Even tho i live 23 miles from Disneyland i still like Walt Disney world better, There is something about it that i can't put my finger on...
I can relate.
I live on the East Coast and WDW used to be my 'home' Resort.
I'm a huge EPCOT Center fan, and adored that Park back when it was in its glory in the 80s when I lived in Florida.
What a place!
In later years I moved North, but would still take trips down to Orlando to visit the Parks in the 90s and early 2000s.
It became yearly in the early 2000s, but then I stopped cold in January of 2013.
The experience was not what it once was.
Over the years I've seen too much chipped away with 'replacements' that are inferior to what came before, and too much focus on making a quick buck when the focus used to be more about wowing the Guest.
Add into the mix my dislike of how that property has been managed over the last decade or so, and the FP+ restraints.
WDW lost me once I headed West and experienced Disneyland on my own for the first time in 2007.
Disneyland 'spoiled' me rotten....talk about rolling out the red carpet!
Instead of being made to feel like a 'cog in the wheel' at WDW, being 'processed' with thousands of other Guests, at DLR I was 'embraced' like a personal friend of Walt's.
The Cast, and the settings within the Park itself, made a huge difference and made it intimate and exciting all at once.
The differences were stunning...such a vast improvement in my eyes.
I was immediately wowed by this 'tiny little Park' in the middle of Anaheim and now visit yearly.
I have not been back to WDW since, but still care about the property and its future.
Disneyland is my 'home' now....until WDW can prove to me that the time has come to return.
I will admit I do look forward to that return in some aspects, but I have the patience of a rock.
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