Disney World One Star Reviews 2023

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Music.

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Welcome back to another meeting of the Gold Key Adventurer Society.

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My name is Dan Leonard. Hi Dan. And joining me this week in the studio is the one, the only, Mr.

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Jeff Williams. What, what? Hey, that's me. It sure is.

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www .gatortheworldtravel .com for more details and a no obligation quote on

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the vacation of a lifetime Dan that might have been your peppiest read of our intro yet. I like it.

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Mid sentence I decided I was going to try for like a Morning zoo kind of feel I like it.

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It needs more like bicycle horn honks though I'll have those in post.

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Yeah I will never do this. Let it go. Oh yeah. Well, um.

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So if you've seen this every so often on social media, we get,

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we get these posts where they share and it's all one star Yelp reviews of some

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of America's most popular national parks. Oh yeah. Yeah.

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That started going around the, around the interwebs lately. Here's a couple of ones that I.

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Closest pop -up ad. Badlands National Park.

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Have you ever been to the Badlands? I have not, but I am familiar with it.

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It's in Western South Dakota there.

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And the one -star review says, you lose cell service because you're in Nowhere, USA.

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Yeah. Yeah. It's the Badlands.

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Right. It's in the name.

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Bruce Springsteen wasn't writing about it because it's urban.

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Right. Or this one -star review of Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico.

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Unless you find big caves and rocks overwhelmingly fascinating,

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skip this one. Skip it! Yeah.

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Yeah, who would have thought a big cavern would be just a cave?

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Right. Although I kind of agree with him. I've been to some of our national,

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our state cave parks here, and I get in there and I'm like, yep,

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big old hole in the ground.

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Right. Yeah, I get it.

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Ooh, or in Hawaii, Haleakala National Park? I believe it's Haleakala. Sure.

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You're the native Hawaiian speaker. You can... That's right.

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Yes. So the review on this one says, do yourself a favor and just Google pretty

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sunrise and save yourself the disappointment.

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Now I have done that experience before when I was a kid. Everybody would come to visit Hawaii.

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We would go up to the Haleakala and watch the sunrise. And you got to get up

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at one in the morning to traipse up there and do it. But it is fabulous.

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Even as a little kid, I could appreciate it. So this guy's a loser.

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Yeah, I mean, I can't imagine being disappointed by.

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Probably very many views at all. I mean like you're up above the cloud level

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looking down on the sun rising like through the clouds. Majestic.

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It's really pretty incredible in the middle of paradise. You know,

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some, some people are just not into anything, right? Yeah, that's the problem.

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Yeah. So I saw these posts popped up a few days ago and it got me thinking,

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got me wondering what kind of one star reviews would we find for Walt Disney world? Yelp.

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And it's a little bit bleak to be honest. Some of them, some of them are really funny.

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Some of them are kind of infuriating. Most of them have a little bit of truth

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tucked somewhere in between the

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unreadable spelling errors or the major entitlement issues of the guests.

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Also, I kind of noticed that the most of them fall into at least one of three main categories.

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People are upset because either they needed to do some research before they

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went or even better, book with the travel advisor.

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Number two, they need to learn to temper their expectation. And number three,

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some of them are, to be honest, valid complaints that we've addressed before.

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In a recent episode, prices keep going up and the perceived perks,

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the value for that money kind of keeps getting degraded.

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So I thought maybe this week we could take a look at some of the best examples,

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laugh at the inscrutable grammar and talk about the simple things that we could

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do to fix the perspective or the experience for these people and turn the one

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-star review into five stars.

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And I am hoping, and I believe when they say that a lot of these kinds of things

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that people are complaining about are going to be fixed in 24.

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There's a real push towards fixing a lot of the issues with some of the perceived

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value and what you get for it, as well as the app itself is.

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You know, being tweaked. So I'm very hopeful for the future.

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They have had a rough few years here.

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Yeah, they have. I mean, they've even just recently dropped some improvements

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to things like the experience of booking dining. Yep.

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That that are going to be really nice. So hopefully that continues over with

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some of the other guests experience.

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I want to start off with a one star review. Read to me, Uncle Dan.

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You want me to sit on your lap?

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Through the magic of the internet, sure. As long as you stay firmly in Alabama.

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Let me put the lotion in the basket first.

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All right, this is the worst hotel review I could find for Walt Disney World Hotel Trip Advisor.

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One star, never again. Wish I could give zero stars.

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Absolutely awful from start to end. The check -in line was so atrociously long

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that we waited almost an hour before we got to the counter.

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I couldn't help but notice that housekeeping was woefully understaffed or just

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plain terrible at their jobs as the whole place was covered in cobwebs and dust.

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The bellboys were absolutely obnoxious when trying to catch the lift to our rooms.

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They were always hovering for tips I assume, but they couldn't even bother with

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a simple smile and their attempt at conversation was macabre at best.

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If you thought housekeeping was bad, maintenance was worse. Clearly they were

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having electrical issues as the lights kept flickering and don't even bother taking the elevators.

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After that experience, I didn't even bother staying the night for fear of what

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the rooms are like. Overall, disgusting and unsafe hotel.

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That is amazing. Let me guess, the Hollywood hotel.

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That's right. Yes, that was a review for the Hollywood Tower Hotel.

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That's fantastic. That's so clever. Yeah, I enjoyed that.

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And that's going to be the most delightful one. Was that submitted by Dan Leonard?

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No, I wish I was that clever. Yeah, I wish you were too. I think our listeners wish you were.

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I'm just going to start back at the top of my list now. One star review for

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Indiana Jones stunt spectacular.

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This one I just thought was funny. Waste of time, long wait,

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and finally they showed the five minute show, which anyone can do.

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You don't need to come to Disney to see this terrible.

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Anybody, just anybody off the street can do what they do in that. Yeah, exactly. Right.

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I see that in my street racing around my neighborhood all the time.

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And then the German mechanic comes out and they… Airplanes and… Yeah.

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And who among us doesn't have a 600 -pound rock ball they can run away from just here at the house?

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I wish. I actually would involve that in my fitness routine.

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Push that ball up to the hill and then run down and let it chase me.

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I've found a funny one for the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train ride,

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and there's snippets from it are just so funny and so uneducated. What?

