Your money pays for safety checks, insurance (can you imagine what they must pay?!!), wages, etc.

Your money also buys a lot if your kid goes missing in the park -- it pays for all the cameras, undercover workers, communication centers, etc. I don't think they've "lost" a kid yet. One hour looking for a missing child costs a lot more than what you're paying to get into the park.

Considering that, you'd pay anything for the safety of your child, right? The admission price should begin to appear a little more reasonable.

Me---

My daughter is too young to understand that we lied about her age, but if she were at an age where she would have understood, I absolutely would not have done it.

When you think about rides, the similar prices for kids/adults seems logical. Most rows in the rides seat two -- doesn't matter if it's a 10-year-old butt or a 40-year-old butt in there.

Its not just WDW that takes this stance - its every theme/amusement park I've been to in the past 2 years. If you are tall enough to ride the "big" rides, then you pay the "big" price.

My very tall 8 yo daughter has paid full price since she was 6 (at least at one local park). Last week we paid full price for her at a Paramount theme park. Lots of restaurants limit the children's menu to kids under 8 also. So I was pleasantly surprised that she still could pay kid prices at WDW.

Follow up to Miss/Mr X's post

Let's pay by butt size!!

If you kids don't care that much I just would not patronize the place. It really is a money making tourist trap for families without much imagination. Once I can see, repeat park visitors I do not understand, so much natural beauty/history in this country.

What's so bad about lying about the kid's age? Of course I understand and believe that honesty is the best policy, and of course no one wants to send the wrong message to their child, but is your kid going to grow up and hold you in contempt just because you saved a few bucks at Disneyworld when he/she was 9? Besides, who needs the money more -- Michael Eisner or you? Just think of it as your own little personal fight against corporate greed.

If I'm up at the ticket counter buying tickets for my family why do my kids need to be standing right next to me? Honesty? You call $4.00 for a soda honest? With all the things that are wrong in our society I hardly think this is even worth mentioning. By the way, when we were little my parent's used to put my brothers in the trunk when we went to the drive-in movies. Dishonest yes? But we couldn't all afford to go. We still laugh about it. Does this make for corrupt people? I think it takes alot more than that.

Yes, we all know it is perfectly fine to steal. Only chumps, fools and suckers pay for anything anymore. Have you seen the price of food lately? It's an outrage! Just stuff a ham under your coat and walk right out of the market. My whole family had especially sticky fingers, and we still have a good laugh about it!

News flash: stealing is stealing, folks.

I know that Disney is the best at what they do and that it cost a fortune to run their operation. They also have enormous profits. I also know that Eisner and any other Disney mucky-muck is making a g*@ damn fortune! I bet HIS family doesn't pay one thin dime for entry! I'm happy to report that I read recently that attendance at Disney is down. They are attributing it to the economy but I'd like to think that people finally are putting there feet down and saying NO MORE! Although if anyone has ever taken a peek at wdwinfo.com it's a real eye-opener. The people on that forum are fanatics! They seem to go back year, after year, without venturing further afield and vacationing elsewhere. It absolutely boggles my mind!

Does anyone know what Disney pays its employees? I have a hunch it is probably minimum wage. Disney makes a ton of money, not only off the parks, but videos, movies, ABC, Disney Stores, merchandide, toys etc. Anyone see Shreck? It cracked me up all the references to Eisner....

Cindy,

Don't you think you're being a bit melodramatic????? No one said its right to steal. I took my kids to Disney World a few years ago, when they were old enough to appreciate it and my 11 year old easily passed for 9, and so she did. It's not the end of the world.

Heck, my dad was still trying to get me into the movies for half price when I was 17!

And you know what?? I turned out OK, more or less...

Nah, I really don't think I'm being melodramatic. Sarcastic, perhaps. But if something is wrong, people shouldn't be afraid to say it is wrong. That's all. I just don't know a better way to teach integrity and honesty than to practice it, I guess.

Frances, I try to live my life such that if my children or anyone sees what I am doing that I don't have to be ashamed.

Cindy, thank you for standing up for right. No matter what one thinks of Disney it is wrong to cheat them.

Mickey,

I'm about to embark on my seventeenth trip to WDW, and I do love the place. But that ten-year-old adult business has always rankled me, and I'm glad to know I'm not alone. I must say, however, when I stop to consider just how many people it takes to make it such a magical place, my aggravation is assuaged a tad.

Cheers,

Gerry K

Ps: We're trying Animal Kingdom Lodge this time.

Right on Gerry! Have a great time!!

Gerry:

SEVENTEEN times??? You've actually been there 16 times and you're going AGAIN?

There's a whole big world out there. And for the extravagant prices that everyone's exclaiming about (entrance fees, food, souvenirs, etc), you could manage a jaunt to many other interesting vacation destinations in the U.S. (or even in Europe). But perhaps you're part of the Eisner clan & get that free entre . . . . .


(SEVENTEEN TIMES ?????? I can't believe it . . . . each to his own . . . )