Comic for Wednesday 10/11 (Early High Res)
Pardon me my moment of therapeutic venting.
I'm so over crowded theme parks. Don't get me wrong, we've had a lot of fun as a family at some, but I feel like as they get more crowded and more expensive, the cost-stress-value ratio is tipping too far out of balance.
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And PAX Aus queues are nothing compared to the US ones.
I have just got home from PAX Aus and this hits true waaay too soon. the lines were for trauma bonding
Also - I feel like the amount here is priced comically low. $200 for 4 tickets these days would be dirt cheap. Go somewhere like Disney and it's more like $120+ per ticket.
Dirt cheap? For extremely long queues, terrible parking and incredibly overpriced food and drinks? My oh my. And a "premium" park like Disney is even more expensive? Whith even longer wait times? It surpises me that people will put up with that. I personally struggle with the concept, overpaying for expensive food and long wait times.
Yeah, I pretty much never go places where there will be lots of crowds. It's ALWAYS miserable. Only way I'll go anywhere is if I take the kids out of school a few days and go while school is in session in that area. It's the only way it won't be overcrowded.
There are amusement parks that cost only $50 per person??
Six Flags, Busch Gardens, Hersheypark, LegoLand... Most normal amusement/water parks are in that range, I think. The only ones I've seen that reach over $100 are Disney and Universal properties, driven (I assume) by the draw of their franchises.
Last vacation there was rain for the entire time we were in the city with LegoLand. If you are ever in that situation, get the cheap ponchos. Money well spent. Most rides were still open and there was next to no queues. On the day we left the city (you know, when its finally sunny), we had the pleasure of seeing the line of cars going for miles waiting to get in the parking lot. We knew then that the small misery of the rain was well worth it.
I'm now more in it for the sights. Most of the fun of going to Universal was the details in the Harry Potter area. I did summer time with my Grandparents in Dover, Ohio and they city had a Trolley Park. Kids rides, lake, swimming pool, and park. An ideal amusement park experience. I love to open a park like that in Nashville but, I'm barely scraping it by middle class and it's just so hard to do those fantastical things anymore.
Or when they’re out of adult size Jedi robes. Hah, this is a great comic.
Here in France disneyland as started making people pay for "fastpass". Costed me an additional 160 euros per person on top of the 130 euros entrance but oh my it was worth every cent! 10 mn queue max, wife and kids were relaxed (plus this "vip feeling" I can only compare to universal studios vip fastpass when sleeping on an on-site hotel). The only problem is I will NEVER MORE go to Disney as a "normal" visitor and do the queues again.
Last time I went to Disneyland, i called it "plasticland". I go to the Efteling on a regular basis: 42-45 EUR per person peak season, max 90min waiting time (which get announced before you enter the queue), no "fastpass", a "bring your own food" policy (no bag checks at the gate), a beautiful forest to walk in AND if you book their hotel, early entry. You can go through all the rides in a single day if you plan everything correctly.