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80 minutes for that? If you have little kids, okay, maybe, but this is not a

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ride any self -respecting thrill seeker should be waiting for. Way way way overhyped.

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I love many of the rides in Disney, I appreciate the artistry,

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I know it's not all about big drops, but this is a kiddie runaway train ride

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all about the dwarfs, which very few kids are even into.

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I mean, where is Snow White? That's the end of the thing.

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Well, she's at the end of the ride, but it is called the Seven Dwarfs Mine Train.

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So the fact that it's a runaway train ride all about the dwarfs should not be lost on this guy.

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Right. And this is one of those, this is one of those reviews.

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I found several of these too, where they're complaining and they give it one

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star, but all of their complaints are exactly what the attraction is supposed to be. Yeah.

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Nobody said it was going to be top speed dragster, you know,

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some sort of over the top roller coaster.

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And that ride, you can walk around it and see several of the drops and turns

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to see it's, you know, it's a runaway cart ride, kind of like big thunder or whatever.

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It shouldn't have been a surprise. And the description when the ride height

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is only 38 inches or whatever, that's a good indicator. I should give it away.

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Yeah, I had a similar one for rock and roller coaster One star not for everyone.

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I absolutely hated this ride. It goes from 0 to 60 in about 3 seconds There

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are many twists and turns and loops that made me feel sick by the end of the ride.

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I would never ride again So it's a roller coaster It goes fast Around it goes

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up and down hills and you flip upside down I thought it would be more like a dark ride, I guess.

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I forgot the closing line of

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the seven dwarfs review I just talked about was, hi ho, how about hi no?

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So the guy is a jerk, but that's pretty clever. Yeah, I had a similar,

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I had a good clever line on this one here.

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Here's a one star review for the Hoop -dee -doo Magic, Hoop -dee -doo Musical Review.

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And the headline is, one star, Hoop -dee -don't.

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Oh, I hate that. I love that show so much. Yeah. Well, and here's some highlights.

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I'll tell you the kind of person who is enjoying this. Again,

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this is one of those ones where maybe do a little bit of checking on what a

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show or an attraction is about because not everything is made for everybody to enjoy.

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Wait, are you saying that people as humans like different things?

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I know, it's shocking. We're all supposed to be the same and yet we're different.

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How can anyone like this show? Are the positive reviews from people who never

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have anything bad to say about anything?

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I consider our family of average sophistication. My wife and I like the blue

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collar comedy tour. Yeah.

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My girls are six and 10 for comedy. They like Zack and Cody and Hannah Montana.

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They also hated the hoop to do review.

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There aren't enough cute boys. So Oh, the food was just okay.

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Most of the men were there for the unlimited beer and wine.

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Sadly, it was light beer, which to me isn't beer at all.

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You're eating, you're eating all that fat and carbs yet drinking beer flavored water to save calories.

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What? I think they have a few you can choose from even I don't know.

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I don't actually remember but that's a weird one. Yeah.

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I could see that. Maybe the hokum isn't for everybody of that show, but I don't know.

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Yeah. Oh and he ends with saying if you grew up liking hee -haw,

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this is probably the show for you. Yeah, I could see that and I did.

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So I like cheesy hokum like that. And I, I, I feel bad for people that can't let go.

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And although I will admit, I was, I was reticent to go to it till I was.

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Someone bought tickets for me to go and I wound up loving it.

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So I will say that I thought, Oh, that's going to be cheesy.

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Cause I had seen the Hula show. Aloha show.

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They used to have Luau show. And I did not really care for that one,

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because I have been to real ones in Hawaii and thought the family and Ohana

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overlay of that one was kind of bad. But I love Hoop.

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Yeah, I mean, I really appreciate his idea that his standard for sophistication

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is the Blue Collar Comedy Show. Yeah, I'm pretty sophisticated.

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I'm into the Blue Collar Comedy Show.

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I like this one. And you just can't please some people with all of the amazing

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animatronics and technology and stuff that we have.

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This is a one -star review of Frozen Ever After.

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I was disappointed in this ride, but that's probably because they didn't change

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it much from what it used to be before it was revamped to just be a tourist

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trap for people who like Frozen. The ride is called Frozen.

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Well it's certainly packed full of robots now. The track is the same from what I remember.

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There used to be a troll at the end, but now it's just an abominable snowman.

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You still find yourself sailing backward at one point. I don't know what I expected.

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Maybe for them to build something new and not just re -skin an existing ride. Shame on me, I guess.

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I mean, sure. It was only closed for like four months or something.

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Right. That's what you can do. But in New Robots.

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To be honest, the ride's fine. It is fine. It's not a headlight.

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And especially for little kids that love Frozen, that is exactly as billed.

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Yeah, again, not everything is for everybody. And everybody always acts like

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the thing they took out was the most amazing thing.

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Like Maelstrom was fine, but if you like, you know, oil derricks and trolls,

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you know, maybe you miss that. But it was never that great.

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It was always something good to do and cool off, but then everybody would blow

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past the historical film about the actual beautiful country of Norway.

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So nobody watched that anyway. Right.

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Yeah. I, the, the nostalgia factor is weird there.

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And actually where's, Oh, let me find it. I've got one that,

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oh yeah, there it is. I titled these to make it easier to find.

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One star review not worth the money. I have no idea why people enjoy Disney

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parks these days. When I was a kid, these played fun.

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There was lots to do and it felt like you couldn't get it all done in a day.

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Now these parks are just filled with people wandering around from line to line

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while they get ripped off all day. Guess what?

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That's what it was like when you were a kid. Yeah. You were a kid, so you were having fun.

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You didn't have the stress of being the parent trying to make sure that your

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kid had fun. And you didn't pay for it. Your dad did or whoever.

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Exactly. Yeah. this the lines were probably worse back in the day because there

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was no lightning lane or genies or,

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any kind of fast pass system and fewer attractions yeah far fewer right it's

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just more and more people now because it's funny as it's gotten more expensive

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more people are actually affording to go so everybody cries about how expensive

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it is but yet they you know in the same sentence they're Like,

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they've priced out the common man. And also, why is it so crowded?

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I've been there. These are not the elite people walking around in the parks.

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No. These are people that you're not going to be able to price out because they're

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going to go into crippling debt no matter what the interest cost is. Yes, this is America.

