friend of mine from college goes every year with her parents and siblings, nieces etc.

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'Your AT&T Universal Card has arrived'? Oh God, Kick-fucking-ass, I got a Master Card! I don't believe it, man. Life is kinda cool sometimes.

I'm not a fan either



Ugh...that sounds like punishment.

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It's hot, surrounded by kids having meltdowns, expensive, food isn't very good, seems manufactured/material there is a phoniness to it, lines can be rough, rides aren't very good, too many people, they ruined Star Wars.

Shows are good as is service, but there are so many better vacations to take. Their cruises are excellent.

people spend their money on a lot of things others consider dumb.

if you go to Florida between April and September...well, that's on you. I've eaten at nearly all of the high-end restaurants at the parks, resorts, and Disney Springs. The food does not suck.

the keys to the kingdom tour was excellent. i highly recommend it.

also...July sucks.

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I was just fucking around, but Disney can be awesome. Granted my kids are young so some of those things on your list aren’t as relevant for me, but the last trip we had there was one of my all time favorite vacays.

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I don't think the food sucks, it's okay/not great especially for the cost. There are only a couple places in Spings I would recommend. What restaurants did you like?

Keys to the kingdom tour would be cool.

If I want to get away from kids, crowds, subpar foods, and manufactured phoniness, a cruise definitely seems like the thing to do.

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The shows and activities were good, the food was okay - banquety and included I think so there wasn't the sticker shock like in restaurants and there was some cute stuff in the dining rooms, getting on and off the boat for excursions was good, from memory most of the kids and the parents on the ship were pretty well behaved which has not been our experience at the parks. Everything was branded and service was phenomenal. We said at the time it's like if you took all the good of Disney and left all the bad you have the cruise. Felt like it was more about time than stuff. No lines, no hot weather, the parks always seem like a bit of a let down. you pay thru the nose for a cruise though.

The food is really good if you know where to go.

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You do not talk to me like that! I work too hard to deal with this stuff! I work too hard! I'm an important member of the CSFMB! I drive a Dodge Stratus!

San Angel Inn at Epcot is one of our favorites. Captain's Grille at Yacht and Beach Club is another good one. Liberty Tree Tavern at Magic Kingdom is kind of hidden, but is also good.

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My wife just got back from the area....she dog-sitted while our daughterand S-I-L stood up in a wedding out of town. Yes, July in FL sucks. I was glad to be home here

I'll re-iterate, repeated Disney isn't for me. It is for many others. That's cool. NOLA is my place I could visit once a year. I'm sure others think that's silly. NOLA also sucks in July.

July DiCaro also sucks 12 months out of the year

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I love New Orleans in July! It can't be too hot for me.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

Do you even use one button in NOLA?

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Hawaii (fuck) You

Only in Antoine's and Galatoire's.

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Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up to The Hill
With Elon, Tulsi, and Don

The Yachtsman, Narcoossee's, California Grill, Chefs de France, Monsieur Paul, Homecoming, Le Cellier, Teppan Edo, Enzo's, The Edison, Hangar Bar, The Boathouse, Jiko, Ohana, Tusker House, Via Napoli, Flying Fish, and Yak & Yeti.

...are a few places I would recommend.

I would go to NOLA once a year...in January.

I would go back to Colorado and hike mountains like I did Friday, Sunday, Monday, and yesterday. That was most definitely not a relaxing vacation. hardest shit I have done since football two-a-days.

Hawaii? Let's go!

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I don't know the resort ones, maybe that's the issue, but I would think as with the the park food it would come off as banquety which isn't horrible or completely their fault. The only one in Springs that I liked was the boathouse, I didn't really like Enzos, Hangar bar was okay just not my thing. I feel like I always have better food offsite. Antonios Maitland and the whiskey are good places.

I think the Ritz Carlton at Disney had a brunch or dessert buffet that I wanted to go to but Covid.

The only buffet type place is Tusker House. The remaining places are traditional "restaurants" and do not have a banquet feel to them. Only five of the 18 places I listed are at resorts.

If you want banquet feel dining, then make reservations at Be Our Guest.

Try the grey stuff, it's delicious. Don't believe me? Ask the dishes."

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I think the food at the resorts would be banquety like a wedding or hotel food or something. Just not my thing, even the good ones are just not usually my thing.

None of the restaurants I mentioned are like that tho.

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I enjoy my time at Disney but hope to never be able to utter the words "my favorite Disney restaurant"

It's fun but at the end, you see the bill and realize you could have gone to the actual places Disney replicates for a similar price

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O judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,
And men have lost their reason.

Spaulding day drinking and whining about restaurants she has never been to in the DiCaro thread is peak CFMB. Bravo there kid. Another Prosecco for you!

I’d add Citricos to that otherwise comprehensive list. Generally speaking, the food at the resorts seems better than the parks.

And now that they serve alcohol everywhere the experience is much improved.

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Yes that's exactly what happened.

when i was a kid every year we'd go to niagra falls. i began to despise going to niagra falls. even when i went 10 years later, i was like meh. So i too would not be able to get around going over and over again (we have a guy at work who he and his kidless wife go 3 times a year, thats wierd) But every 4 or 5 years, i'm in. i'm literally a giant cheapskate everywhere else so cost wise, whatevs.

German place was a buffet I thought? I am not a Disney person but whatever floats your boat. I'm also not a go to the same place every year person either so maybe that is part of it but the crowds really wore me down, as did chasing kids. I hadn't been to a Disney property since I was 2 but it was a rough week with the kids 8 or so years ago when we did it. Maybe if my family had been more into it I would have felt differently and maybe if my boys had enjoyed it more but the characters kind of freaked them out.

We took my kids to Disney World in January of 2019 when they were 18 and 15 and it was the best vacation we ever had together. We felt bad for the parents with strollers and all that shit. We came and went easily as we pleased with ease and it was amazing. We will likely never go again until we have grandkids perhaps. I admire the parents of young stroller-aged kids dealing with all the shit that goes along with that, they are hard-core.

Oh, and I just got back from Vero Beach and can attest that Florida is a living hell in July. I’ll take 6
months of winter over one July in Florida, fuck that shit.

I went to Disney two years ago. My sister has a time share for resorts. So the price was good. We divided it by 6 of us. My Dad, me, two sisters, two brother in laws.

We had fast passes for rides cuz of her deal. So that was cool.

We ate at this buffet place at the Magic Kingdom, and I thought the food was excellent. I have no idea the name of it. But it was in the park.

My sister just led us around. She knows the place. She goes 3 times a year to Disney stuff. Be it Disney World or cruises. She and her girl love it.

I didn't think I would like it that much when I agreed to go. But I did. I actually loved it. 2nd time I've been. First time was when I was 6.

I think they do everything first class at Disney.

She realizes wrestling isn't real right? Are bad guys in fiction to be fired from their jobs for saying mean scripted lines?

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Why are only 14 percent of black CPS 11th-graders proficient in English?

So, from a girl chained to your furnace, to your choice of vacations, your entire life is a fantasy camp?

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