The Last Thing I Bought at Disneyland Was a $78 Cheat Code

There was one place me, my daughter, and my wife wanted to hit up before our trip was over, and there was only one solution: more money.

We did not buy MagicBands at Disneyland. If we ever go to DisneyWorld? Maybe.

Anyone who reads Crossplay knows I’m anxious about money. Yes, I like to think I’m thrifty, rather than cheap, but honesty…it’s a fine line. I do have the ability to turn that anxiety off on vacation, especially in service of making our lives easier. Why am I spending all this time working, if not to make the “vacation” part as good as possible?

I am not going to worry about paying nearly $20 for a beer when I want a damn beer and it’s my only option, and simultaneously, I will pay any amount of money, however absurd, to fast pass my way to the front (or front-ish) of the line of a theme park ride. 

(On that point, it’s ludicrous that at Super Nintendo World, the Universal Studios fast pass, which is already expensive, does not apply to the heralded Mario Kart ride. You have to purchase something even more expensive if you want to jump the line there.)

Which is how, of course, I ended up paying nearly $100 in the final hours of our time at Disneyland ensuring me, my wife, and my oldest daughter were able to accomplish one of our main goals of Disneyland. If you’ve been there, you can probably guess!