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Right. Yeah, exactly.

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Yeah, if they limit the number of people they let in, then they're just going

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to raise the prices more so that they don't make less money.

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This is actually a two -star review, but I thought the line was funny.

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This is about a little ride called the Haunted Mansion.

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He said, this was really just a nice ride through spider webs,

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ghosts, ghouls, and goblins.

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A few scary thrills on the way, I guess.

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Yeah. That's, again, exactly as Bill.

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I mean, it's not meant to be Halloween Horror Nights. What did you expect?

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At a family park. What's with all the spiderwebs, ghosts, and ghouls in here?

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Haunted mansion. Yeah.

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Flight of Passage, one star, get ready, nerds. If you love standing in line

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for three, three plus hours with thousands of your friends you've never met,

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then this is the ride for you.

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Once inside, get ready for more magic as you queue up on your number as a guy

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on the screen who looks like Kramer from Seinfeld instructs you about what comes next.

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The ride itself will last approximately three minutes. Afterwards,

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you'll be in such shock and awe that you ask yourself, what just happened here?

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Did I just spend half my day that I paid 500 bucks for to experience that?

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It's been almost a month now since my family visited, and I'm still shaking

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my head about spending so much money for so little fun together as a family.

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I really just can't, I can't fathom how these people aren't having fun.

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Yes, it's expensive and all that, but I don't know. I think people need to relax.

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Yeah. And I think a lot of these are, they get home and they look at how much

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money they spent or they,

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but in the moment it seems like they're always having fun because lots of these

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people attach photos to their reviews and they're all full of people with their

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smiles on their faces and they appear to be having the most wonderful time ever

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and then they get home and yeah,

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I guess they fire up Yelp when that credit card bill comes.

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You must be right. Yeah, I think that's what it is.

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This is a line from two star one and a half, excuse me, star review of pirates

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of the Caribbean. And excuse me, yo ho, hold up.

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That's a long line for a slow moving boat cruise through scenes of animatronics

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playing where's Jack Sparrow, not a terrible escape though, if it's hot outside.

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It's like one of the most classic beloved rides of the entire parks.

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And one is available at every single one of the parks worldwide.

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This guy's like, I mean, I guess if you like robot pirates.

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What were these people expecting? I don't know. It's like they've never seen

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a dark ride or something.

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Maybe they're used to Six Flags where everything's a coaster or something.

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I guess, but people know what, I mean, Pirates of the Caribbean is.

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I don't know. I don't get it.

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Oh, and a lot of people complain that all this is, is a bunch of robots.

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That's my favorite. That's that's a running theme through several of these.

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Like all they did was spend a gazillion dollars of R &D to develop the most

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amazing animatronics available anywhere in the world.

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That's all it is. Yeah.

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Or Big Thunder Mountain Railroad. I think this is very boring.

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Nothing to look at the entire time.

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Have they not tried the goat trick? I mean, the entire thing is jam packed with

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props and gags and right.

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So much that I'm still seeing something new every time I write it.

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And if nothing else, you got beautiful views of the parks around every turn

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when you're up high and can, boy, have you ridden that thing at either park,

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Disneyland or Disney world? Have you ridden that during fireworks?

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Yeah. And that is special.

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Yeah, that is phenomenal. It's not easy to time it out, but if you manage it, then it is.

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Yeah, it's a little bit more intense at Disneyland because it's closer to where

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they fire the fireworks from, because it's kind of back behind the castle there.

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Disneyland is positioned a little closer to where the fireworks go off,

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but it's pretty amazing either way.

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They're right over your head. So all those fireworks that look like they're

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over the castle when you're watching from Main Street are really more over Big Thunder. Right. Yeah.

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Yeah, it's phenomenal. I wish I next time I go to Disneyland,

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I've got to try to make that happen.

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You know, I was thinking finally something to look at while I'm on this boring ride.

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Yeah. Besides the dinosaur bones and wheels and steam and explosions and dynamite

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and goats and animatronics. Everything else. Yeah.

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It's jam -packed with stuff, but nothing to see here, folks.

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To see here space mountain while we're on attraction still.

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Oh, this is just the last line is the best bet.

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Waited in line for an hour and a half for space mountain it broke down and we

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did not receive proper guidance on when it would be fixed very disappointed

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in walt and the disney family.

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They were sitting around smoking pickled cigs designing that one themselves,

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that's funny this one is this line is also from space mountain did you know

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that it only goes 35 miles per hour and the max drop is only 26 feet. This is a small coaster.

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I do always feel like I'm going to get decapitated though.

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Yes, to both of those. Yeah. That is a, what do they call that?

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A caged mouse or something, that type of ride. So it's real tight turns.

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You're going pretty slow, but it feels like you're going a thousand miles an hour in there.

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Yeah. Especially at Disneyland. I couldn't think to myself, there's no way this is safe, but it is. Yeah.

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Yeah. Especially at Disneyland. It feels a lot faster there.

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Yeah. And it's got a nice smooth, they rounded out some of the turns and stuff.

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I think the, I think, I don't know this for sure, but I think the track at Disney

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world is the same one it's always been.

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Yeah, they just keep on repairing it and adding more breaks to it to make you

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go slower and slower. And it's not a toboggan style at Disneyland.

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It's a side by side, normal modern coaster.

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And I don't know if when it opened, if it was toboggan style and they widened it or what.

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I could have researched that. If only there was a Google.

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If only i'm trying

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to see if there's any more attractions i have on here i have

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some that are related to attractions because there's

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a lot of misunderstanding with the

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lightning lanes and i really enjoyed this this one here one star frozen in time

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experience whoever is responsible for allowing people on the ride needs to be

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castrated wow it was a horrible ass wait instead of advancing the line like

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someone with an IQ above 10,

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they decided to only keep letting the fast pass people in, which made the wait over two hours.

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Whoever you are, you suck.

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Wow, that is very specific and pretty extreme. I feel like that person might need a hobby.

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Yeah, maybe. Are we really castrating people anymore these days?

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Not in the United States that I'm aware of.

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Yeah, the fast pass thing and

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genie and lightning lane seems to be a real trend on these low reviews.

