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• Lyndon: So, have you been to a Disney park?
• Liz: Yes, I have actually…about 20 years ago; I went, not long after Euro Disney had opened in Paris. And at that time you could have a day-ticket for only about 20 Euros, which was about as much as I was prepared to pay…
• Lyndon: And what did you think about it?
• Liz: I think I built it up in my mind when I was very little, so I was disappointed ‘cause it was just… you know, Space Mountain wasn’t that exciting, really, as an adult. What about you?
• Kevin: I’ve not been to Euro Disney, but my mom retired in Lakeland, Florida, about 45 minutes away from the Florida Disney, so we’ve been maybe 10 times, and I think that the Disney in Paris is quite a bit smaller. There’s so much to do in the Disney World: there are five parks out there in Orlando. So, it’s quite a bit different.
• Liz: I didn’t know…I guess I was kind of…It seems a bit...like you’d pay all this money to go in, you’d pay to go in, and then you have to queue, all the time, to go on the different rides.
• Kevin: Right.
• Liz: And it just felt like kind of, you know, you have to buy an extra ticket to go past the queue, and then you still have to queue... It just seems very complicated!
• Kevin: It’s true, but I would say that they streamlined a lot of that process in the last 20 years. A lot of things have changed in the last 20 years. But it is still a lot of line waiting and no matter what Disney park you do, it’s gonna cost a lot of money.
• Liz: Okay, what’s the average price nowadays for a day out at Disney, even if you’re not staying, and you’re not eating there, you’ve packed lunch and you’ve frozen water?
• Kevin: Right, hum, I’m not exactly sure, but I think, for a non-state resident, it could easily be, you can easily spend $200 a person US.
• Liz: Oh wow! It’s quite a lot!
• Kevin: It’s really… If you’re staying in the park and in some of their hotels, you can get deals and there is all sorts of deals of three days…and meal plans, now they have bracelets, where you can go in and you just show them your bracelet and you…eat in a lot of different restaurants and…without having to pay for you meal. It’s all quite a bit… But it’s still gonna be a lot money.
• Liz: Okay, and you said, if you’re a state-resident, you get a discount?
• Kevin: If you’re a state-resident. Yeah, so my family lives here, in Lyon, France, but we are officially state-residents of Florida, because it’s where my mother lives, and so, we have Florida driver licenses and so we get to…get ticket much cheaper.
• Liz: That’s the…that’s the…
• Lyndon: So, I have to be an American before, so I have to be a Flori…Floridan?
• Kevin: Floridian.
• All: Floridian!
• Lyndon: …before I can go to Disney.
• Kevin: That’s right.
• Liz: And do you want to go to Disney?
• Lyndon: Actually, no, but you know…

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