I love Legos. But based on this review in the LA Times of a trip there, I think I’d hate Legoland.
Mostly because I am a cheap Midwesterner, and if I am paying around $225 to take my family somewhere I’d better be having Thomas Keller cook for me or sitting in the front row while Aretha Franklin sings.
I mean, it sounds kind of cool – rides, a good playground for the little ones, and Miniland -- all kinds of things made out of Legos. There’s a series of landmarks and so on – click on over, that paragraph is quite funny.
The writer relays that his family’s overnight trip, which included a stay at the hotel adjacent to the park, meals etc. clocked in at about $600. I’m a big believer in spending money on experiences versus things; if I had to choose between spending that kind of money on a day at a theme park or, say, a biog day at the mall I’d cough up for the theme park, no question. But sweet fancy Moses, $600 seems like an awful lot of money for a family outing.
That just seems insane to me, that nothing could be that fun to justify that cost. And no wonder we’re all in insane amounts of debt if a normal rite of passage for childhood costs almost as much as our car payment and more than our heating bill.
California and Florida readers, help me out here: Is spending a day at one of the big theme parks an annual thing, a “big birthday” kind of thing or considered practically a birthright? Is it something that’s sort of expected that you’ll do, or is it optional?
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