Disney Land in Katy?

I first heard this rumor in 1985 in Highschool. I'll believe it when I see it.

 

lmao i doubt that

 

actually december has become one of the busiest if not the busiest month of the year. even the first couple of weeks before schools traditionally let out.

 

That was 'funny'. Houston's hottest month (July) is only 2 degrees warmer than Orlando and Houston's avg high is 4 degrees cooler than Orlando, Houston gets 3 inches less rain per year (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orlando,_Florida, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Houston) , 'desolate' is only applicable to West Texas, Texas' population is 24 million while Florida is 18 million, and as for leisure travel, Texas trails only Florida and California (which already have Disney parks) http://www.travel.state.tx.us/DocumentStore/Travel Trends Q1 2006 Web.pdf .

 

I remember my dad telling me this a quarter century ago. Man I am old.

 

Really? When I was there (been a few years now) in the first week of december...the line for Space Mountain was 15 minutes.

 

I still occasionally talk to people who've never been to Houston and they ask me if we see a lot of tumbleweeds because of the desert-like conditions. LOL! I remember reading interviews with people during Super Bowl week who were surprised Houston was such a big city (not in size, but in numbers of people). Um, yeah, it's only the 4th largest city in America.

 

yeah....december is packed. but even october is getting more and more crowded.

 

What do you do, pull your kids out of school? I take it spring break is not a good time to go either?

 

i did this last october. my older boy was in first grade. we told the teacher we were taking a week's vacation. as they get older, obviously that becomes less likely.

spring break is really busy, yeah....UNLESS we end up having a different spring break than the schools on the east coast.

 

A week of school? Wow. I guess if you don't want them to miss any school, you're pretty much screwed. I guess a day or two to miss wouldn't be too bad.

Which is worse, spring break or Christmas?

I remember going on spring break in Jr. High and I don't recall it being awful or anything.

 

you're not really screwed. i'd just allow yourself more time. whether you go for spring break or for Christmas, you'll find the weather is fine...like it is here those times of the year.

better to go spring break, i think, but some would disagree. this is from a website that restates what disney communicates about times to visit. but i can tell you, what i hear from people who are going contradicts some of this. here it is, anyway:

http://www.allearsnet.com/pl/attend.htm

Disney states:

The Lowest Attendance --

January (except New Year's Day) until just prior to Presidents' Week in February

The week following Labor Day until the week prior to Thanksgiving

The week following Thanksgiving until mid-December
More Moderate Attendance:
After Presidents' week in February through early March
Late April through early June (except Memorial Day weekend)
Columbus Day Weekend (October)
The first part of Thanksgiving week

Highest Attendance:
Presidents' week in February
Mid March through Late April ("Spring Break")
Memorial Day weekend
Mid June through Labor Day
Thanksgiving Day and weekend
Christmas week through New Year's Day

 

This would explain the expansion of the katy fwy, I mean other than the fact that Katy is the fastest growing suburb in houston...

Im affraid of rides anyway so this doesnt apply to me

 

My Dad told me that this was a rumor from when they first moved to Houston in 1977.

 

Although LAX is far, you have John Wayne Airport in Santa Ana which is like 15 minutes from Disneyland. Thousands of tourists flock to LA anyway to see Hollywood, MGM, Santa Monica, etc, so going to Disneyland is part of a bigger vacation.

If you're banking on some Okies and some folks from Kansas to make Houston Disney a success, it will fail. It requires a mass exodus of tourists from all over willing to put up with a lot of high prices to have a good time. Houston just isn't a desirable vacation spot.

 

1. neither was Orlando;

2. Houston isn't the destination.

 

But Orlando doesn't have any strip malls. Nor does Baqui99 inexplicably bash Orlando at every opportunity.

 

Where did I bash Houston in this thread? I just mentioned that it's not a good tourist destination. Couple that with the remote location of the proposed site and the transportation issues, and you run into some major hurdles.

 

in truth, there are far less hurdles than there were for DisneyWorld in Orlando.

 

But people have pointed out that Orlando was never a tourist destination before Disneyworld, but you seem to have ignored that.