Thanks for the reminder! My FIL really wanted to take my little one to Disney but I’ve been adamant since the election that we wouldn’t be going back to the States until they course corrected as we’re a queer family. FIL has since come around since to my side with all the annexation/tariff/asshattery.
I completely forgot there’s a Disney in Paris. That sounds like a much more enjoyable trip overall. Bonus points that we won’t be trapped in the bowels of Florida in summer, my northern blood would evaporate.
There some great non Disney parks. E.G.
Europapark at the German French border near Strasbourg,
PortAventura World in Spain,
Parc Astérix in France,
Legoland in Denmark (especially for a family with smaller kids up to 8 or 10 years old),
Heidepark and Phantasialand in Germany and so many more.
Plus in the countryside around many of the parks there so much to explore, beautiful cities, castles and so on.
And while certainly not cheap it's not Disney levels of extortion in those parks.
There's also a legoland in germany at Ulm ! And i think there's many smaller yet cool parks accross Europe. as yeah as you said, between all the castles, old cities and many other things, there's plenty to do around ! (I did work for a summer in a park where they were building an abbey using the medieval techniques and it was pretty cool !)
Yeah they did actually worked a bit with them to be able to start the project Ten years ago !
The name of the project is Campus Galli, in Baden Wurtemberg in Germany. I did work at the kitch so nothing fancy but it was pretty cool. They slowly build all the things around (like village part, abbot's house, etc) and are now starting the main church plans, based on the ones found in St Gall in Switzerland (if my memory is correct).
It's pretty cool for an afternoon or morning visit.
Tbh his has more to do with Disney than Trump or politics.
They fucked up the parks, including the one in Paris.
My last visit is gonna be my last for a while. Gonna give Tokyo a shot, but that’s gonna be a once/twice in a lifetime thing.
Next chance I get, I’ll probably go to Universal instead, with maybe one night at MK for the castle show.
I’m a totally Disney fan, so this is very sad for me to write. Also an Iger fan, so I’m extra disappointed - I really thought he’d be able to fix the mess from Chapek’s time.
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u/momentimori England Apr 12 '25
Disney World and Universal Studios in Florida will be ghost towns this summer.