After having been to Disney with my wife a year before our first child I just have to ask....
Why the HELL would you go to Disney if you didn't have kids? As a kid, the park is awsomely awsome and stuffed with awsome with awsome sauce. As an adult the park is greatly overpriced with long lines and limited entertainment. We were sitting at one point in view of the haunted house line which is like 6 people wide and 400 people deep. Its 90 degrees and humid. I turned to my wife and said 'seeing this I have a lot more respect for parents now than I did when I was a kid here'. We were just bored out of our mind.
Now EPCOT has some nicer stuff for adults but basically you are paying something like 70 bucks just to get in (not including parking) for the privilege of eating at a ok overpriced restaurant and shopping for higher end type tourist stuff. Kid problems are far less of an issue here.
Now I don't have an issue with Disney doing this, based on how some raise their children I think its a good idea, but if you are going to spend that kind of money on a vacation without kids, for the love of god anywhere but Disney.
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Originally Posted by shesus
Why not take kids to fun restaurants and let them be kids? They'll have all the time in the world to learn how to behave in stuffy, upscale places.
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When I was a kid my parents took us to Europe. They were constantly told what well behaved children they had and how polite we were. The reason being that my parents would take us out to dinner, even some stuffy places from an early age and we learned how to behave properly in public.
Undoubtedly the Europeans were so used to the American standard of out of control children that children who could sit in a chair for an hour and say 'thank you' must have been a shock.