Biggest park peeves?

[LSUfan4444]

I suggest you go on Youtube and look for CoP videos. You will see that not everyone listens to the CMs, or seems to have their brain engaged when at WDW. I get why they use that tone.

I "get it" too, it doesn't mean it's the right thing to do. In the service industry you should treat each guest as they are your first.

Bad service almost always begins (outside of apathy or just being bad at your job), but being distracted from the real goal of customer service because of a previous guest interaction isn't fair to every guest they encounter.

It's really no different than the cashier at your every day fast food restaurant. They probably get treated like cr@p all day, but they need to greet the next customer with a smile and a positive attitude, even if we get why they don't want to.

 

[LSUfan4444]

The overzealous CM is one, but as far as a guest peeve, it is easily the ones who send one person to get FPs while another one gets in line and wants to meet the person who got in line.

If you want to send a FP runner, that's a great idea and a great way to maximize time so not everyone is standing around clogging up the FP machine area, but you meet up and start at the back of the line together.

 

[ttintagel]

What absolutely drives me crazy is when I see parents ignoring their children's safety.

This fall, I sat behind a family on the train, and despite the announcement about putting kids in the middle of the seat, they put a girl who looked about four years old on the end. The whole trip they sat there yelling at her for "disrespecting Grandma at breakfast" but they didn't even LOOK at her to see that she was hanging her arms and legs out the side of the train for the whole trip. I don't think I breathed for the whole trip as I sat poised and ready to spring up and grab her if anything happened.

There were no fewer than four preschoolers climbing everything they could see in the Barnstormer line, while their parents stood and stared off into the distance or looked at their phones. Two parents got to the boarding area before they even noticed that their kids were still climbing - over iron and concrete that could seriously injure them if they fell - halfway back through the queue. The number of kids climbing and swinging on railings set in concrete all over the park was too high to count.

I fell off a table onto concrete when I was a kid and cracked a rib. A school friend of my mother's fell off playground equipment onto concrete and died of a head injury. I'm not saying we should swaddle our kids in bubble wrap, but you also can't stick your head in the sand and just assume your kids can't get hurt running wild.

 

[maxiesmom]

It's really no different than the cashier at your every day fast food restaurant. They probably get treated like cr@p all day, but they need to greet the next customer with a smile and a positive attitude, even if we get why they don't want to.

I think when you safety is involved it is very different than buying a burger. The CMs need your immediate attention when a safety issue is at hand. And as wrong as it is, many people wouldn't pay attention to a sweetly worded "Hey everyone, we have a little problem. Now please exit the ride and be careful to watch your step." They need to use a tone to grab people's attention immediately.

If every person was smart and aware of what my injure them on the rides they wouldn't have had to install lap bars on Splash. And they wouldn't be yelling at guests on the Peoplemover to sit down all of the time! When it comes to guest safety, I would rather they use a tone that may offend someone than be ignored.

Now if a CM had a tone with you while you were buying burger, that is a totally different thing.

 

[mrjef]

the location of soarin' fp. It should be set up outside the land building! Would clear so much congestion on the stairs/escalators.

amen!!

 

[Torontogal]

Having a great read and actually thought of so many more pet peeves. How many of you have sat on a fast moving ride like Everest or Big Thunder mountain and the dude in front of you decides to whip out his massive camera/video camera? I have had to tell someone to put the camera away as I was worried it could slip and hit a fellow rider in the face. Very dangerous thing to do!

Also: people who change their baby's diaper on a table (saw this at Epcot), couples who argue and feel compelled to make their argument known to other park guests, inappropriate t-shirts, swearing in front of children, bad behaved children, people who are rude to CMS, sweaty guests whose arms swipe yours when they are walking!

I suppose I could go on and on! Lol!

 

[robinb]

My biggest is flash photography in dark rides. It really ruins the ride for me. Especially when they turn around to take their photograph and flash me in the face instead. Thanks. I didn't need my night vision with all your flashing anyway.

 

[J.C.&ALI'SMOM]

Oooooh, the flash thing just kills me! We were on POTC this summer and had a "flasher" on our boat. There were two young guys in the boat and everytime the "flasher" did her thing they would count.

"Flash!" "One!" "Flash!" "Two!" By three there were several in the boat counting as well. By about seven or eight she got the message and quit! It worked!

 

[2Tiggies]

I've never been on Carousel of Progress but I also hate it when people stop inexplicably and when people take flash photography. THE CMS SAID NO!!

Never had a problem with that in CoP but what we have had numerous times is having it stopped because people get up and just decide to exit in the middle of a scene And that despite numerous announcements to please stay seated and not to attempt to leave ....

 

[meggiebeth]

1) Lingering people that walk in a long line side by side s l o w l y . . . And you cannot get past them! They can linger, but at least let people pass!

2) When I am looking at something or reading a sign or whatever, and someone just walks infront of me, and stops right infront of me to look at the same thing, blocking my view totally! Stand NEXT to me, not INFRONT of me!

Meg~ Sent from my iPhone using DISBoards

 

[meggiebeth]

1. People who pee on toilet seats and don't clean it up. I get it that they might not want to sit down to pee, but if they pee on it, they should clean it. Why should a stranger using the toilet after them be the one responsible for cleaning someone else's pee?? I just don't get it!

