In order to avoid the event, you need to know WHEN it is, and Disney is not very forthcoming with that information. Do a search for "pop warner" on their site, or even "cheerleading". Nada. This alone tells me that they know very well how much their guests enjoy sharing Disney with the little angels. Obviously, to them, the money they bring in is more important. It is a business after all.
One of these days, what's going to happen is that a parent, or more than one, after spending several sleepless nights at their resorts, hearing cheers all day long in the parks, and being told to buzz off by one too many lovely little angel, is going to clock her one. And then Disney will be forced to care.
I've been going for vacations on the FL coast for several years, it is now becoming harder and harder for anyone under 30 to find a room during "Spring Break". Too much damage, too many complaints from guests and locals. SOME hotels do decide that money is not worth the hassle.
There are several things Disney could do to make it better for both the groups and the regular guests. For example :
- Use the values ONLY for the groups. Let them all stay together and put regular guests somewhere else. No one is going to say "no" to an upgrade.
- Give them fastpasses to attractions during the day so that they don't wait in line with other people, and give them a few hours in the evening when they have the parks to themselves. (Yes, it's not really cool to see them all go in before you, but would you rather listen to the cheering for 20mns in line??)
- Have separate bus(es) for the members of the groups, after all they're all going to the same resorts anyway.
- Open a different restaurant for the groups only on each night of their stay.
In other words, do what it takes to keep them away from the (edited) Guests-Who-DO-NOT-Cheer-In-Lines-Buses-and-Hotels-til 3am-cut-in-line-push-around-little-kids-travel-in-packs-of-30-and-use-profanity-when-someone-complains. as much as possible.
(Obviously since this is our first trip to Disney (in 13 days, yay!) I have never encountered them IN Disney, but I have shared hotels with these types of groups often enough to know I wouldnt want to be anywhere near Disney during Pop Warner. And would be pretty upset if I paid $3000 and had to put up with them for a week.)
