Read all about it:  The party’s over. 

Three months from now the lights will go out in WDW Pleasure Island’s 6 night clubs in an apparent attempt to add restaurants and make the area more family friendly. Personally, it’s no skin off my nose. I wasn’t a huge fan of the clubs anyway.

The last time I was there Lauren, Nicole (Brian’s 28 year old sister) and I went to Mannequin’s. I basically sat there watching the purses, nursing a way too expensive drink while the girls danced, and people watching - I think I got a clue that night of what was to come at PI.

Lauren was dancing in her usual frenetic, carefree way and a guy, maybe a little older than her, kept trying to dance with her. It didn’t seem like a huge deal to me. He wasn’t touching her or getting too close, just dancing around her and she kept dancing away from him. On his third attempt, WDW security barreled onto the dance floor and hauled him away making it look like he had just been busted for drugs or something. Maybe he’d been warned in the past, maybe he had done something much worse, but this time, he was just trying to dance with my daughter the way I imagine hundreds of other geeky guys have tried over the years. It was just a little reminder that this might look like a nightclub and sound like a nightclub but this was not a nightclub in the real world sense - this was WDW.

For as long as I can remember there has been a conflict between the people who want a more adult, maybe even child-free experience at WDW and the families that believe that their kids should not be denied access to anything. People who were trying their best to get wasted at PI complained that people shouldn’t be bringing their little kids there and people with little kids complained that there were people getting wasted. (Imagine that! People drinking in night clubs! The nerve!)

I will weigh in with my unsolicited opinion and say that parents these days baffle me with their judgmental and overbearing ways. I look at the closing of these night clubs as a win for these parents  and picture them congratulating each other for successfully bitching enough that WDW has decided it would be better for them to be more family friendly.

I don’t know why there can’t be something for adults that is not for kids at WDW but the way parents are today it wouldn’t surprise me if one day there isn’t a bar or club left in the country that is not stroller friendly.