Club Cooloholic
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You guys ever deal with friends or relatives that make snide comments because you just went or are going on another in their words "expensive" trip to WDW?
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Haters Be Hatin?
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englanddg
One Little Spark...
The President of our company did Disney once the year after I first took the kid back (after looking at pictures, and he figured his kids were the "right age"). He is also the "snobby vacationer". I don't fault him, but he picks on my trips, in a good natured way of course. But, for example, when I informed him I was going on the cruise with the kiddo, he said "Let me guess...Disney". I confirmed. "Yeah, you like stuff like that."
But, I should note, the reason he doesn't like Disney is because it's "too expensive". Well, no crud!
When he went he got the Premium dining plan (the only person I've EVER known to get one), paid for the Disney Personalized Tour Guide (that comes with all day fast passes) and stayed at a suite in Grand Floridian.
His 5 day vacation in January cost more than 4 times my 14 day trips in August. Dude, OF COURSE it was expensive!
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Pooh Lover
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So true! And the funny thing is, I could very possibly be spending more on my WDW vacations than they do on their "up-scale" adventures....LOL.
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Pooh Lover
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Ah yes, the person that has to one-up everyone....even at WDW. You know, he probably had to get the personalized tour because with all that table service dining he had, there wouldn't have been much time left over for the parks.
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Jim Chandler
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I always find it amusing when they say WDW is expensive yet they think Uni or SW is not. They only look at the cost and not what it gets you. For the same price about 120 you get two UNIs vs 4 WDW
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PrincessNelly_NJ
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Yup. My family thinks Disney is a kid thing 
but idc! More disney for me!
but idc! More disney for me!
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copcarguyp71
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Well...to be fair it IS expensive. If they point that out then they are stating the obvious. I have gotten unwarranted smarminess for other reasons pertaining to my WDW excursions from friends that just don't get it but if they point out "expensive" I've pretty much got no retort.
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jaklgreen
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My brother's wife always says something about how we are going "again". Then she says that she can't afford it. My brother makes $30,000/year more then my hubby, they can afford it. But she does not work and spends all of their money on clothes and coach purses and going out to the bars with her friends. I on the other hand work when my kids are in school for my vacation money and I buy our clothes at walmart or kohls. I also stay at home most weekends and every once in a while my hubby and I will see a movie if grandma has the kids. So we all choose to spend our money in different ways.
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englanddg
One Little Spark...
I had a professor in college who told a story to the class one day about how they didn't have cable at home (this was in the mid 90s, to date myself)...and whenever her kids would complain, she'd say to them "Well, which would you rather do? Watch MTV or go to Disney?"
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Allygator
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A friend who has never gone told me her kids are too old to enjoy it. Lol. I am thinking yeah well when my daughter is grown of she isn't still going with me I will be going solo! My mom said to me that I must have seen and done everything already. Umm I don't think so!
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Sweet Melissa
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Nope. I don't waste my energy on people like that. Everybody in our lives seems to understand that not every person's priorities are the same, and we can all do what we want with our time and discretionary income. I don't harp on their stupid activities, and they return the favor.
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Exactly. It's easy for someone to point to a vacation and total up in their head the costs of everything and think expensive, a lot harder for someone to look at how someone usually eats, drinks, wears every week and total up what the costs of all that was.
Also I have done the costs in my head, and a week at a shore house in the northeast, where you have to bring your own linens, drive more, still pay for meals and entertainment is not that much less that Disney and easily more if you get a place actually on the beach!
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HouCuseChickie
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Funny...in a sad sort of way...but I got something along these lines recently. Usually, it's just the "again" and "but it's so expensive?!?!?!" but this person picked on our dining, lodging, and touring...in a good natured way...she really thought she was helping...but it was just snobbery the way I took it. Like my DH might go from "like" to "LOVE" @WDW if I only booked signature meals, had a nanny or willing relative take my children to non-signature meals (like character meals), hire a tour guide for at least one of our days, and bump up to a suite or something of that nature at one of the monorail resorts since a regular deluxe resort room is really not enough. I have to let it go b/c she really didn't mean anything by it, but it bugs me.
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