hmmm what's cheaper Hawaii or Disney" (hint Hawaii was cheaper by a mile).

I compare like for like vacations. It doesn't make much sense for me to compare our upcoming Jamaica trip with WDW/USO (which BTW will be a lot less than WDW). Or our Vegas trip or our NYC trip or our ski trip (all of which were taken in 2017 in addition to WDW/USO). They all are different as far as expenses and ancillary expenses go.

But I concede that WDW/USO is NOT on the table for every vacation discussion and perhaps if it is maybe it makes more sense to compare IDK I personally would still likely not compare and this is probably because we do not want to visit WDW/USO every year.

 

[Boardwalk Jedi]

Cruises are overrated, corrupt and not worth your time.

 

[AndreaDM]

You know, I have to say, while I wouldn't consider Disney World cheap we really don't find it much more expensive than other tourist areas. DH and I were talking about it this winter while at our local ski hill. A lift ticket during the weekend is around $60 and that is only for about 7 hours. The ticket is cheaper than a single day ticket to WDW but it is open much longer too. The food and beverage prices are pretty close to QS prices and the resort prices are easily the same as a WDW moderate, and often more, and that's during the slow season.

Last year DH and I were discussing different places to go for an adults only get away. After running the numbers WDW kept coming out cheaper. Granted, we utilize the kitchenette heavily. We take snacks in with us and often make sandwiches and have bagels and such for breakfast. Part of the reason we do this is to save money but part is because, as someone mentioned up thread, after a few days of theme park food we are desperate for some real food. When we go with the whole family we get a villa with a full kitchen and the vast majority of our meals are made there.

I see people comment frequently that they can go to Europe cheaper than they can WDW. More power to them but the airfare alone would be more than we spend on a week at WDW.

I went to Cedar Point on Saturday and spent $24.94 on one chicken strip basket with fries, an extra side of fries and one large drink. I was not impressed!

Add me to the "camping is NOT a vacation" list, I don't like it when going to another destination, and camping just to camp is the most boring thing ever.

I LOVE museums and art galleries, I read most of the little plaques too.

 

[Turn the Page]

Whenever those types of topics come up I find myself being the opposite with folks so I suppose that's another unpopular opinion.

See I can't compare WDW/USO with other trips.

It's not like we have ever said "hmmm what's cheaper Hawaii or Disney" (hint Hawaii was cheaper by a mile).

I compare like for like vacations. It doesn't make much sense for me to compare our upcoming Jamaica trip with WDW/USO (which BTW will be a lot less than WDW). Or our Vegas trip or our NYC trip or our ski trip (all of which were taken in 2017 in addition to WDW/USO). They all are different as far as expenses and ancillary expenses go.

But I concede that WDW/USO is NOT on the table for every vacation discussion and perhaps if it is maybe it makes more sense to compare IDK I personally would still likely not compare and this is probably because we do not want to visit WDW/USO every year.

It's usually not on the table until we start running numbers for other vacations and find it is more than we want to spend.

Hint: I chose random dates in May 2019. Flights to Orlando start at $228 while flights for the same dates to Honolulu start at just under $1200. For a family of 4 that is about $1000 for airfare vs $4800. I will assume a hotel room with a mini fridge in both locations so food would likely be a wash. Something tells me the beach view luxury hotel room on Waikiki Beach above posters are talking about isn't that much cheaper for a week than renting points for a studio at SSR, certainly not $1800 cheaper which would be the difference between the airfare to Hawaii and airfare to Orlando plus park tickets for four. And that isn't even counting any attractions you do in Hawaii or souvenirs.

So yeah, Hawaii and Europe are more expensive for us than WDW. I'm glad it works for you, but it doesn't for us.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

It's usually not on the table until we start running numbers for other vacations and find it is more than we want to spend.

