allgiggles
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I am truly happy your trip was great. I apologize that my post illicited strong emotions from you as I never intended to offend. I love a Disney vacation as much as the next- my post implied that as far as line skipping goes, Universal does it better. And I still runDisney on the regular.
I still visit Disney fairly regularly, but I am there solely to run their races and visit Parks with a gifted free ticket. As such, I purchase Genie+ and, for my tastes, it is always so annoying.
But I am still a huge proponent of Resort stays, dining, recreation, water parks, and runDisney. All the stuff outside of the Genie+ bubble.
Thank you for your response
No worries. I should have waited to respond to your post so that I had more time to think about how to say what I wanted to say (I was getting ready to run out the door to a meeting that I knew would be stressful and would last a few hours. Not a good time to respond to a post on a message board.
). And my vent wasn't (or at least shouldn't have appeared to be) directed at you personally. I just get frustrated when people (again, not directed at you personally -- broad generalization) are constantly saying something along the lines of "Go to Universal. It's so much better. They have a better "skip-the-line" feature/option and better hotels, food, whatever." (Major paraphrase there) There are many of us who have no desire to go to Universal. It's not so much that we (general "we", not just my family) feel that Disney is far superior and no other park can compare. It's that Universal doesn't appeal to us for various reasons. For me personally (as I mentioned in a previous post), I can't really do thrill rides and roller coasters anymore, and while I know Universal has more than just those things, looking at their website, I don't think there are enough other things there to make it worth the price of admission for me (I'm also not a Harry Potter fan so that's not a draw for me either). No big deal -- there are a lot of other amusement parks I won't go to anymore due to there not being enough things there for me to do. So to me, there really isn't a comparison between the two parks and their corresponding skip-the-line programs since Universal isn't an option for me. The "go to Universal instead" comments have gotten to be a common comment from people who do not like G+ (and it's ok not to like it. I understand and agree with many of the comments, but I still managed to have great success with it. I just wish it wasn't so expensive. I felt the previous $15/day was a fair price, but free was better.). To me, it's like saying, "The seafood at this restaurant is fabulous, it's so much better than the steak at that restaurant. And the seafood entrees are less expensive and a much nicer presentation and atmosphere than that restaurant. You need to have the seafood at this restaurant!" Well, if someone doesn't like seafood, there's no desire or point in going to that seafood restaurant no matter how inexpensive it is or how lovely the food presentation is. I'm glad there are plenty of options when it comes to amusement/theme parks and we can all do what best suits our family financially and logistically. I don't begrudge people going to Universal. I'm sure if I was 20 years younger and still able to do all the coasters and thrill rides, I'd be headed there as well and taking advantage of their skip-the-line options.
