It’s every kid’s dream to visit the many attractions at Disney World. Who wouldn’t want to go to the Magic Kingdom, Epcot Center, MGM studios or the Animal Kingdom. Things have come a long way since you needed a ticket for each ride. Now the price allows you entry to the park and unlimited rides. On a slow day this turns out to be a real bargain but who wants to go there on a rainy day. On busy days the more popular rides could have lines that last over an hour. In an effort to look helpful Disney came up with the Fast Pass. This is a free guest service available on popular rides. You receive a designated window of time later in the day when you can bypass the regular line. The catch is that you can only have one fastpass at a time. The fallacy seems to be that if everybody took advantage of the fastpass it wouldn’t be any faster.
I find this one of the great paradoxes of our time. First they charge you close to $50 per person per admission. Then they build the theme parks out in the middle of nowhere and there is no public (free) parking. There is no way to use your admission pass without paying some sort of parking or transportation fee that goes to Disney. Whoops – another ding in your wallet.
If you think the admission or parking was expensive, wait until you get hungry or thirsty. I haven’t seen anything saying you can’t bring in your own food or drink – the catch is – what are you going to do with them during the rides with restraints (described later)? I was shocked to find that the small bottled water was $2.50 so I found a drinking fountain and found out why they got away with charging so much - yuck! Personally I don’t see how public drinking water could taste so bad without marketing additives.
Rides are the thrill of any amusement park. We’ll start by breaking them into two categories: those that require seatbelts and those that don’t. Rides with seatbelts – First off all these rides seem to have a height requirement. Those carbon based life form that pass that test may still have additional challenges as more than one ride said that if you had a bad heart or back you should consult your physician first. Personally I have back problems (a big yellow streak) for any ride that turns me upside down or drops me very far. This brings up Splash Mountain. From the line you watch people drop about 50 feet ending in a large splash. Basically you are on a relaxing log ride through scenery, but how anybody can relax knowing what’s coming at the end is beyond me. Size doesn’t matter but location is everything. DON’T SIT IN THE FRONT SEAT unless you like getting really wet. This knowledge would have helped the lady in the front of the log who was early in a new relationship. She got out of the log drenched – makeup running, hair flat and soaked to the bone. Another thing about rides with seatbelts is that many of them take pictures of you at the scariest point of the ride. My experience is that the scariest part isn’t so scary if you close your eyes. I found that I don’t look good in pictures with my eyes closed so it saves me a lot of money.
Rides without seatbelts – there are two categories - those that have something to hang on to and those that don’t. You would expect these to be designed with little kids in mind. However, even some of these may frighten little kids. My conclusion is that if you have little kids – SAVE YOUR MONEY AND WAIT FOR THEM TO GET BIGGER. Everybody will have more fun.
These are becoming standard equipment in most theme parks. It’s incredible what they have done with the technology. The fun starts when your family and friends see you in those goofy glasses. They have really figured how to get into your face. Even though these are sit downs and have no seatbelts you may find yourself looking for something to hold on to.
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