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Yeah, this one too, one star. We did not purchase the lightning pass because

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you can only use it on a minimum of rides and two to three times a day.

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We did the Cali Rapids and stayed at 45 minute wait time, ended up being 75

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minutes, et cetera, et cetera.

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There's a lot of misunderstanding. And part of that is to be honest the way

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Disney words things because they want to I don't know be Not clear.

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They want to cover their self up front just in case you don't get like six lightning

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lane things in a day, right?

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Yeah They sort of bill it as you could ride two to three attractions But really

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if you do it, right you can ride five or six depending on the day Now,

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yeah, if you're there on a day when Cali River Rapids is 75 minutes and you

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I mean, it's just crowded Right.

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I've never ever seen that ride that long.

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It's crowded and it's the hottest day of the summer or something. Yeah.

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We went on July 4th and I could only ride eight rides. I don't know what happened.

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This one's a little bit long, but the punchline has to do with that. So never again.

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We went in September as we were told it was slow season and additionally picked

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a day that was listed as light crowds on multiple crowd calendars.

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And I believe that either most people don't know what slow means or that these

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blogs deliberately leave off the phrase for Disney. Well.

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We might have been fine with the number of people, but we're constantly getting

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ran by Paris, not watching out with their strollers.

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The slow day, every ride had over 100 minute wait for the majority of the day.

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And the rides that did eventually drop down in 15 minutes for the carousel of

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progress and the people mover.

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We were only able to ride one ride on our must do list, the Haunted Mansion,

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right before the park closed.

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So here's the punchline, though.

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Also, I can't necessarily pin this on Disney, we're giving them a one -star

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review, but it's not their fault because half the park was closed for the day

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because a bear got into the park. Oh, yeah.

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Jack might explain the horrid wait times that day.

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Yes. We won't be going to the Magic Kingdom again, even though we just acknowledged

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that it's because the bear got into the park and closed everything down.

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Which clearly is a once in a million thing to happen.

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Right. So it should probably be the thing that you base your decision to never

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go back. I'll never go there again because I think I will never eat at this

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restaurant again because a car crashed through the window of the place when I was there.

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Right. My meal had glass in it, sir.

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A lot of people just don't quite get that times have changed too.

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This is a one star review, the headline of which is not worth it anymore.

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My first time at Walt Disney World was in the 1970s.

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Oh, sorry. Sorry, my last time at Walt Disney World was in the 1970s.

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I know that was a long time ago, but our tickets were $12.

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I have been many, oh no, I have been many times since then, but today's prices are outrageous.

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Not worth it. Many of the rides and shows are even still the same as they were

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when I went in the 70s. Yeah. Yeah.

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It's a classic. Yeah. But then this is the same kind of person that's going

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to get mad because they didn't have the ride he loved in the 70s.

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So it goes to show. You cannot win with folks if you change things.

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They don't like that if you keep them the same. Why didn't you change it?

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Yeah Exactly It's very disrespectful from Disney's part to charge 148 per person

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per day plus make us wait 95 minutes for each ride Once we were almost close

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to the ride Disney decides to cancel the ride in three different instances,

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Yeah, I bet they just made that decision randomly, right?

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I just like it's they're disrespecting you by making you wait in line.

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I don't know. Happiest place on earth. My ass is the headline of this one.

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Feel reluctant to write this review. However, in the hope, it may improve things

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for future guests. I feel the need to do so.

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It just goes on to cry about everything. Wait times and genie and everything

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else. But I did think that was kind of funny.

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Happiest place on earth. My ass.

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I mean, it's not that's Disneyland, right? Get it right.

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This is the most magical place on his ass, apparently. Right.

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I appreciated the hypocrisy in the opening line of this review.

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Alcohol in a children's park? Where's the smoking areas?

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Oh, yeah. It's pissed that they're selling booze in the Magic Kingdom,

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but also pissed that you can't smoke in the Magic Kingdom.

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I saw several of them talking about like there's nowhere to smoke at all in

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the parks. And I guess that would be a drag.

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I haven't smoked since they actually really, since I started going to Disney,

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I did used to smoke, but there used to be smoking areas all around the parks

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and they were disgusting.

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Honestly, like there was one that was right near where you would wait in at

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the old spot where you would get dull whips.

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There was a smoking section right next to that. So you're in a long line for

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a dull whip, just breathing in 35 smokers, secondhand smoke.

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I don't miss that, but it is far.

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You have to go all the way out of the parks and down by the river to have a cigarette.

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So I think I would do like most people and have a vape in there that I snuck.

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The words expressed here, by

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the way, are not condoned by Key to the World Travel. That's right. Never.

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Unless we're telling you to get a travel agent like some of these people needed

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to do like this one. my first worst Disney experience.

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Where do I begin? I reserved a room at the Polynesian using Disney's centralized booking system.

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I then tried to book dining by calling their 800 number, but because the wait

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time was a whole 30 minutes, I tried to send a simple email.

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Well, yeah, and then he's mad that they didn't book his dining form via email

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because that's not how the system works. That's not how that works. Yeah.

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Dear Disney World, I want to eat there.

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To whom it may concern, break me, fix my dining room.

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The open table didn't work, so I sent a carrier pigeon. I don't know what happened. It didn't work.

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This is waste of time and a lot, in capital letters, of money.

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We came all the way from New Zealand to come to Disney World, all one word.

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As had been told, it was so much better than L .A. Disneyland, two words.

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I completely disagree. They let way too many people into the parks,

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the cost is unjustifiable,

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and get this, we had four rides shut down after waiting for nearly an hour,

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and there were no apologies from the staff, just free FastPasses.

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So all they did was give him a FastPass to any other ride he wanted, all four times.

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But he didn't get an apology. I think the FastPass was the apology.

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Yes, exactly. But I was almost with them on some of those things.

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I mean, but I mean, yes, it's expensive and yes, to all of those things, but I don't know.

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If you want them to spend the 60 billion they've promised to spend in the next

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five years on the parks, they're gonna have to make the money. Right.

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10th circle of hell. People who pretend they like it here are lying.

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That's not hyperbole at all. No.

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If you want a similar experience for less, I recommend having your car towed

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at 2 a .m. and then going to the impound.

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You'll see the same type of crowds have shorter wait times, receive more polite

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service, have cleaner bathrooms and get more and healthier food options.

