If you are going to Florida for a holiday then DONT, Change it to some where else while you can.
I just got back from two dissapointing weeks in Florida.
reasons not to go
Disneyland is for people with children under 6 only.
Each park has an average of two roller Coasters in each park, inc universal studios.
Food is crap, stodgy, fatty fast food outlets every 5 yards and i mean that, i swear you say, oh look a Dennys diner, then next door another similar place and on n on n on n on , International drive has as many crappy diners as Blackpool has slot machines.
Florida is expensive too, ok the fuel is only $2.00 a gallon but apart from that its expensive, We went to wallmart for shopping, a tin of wallmarts own beans $1.56, PG Tips T bags $4.99 (80's). a small jar coffee $5.50, multi pack of 12 crisps $4.99, and so on, a 1.2 kg joint of brisket $19.00, i know you have the exchange rate etc but even so, its still expensive.
They serve macdonalds burgers on Scones, ok they call them Biscuits, but its still a bloody scone.
Universal stusios was a let down, apart from the Hulk ride and the spiderman ride (if thats what you want to call it) all the other rides where pointless.
Jurrassic park ride was about as scary as an 18 year old kid in a vauxhall nova reving his lawn mower of an engine at the traffic lights next to my v6.
i am not kidding you, Florida was a big let down, i booked this holiday 13 months ago and was really lookig for ward to all the rides and attractions etc, but the place was so expensive that my £1500 spending money was not enough, if we ate out every meal which is what we thought we would have died of malnutrition and all come back as bloaters. if it were not for kellogs cornflakes and crispies n campbells chunky soupswe would have starved,
my wife thought she would treat herself to a chinese take away, we asked if they could deliver it to which they said yes, this meal cost $21 for 1, the owner delivered the meal to our hotel room in the Quality Inn International, we paid and the woman counted the money and shreiked (WHAT, NO TEEEP), i imidiately traslated this to WHAT NO TIP?? to which i said oh, er yes sorry, i'll give you a tip, dont forget to change the water pump when you change the cam belt on an omega, she looked at me oddly when i slammed the door in the cheeky wenches face, i thought cheeky sod.
the Virgin rep said they expect a 12-15% tip and its the standard norm, i said, i dont tip people for doing their job. barmen, taxi drivers or any one, NO TIP.
have i mentioned the food is crap.
its not cheap for clothes either, i bought my daughter a pair of reboks before we went for £18, the same shoes in the outlets were $85. i am going to pause this rant but if you aske the bbm to recomments the fun parks in florida you will be waiting a long time, square pound for pound the blackpool pleasure beach has more rides and attractions than disney/universal put to gether
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