> I am not convinced either that a trip to Disneyland with hotel stay was ever within reach of everyone, especially without a level of planning and saving for i

> I am not convinced either that a trip to Disneyland with hotel stay was ever within reach of everyone, especially without a level of planning and saving for it. In the 1990s my immigrant family was able to afford a trip to Disneyworld approximately one year after we arrived in the US. We were not poor, but not well-off by any means: only one person in the family could legally work, we lived in a not-very-good apartment in a not-very-good area, our one car was old and used, and all our furniture was acquired from yard sales. And yet we could afford the Disney theme park tickets. (Not a Disney hotel, of course; hotels were overpriced even then, so we drove 1000 miles to Florida and stayed with a family we knew.)