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> WTF, if your from LA you just drive there? Then you get dinged on gas and parking, and you don't have as much time to actually enjoy the park.

999900000999 4y ago
Um, you still have to pay for gas and parking even if you drive home the next day. That's half the cost here, it would have still been a good article without" oh my God, a family trip to Disneyland is over $1,000"
- quartesixte 4y ago
  At most thats $25 of gas And $40 of parking for most SoCal residents, and thats if you drive a particularly fuel inefficient car. At 25-30 mpg, a 60 mile round trip radius covers a lot of the LA/OC area for less than $15. $60 + 2 hours of driving << $600 of Hotel fees. It’s not even close.
  - 999900000999 4y ago
    The more I think about this article the more I find it wanting. I go to various free concerts in my city. You can have a lot of fun for free, when I think back my favorite date of all time was just me and my first girlfriend holding hands at the pier. But if I wanted to write an article about how unaffordable dating is, I could say I wanted to take her to see Justin Timberlake. Did you know that Mr. Timberlake has made no effort to make his concert to affordable to working-class couples?!
    - quartesixte 4y ago
      I think the point is that what used to be cultural staples of American Society for families have now become more expensive. Going to free concerts as a young couple (along with other cheap dates) is actually also somewhat expected and if the pop culture references and stories from Boomers/GenXer are true, also a staple of American Society. That being said, going to Disneyland wasn’t a frequent trip kind of thing to most Americans anyways, and the Disneyland of the 60s and 70s is downright unrecognizable at times (chainlink fences at the park entrance). I think the article could have done without the Disneyland reference.
      - 999900000999 4y ago
        No reason you can't just take your whole family to the beach. It's like complaining Steven King novels cost too much, thousands upon thousands of novels are free, you can always read those while you save up money
        EddieDante 4y ago
        Or you could get a library card.
        quartesixte 4y ago
        Having fun, isn’t hard, when you got a library card!
    - mitchdoogle 4y ago
      It's a clickbait article, not a scientific study.
bombcar 4y ago
Disneyland is open 8 AM to midnight, and you'd still have to drive to the hotel either way. Parking is $30 or so even when parking at the closest options, but there are many other parking areas and shuttles available. What I suspect is happening is that before when things were cheaper it wasn't "much more" to get a hotel bundle deal, and made it simpler (hotel included parking, after midnight no drive home, just crash at the hotel and check out next day, or hit the other park). But as costs rise, you can't necessarily do what you did the last time, and need to modify your plan of attack. For example, if the kids are older, you'd want to consider Magic Mountain, some miles north of LA, but with cheaper (or free if you do some tricks) parking and a annual pass for $200 (buy two get one free).

999900000999 4y ago

Um, you still have to pay for gas and parking even if you drive home the next day. That's half the cost here, it would have still been a good article without" oh my God, a family trip to Disneyland is over $1,000"

quartesixte 4y ago
At most thats $25 of gas And $40 of parking for most SoCal residents, and thats if you drive a particularly fuel inefficient car. At 25-30 mpg, a 60 mile round trip radius covers a lot of the LA/OC area for less than $15. $60 + 2 hours of driving << $600 of Hotel fees. It’s not even close.
- 999900000999 4y ago
  The more I think about this article the more I find it wanting. I go to various free concerts in my city. You can have a lot of fun for free, when I think back my favorite date of all time was just me and my first girlfriend holding hands at the pier. But if I wanted to write an article about how unaffordable dating is, I could say I wanted to take her to see Justin Timberlake. Did you know that Mr. Timberlake has made no effort to make his concert to affordable to working-class couples?!
  - quartesixte 4y ago
    I think the point is that what used to be cultural staples of American Society for families have now become more expensive. Going to free concerts as a young couple (along with other cheap dates) is actually also somewhat expected and if the pop culture references and stories from Boomers/GenXer are true, also a staple of American Society. That being said, going to Disneyland wasn’t a frequent trip kind of thing to most Americans anyways, and the Disneyland of the 60s and 70s is downright unrecognizable at times (chainlink fences at the park entrance). I think the article could have done without the Disneyland reference.
    - 999900000999 4y ago
      No reason you can't just take your whole family to the beach. It's like complaining Steven King novels cost too much, thousands upon thousands of novels are free, you can always read those while you save up money
      - EddieDante 4y ago
        Or you could get a library card.
        quartesixte 4y ago
        Having fun, isn’t hard, when you got a library card!
  - mitchdoogle 4y ago
    It's a clickbait article, not a scientific study.

bombcar 4y ago

Disneyland is open 8 AM to midnight, and you'd still have to drive to the hotel either way. Parking is $30 or so even when parking at the closest options, but there are many other parking areas and shuttles available. What I suspect is happening is that before when things were cheaper it wasn't "much more" to get a hotel bundle deal, and made it simpler (hotel included parking, after midnight no drive home, just crash at the hotel and check out next day, or hit the other park). But as costs rise, you can't necessarily do what you did the last time, and need to modify your plan of attack. For example, if the kids are older, you'd want to consider Magic Mountain, some miles north of LA, but with cheaper (or free if you do some tricks) parking and a annual pass for $200 (buy two get one free).