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Wow. This one is very succinct.

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Overrated, overpriced, overwoke, and I'm over it.

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That's the whole review. Yeah. And the woke thing keeps on popping up in newer reviews, too.

431
00:32:44,096 --> 00:32:48,016
Yeah. One star, this woke company Disney has destroyed itself,

432
00:32:48,336 --> 00:32:51,436
charging for rides and the app. They want to change our kids.

433
00:32:51,576 --> 00:32:55,836
They made an awful Indiana Jones 5 movie. Disney is dead in its current.

434
00:32:57,656 --> 00:33:03,256
One of these things is not like the other. These people just want to yell about Disney.

435
00:33:03,856 --> 00:33:06,456
They keep on saying these things that I don't think that they could even explain

436
00:33:06,456 --> 00:33:09,516
to you what they mean. Indy 5? Can you believe they had the nerve to make a

437
00:33:09,516 --> 00:33:10,956
woman one of the main characters?

438
00:33:12,736 --> 00:33:19,376
We all know that women aren't capable of, yeah, I did, I, they're not even funny

439
00:33:19,376 --> 00:33:20,796
anymore. They go woke, go broke.

440
00:33:20,896 --> 00:33:24,756
I got a couple of those, but they're just, I know they're so irritating because

441
00:33:24,756 --> 00:33:29,276
no one can even really describe what I can't find it now. But it was talking

442
00:33:29,276 --> 00:33:32,396
about how Disney has gone so woke.

443
00:33:32,556 --> 00:33:38,216
If I wanted to see a cowboy with pierced ears, I'd go somewhere else or something,

444
00:33:38,276 --> 00:33:42,076
you know, something like that. like talking about this, the cast members can

445
00:33:42,076 --> 00:33:46,196
have facial hair now, or a pierced ear or a tattoo.

446
00:33:46,216 --> 00:33:50,996
And like, you know, I keep reading stuff like that about how it takes me out

447
00:33:50,996 --> 00:33:55,176
of the magic. When I see that it's like, you mean when you see modern humans

448
00:33:55,176 --> 00:34:00,036
being right, human, but also did you really think you were in the old West?

449
00:34:00,136 --> 00:34:06,776
Cause in the fifties and sixties and seventies, These people at Disney parks

450
00:34:06,776 --> 00:34:11,316
looked like people from the 50s, 60s, and 70s. They just did.

451
00:34:12,536 --> 00:34:17,416
Yeah. Yeah. That's so frustrating. The whole, how many times have you seen the

452
00:34:17,416 --> 00:34:20,316
magic is gone or Walt would be rolling in his grave?

453
00:34:20,716 --> 00:34:25,856
No, he wouldn't. Walt's cryogenically frozen head is doing just fine in its cylinder.

454
00:34:28,376 --> 00:34:33,716
That's right. This person really didn't understand the point of Epcot, I think.

455
00:34:34,376 --> 00:34:37,996
In fact, they say that at all. I do not understand this park at all,

456
00:34:38,416 --> 00:34:42,056
and I'm quite disappointed they spent two hours at this park during the full

457
00:34:42,056 --> 00:34:43,316
day I spent out at Disney World.

458
00:34:44,056 --> 00:34:47,496
First of all, if you're trying to get the complete Disney experience in one

459
00:34:47,496 --> 00:34:50,316
day… A full day! Two hours at each park.

460
00:34:51,216 --> 00:34:55,816
Basically, you enter the park and they have an area with a few space rides and test track.

461
00:34:56,056 --> 00:34:59,096
There's a stage before you enter the rest of the park, which is a big circle

462
00:34:59,096 --> 00:35:02,236
of little areas that are themed based on different countries.

463
00:35:02,236 --> 00:35:07,056
At the different countries, all they have is small shops for gifts and a few restaurants and bars.

464
00:35:07,496 --> 00:35:10,716
I will say, the way each country and the shops, bars, and restaurants for the

465
00:35:10,716 --> 00:35:12,136
country were decorated was beautiful.

466
00:35:12,496 --> 00:35:15,676
It was clear that a lot of effort was taken to make the areas of the countries

467
00:35:15,676 --> 00:35:17,936
look authentic, and that is the park.

468
00:35:18,496 --> 00:35:23,296
Basically, you pay the price of admission to Epcot and then go spend money to

469
00:35:23,296 --> 00:35:24,776
eat, drink, and buy gifts.

470
00:35:25,256 --> 00:35:27,576
Yes. I think you summed it up, buddy. Right.

471
00:35:28,836 --> 00:35:31,896
Somebody owes you some money for writing their brochure for them,

472
00:35:31,956 --> 00:35:33,776
because... Yeah, exactly.

473
00:35:34,976 --> 00:35:38,756
Yeah, this wasn't anything but a permanent World's Fair. Oh, wait.

474
00:35:39,456 --> 00:35:44,256
Yes. Actually, I did see one that said exactly that. Oh, really?

475
00:35:44,836 --> 00:35:47,396
Yeah, that's literally what he wanted. Right.

476
00:35:48,416 --> 00:35:52,496
Right. But it's funny, because the World's Fair, I guess they don't even wonder

477
00:35:52,496 --> 00:35:55,116
when they stopped doing those. but that used to be the thing.

478
00:35:55,196 --> 00:35:59,756
Here's all the modern future marvels and here's cultures from around the world.

479
00:36:01,076 --> 00:36:05,636
And each country that hosted it would show off their modern marvels or their

480
00:36:05,636 --> 00:36:08,416
look at the future. It was exactly what Epcot is.

481
00:36:09,495 --> 00:36:12,355
People flocked from all over the world to see, and they still do.

482
00:36:12,755 --> 00:36:17,135
And when you got to those things, you paid to ride little rides, see displays.

483
00:36:18,095 --> 00:36:21,875
I don't know. I don't know what people want. I saw one complaining that Disney

484
00:36:21,875 --> 00:36:27,835
was racist because the Morocco pavilion looked like desert castle where you

485
00:36:27,835 --> 00:36:29,115
would see camels and stuff.

486
00:36:29,595 --> 00:36:32,475
And they're like, where's the modern cities? Where's the actual culture?

