Originally Posted By dshyates Concierge.com has a great article giving their take on things that will make for a better WDW/Orlando vacation experience. I really like the Make-A-Wish suggestion. And even though we are locals, I think I will take my 2 daughters and volunteer. <a href="http://www.concierge.com/ideas/hotspots/tours/502223?mbid=con_ob_cpc_a&page=0" target="_blank">http://www.concierge.com/ideas...a&page=0</a>
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Interesting article but somewhat unrealistic in many ways. For example, the one about taking your kids out of school for a trip. Many school districts have very strict rules about that and can, in fact, cause them to fail due to lack of allowable excuses. Check that carefully. Finding restaurants not on property is easy, but to find specific ones, like listed, requires some local knowledge of the area. Most visitors do not have that knowledge. It is almost impossible to know which attractions are worthy of "skipping" if you have never been before. Everyone has a different level of enjoyment. There is no set formula for determining ahead of time what one might or might not enjoy. If this isn't the first visit...I suspect that one has already chosen what to see again and what to pass by. It is not an altogether bad theoretical grouping of ideas but certainly is anything but cut and dried.
Originally Posted By danyoung I agreed with almost all of the points in this article. For me, though, I'm perfectly happy spending my entire vacation within the Disney borders. Yeah, there are plenty of nice restaurants around Orlando. But there are plenty of nice restaurants around Dallas, too. And there are so many excellent eating spots within WDW that I only get to take advantage of once or twice a year that it's no problem dining on property. Also, staying on property, even if it's not the greatest dollar value, still has more than enough advantages to make it worthwhile for me.
Originally Posted By standor If you go to WDW enjoy the whole experience by staying on property. Once you get off property, you are entering city life. When I go there I want to get away from my every day humdrum. The only other thing I do is go to Universal.
Originally Posted By danyoung >What not to do at WDW? WDW of course!!! Go to CA or Tokyo instead.< Sigh.
Originally Posted By DlandDug >>Sigh.<< Hey-- I would have liked to set up a betting pool when that predictable post would appear...!
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost Tee Hee...some things remain predictable. That said, I'm sure that I'm missing something here. CA could not possibly stand for California Adventure could it? If not what is CA? I also would like to remind TDLFAN again that not all of us have access to free rides to Japan via the airlines. Perhaps, he could send some cash our way so we could partake of the heaven that is the Tokyo Resort. Baring that, I'm afraid we must suffer through WDW. We'll just call it our little hell on earth.
Originally Posted By SuperDry <<< If not what is CA? >>> California, the state. As in the state in which Disneyland Resort is located.
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost OK, hadn't thought of it that way. But that makes sense. I don't agree necessarily. I have been to DLR only once and that was during the 50th anniversary in 2005...I found a lot of flaws in the place and I truly wasn't looking. It's all in what we happen to see.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros For what it's worth, a link off of that other link took me to a list of the best bar crawls in the world. Of the dozen-or-so locations, only 3 were in the US, and Epcot was the last slide (presumably meaning that it's the best?). It did make a special note that, although a great place to spend the afternoon/evening and includes nightly fireworks, perhaps WDW isn't the best place for the morning after hangover. Having done it, all I have to say is that Kilimanjaro Safaris is way bumpier in person that you ever remember it being (and also smells way more like animals than you might want). (And for those wondering, the other locations in the US were New York City and Portland)
