Anyway, we love Disneyland and we go generally once a year. If money is tight we only go for a short visit and stay someplace cheap. When money isn’t so tight, we stay longer and/or someplace nicer.
I thought as our son got older (he’s 13 now) he would be less interested in going to Disneyland as a family vacation. That hasn’t turned out to be the case. There is so much to see and experience for every age level. Plus, it’s a place to go and leave the real world behind for a few days.
Those examples seem to me to be “goes well with” or “complements” in an aesthetic sense (the music goes well with the mood, the decor goes well with the food). My sense of what you were saying was “in accord with” in an evidentiary sense (my experience matches your experience), which is what “jibes with” means.
We go to Disney World every year. The biggest reason for my love of it is quite selfish. I know a lot about the place (where to eat, when to do which attactions, best time of year to visit) so I can plan about 90% of what we are going to do before we go there. Since my family looks to me to come up with a plan, it means that I get a vacation from thinking as well as enjoyable experiences. The great customer service also helps in this regard because I know if something goes wrong, it will be addressed efficiently and well.
By what measure is the Magic Kingdom a small theme park?
I would guess it has - and I’m being very conservative here - three times as many things to see as Sea World. Maybe it’s compact, but there’s far more to see.
That’s way deceiving. Animal Kingdom, for instance, may technically have more area, but a lot of it’s just empty. I’d guess Magic Kingdom, again, has three times as many attractions.
Animal Kingdom was quite disappointing, really; you walk a lot and see little. It doesn’t have enough animals to be a zoo, and it doesn’t have enough attractions to be an amusement park. Frankly it felt like it should have been made one of the subdivisions of Magic Kingdom.
Quick calculations tell me it’s about 73 out of 300 total acres. If you look at the aerial imagery of both Epcot and Animal Kingdom on Google Maps, you can see that AK is definitely larger (about 500 total acres), but if you’re familiar with the park, you’ll know that about half of that space is taken up by the large savannah in the northwest section of the park. It’s a large area, but it’s accessible only as part of a ride (the Kilimanjaro Safaris), so it doesn’t feel as large as Epcot, all of which is accessible on foot.
AK will feel larger once the new Avatar land is completed, as it’ll fill in the empty spot between Asia and Africa.
Yes, it means agrees with. That’s the sense I was using it in. It’s not just in an aesthetic sense.
Just because ‘jibes with’ has the same meaning doesn’t mean there aren’t other expressions with that meaning too.
It’s kinda annoying to be ‘corrected’ on language usage when it wasn’t actually incorrect, and then to still be corrected after providing a cite from a reputable dictionary with examples of it being used.
WDW clearly has season passes. The prices for them are laid out on the page I linked.
They also have annual passes. He was correct in that.
WDW has five pass types: Premium Annual, Annual, Seasonal, Weekday Select, and Epcot After 4. I have (and have had for most of my life) a season pass. It’s gone through a number of name changes, designs, blackout dates, and special privileges, but they have had season passes for as long as I can remember.
Saying “there are no season’s passes, there are annual passes” is semantic nitpicking. A “season’s pass” generally means “a pass for the year,” but the term originated in northern climes where the year was limited to a set “season.”
Me and my family are just not Disney people, I guess. I was at a business function at WDW a few years back, and flew my kids down for three days after the meeting ended. They grew up on Disney movies (as did I) and they were just about the perfect ages to enjoy it (14 and 9), but it was a bit underwhelming to all of us. The fast rides were too slow, and the slow ones were too cutesy. The last day we spent at the waterpark, giving up on the rest of the park.
I am also not impressed by or in need of “service.” Just make my bed while I’m gone. You don’t even have to wash my towels, I’m fine with using the same one for three days. The next time I use a concierge will be the first time. In fact, while I’m on vacation, I’d just as soon everyone leave me alone. I’ll figure things out on my own. I can read a map. I am quite certain that I won’t be back, unless I have another meeting.
Oh, yes - the grown women squealing when they see a person dressed up in a Goofy costume creep me the hell out.
My original comment was intended to draw a distinction between a “season pass,” which is good only for a set period of time (like the 2011 season), regardless of when you buy it over the course of the season, and an “annual pass” which is good for 365 days from the day that you purchase it.
If you are not a Florida resident, the only type of passes that is available are annual passes (regular and premium) and to be honest, that’s the only type of pass I was aware of (as a non-Florida resident).
From Bambi’s link, I see that there are apparently other types of passes available only to Florida residents, including a “Florida Resident Seasonal Pass” which is good for a set period of time (i.e. during 2011, albeit with blackout dates).
I don’t necessarily disagree with you, but there’s more than one way to measure small and large. And both Epcot and Animal Kingdom feel larger that the Magic Kingdom.
I love the Animal Kingdom. I prefer it to the Magic Kingdom. But I have Disneyland as my local park, so the MK always ends up being somewhat disappointing. I might feel different if I didn’t grow up with Disneyland.
If the 14 year old was a boy, that has to be the least ideal age for Disney parks.