487
00:36:32,575 --> 00:36:38,095
So I was like, this is the most authentic of the pavilions because the country

488
00:36:38,095 --> 00:36:43,735
of Morocco themselves built it, sent their own designers and artisans over.

489
00:36:44,335 --> 00:36:47,615
Materials and everything. Of course, we've since run them out of there and now

490
00:36:47,615 --> 00:36:53,815
there's nothing at all to see or do in there, but that's a topic of another podcast.

491
00:36:54,515 --> 00:36:56,775
Right. Epcot Food and Wine Fest.

492
00:36:57,495 --> 00:37:01,275
Don't expect to be able to try a variety of food without overpaying.

493
00:37:01,395 --> 00:37:04,595
If you're seeking to try good food and wine from around the world, look elsewhere.

494
00:37:05,535 --> 00:37:12,995
So the food at food and wine averages about $5 for each of those little selections.

495
00:37:13,855 --> 00:37:17,935
Yeah, but if you want to eat 35 plates of food, Dan, that's going to cost you.

496
00:37:18,175 --> 00:37:21,255
I mean, the amount of food that's still reasonable compared to what you'd pay

497
00:37:21,255 --> 00:37:23,055
for it at a restaurant. I agree.

498
00:37:23,355 --> 00:37:29,755
I think the, I mean, the festivals to me, they all run together and I've complained

499
00:37:29,755 --> 00:37:34,955
about that myself before, but the food and all those things is pretty great

500
00:37:34,955 --> 00:37:37,435
and a pretty good value still right.

501
00:37:38,355 --> 00:37:39,955
Disney Springs, nothing special,

502
00:37:40,055 --> 00:37:45,095
not recommended unless you want to go and spend money. Yes, it is a mall.

503
00:37:45,715 --> 00:37:50,275
It is a great big shopping mall with restaurants and shops. That's what you do.

504
00:37:50,755 --> 00:37:55,675
That's that's how it's built. Even right. It was purpose built for that to keep

505
00:37:55,675 --> 00:37:59,635
the Brazilian and European shoppers from going to the outlet mall nearby.

506
00:38:00,515 --> 00:38:06,515
Right. This guest from the UK was very upset about the pricing and he closes

507
00:38:06,515 --> 00:38:10,215
his one star review by saying such a disappointment.

508
00:38:10,655 --> 00:38:14,995
I'll never go again. Save your money and go somewhere more inviting. Try Ukraine.

509
00:38:15,915 --> 00:38:20,475
She'd say that this was written in September of 2022. So, oh,

510
00:38:20,815 --> 00:38:24,855
that didn't age well at all. No. Yeah.

511
00:38:25,895 --> 00:38:31,515
He's got some very strong feelings, apparently. This is a straight up lie here.

512
00:38:32,135 --> 00:38:37,215
Paid almost $2 ,500 in tickets to just a few parks. That's, you know,

513
00:38:37,415 --> 00:38:38,415
that's kind of what it is.

514
00:38:38,935 --> 00:38:42,795
I had a child with a disability that needed the space that my enormous,

515
00:38:42,935 --> 00:38:45,415
I added the word enormous, wagon provided.

516
00:38:45,815 --> 00:38:49,935
They forced me to rent a park stroller, which was poorly built and hard as a

517
00:38:49,935 --> 00:38:56,415
rock, which made things worse. but then I saw dozens of other wagons just like

518
00:38:56,415 --> 00:38:59,535
mine after just walking around the park all willy -nilly.

519
00:39:00,340 --> 00:39:04,560
When I went to customer relations office, they actually laughed at my child's

520
00:39:04,560 --> 00:39:08,060
disability, sad and sick. Now that just did not happen.

521
00:39:08,480 --> 00:39:11,520
That did not happen. Absolutely not. They do.

522
00:39:11,980 --> 00:39:16,840
They go out of their way still to make sure that differently abled people have

523
00:39:16,840 --> 00:39:19,480
the right access and the easiest time there.

524
00:39:19,660 --> 00:39:23,380
I, there's no way in hell that actually happened. And I hate to see that because

525
00:39:23,380 --> 00:39:24,500
someone's going to believe it.

526
00:39:24,880 --> 00:39:29,580
Well, and they do. That is the only way you can bring those stroller wagons

527
00:39:29,580 --> 00:39:33,540
in is if you have legitimate Medical need for them.

528
00:39:33,620 --> 00:39:38,660
They will make exceptions to the wagon Yeah, and I've never seen dozens of those

529
00:39:38,660 --> 00:39:40,640
enormous wagons willy -nilly.

530
00:39:40,800 --> 00:39:43,780
I do see occasionally I'm like how'd they get that in here because it's not

531
00:39:43,780 --> 00:39:47,460
they're not supposed to be in there But I do see them from time to time but

532
00:39:47,460 --> 00:39:50,920
never dozens and they're certainly not willy -nilly Right.

533
00:39:51,060 --> 00:39:54,820
No Somebody just wasn't paying attention or didn't know us when they fold it

534
00:39:54,820 --> 00:39:57,260
up. It can be hard to tell Yeah, that's probably it.

535
00:39:57,860 --> 00:40:02,400
Yeah, probably folds up where they can pull it in suitcase style or something. Right.

536
00:40:03,680 --> 00:40:07,140
We decided to go to Hollywood Studios in disguise as a family because it was Halloween.

537
00:40:07,420 --> 00:40:10,740
When we were already inside the park, a worker approached us to tell us we could

538
00:40:10,740 --> 00:40:12,560
not wear masks with a costume.

539
00:40:13,180 --> 00:40:16,980
I think it's ridiculous that on Halloween they don't allow you to wear your full Disney costume.

540
00:40:17,920 --> 00:40:22,300
If only it said that on all of the literature and ticketing. Right.

541
00:40:23,820 --> 00:40:30,420
Then we see Disney defending freedom of expression, but we can't wear our masks. Oh, Lord. Yeah.

542
00:40:31,040 --> 00:40:34,700
And they're defending it by having these mustachioed men everywhere.

543
00:40:36,200 --> 00:40:40,600
Right. I wanted to see a cowboy with pierced ears.

544
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:47,700
I'd go somewhere else. OK, where exactly would you go? I don't know.