2. People who leave their trays and trash on the tables after eating at a quick service restaurant. Especially when they see that there are others waiting for a table. Do they think a cast member will quickly jump in there to clean up after them before someone else sits down? Don't they realize that the next guest will end up being the ones cleaning up after them?

Wow. Happy to get that off my chest! I'll try to think of others...I'm sure I can scrounge something up!

The pee on toilet seats drives me crazy too! I never leave pee on the toilet seat and when I leave, I make sure that the toilet is in a condition that someone else would be comfortable with. I hate wiping up people's pee though and often will just hover than having to clean it.

So inconsiderate! These people probably wouldn't leave pee on their toilets at home so why do it in WDW?!

Meg~ Sent from my iPhone using DISBoards

 

[robinb]

Oh! I have another one ... Table Vultures. People who sit with at an empty CS table while the wife/hubby goes to get food. Meanwhile, my family comes along with our food on a tray and we wander around with our food getting cold because we can't find a place to sit with all the Vultures are hogging empty tables. When it's especially busy Disney tries to stop the "table squatting" at Pecos Bills and Cosmic Rays but individually seating people, but even then I saw some Vulture who thought he and his family were above the rules.

ETA: I have no problem with people saving a table when it's not busy. As long as people with food in their hands have a place to sit I'm happy.

 

[Vickyrowe]

I work in a themepark myself, and after park close, we (the ride staff) has to clean the ride and queue line. And I can't say how embarrassed I am on the guests behalf when I see how much garbage is spread around, despite there being tons of bins to expose of your rubbish.

And about queue jumping, the park I work in have signs like these in the queues

Edit: picture doesn't work, the adress isn't allowed here or something. But basically what the sign says is:



I think I've been lucky in Disney myself, I've never had anyone trying to take my front row spot to the parades or anything. But I did once have a lady with a stroller behind me keep ramming her stroller into my legs throughout the entire parade once So I guess that's my pet peeve. Oh, and once me and my friends were trying to find a parade spot, and there was this big group of young people/teens, that sat spread with really big gaps between them. We asked politely if they could gather up a little bit so we could stand behind them. There was no way they were going to move, because they wanted some space around them

GirlDreamer , you wouldn't happen to work at Alton Towers by any chance? That sign seems very familiar to me

 

[Peachkins]

Oooooh, the flash thing just kills me! We were on POTC this summer and had a "flasher" on our boat. There were two young guys in the boat and everytime the "flasher" did her thing they would count.

"Flash!" "One!" "Flash!" "Two!" By three there were several in the boat counting as well. By about seven or eight she got the message and quit! It worked!

Love it! May have to try that on my next trip.

 

[Mad Hattered]

Families that all line up at a FP machine to get their individual ticket instead of letting Dad take their tickets and get them in a much more structured and convenient way.

 

[Mad Hattered]

Awww... Come on.... You're not going to let the 4 year old get his/her own fastpass to teach the responsibility of not breaking the non transferable LAW!

 

[ThreeBeans]

Oh! I have another one ... Table Vultures. People who sit with at an empty CS table while the wife/hubby goes to get food. Meanwhile, my family comes along with our food on a tray and we wander around with our food getting cold because we can't find a place to sit with all the Vultures are hogging empty tables. When it's especially busy Disney tries to stop the "table squatting" at Pecos Bills and Cosmic Rays but individually seating people, but even then I saw some Vulture who thought he and his family were above the rules.

ETA: I have no problem with people saving a table when it's not busy. As long as people with food in their hands have a place to sit I'm happy.

I am seriously confused as to why this is a problem Literally everywhere I have ever been, anywhere, ever, if you have a large party, you divide and conquer. An able bodied adult or two goes through the line, everyone else finds a table.

 

[rainynight]

Being first in the line for a bus, waiting 10+ mins., and then having a large family accompanying a person on a wheelchair/scooter and them taking up the entire bus. That happened 3 times our last visit, we were front of the line each time and had to wait because of a big crowd with one wheelchair rider amongst them that took the entire bus. I really think they should limit the amount of people that can go on along side the scooter rider. Its ridiculous to let an entire family cut in front of the line because one member is in a wheelchair. We missed a few other buses because they load all the scooter people first even if they just arrived and we had been standing and waiting. They really need to put some rules on that and be equally fair to everyone. Having mobility issues shouldn't give you permission to bypass a line.

 

[Granny square]

I am seriously confused as to why this is a problem Literally everywhere I have ever been, anywhere, ever, if you have a large party, you divide and conquer. An able bodied adult or two goes through the line, everyone else finds a table.

Not that poster, but in a busy full restaurant there aren't enough tables for those with food and those waiting to order. There are only enough for the people who have their food.

If everyone waits to get a table until they have their order then the numbers work.

 

[rainynight]

I am seriously confused as to why this is a problem Literally everywhere I have ever been, anywhere, ever, if you have a large party, you divide and conquer. An able bodied adult or two goes through the line, everyone else finds a table.

I agree. If anything I think dividing and conquering would result in less crowds since there won't be entire families carrying trays of food looking and waiting for a seat, bumping through everyone trying to balance food while keeping an eye on their kids.