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MonorailMan
04-26-2003, 06:06 PM
Since the teachers at school know I'm a Disney geek, here's what Grad Nite is this year (Included are my comments):

Stuff You Get:
2 Hour Blast Off Party In DCA (Wow, you can party in DCA?)
All Night Disneyland, 10pm-5am (I think)
1 meal at: RRPP, RDZ, PI, or FM
And Transportation.

And the cost: $82! (Don't forget, this is from my school, "The Academy for Academic Excellence at the Lewis Center for Educational Research")

Wow, that's a lot. I mean you put $23 with it and you have a SoCal AP. But then, like I'm told a 1000 times, "Who needs to go there more than once a year?" I reply, "I do!" :D

Anyhow, by the time I'm a senior, it will be around $600. :D :D

tabacco
04-26-2003, 06:57 PM
10pm is optimistic. The last grad night I worked, we didn't get all the students into the park til about 2am.

MammaSilva
04-26-2003, 07:04 PM
That's not really to bad a price considering it includes the transportation and that's a huge expense... we drove down in Greyhounds in '73 and our total ticket was around 40 bucks I think but it didn't include any meal.. just the Greyhound and the park.. no DCA back in those days....we stopped in Castaic at the McDonalds for dinner and used their bathrooms to change because the dress code was strictly enforced.. I hear the only code now is to be dressed.... kind of sad really.....

tod
04-26-2003, 07:09 PM
I remember it being $25 or something close to that in 1968 and 1969, but we only had to come in from Reseda, in the West Valley, so the transport was cheaper than from Apple Valley.

--T

shila
04-26-2003, 07:20 PM
I went to gradnite June 200 and again June 2001 and both times it was about $56.

I go to school in ventura county so that only included admission and the bus ride to and from.

We had to buy our own food and we didn't get anything as far as DCA is concerned.

Anyway the park if far too crowded to be much fun personally.

cemeinke
04-26-2003, 07:25 PM
Sheesh mine was $10 in 1980:

http://www.linkline.com/personal/cemeinke/img/Grad%20Night%20Ticket.jpg

DisneyFan25863
04-26-2003, 07:45 PM
Originally posted by mammasilva
we stopped in Castaic at the McDonalds for dinner



OFFTOPIC: That's a really good McDonads. The only one that I will eat at :D ;)

gr8onesgir1
04-26-2003, 08:38 PM
Not all schools get to go to Blast Off. Certain schools are invited for that. Yes you can party in DCA.

MonorailMan
04-26-2003, 08:49 PM
I wonder if they will be showing Playhouse Disney that night? :rolleyes: :D :D

HBTiggerFan
04-26-2003, 09:28 PM
Well $82 that doesn't seem like a whole heck of a lot of money if you break it down like this:


$45 for admission
$15 for your meal
$22 for transportation


At least your Grad Night is at DL. Yea, so a bunch of rides will be closed and it will be crowded with music you may not like, you get a chance to see the sun rise at DL!!!!!!!! How magical is that????

Nigel2
04-26-2003, 09:32 PM
Heck our Grad Nite was like 90 or something and it wasn't at a theme park (We did it during the Star Testing). None of my friends went so I didn't either. I am sure it's fun for some people to be traped at some random location, because they fear kids would hide drugs in the school.

Morrigoon
04-26-2003, 11:35 PM
Actually, I recall my gradnites being at least in the over-$50 range, possibly even around $75.

Germboy
04-26-2003, 11:58 PM
I went to grad night in 1989 and had a blast! I have NO idea what we paid to get in, but we DID have to take buses from Long Beach (maybe 5 miles away). I remember going on POTC around 4 AM and I kept falling asleep sitting up. I was so uncomfortable and I remember being stunned awake when I went down the waterfalls.

It was THE BEST to be there with my 3 best friends. It seems like so long ago, and looking back, it is a fantasic memory.

Incidentally, about that McDonald's in Castaic: I'm back in school in water utility science and we recently took a bus on a field trip to Castaic Water Agency (about a month ago during the last big rain storm). Before we got there, we stopped at that McDonald's to eat. I went to the restroom and everyone boarded the bus, which took off almost immediately. I got out just in time to run across the parking lot with my arms in the air, screaming for them to wait. They forgot about me!! How far is Castaic from Long Beach? Ay ay ay. Thank goodness someone saw me running. Worst part is it was pouring rain!! Is that the only McDonald's in Castaic?

justagrrl
04-27-2003, 07:30 AM
We had a "casino dinner cruise" for our grad night. It was lame. We all got to play casino games on a boat that cruised around somewhere - Long Beach maybe? Anyway, you got a raffle tickets to play games and for winning the games. Except that they forgot it was going to take time to raffle stuff off at the end. Ended up that the crowd of Seniors that planned grad night went home with the majority of raffle prizes. :rolleyes: That was just typical of the whole high school experience.