545
00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:56,940
A gay country and Western bar, I don't know. Which actually sounds pretty fun, too. Right. Yeah.

546
00:40:57,920 --> 00:41:00,660
This nutcase just hates scooters.

547
00:41:02,310 --> 00:41:06,600
Disney has got to stop giving those damn scooter cars to every lazy fat that

548
00:41:06,600 --> 00:41:09,380
wants to zip around cutting off walking pedestrians.

549
00:41:09,740 --> 00:41:14,460
This is the most obese country in the world and Disney only encourages sloth and gluttony.

550
00:41:14,840 --> 00:41:18,480
Only doctor prescribed scooter. Wow.

551
00:41:20,262 --> 00:41:26,162
He's got some feelings and they're strong. I so I have no issue with people needing a scooter.

552
00:41:26,302 --> 00:41:29,522
I've been with people that need a scooter for various reasons,

553
00:41:29,602 --> 00:41:32,902
a broken toe or whatever the issue is fine.

554
00:41:33,362 --> 00:41:37,862
The thing I will complain about with scooters is that when people are on them,

555
00:41:37,862 --> 00:41:41,642
they act like they're in a sealed vehicle and they're no longer a human being.

556
00:41:42,102 --> 00:41:45,722
They can't just tap your shoulders. Say, excuse me, could I get by?

557
00:41:45,842 --> 00:41:48,742
They honk at you like, no, you're a person.

558
00:41:49,222 --> 00:41:53,022
Right. Just say, excuse me, or you can, you know, your arms and all working

559
00:41:53,022 --> 00:41:56,962
fine. You could just tap me and say, excuse me, because I don't see you down there. I'm sorry.

560
00:41:57,062 --> 00:41:59,782
I just don't. Or that could slow it down a second.

561
00:42:00,102 --> 00:42:04,962
Yeah. And the way they really, even those, the ones that they ran out at Disney

562
00:42:04,962 --> 00:42:07,542
world, those are governored and they're still pretty fast.

563
00:42:08,102 --> 00:42:11,522
Yeah. But the, some of the ones that people bring in that are their own,

564
00:42:11,602 --> 00:42:14,682
I think those things go like 45 miles an hour. Right.

565
00:42:15,322 --> 00:42:19,782
Yeah. Like I'm sorry that you can't get around as well, but that doesn't mean

566
00:42:19,782 --> 00:42:22,722
you should get to go 30 miles an hour down Main Street.

567
00:42:24,062 --> 00:42:28,762
That does sound kind of fun. Oh yeah. In an empty park, I'd love to have a scooter race.

568
00:42:30,402 --> 00:42:36,042
Oh yes. How can we make that happen? I mean, we know where to rent scooters. Yep.

569
00:42:36,722 --> 00:42:39,802
And we know how to stay very late. But it's so crowded.

570
00:42:40,022 --> 00:42:43,802
No one told me there would be other people here. I will say if you if you were

571
00:42:43,802 --> 00:42:47,882
going to Disney thinking you're gonna get the experience from their commercials

572
00:42:47,882 --> 00:42:53,342
You think it's just you and your family in slow -mo in an empty park and here's

573
00:42:53,342 --> 00:42:57,762
the princesses all five of them waiting for you in the field out in front of the,

574
00:42:58,362 --> 00:43:02,062
Castle and there's nobody there and then you get there and like wait There's

575
00:43:02,062 --> 00:43:06,982
20 ,000 people in here that can be jarring if you've never left your house before

576
00:43:06,982 --> 00:43:09,502
to do it The actual public is like,

577
00:43:09,622 --> 00:43:14,742
yeah, and that leads to where could we fix these or where's the room for improvement?

578
00:43:14,902 --> 00:43:19,402
So the first one is, yeah, temper your expectations because remember that you're

579
00:43:19,402 --> 00:43:21,962
not the only one who wants to have that day.

580
00:43:22,162 --> 00:43:24,302
Every single person there wants to have that day.

581
00:43:25,162 --> 00:43:28,802
Everybody paid to be there. They're all standing in the same lines you are.

582
00:43:28,982 --> 00:43:36,662
So, and we've all said this before, that just planning ahead and knowing what you're getting into,

583
00:43:37,022 --> 00:43:40,762
even if you don't use a travel agent, which I think you should,

584
00:43:40,922 --> 00:43:44,882
especially since I own a travel agency, naturally, I'd lean towards that.

585
00:43:45,102 --> 00:43:48,482
But just doing a little research, know what you're in for.

586
00:43:50,654 --> 00:43:53,954
Find out what the rules are, find out how the systems work,

587
00:43:54,314 --> 00:43:59,114
ask your travel advisor to explain that to you because some of it can be a little

588
00:43:59,114 --> 00:44:03,494
complex, but you have to, you can't expect that you're just going to be able

589
00:44:03,494 --> 00:44:06,334
to run around and do whatever you want and be flexible.

590
00:44:06,654 --> 00:44:10,114
So the Disney day that you have in your head where your little darling gets

591
00:44:10,114 --> 00:44:14,994
to do this exact experience at this time in this way, we wanted to have this

592
00:44:14,994 --> 00:44:18,234
lunch with Cinderella followed by this thing.

593
00:44:18,234 --> 00:44:23,214
Well, you know, they can't have 20 ,000 people all doing that same thing.

594
00:44:23,534 --> 00:44:29,234
So if you don't get so specific and so demanding about what you have to do,

595
00:44:29,254 --> 00:44:32,694
if you just do the things that are available, they're all fun.

596
00:44:33,094 --> 00:44:36,274
So maybe this ride is not available right now, but here's another one.

597
00:44:36,334 --> 00:44:40,994
That's very fun. Or this, this dinner or lunch wasn't available, but guess what?

598
00:44:41,034 --> 00:44:46,254
There's 75 other restaurants that are amazing and lots of character greet opportunities

599
00:44:46,254 --> 00:44:49,474
and just go with the flow a little bit.

600
00:44:49,574 --> 00:44:54,994
And I know that seems against what they're trying to do now when everybody feels

601
00:44:54,994 --> 00:44:58,714
like you have to have your face buried in the app to do exactly what it's telling

602
00:44:58,714 --> 00:45:00,074
you, but you don't have to do that.

