Which Florida Theme Park attracts the worst guest types ?

[orlandogal22]

Definitely Busch Gardens. Actually, any rollercoaster parks tends to be the worse cause it attracts mostly teens and young adults due to the nature of their rides.

When I went to Busch twice in 2019, I always smelled weed. Teens were loud and obnoxious in the queue, kinda like those South American tour groups that goes to Disney. I still had fun though cause their coaster selection is great.

Funny you mentioned weed. One night years ago during a Boyz II Men concert at EPCOT (Food & Wine), there was a large congregation of 20-somethings - I'm talking LARGE in front of where you'd enter the seating area. You couldn't even get through - there were so many people. It was the late 8 p.m. show. The smell of weed in the air was so dense, I couldn't even breathe as I tried to maneuver around the crowd. You could actually see puffs of smoke rising up into the air illuminated by the stage lights.

Cast members did jack squat about it even though so many were standing around.

Edited to add: This was not a typical "locals weekend adventure" either that gets out of hand often. This was a weeknight.

 

[Tom Morrow]

Funny you mentioned weed. One night years ago during a Boyz II Men concert at EPCOT (Food & Wine), there was a large congregation of 20-somethings - I'm talking LARGE in front of where you'd enter the seating area. You couldn't even get through - there were so many people. It was the late 8 p.m. show. The smell of weed in the air was so dense, I couldn't even breathe as I tried to maneuver around the crowd. You could actually see puffs of smoke rising up into the air illuminated by the stage lights.

Cast members did jack squat about it even though so many were standing around.

Edited to add: This was not a typical "locals weekend adventure" either that gets out of hand often. This was a weeknight.

Weed will be fully recreationally legal federally before we know it, and one day Epcot will host the Food, Wine, & Cannabis Festival.

Just you wait!

 

[HongKongFooy]

.........still a good 15+ years for that one, I think.

 

[HongKongFooy]

So we should add Netherlands in the showcase with bicycles, a sex shop and a "brown" cafe. Ya, maybe we're 2 decades away still.

 

[networkpro]

Weed will be fully recreationally legal federally before we know it, and one day Epcot will host the Food, Wine, & Cannabis Festival.

Just you wait!

With the smoking ban in place, I doubt it. Honest Mr Security, it wasn't tobacco, it was just weed!

 

[orlandogal22]

Weed will be fully recreationally legal federally before we know it, and one day Epcot will host the Food, Wine, & Cannabis Festival.

Just you wait!

Well, given I had a very good friend in college 20+ years ago completely and utterly ruin his life over his weed habit (I won't go into details but it wasn't pretty), I won't be looking forward to that.

 

[Lilofan]

Weed will be fully recreationally legal federally before we know it, and one day Epcot will host the Food, Wine, & Cannabis Festival.

Just you wait!

Might help to develop the munchies to stomach the below average food at Epcot

 

[riverscu0m0]

Old Town gets my vote lol

 

[Giss Neric]

Weed will be fully recreationally legal federally before we know it, and one day Epcot will host the Food, Wine, & Cannabis Festival.

Just you wait!

I don't think Cannabis in the name will entice international guests to go to a family park. As weed is still considered very illegal in most countries and even banned for using it for medical purposes.

 

[Tom Morrow]

Guys, I was joking, but I wish people weren't still pearl clutching "weed is bad but alcohol is totally fine" in the year 2020.

 

[bryanfze55]

There’s good and bad everywhere.

 

[Trackmaster]

I don't think Cannabis in the name will entice international guests to go to a family park. As weed is still considered very illegal in most countries and even banned for using it for medical purposes.

Maybe in 3rd world countries and the heavily Catholic ones. Generally not in the civilized western secular ones. The United States is basically a country that has one foot in as a progressive, civilized western nation, and one foot in as a religious oligarch stuck in the 18th century. Some of those Nordic countries even prefer that their addicts shoot up in clinics with amnesty instead of doing it on the street.

This whole obsession with prosecuting Cannabis recreational use like they've just committed a murder makes the entire country look like backwoods Alabama when viewed from a global stage.

 

[Giss Neric]

This whole obsession with prosecuting Cannabis recreational use like they've just committed a murder makes the entire country look like backwoods Alabama when viewed from a global stage.

It's cause the behavior people show when using it for recreational use. Everything is okay but just in moderation. Problem is people use it more than moderation that it affects their life somehow. But I do agree that it should not be treated like a serious offense.

 

[Trackmaster]

It's cause the behavior people show when using it for recreational use. Everything is okay but just in moderation. Problem is people use it more than moderation that it affects their life somehow. But I do agree that it should not be treated like a serious offense.

Then how do you explain away the abhorrent behavior of people who are always stone cold sober and never touch the stuff...?

 

[Giss Neric]

Then how do you explain away the abhorrent behavior of people who are always stone cold sober and never touch the stuff...?

Those are the result of their upbringing which can't be changed unless they wanted to. Weed is something that can be controlled if taken by moderation. Sober people are mostly aware of their behavior and they chose to be that unlike weed where you're in a different state of mind.

 

[SJG]

EOCOT is where I see loud every evening near Germany and Mexico. Some sloppy drunk. Our last visit (we're APs & go often) several - not a couple or a few but several were walking, drinking and speaking loudly, I mean to the point of spittle flying in the air! That was the first of November and we haven't been back. We're eagerly awaiting the vaccine now. Then we'll be back with masks on and zero fear. A side note, we caught a virus from Disney that trip. The only place we ate inside since March. Luckily our COVID test was negative, whew! Probably a flu strain, high fever, we had the flu vaccine months ago and we both recovered quickly, very mild.

 

[orlandogal22]

Guys, I was joking, but I wish people weren't still pearl clutching "weed is bad but alcohol is totally fine" in the year 2020.

Be careful not to generalize and / or confuse "pearl clutching" with personal experience of having someone you care for destroy their life over a habit they held that spiraled out of control. (And I'd say the same about alcohol, having had family members that struggled with addiction. No "pearl clutching" - just real life experience with people's poor choices in life - taken to the extreme)