What international park \ destination is better for someone with young kids?

[rappa]

Shanghai is inherently more challenging to visit with it being main land China and all that goes with that including language. 

 

Just something to think about. 

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

11 hours ago, djrappa said:

Shanghai is inherently more challenging to visit with it being main land China and all that goes with that including language. 

 

Just something to think about. 

Thanks - it is something we've thought about - but my brother works in Shanghai for half the year, and has offered us his local guide \ driver \ interpreter for a pretty nice price if we were to take up the offer, which is part of the reason why Shanghai came up on the radar late in the piece...

[Gazza]

If you did Shanghai you could also visit Happy Valley, which is on the Metro.

They've got a Dive Machine, an Intamin Megalite, a B&M Family Coaster and a woodie, among other things.

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1 hour ago, Gazza said:

If you did Shanghai you could also visit Happy Valley, which is on the Metro.

They've got a Dive Machine, an Intamin Megalite, a B&M Family Coaster and a woodie, among other things.

@AlexB not to be confused with the Happy Valley in Beaudesert. 😎

[Slick]

Your kids would also benefit from seeing other cultures and languages, just saying.

[Baconjack]

Probably HKDL or USS are the best parks for little kids. It doesn't take long to get there, English is the primary language used (some shows are in Cantonese though, I learned that the hard way), is typically never busy, easy to get around and gives off the Disney/Universal experience enough while being close to home.

Although I'm not exactly sure how a 4 year old would cope with a theme park, or the 7-9 hour flight to get to HK/Singapore. I'm at least a decade off from being a parent but I'd want to say that a child that age typically wouldn't remember doing that. I'd preferably say 6 at minimum, but I'm definitely being somewhat conservative. Somehow I remember things from when I was two but I know my case is an outlier. For this very reason of 'remembering and appreciating' I didn't travel outside of Australia until I was 13-14 years old and my first Disney park was two years after that.

[DaptoFunlandGuy]

I have memories from age 4 and earlier. We've already made the decision not to take him to the states to do Fl and Ca until he's a bit older, but i'm comfortable he'll enjoy the experience, and remember the trip well enough.

[iwerks]

For those people with young families who want to visit a quiet inner city amusement park in Tokyo, here’s my review of one I went to in 2015. It’s near a large temple and one train stop from the Skytree.

http://parks115.blogspot.com/2015/10/hanayashiki-amusement-park.html?m=1