603
00:45:00,154 --> 00:45:04,134
You can kind of go with the flow, look and see what's available right now and go do it.

604
00:45:04,674 --> 00:45:10,014
Right. Yeah. And I think part of the problem with that is the free side of the

605
00:45:10,014 --> 00:45:14,514
genie section of the app where it does, you tell it what you're interested in

606
00:45:14,514 --> 00:45:17,094
and then it gives you a sample guide for your day.

607
00:45:17,294 --> 00:45:20,594
I never look at that because it never makes sense.

608
00:45:21,154 --> 00:45:24,334
Yeah, but so nobody else should look at it.

609
00:45:24,634 --> 00:45:28,914
I mean, well, honestly, if you look at, we've done that on the show before,

610
00:45:28,954 --> 00:45:30,254
where we've looked at these proposed.

611
00:45:32,492 --> 00:45:35,992
Itineraries and they're doing this in real time and what they're trying to do

612
00:45:35,992 --> 00:45:39,112
what this app is really trying to do is not to Make you have a good day.

613
00:45:39,152 --> 00:45:42,312
It's to make is to spread the crowds out to their thing.

614
00:45:42,432 --> 00:45:44,932
So if everybody's writing Whatever

615
00:45:44,932 --> 00:45:48,312
Space Mountain the line is super long Then if you look on the thing,

616
00:45:48,452 --> 00:45:53,372
it's gonna suggest that you go over to Frontierland and raw and do country bear

617
00:45:53,372 --> 00:45:56,892
jamboree so then you go over and do that and then next it's gonna send you to

618
00:45:56,892 --> 00:46:02,352
fantasy land to do this thing and And that's good for them spreading their crowds out,

619
00:46:02,412 --> 00:46:05,932
but it's not good for you unless you're trying to get a hundred million steps

620
00:46:05,932 --> 00:46:09,652
in for your day So it doesn't make any sense the way it sends you crisscrossing

621
00:46:09,652 --> 00:46:10,812
back and forth So honestly,

622
00:46:11,012 --> 00:46:15,472
it's best to get to an area of the park where there is something available on

623
00:46:15,472 --> 00:46:20,372
a genie ride that and then stick with the things that are nearby you cover that

624
00:46:20,372 --> 00:46:22,432
area till you move into a next one and.

625
00:46:23,032 --> 00:46:27,172
Don't crisscross back and forth because that's what gets frustrating Yeah,

626
00:46:27,192 --> 00:46:33,632
that's it's always seemed weird to me that they haven't addressed that it shouldn't be.

627
00:46:34,012 --> 00:46:39,332
I wouldn't think it would be that hard for them to make those genies suggestions

628
00:46:39,332 --> 00:46:42,132
more aware of where you are in the park.

629
00:46:42,272 --> 00:46:47,792
So I truly think and I don't know this, but I truly think those suggestions

630
00:46:47,792 --> 00:46:52,712
are literally just the algorithm trying to spread the crowd out on purpose.

631
00:46:52,712 --> 00:46:56,612
So it's sending you to areas of the park that are less populated on purpose.

632
00:46:56,952 --> 00:47:02,432
Right. But, but if you're, if you're just getting off of big thunder mountain,

633
00:47:02,432 --> 00:47:05,532
rather than sending you to space mountain, maybe it could send you to country

634
00:47:05,532 --> 00:47:10,892
bears or the T or the splash mountain or what Tiana's it will soon be.

635
00:47:11,072 --> 00:47:17,432
So yes, but it does not do that. And I, I feel like there's gotta be some reason for that.

636
00:47:18,472 --> 00:47:22,732
Cause it seemed like it would, you know, with geo fencing and all that, they know where you are.

637
00:47:25,016 --> 00:47:28,416
But I guess if they send you past enough restaurants and shops,

638
00:47:28,416 --> 00:47:32,896
maybe the likelihood that you stop and purchase something is higher.

639
00:47:33,756 --> 00:47:37,516
Yeah. I hate to be cynical, but that does make sense. Yeah.

640
00:47:37,936 --> 00:47:43,056
Well, it's like these awful Disney blogs that tell you the entire history of

641
00:47:43,056 --> 00:47:47,416
the Disney parks and Walt Disney himself before they get to the two -line point of their thing.

642
00:47:47,496 --> 00:47:51,276
And that is only to get you to see more ads on the way to the point.

643
00:47:51,916 --> 00:47:56,036
So maybe that's what Disney's doing. but I don't think their technology is good

644
00:47:56,036 --> 00:47:57,736
enough that that's actually what they're doing.

645
00:47:58,976 --> 00:48:04,096
No. So yeah, so do a little planning, do a little research, ask somebody for help.

646
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Key to the world travels got 600 agents now who would love to show you how to

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take the frustration of trying to navigate that app and make it really easy

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because it's not actually that hard.

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And don't necessarily lean on your friends for their version of what your perfect

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day should be because maybe their kids are into different things or maybe they,

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were there at a slow time and you're going at Christmas.

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So what they think is important and easy to do may not be for you.

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So if you talk to a travel planner, like the ones here at key to the world,

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they can tell you how to temper your expectations, how to plan ahead,

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to get the right information, even down to how to dress and the weather and

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the time of year you're going and all of the different things that you're not

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going to want to have to think about.

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For some reason, that's another effect of the internet and the bloggers and

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now the tick tockers and stuff.

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There's this idea of what the one exact way to do these theme parks is and what

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the one acceptable perfect day is.

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It's just not how it works. Which is going to be very different for a family

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with, you know, three kids under eight years old versus a 20 year old Tick tocker

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that's two different ideas of what's fun or,

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Myself that's an empty nester that wants to go and do or you know,

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it's very different from person to person We used to be park warriors when my

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son was little we were in that park at rope drop and we left at fireworks Now I'm like,

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all right a couple things like go have a drink a shop a little you know So everybody's

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got a different thing And your friends will just tell you what they think you.

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Music.

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Should do based on what their interests are,

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where a good travel planner will help you do what you like.

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That is the real machine to imagine.

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See what you did there. You see that? That was pretty good. That was good.

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Finally, you did something good. It's been like four years now.

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Well, I'm going to say thanks for hanging out with us again this week.

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and until then remember, life is short and the world is wide, so go have an adventure.