Hint: I chose random dates in May 2019. Flights to Orlando start at $228 while flights for the same dates to Honolulu start at just under $1200. For a family of 4 that is about $1000 for airfare vs $4800. I will assume a hotel room with a mini fridge in both locations so food would likely be a wash. Something tells me the beach view luxury hotel room on Waikiki Beach above posters are talking about isn't that much cheaper for a week than renting points for a studio at SSR, certainly not $1800 cheaper which would be the difference between the airfare to Hawaii and airfare to Orlando plus park tickets for four. And that isn't even counting any attractions you do in Hawaii or souvenirs.

So yeah, Hawaii and Europe are more expensive for us than WDW. I'm glad it works for you, but it doesn't for us.

I'm not going to into a full scenario here of costs--it wouldn't make any sense to anyways..you don't live where I live you don't necessarily travel like I do, etc all of which would go into cost analysis but I wasn't insinuating anything not sure why you took it to a "I'm glad it works for you, but it doesn't for us." territory

All I was saying was that I don't compare my vacations I take to each other in terms of overall costs unless they are like for like. This is the unpopular opinion thread so I shared mine in comparison to yours even stating it as such

 

[Turn the Page]

I went to Cedar Point on Saturday and spent $24.94 on one chicken strip basket with fries, an extra side of fries and one large drink. I was not impressed!

Add me to the "camping is NOT a vacation" list, I don't like it when going to another destination, and camping just to camp is the most boring thing ever.

I LOVE museums and art galleries, I read most of the little plaques too.

We do enjoy camping. We don't hang around the site all day though. We enjoy hiking and swimming and things like that.

I'm telling you, after sitting around the local ski resort and seeing the $3 price tag for a fountain drink and $300 plus a night for a standard room it really makes me wonder how much more expensive WDW really is than other locations. Now yes, of course a week in WDW is more expensive than camping at the local state park but when you start talking about hotels, airfare, and attractions the prices sky rocket fast.

 

[RangerPooh]

I prefer the mountains over the beach. And not the rolling hills out here in western Tennessee, but the Sierra Nevada Mountains back home. I prefer the smell of pine tress and mountain misery near a stream any day over the sound of the ocean and other peoples music. I don;t care to pick sand out of my bathing suit region either.

 

[Turn the Page]

Whenever those types of topics come up I find myself being the opposite with folks so I suppose that's another unpopular opinion.

See I can't compare WDW/USO with other trips.

It's not like we have ever said "hmmm what's cheaper Hawaii or Disney" (hint Hawaii was cheaper by a mile).

I compare like for like vacations. It doesn't make much sense for me to compare our upcoming Jamaica trip with WDW/USO (which BTW will be a lot less than WDW). Or our Vegas trip or our NYC trip or our ski trip (all of which were taken in 2017 in addition to WDW/USO). They all are different as far as expenses and ancillary expenses go.

But I concede that WDW/USO is NOT on the table for every vacation discussion and perhaps if it is maybe it makes more sense to compare IDK I personally would still likely not compare and this is probably because we do not want to visit WDW/USO every year.

I'm not going to into a full scenario here of costs--it wouldn't make any sense to anyways..you don't live where I live you don't necessarily travel like I do, etc all of which would go into cost analysis but I wasn't insinuating anything not sure why you took it to a "I'm glad it works for you, but it doesn't for us." territory

All I was saying was that I don't compare my vacations I take to each other in terms of overall costs unless they are like for like. This is the unpopular opinion thread so I shared mine in comparison to yours even stating it as such

The bolded on the first quoted post is why. If you say (hint Hawaii was cheaper by a mile) I'm not sure why you are confused why I point out why Hawaii is in fact not cheaper for us.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

The bolded on the first quoted post is why. If you say (hint Hawaii was cheaper by a mile) I'm not sure why you are confused why I point out why Hawaii is in fact not cheaper for us.

Yeah..ok..you want to go around and around *shrug* I don't not feeling up for it today. I simply responded to you with my unpopular opinion to your unpopular opinion guess I won't in the future

 

[china mom]

I love traveling alone. I like DH and the kids but I am over vacationing with them. DH gets to stressed out about everything and makes everyone else miserable. The kids are OK but I am tired of telling them "look away from your iPad/phone/game and look out the window - you are missing everything"