re: Observations from Disney World

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1. I have never seen so many scooters with obese people on them.

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If you see a rental sticker, then they are just obese. Truly handicapped have their own vehicles.

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2. its your money and by all means spend as you may, but what’s with bringing babies and 1/2 year olds?

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Brought all my kids when they were around 1, and went back with the grandkids at the same age. You would be simply amazed at the jump in communication and recognition skills after they return. Its like a lightbulb goes off in their head after being saturated with motion, sounds, lights, bright colors, etc for a week

I know a guy who has a timeshare at Disney, talk about a ripoff. I have only gone once and I was maybe 8 or 9. It was cool, but not anything that I just had to go back to..

Anyway, the other night a group of us were together for the Bama-LSU game and me and another friend are going to Las Vegas in July and told everyone that they were welcome to come. The timeshare dude was like "man, the only vacations we take are to Disney world. SInce I have a timeshare it doesn't make sense for us to go anywhere else because I pay ___________ a year for it, blah blah blah".

There are people who absolutely love that place and more power to them. I love going to Las Vegas and I am sure there are people who couldn't see going there once every year and a half, two years..

But to answer your question, I am sure people bring their infant because they don't want to leave them with someone for however long they will be going for and I am sure there isn't much cost involved in bringing an infant. Do you have to pay for an infant to get it? I am sure they do.. Because it is Disney world, but it is probably easier to take an infant than it is a 2 or 3 year old.

Who the hell cares if a small child remembers his visit to Disney World? Live for the moment! If I see my child laughing and happy as hell, even though he or she is only 2 or 3 years old, you think that I'm concerned over whether they will remember it 20 years from now.
Come on people...quit being cheap or lazy and bring your little child to Disney.

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Going Thanksgiving Week

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Same.

Never been before, and never had the desire to go. Really not a fan of massive groups of people...standing in lines - But my in-laws are paying for the whole shebang, so frick it. Hopefully my 3.5 and 5 year old get a kick out of it.

I was already dreading it, but I've been told that Thanksgiving is one of the busiest times of the year...then you guys throw in the obese mobiles. The whole experience thus far has been pretty damn exhausting. Waking up at 5:00 in the morning to book "Fast-Passes," sure makes me miss Fun Fair Park.

Happiest place on Earth, they say...

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The scooters can be annoying but we don't let someone else dictate our vibe.

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I use them as teaching moments for my kids. I was there for Halloween and when we were getting on the bus to head back after closing there was a fatass 16 year old girl with her fatass mom on scooters. Of course the driver had to lower the ramp so these wastes of oxygen could drive their fricking scooters on board and take up like 6 seats. Then the driver, who had to be like 80 years old, had to push the scooters into their spots with both of these tubs of lard and skin still sitting in them. I was like "Look at this son, that 16 year old is so lazy she's got an 80 year old man pushing her scooter around a bus because she can't even be bothered to get out of it for 10 minutes."

It's fricking infuriating but at the same time gives me a chance to teach my boys to not be worthless at life.

That sounds awesome and exactly what we want to do. We are both runners and mentioned staying at the boardwalk and doing the race and spending all day at Epcot

I cannot recommend The Boardwalk Inn highly enough. Amazing staff, super convenient to both EPCOT and Hollywood Studios. The only times we got on a bus was in the mornings to Animal Kingdom and to Magic Kingdom. We took the monorail back from MK unless we stayed for Happily Ever After. Then we Ubered back. We had a lake view room and it was a great view each night. All of the entertainment on the Boardwalk itself, after the parks closed, was just icing on the cake.

We are now spoiled rotten.

It is.

Yep, especially at boardwalk where fewer points are needed than most other DVC resorts.