Friday, March 1, 2013

Busch Gardens is not for us

When we first moved here we were invited to go to Busch Gardens with our neighbors,they were going to get a year pass for $20 a month. I thought hey that's affordable. It was much cheaper in the long run  then the one day pass of $150.  We were talking about going every three weeks. I waited a while because I wasn't sure if it was just for Florida residents. We had only lived here for like two weeks. Come to find out after she bought their passes it was. I am glad I waited because I wouldn't have been able to use it. I really wanted to go, I had great memories of the Busch Gardens in Williamsburg Virginia when I was younger. I knew Noah loves animals so I thought he would have an amazing time, but I was wrong. It was a total nightmare. Noah hated it. Meltdown after meltdown after meltdown. It was hot but not too bad. He didn't wanna do anything. He rode one ride. He threw a huge fit at the Sesame Street show. I had to carry him away because he was making such a racket it was interfering with the people trying to watch the show. I felt so bad and embarrassed because Noah was ruining their good time. Thankfully she was understanding. 

The food was really expensive and honestly horrible.  After meltdown number five I decided never again. He did enjoy feeding the kangaroos but other than that forget about it. It was like a monster took over my sweet boy. He told me over and over he never wanted to go there again. I was thinking me either. It totally sucked because I dropped an insane amount of money for the tickets and food and everything. It could be worse. I could have had to pay 20 dollars a month for 12 months for nothing. Normally Noah is well behaved and loved it. There were of course armies of people from other countries that just took over the walkways. He would say can we go home now or I wanna go home every five minutes like clockwork. If we weren't with friends we would have probably left right away. I thought about calling my mom to come pick us up, but thought that would be really rude.   We will not go back to Busch Gardens again. Next time we will go to LEGOland I know he will love it there and probably want to move in and  the only time I would cry is when we have to leave.

7 comments:

  1. :( That's too bad - but like you said, it's at least a good thing you didn't shell out the money for the yearly pass, it was smart to check it out first.

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  2. you know some of this stuff just isn't for everyone.

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  3. That's too bad you had such a bad experience. Sorry to hear that.

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  4. We've come across things like this too, where it didn't live up to our expectations…Yankee stadium charges over $20 for a slice of pizza and small soda. Not worth it to see a team that isn't that impressive anymore.

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  5. I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it. When I lived in Tampa my son and I had season passes each year and we really enjoyed going for a few hours in the afternoon. It was nice that we didn't feel like we had to do it all in one day.

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