Clueless guest comments at WDW

[kupperman]

Now that was cute!!

Hey Tigger&Belle and KittyKitty! I'll be looking for you guys also! I'll be there Dec.5-12 and I'll be wearing lime green!

 

[Phrank40]

My wife and her new boss were talking about WDW a few weeks ago just before we were to go on a trip there. He couldn't understand why we liked going there so much because he had gone with his family within the past year and hated it. My wife asked how many times he had gone and he said just that once. Then she asked him when he went and he said the week after Christmas. He said it was crowded and the lines were 60-90 minutes long. She asked if he did Fastpass and he said "What's that?" Then she asked him if he had read any guide books before the trip and he said no, he just wanted to have the experience come to him without knowing anything before hand.

Phrank

 

[Minnie&Nana]

Originally posted by KittyKitty
I'm going to my 1st MVMCP and Mousefest .
o if you are there in early Dec, and an 55 yr old woman asks you a dumb question, have a heart. I'm still learning, hopefully forever.
See ya there!Susan

LOL this was too funny, Susan!

I'll be there too, also first MVMCP and I've no doubt I'll ask questions which someone else may deem dumb...I don't mind..I'll be in the spirit of the occasion...

Sooo, some might get dumb questions from more than one 55 yr old at MVMCP !!

Tigger&Belle and kupperman - will be on the look out for you! I'll be there Dec 9-14 MCVP the 9th

 

[Michael623]

I tend to go in the off season when fast pass isn't even necessary so it makes a couple of coments I've heard even funnier:

Overheard on the monorail on the way to MK, "OK we'll get fastpasses for all of the rides, then we'll do all of Epcot and then we can come back here and do all of the rides with no wait"

Overheard an MK guest speaking to a CM: Is there somewhere I can get fastpasses for all of the rides without having to walk all over the place.

Overheard walking into MK: Let's go to guest relations to get our front of the line fastpasses.

I actually did a double-take because I thought it might have been the same person but it wasn't. Yikes!

 

[Cruisin'Linda]

Over the summer last year, we were comingout of the haunted mansion and there was this couple going in. As he is walking by he says "look this is where they made the movie. You know they filmed the whole thing here." She was like...Wow, how cool.

The houses don't even look the same.... It gave me a little laugh.

 

[DisneyMom5]

It is totally not stupid to ask questions! That's the smart thing to do.

Stupid is not planning for an expensive trip and then complaining about it and saying things like "You mean there were rides in all those buildings?'
I just can't get over that.

 

[KEH]

Someone I know thought Tower of Terror was a virtual reality ride. This was a few years ago when you had the first big drop - when the doors opened she just had time to say the first few words of "Doesn't the park look real" before plummeting.

 

[Becky2005]

Originally posted by Lucy6
A friend of my husband's tried to talk us out of going, because he recently took his family of 4 for the first time. He said it cost him over $10,000.00, and one of his kids is only 8 months old.

Hmmm....wonder if he was counting *everything* airfare, etc... although I'm not sure how a family of 4 (with 1 being an 8 month old) could spend *that* much money! We are spending that much money but we are a bit insane However, we are a family of 6 (one of whom is a 1 year old) and doing the Gold plan staying at the Contemporary (with tax & everything was less than $10,000 but since we are driving figure gas costs, hotel there & back, plus incidentals, I'm figuring about that much overall).

And I'm positive if not me, someone in my family will give a chuckle to somebody at some point even with all my research.

 

[disneysteve]

Originally posted by clkelley
I was waiting at rope drop one morning in 2000 and overheard someone say you could get a second FP two hours after your first one.

I turned around and told them that was incorrect and you had to wait until your time on the first FP started before getting a second one.

She then showed me her park map where it CLEARLY said you can get one right after you ride or two hours later, whichever comes first!

OT, but we just got back. If we got a FP that was good from 11 to 12, for example, the bottom of the FP said another FP would be available after 11:05.

 

[Steffy]

Wow,

I had a lot of good laughs tonight. Thank you for this thread!!

Seems my friends aren't the only ones who thought they had to pay for Fastpass. We told them to make sure to use FP. Gave them guidebooks. Gave them an itinerary. Told them since they were going to stay offsite, to drive to the MK, not wait for the hotel shuttle.

So what did they do? Waited in the middle of the MK parking lot, in July, for 2 hours waiting on the shuttle. Wouldn't use FP... they complained 'you did have to pay, we saw people going into their wallets and put their credit cards in.' Some people, you just can't help.

Another couple went down for Valentine's Day. I told them to make a ps for a nice restaurant in EPCOT, since that was the one park they were going to. Told them about FP. What did they do? No ps, 'we couldn't eat at any of the restaurants in EPCOT!!' I asked, did you get on TT? 'No, when we got there, the FP return time was 3:00, so when we returned at 3:00 there were no FP left' I asked, did you ride Spaceship Earth, the big ball? 'There was a ride in there?'

I give up.

 

[chipnwendy]

Originally posted by LoriMistress
"Remember kids, we're in the Itchy Lot."

Don't feel alone when it comes to parking in the Itchy lot. We park in that lot every time too...