I'm glad to be far away from the horror that was H.S.... It would be soooo different if I was there nowadays. (Well - you know - not as a 33 year old in high school - but knowing what I know now. :) But isn't that the way it always is? :) )

DisneyFan25863
04-27-2003, 07:50 AM
Originally posted by Germboy
Incidentally, about that McDonald's in Castaic: I'm back in school in water utility science and we recently took a bus on a field trip to Castaic Water Agency (about a month ago during the last big rain storm). Before we got there, we stopped at that McDonald's to eat. I went to the restroom and everyone boarded the bus, which took off almost immediately. I got out just in time to run across the parking lot with my arms in the air, screaming for them to wait. They forgot about me!! How far is Castaic from Long Beach? Ay ay ay. Thank goodness someone saw me running. Worst part is it was pouring rain!! Is that the only McDonald's in Castaic?

Thats the only McDonalds in Castaic, but not the only one in SCV (Santa Clarita Valley). We have about 5 more out by Valencia and Stevenson Ranch and such. Castaic is about, oh, say, about an hour away from Long Beach. ;)

HBTiggerFan
04-27-2003, 10:26 AM
I forgot to mention this in my other post...

Our gradnight was $75 and held at our school!!!!! :eek: I did not go, I heard it was really bad.

mkyears
04-27-2003, 11:02 PM
I went to grad nite last year and I really did not enjoy it payed all that money to wait in line for over an hour to get in didn't get in until really late then had to leave around 4 or so to get back to the buses because we had to walk from the tram stop to the entrance plaza. And beleive me when your tired at about 4 in the morning that walk sucks.

tabacco
04-27-2003, 11:59 PM
Do you remember which day? If it was the last one, I was out there shouting at you as you came in the gate ;)

stitcher
04-28-2003, 12:14 AM
Forgot how much I paid in '97 and '99($50's range), but if I thought I could I would have demanded my money back for at least one of them. Kids were pushing on the gates, so they wouldn't let us in. One time our school got there at 11, my ex-gf got in around 1, but I didn't get through till almost 2:mad: They enforced a pretty strict dress code.

Three years later, I worked a grad night, believing that I would be subjected to the same torture, only on the other end. To my surprise, I found a laxed dress code and very tame entry by the grads(though this is probably due to an improved, albeit lengthened, dismissal schedule). Contraband rules were made up and changed as we went through the night.

Germboy
04-28-2003, 01:18 AM
Gosh...never thought of having to walk back to MAFPS! When I went in '89, the p-lot was right out front and we just sort of FELL into the buses. That wouldn't be as fun if I would have had to have walked...

karldotcom
05-29-2003, 09:53 AM
Things have all changed since 1985 when I was a senior in HS. Our school wasn't allowed to participate in Grad Night, because our graduation was mid May and the school would no longer have "institutional control" over us. At least that was the excuse they handed us. A year later I was home from college and someone got into the Star Tours 72 hours celebration, so I guess that made up for it. I still swear I saw snow coming down at 3am waiting in line for the Matterhorn one night!

I have a friend who works security at Knotts Berry Farm on the weekends, and has for 15 years or so. He was talking about how school trips now involve such details such as the school district police departments setting up in the security office. He told me about a recent night, they had five different school district police departments in there, with portable blood alcohol testing equipment and other hi-tech goodies to test the students who ran afoul.

Makes you long for the days when things seemed simpler.

dflores
05-29-2003, 08:21 PM
MonorailMan,

I go to Excelsior in Victorville. ::D Don't look at me that way - I'm no thug:: I go to VVC twice a week and do journalism at the HS. How weird two High Desert, High School disney geeks. :)

ununoctium
05-29-2003, 08:26 PM
The party was alright. I went through Grad nite in 2002...they only open Paradise Pier and Soarin'... the lines are pretty horrendous (and no fastpass)... free dinner though!

I loved Soarin'!

stitch626
05-29-2003, 09:22 PM
I'm going this year to Grad Nite, and I'm paying only $57. I might be only a junior, but I convinced a Senior friend to take me. :D But, how can the lines be worse at Grad Night then during normal days? The deal with food sounds good to me though. ::Shrugs::

Disney Nick
05-29-2003, 09:44 PM
Originally posted by stitch626
I'm going this year to Grad Nite, and I'm paying only $57. I might be only a junior, but I convinced a Senior friend to take me.

Hmm, didn't know you were allowed to do that. What if you are a 2nd year college student who doesn't have any friends in high school in SoCal.

You think I can sneek in :fez: