Cruise Curmudgeons of the World Unite

[jdb in AZ]

Ok, time to join the curmudgeons. I can't stand Shutters photogs taking photos at dinner.

My mouth is full of food, there is half-eaten food on the table, but I need to stop and huddle with my family for a photo?

Oh, and can you move your drink 10cm to the left, and hide the macerated cow?

And when you are sharing a table with another family, you have to explain which kids belong with which parents and then get out of your seat to go stand behind them?

I don't want to remember the way my kids eat.

I get a fiendish delight in shooing off the photographers. We had just got of the ship, the wind was blowing my hair in my face (looked like a short hair version of Cousin It from the Addams Family) and I just said, "are you kidding?" On our last cruise, the only picture they got of me was the security photo.

 

[dylan'smom]

When they do, they will be sure to offer you specially prescribed products such as the Spalicious Anti-Oxidant Pro-Collagen Blissful Exotic Lime Ginger Papya Seaweed Salt Aroma Senses Polishing Scrub Cream Spray, to prolong your Non-Touch experience at home, for an undisclosed price! Enjoy!

Nice...

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And as for the photogs at Dinner - I agree, although we did get some great pictures - and bought them ALL!!! (Can you say, SUCKER????) NOW what do we do with over 40 - 8 x 10's??? Am I going to have to take up scrapbooking????

Nah, just do what we do... squirrel them away in a drawer or cabinet, with plans to 'do something' with all of them one day.

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[SullyMonster]

This past cruise during our last show, I asked the little boy behind me to please stop kicking my seat (serious kicking...my head was moving!). His mother basically told me that since we were on a Disney Cruise, I should just deal with it.

I would have *dealt with it* by getting an usher to have them escorted out.

 

[gotomu212]

You guys...I have found a new home and it is filled with hilarious, awesome people.

I want to play. I have two entries into the things that drive me a little crazy.
1. The Shutters system of printing out every picture they take and then asking you to trash the ones you don't want: No, I don't need 50 various poses of my son with characters; but there's something about dropping his smiling little face into a big trash can with the words "DISCARD UNWANTEDS" on it that makes me shudder a little. And seriously, "unwanteds" not a noun nor should it be pluralized.

2. The accusation from others on the boards that I am a horrible person for "dumping" my son in the Kids Club on a family vacation: First of all, I love my family and want nothing more than to spend time with them and create memories....but I do not think someone was ever intended to spend 24/7 on a 14 day cruise in a small enclosed cabin with 2 other people. A 2 hour break should not be akin to Sophie's Choice. Second, it's a club, for kids, where they play, on a Disney cruise, not prison. I have "dumped" my son lots of places he doesn't want to go (the bathtub after a day of playing in mud, his bed when he's fighting bedtime, once in a swimming pool-okay that was an tripping accident and I do feel really bad about that one) but I hardly think taking him to play at a kids activity center is dumping or akin to shipping a child to military school for a decade. RELAX.

 

[gotomu212]

Oh I forgot to mention. One time, I went to sit in a lounge chair and was told by a grown woman that I couldn't sit there because her Minnie Mouse doll was using the chair.

Not sure if that should be filed under inappropriate familiar or chair hogging but it should definitely be cross referenced with CREEPY.

 

[flexsmom]

You guys...I have found a new home and it is filled with hilarious, awesome people.

I want to play. I have two entries into the things that drive me a little crazy.
1. The Shutters system of printing out every picture they take and then asking you to trash the ones you don't want: No, I don't need 50 various poses of my son with characters; but there's something about dropping his smiling little face into a big trash can with the words "DISCARD UNWANTEDS" on it that makes me shudder a little. And seriously, "unwanteds" not a noun nor should it be pluralized.

2. The accusation from others on the boards that I am a horrible person for "dumping" my son in the Kids Club on a family vacation: First of all, I love my family and want nothing more than to spend time with them and create memories....but I do not think someone was ever intended to spend 24/7 on a 14 day cruise in a small enclosed cabin with 2 other people. A 2 hour break should not be akin to Sophie's Choice. Second, it's a club, for kids, where they play, on a Disney cruise, not prison. I have "dumped" my son lots of places he doesn't want to go (the bathtub after a day of playing in mud, his bed when he's fighting bedtime, once in a swimming pool-okay that was an tripping accident and I do feel really bad about that one) but I hardly think taking him to play at a kids activity center is dumping or akin to shipping a child to military school for a decade. RELAX.

1) I think they DO mean "unwanteds" as a noun....as in similar to "the great unwashed"....although I've never seen that as "unwasheds", but I'm sure it's just a matter of time.

2) My kids are being raised by 2 former Marines, so they totally get the specter of military school. Actually, I think the Kid's Clubs ARE a little bit like the Air Force.....

 

[bzkds]

Ok wait... you people are telling me I have to make up a name for our family?? But, but.. we LIKE hearing people butcher our last name!!

 

[Minnie Monellen]

If 6-yr-old Johnny is grown up enough for the teen club, why oh why can't he have dinner at Palo with us? We don't want him to go hungry.

You do know it's only a matter of time when a parent while dining at Palo is called to pick up their child at the Club and then somehow convinces a CM to allow the child to sit at his Palo table while he and his wife finish dinner. And maybe some dessert for Johnny?

 

[TDC Nala]

Using familiars to save chairs! Brilliant! Perry the Platypus is coming to Alaska now

 

[vakamalua]

Oh I forgot to mention. One time, I went to sit in a lounge chair and was told by a grown woman that I couldn't sit there because her Minnie Mouse doll was using the chair.

Not sure if that should be filed under inappropriate familiar or chair hogging but it should definitely be cross referenced with CREEPY.

TOTALLY CREEPY!

Disney is missing a great revenue opportunity by not charging full cruise fare for 'familiars,' after all, they take up lounge chairs, go to dinner, go on excursions, wait in line for character meets & greets, go to shows, etc. I'm going to have to call DCL and suggest that these stowaways pay up!

 

[Mom2PrincessesLinSy]

Using familiars to save chairs! Brilliant! Perry the Platypus is coming to Alaska now

Dude, I totally see it! "Where's Perry now?"

 

[aan1701]

Here is one. When your kid is having a tantrum, take said child out of the dinning room. Thanks.

 

[smootenloopers]

You're quite welcome! As a HS French teacher, I am constantly explaining English grammar to my students, so it was an easy enough explanation.

I learned more English grammar in one semester of college German than in 13 years of K-12 English classes.

 

[anna08]

...macrame...

Ok, since you brought up a nice segway for me (at least I think it should be "me" haha), I have to be a total fun spoiler for what must be millions of people everywhere and bring up my curmudgeony thought for the day....

Can anyone tell me what in the Hades Disney was thinking when they came up with the look for all the little girls to be made up as 'princesses' in the Bibbidity Bobbity boutiques??? They look like walking macrame spider plants sprinkled with glitter on top of their heads. It is purely awful. Downright disgusting. And soooo many people pay to do that to their girls!! Can anyone point out a princess in any Disney production who looks remotely like an exotic dancer (ok, maybe Jasmine,) and why would Disney do that to little girl?

And to relate it to cruising, I have to say partial/half head hair braids that are done on DCL are not cute on most of the girls that get them. Sorry to be such a curmudgeon, but it makes me shudder to see them and the horrific sunburn that they get on their scalp thereafter.

Thanks. Now I feel better.

 

[yargrnhoj]

Ok, since you brought up a nice segway for me (at least I think it should be "me" haha),

Unless you meant a ugly-looking two-wheeled scooter used by mall cops, the word is 'segue', not segway. (And if this had been in any other thread but the curmudgeon one, I would not have mentioned it. [smiley for no reason at all] )

I agree with you on BBB though. Many of the 'looks' just don't look attractive to me at all. I'd rather they actually make my daughter look like the princess herself. I can make her look like a character out of Twilight all by myself for little money at all with a bottle of glitter, some Elmer's glue and one of those handheld fans...

 

[anna08]

Unless you meant a ugly-looking two-wheeled scooter used by mall cops, the word is 'seque', not segway. (And if this had been in any other thread but the curmudgeon one, I would not have mentioned it. [smiley for no reason at all] )...
...I can make her look like a character out of Twilight all by myself for little money at all with a bottle of glitter, some Elmer's glue and one of those handheld fans...

I'm all for saving a buck!

I can't even imagine the phone calls I'd get if I had my DD's friends over and sent them home looking like that. Really, I picture the Imagineer who came up with that plan thinking, "no way they will fall for making all those little girls who want to look like princesses look like ballerinas on crack."

 

[taswira]

Disney is missing a great revenue opportunity by not charging full cruise fare for 'familiars,' after all, they take up lounge chairs, go to dinner, go on excursions, wait in line for character meets & greets, go to shows, etc. I'm going to have to call DCL and suggest that these stowaways pay up!

They look better than a towel on a lounge chair.

DCL would NEVER charge for them as passengers - - especially when they encourage the purchase of them in their gift shops and when they don't consume food or need cleaning up after or disrupt the stage shows! Plus when kids see them being treated like "little people," they persuade their parents to buy one, and clothing for it as well! They put more Disney Dollars in the company pockets. Nah . . They are perfect Guests and very beneficial to DCL!

 

[flexsmom]

How old must a familiar be in order to be permitted in the adult-only area?

Or does the age of its handler convey to the familiar automatically?

Do I need a passport for my familiar, or will a simple dated receipt suffice?

 

[gotomu212]

How old must a familiar be in order to be permitted in the adult-only area?

Or does the age of its handler convey to the familiar automatically?

Do I need a passport for my familiar, or will a simple dated receipt suffice?

My familiar needs to stay on her schedule so I need to be moved to early dining, and my familiar gets car sick so I need the front seat on any excursions.

 

[Cerberus9]

The word is segue! SEGUE!!!!