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Originally Posted by Chatnoir

So we've booked a two week trip for May 18.

We booked it about 6 months ago, and it will be our first trip with our daughter, who will be 2.5 years old when we go.
We are soooo excited to take her, and obviously want the trip to be amazing and for her to love it.

But this weekend we went to a local theme park... its Very small, and has a few rides that she could go on...small train ride, small boat type ride etc...anyone, she was too scared for any of it! She loved watching them, but as soon as we tried to take her on, she'd start crying and fight to get off.

We are now a bit worried she will be like this in Disney... we weren't expecting it! she's usually such a dare devil that we didn't think this would be an issue.

We are really pushing ourselves to afford this trip (booked when we were feeling flush...now not so!) and I'm slightly concerned we are gonna come away thinking we should have saved the money and gone somewhere else!

Anyone else have experience of this? Get all the way there and the kids refuse to go on ANYTHING!

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Yup I waited 45 minutes to ride the Dumbo flying elephants and my 3 year old refused to go on and started crying. The attendents were great and said we could stand for a while incase he changed his mind... he didn't He had fun at the shows though and we spent a lot of days at seaworld as he loved the dolphins and Rays and Shamu of course.

He still has great memories of Seaworld it's his (and my) favourite park.

Have to add that he's 12 now and Manta is his favorite ride.