I went to Disney World for the first time before we had kids. My only prior Disney experience was when I was 9 after my father had died and the family visited some relatives in California. This was way back in the E-Ticket era which is my only real memory of this trip. After we had kids, we were regular visitors. When the kids were in school or law school, I made numerous trips by myself including when I was addicted to the Millionaire attraction (Disney had a rule that you could only get on the Hot Seat every 30 days because some lady who got on the TV show would get on the hot seat four or five times in one day). With the time share, it was fun making trips with or sometimes without the kids.
Before I joined DU (a long time ago), I was active on a board for Disney nuts where there are boards/forums for LGTBQ, single, solo, adult and senior visitors. https://www.disboards.com/ There are unofficial gay day events at Disney with a ton of visitors without children. There are a ton of older and single persons who visit Disney. At the time share, I have seen a ton of groups/travelers without kids attending over the years. I went to an ABA convention at Disney a very long time ago. My kids teased me that I attended the seminars to get my continuing legal education hours in while they were in the parks. I did get to listen to a lecture with some of the top merger and acquisition attorneys in the country at this seminar.
Disney has developed a nice wedding business. My middle child and her husband got married there 10 years ago. Disney did a great job for this wedding. Our last trip coincided with my middle child's and her husband's tenth wedding anniversary, and I had fun making them wear their buttons showing that it was their anniversary (they got some free desserts). I also saw that DeSantis also got married there.
Again, Walt Disney has some truly great dining locations. My oldest child is a foodie and there are ton of great restaurants to go to. The hotel where Graham was filmed has really nice place to eat in addition to Chef Mickey. Chef Andres' has a nice restaurant at Disney Springs that I want to try out. As I mentioned, the Art Smith restaurant has the best fried chicken that I have ever had. There is a steakhouse near Epcot that has amazing steaks.
I see nothing strange or wrong with Graham going to Disney World other than the fact that there is a partial government shutdown. It is wrong for members of Congress to go on vacation while TSA and other government workers are not being paid. The articles that I have read about Graham being at Disney focused on the fact that Graham was on a nice vacation during this partial shutdown.
Again, I strongly disagree with your characterization about single or unmarried visitors to Disney. Single visitors or visitors without children go to Walt Disney all of the time. I do object to members of Congress going on vacations while there is a government shutdown.
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