Former Disney Imagineer says theme parks now more stressful, less fun for families
Former Disney Imagineer says theme parks now more stressful, less fun for families
Theme parks like Disney World have been popular for decades, but are the high ticket prices, long lines, and stress associated with the modern-day experience worth the hassle anymore?
Where has this guy been?
When my wife and I went to Disney World in 1996, we planned nothing in advance. We found ourselves waiting in massive lines for rides and spending hours waiting for tables in restaurants. We realized we screwed up and we had to do better.
That was 27 years ago. Since then, we had kids and raised them to adulthood.
Every trip after that we scheduled reservations in advance. Every morning we wake up, we know what park we are going to. We spend about 20 minutes every day we are there planning that day's activities, and we roll with whatever changes we encounter.
I don't understand how having a plan in place in advance of your vacation somehow makes it more stressful. I've always thought it was easier to not have to wonder what we'll be doing and where we'll be going during our Disney trips.
Are there really people who insist on just showing up with no plan and then blame Disney when they are stressed?
Also, it seems like most of the Disney criticism I see is coming from Fox news in some form or another. Is that just my news feed, or is it an extension of the culture war that the right is trying to foment?
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Are you joking?? What sort of super extrovert are you, and why do you think everyone is like that? I've never been to Disney world or wherever and it's SPECIFICALLY because of what you just typed!! Bloody nightmare. Just get me a cabin somewhere.
This has 0 to do with intra/extraversion, that’s plain ol’ anxiety
Please don't confuse introversion with anxiety, they are different.
https://infjmalepsychology.com/why-do-introverts-hate-crowds-5-interesting-reasons/
The only (possibly) extrovert thing in there was booking reservations? I would assume you would also have to book that cabin.
They described A MASSIVE CROWDED AMUSEMENT PARK THAT REQUIRES CONSTANT PLANNING AND SURPRISES AND HUMAN CONTACT. And then go "oh the only thing said was for extroverts was maybe making reservations"
Are you for real? You either don't know what extroversion is or maybe trolling.
I was specifically talking about what OP said, which is literally just planning and booking reservations. I did not know planning was an extrovert trait.
"We found ourselves waiting in massive lines for rides and spending hours waiting for tables in restaurants. We realized we screwed up and we had to do better."
"Every morning we wake up, we know what park we are going to. We spend about 20 minutes every day we are there planning that day's activities, and we roll with whatever changes we encounter."
Did you not read the post? Am I being trolled? How are people telling me this is the same as renting a cabin lmfao did I take crazy pills?
Dude I’m not gonna argue with you but honestly you sound socially anxious if waiting in line is hard for you.
Educate yourselves, y'all!
INTROVERTS IN GENERAL DON'T LIKE CROWDS AND ITS NOT BECAUSE THEY'RE ANXIOUS.👏👏👏
Super introvert here and a few years back, I did a Disney World trip. When I did it, you booked everything online (and I mean everything, down to FastPasses for rides six months in advance.) This also included restaurant bookings, as well as the hotel itself.
Not sure how it works now, but back then, we actually got the Magic Band wristband shipped to us ahead of time. With these wristbands, we could get into our hotel room - we didn't even need to go to the front desk to check in.
So yeah, regardless of whether you'd enjoy it or not, Disney did make it very easy to build an experience on your own online without needing to interact with a bunch of people.
It's not extroverted to book a reservation. Particularly since Disney let's you do it online without talking to anyone. I'd say it's less extroverted than replying to a post on Lemmy.
I'm not sure why you're focusing on booking a reservation because there's a lot more (obvious) things to Disney world that introverts aren't going to like other than booking reservations.
I think mostly because that's what the article was talking about: the need to book plans in advance (as well as the price) being the critical factor in the stress of the Disney World vacation.
The article wasn't really about people who don't like being in crowds.
I got that. I was never trying to argue that at all. The only thing I was trying to comment on was what I interpreted as OPs exasperation at how anyone at all would want to avoid that vacation, when to me even with all the planning and reservations and everything they described it is still asking a lot from introverts, even if it's way easier than just winging it without a plan.
My exasperation was more about someone suddenly discovering that WDW required planning, as if that hasn't been the case for the last three decades.
So why is it so crazy to suggest that that planning itself would be off putting for some people, regardless of how easy they've made it? is that not what many people (disproportionately introverts) specifically go on vacations to get away from? The bigger the park gets, the more people that go, the more things require planning, and the more off putting it is for the folks like myself who just wanna sit and relax. They're not making it easier for these folks regardless of how streamlined booking a hotel or reserving a dinner table is, because the park itself is inherently off putting and the bigger it gets it only gets worse.
It seemed like you weren't remembering these people exist at all, which is why I commented in the first place.
Edit: less rambling Tl;Dr: making planning easier doesn't make planning more fun for people who don't like planning. These people will be stressed no matter what, and the source of stress is the Disney park