 

[SeanaB]

We were in WDW this past July. It was my first time seeing the talking trash can (don't know the name)at MK. I knew it had to be controlled somewhere so I looked around. I spotted a guy talking to his hand and figured it out. I tried to show my DH but he insisted that there must be someone inside. I couldn't help but laugh! He finally saw the guy I was talking about and believed me.

The next day we were at AK when a tree walked right out on the path. It was amazing to watch. You could tell it was a person in costume, especially when she opened her eyes and looked right at you. I looked over at my DH and he wasn't even watching her anymore. He was looking at everyone in the crowd, in the bushes, everywhere except at the performer. I asked him what he was doing. He said "looking for the person controlling it"
I almost wet myself

 

[webmomom]

Originally posted by SeanaB
We were in WDW this past July. It was my first time seeing the talking trash can (don't know the name)at MK. I knew it had to be controlled somewhere so I looked around. I spotted a guy talking to his hand and figured it out. I tried to show my DH but he insisted that there must be someone inside. I couldn't help but laugh! He finally saw the guy I was talking about and believed me.

The next day we were at AK when a tree walked right out on the path. It was amazing to watch. You could tell it was a person in costume, especially when she opened her eyes and looked right at you. I looked over at my DH and he wasn't even watching her anymore. He was looking at everyone in the crowd, in the bushes, everywhere except at the performer. I asked him what he was doing. He said "looking for the person controlling it"
I almost wet myself

Just for your own persoanl info the tree at the Ak is called DeVine.

 

[crisi]

And you were lucky to see DeVine. We've seen her too, but there have been threads here about people who have looked for her and missed her. Because of the costume, she tends to avoid crowds and doesn't tend to be out for a long period of time.

 

[LibertyLover]

The first time my DH and I went to WDW together we had a blast. He had been there for the first time before EPCOT was open and the second time it was pretty new. I had been a couple times more recently, but at that point, not for 4 years. Anyway, we had been at the MK and were on the monorail going to the Poly for dinner. The section we were in wasn't particularly full and so we had a chance to talk to the family across the compartment from us. They were from NYC (I should add that I'm orignally from Bergan County, NJ and went to grad school and worked in NYC for years) and were totally out of their element. Dad and son (about 4 years old) were wearing suits. Mom was wearing a lovely sophisticated sheath dress and high heels. Daughter (about 6) was dressed pretty much identically to mom except no high heels. My DH and I were dressed, well, for a WDW dinner at Ohana after having been in the parks all day, ie jeans and polo shirts. NYC family were on their way to EPCOT for dinner at Alfredo's. Wife mentioned that their PS were for 6:30. It was 6:15. We told them that they might have some difficulty making it since they still had to get the monorail to EPCOT and then walk all the way through Future World and half way around World Showcase. They were absolutely appalled. NYC Wife asked plaintively about getting a taxi (!?) to take them to the restaurant. We politely explained that there were no taxis as they knew the term, but perhaps they would be able to catch one of the FriendShips across the lagoon and save some time. But the best part came when we mentioned tickets. NYC Husband and Wife both looked at us with puzzlement. We explained that you had to have tickets to get into EPCOT, and all the other parks as well. But, said NYC Wife we're staying at the GF and have PS for Alfredo's. No more could be said as we arrived at that moment at the TTC. We did have time enough to explain that they had to change monorails there to get to EPCOT. At least I was able to put it in NY-ese so that they understood: This is the IND. You have to change to BMT. You do it here.

 

[tjmw2727]

That's a sad story bad libertylover - I hope they found some alternative or had tickets or the means to buy them. Lots of $$ for dinner!

I must say however that everytime I make a ps for an in park restaurant the CM mentions at least once that admision for that themepark park is required.

TJ

 

[webmomom]

having work in customer service for more years than i am willing to say, people only hear what they want to hear. They want a Ps , they got the Ps and thats all they need to know. Sometime when I call they tell me I need this or that I would like to say I KNOw, but then I remember people don't know and they have to tell them so there are no complaints about the guest no knowing in advance.

 

[CarolA]

It is not just Disney!

I went on trip to Istanbul a few years ago. Our hotel was one block from the hotel where Agatha Christie wrote part of Murder on the Orient Express and in it's day it was one of the great hotels in the world. The first day my mother and I go tour it.... the last day the people near us say..."I wish we had known there was stuff to do near out hotel, we just stayed in the room". WHAT??? There was TONS of stuff right outside our door, but since the guide didn't take them there they missed it!


And of course my all time fav.... A woman at the Beach Club chewing out the front desk because there was no ocean outside her room! THe CM points out that Orlando is about an hour from the ocean and the guest calls her a liar and asks for a manager. (I guess he was suppose to transport Orlando to the ocean?)

And there is a tree at AKL that is not DeVine. It tends to wonder around the area outside the gate and flirt with the women and kids!

 

[kupperman]

Yeah. You're talking about Wes Palm. He is funny!

 

[kupperman]

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The next day we were at AK when a tree walked right out on the path. It was amazing to watch. You could tell it was a person in costume, especially when she opened her eyes and looked right at you. I looked over at my DH and he wasn't even watching her anymore. He was looking at everyone in the crowd, in the bushes, everywhere except at the performer. I asked him what he was doing. He said "looking for the person controlling it"
I almost wet myself [/B][/QUOTE]

Too funny!!!!!!