Disney horror story forum

[Disco]

In 1999 my wife and I were enjoying out first trip to the AK. After a hard day of trampling around the park we were pretty tired and it was a hot day. We were walking down one of the paths headed out of the park.
Suddenly I feel something wet spray the back of my leg. I looked all over the place, while still walking, but did not see anything that could have squirted me. I look over at my wife and she's just smiling at me.
I figure that it must have been a rogue drip sprayer and continue on my way when I feel something spray the back of my leg again.
I spin around and don't see anything again. My wife is still smiling at me. "Something keeps squirting me." I tell her and she just shrugs her shoulders so I keep walking.
Again something squirts me and I whip around and nothing! My wife is looking at me like she swallowed a canary and I snap at her "What the F@%& is going on!"
She rolls her eyes in disgust and shrugs over at a horrified cast member who was walking behind and to the side of me. He stops in his tracks and looks like he's about to make a run for it. Instead he sheepishly reveals a squirt gun that he's hiding behind his back.
I try to give my best humor smile and chuckle and the cast member gives me a forced smile back but I know he’s thinking that he was an idiot to do that or that I was a jerk. I turn back around and my peeved wife has already put some distance between me and her.
Man did I feel like and a$$. I was one sad Panda for the rest of what would have otherwise been a wonderful day.

 

[TheBig2na]

My Last trip was a Doozy in April of this year. we arrived late on a Saturday and I went to take my nightly medication. Problem was I left it at home. I have type 2 diabetes and so I was a little concerned. My Uncle also has it and had a couple days extra so it gave me some breathing room. So the next day I phone my mother in law and ask her to Fedex it down. Apparently that is a no-no with American customs(I am Canadian). They wanted her to fill out 20 plus pages of info and then it might get to me. So I call my pharmacy and ask them to fax a prescription down to Walgreen's after the guy at Walgreen's says that is fine. so I call back to say it's on it's way and he says that the doctor has to have privileges to practice in The US. It was Sunday so no one knows for sure and the doc in the urgent care doesn't have privileges. Then Walgreen's tells me they have nurses on site who can prescribe medication and to come down Monday morning. So I finish out Sunday, wake up Monday and go for Breakie with the family. But before we leave I call just to confirm and the lady on the line tells me they can't prescribe diabetes medication. So I am back to square one again. I go down to the front desk tell them the situation and they tell me about a company that will pick me up, take me to a doctor's office and bring me back after. Perfect I think. So the driver comes to pick me up, asks me if i am sick, I say no explain to him the scenario above about not being able to get teh medication into the country and he goes on a tirade about the Canadian Health Care system. I explain that it's US customs that won't let it in and he continues on ignoring me.

So I get dropped off by Captain Happy and tell the front desk nurse the situation. She says it's going to be $250 to see the doctor??!??!?! Not much I can do. So I get in there a nurse takes my BP, temperature, asks me some questions. I reiterate my situation but they insist on doing everything to me. I get in to see the doctor, tell him the situation he says "no problem I can write that up for you." He then starts checking my glands, my breathing, etc. So he finally leaves, I get my prescription filled for $20, and paid $250 just to get it filled. Needless to say I was suffering a bit of sticker shock, but hey, who left his medication at home? Me. Life Lesson I say.

So as I get back to the room i lie down and wait for my wife to come back with my son for his afternoon nap. when she wakes me up I have terrible stomach pains and spend the next 3 days either in bed or the washroom..I will leave out the gory details. I finally feel better after 3 days and we head off to the parks. at lunch my son pukes at the table and apparently caught what I had. the following day my mom catches it. Good thing we went for 2 weeks cause the first was a write off.

I have a couple more horror stories from trips past with being given the wrong tickets and ending up stranded at a closed Magic Kingdom, being drugged at a bar in City Walk the day after my wife and i got engaged. and some other fun stuff.

Having said all that I am dying to go back. We are all sad sad obsessed people. Wouldn't have it any other way though.

 

[sdchickie]

When I was a teen ager (how many years ago was that?) we were at the wave pool at Typhoon Lagoon. I was sitting at the very edge of the water with my back to the waves enjoying the water. A lifeguard walks by me not once but twice and doesn't say anything about the hughe waves that are about to come crashing down on me in a couple of minutes. So I'm sitting there and a wave comes up and drags me along the cement, somehow the entire top of my foot gets scraped up and I'm bleeding all the way to first aid. Here's where it gets I limp into first aid (by this time my foot is covered in blood) the lady there takes one look at it and hands me a regular size band-aid. When I ask her if she has anything to clean it with she points me to a sink where I have to perform acrobatics to try and rinse my own foot. When I tell her that the little band-aid isn't going to cut it she hands me 2 more and then moves on to the next person. 2 days later my whole foot is infected so I had to ride around in a wheel chair for the rest of my vacation.

 

[Queenofspoons]

How about a real horror story, Me and my Mom left the Magic Kingdom for the day and hopped on a Monorail, all things went smoothly until we reached the curved rail that goes into the Contempary...

The Monorail Stopped we sat their helplessly as other Monorails passed on the other side of the rail causing our car to shake and just freak everyone out more, we could see the ground outside the windows, and everyone was pushing their weight to the right side of the car.

Then after a few seconds of pure terror the monorail worked again, Mom got off at the contempary station and that was the last time we rode on that thing on our trip, from then on we used boats to get to MK.

 

[rumrunnergirl]

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[becky11]

Little backstory info:
1. DD & I live in Melbourne, FL (Patrick AFB) and DH lives in Tampa, FL because of his job. (We're fixing that this fall - DD and I are moving to Tampa! )

2. My parents were down from Maine for the week.

3. We got rooms at All Star Sports because I ran the Race for the Taste 10K that weekend.

We've been going to MNSSHP for the last 4 years for DD's birthday. Last year (2009), the party we were going to fell on her actual birthday, and since she was going to be 4, I wanted to do it up special. I scheduled an appointment for her at BBB in Downtown Disney for 4 or 5pm.

My parents, DD, and I all spent the morning/early afternoon at AK, while DH had to work and was going to meet us later. Because we were going to end up at Downtown Disney eventually, and would need to have both cars there, he parked down there and took busses to meet us at AK. (Note to self and others: it took him an HOUR to get to us at AK. Next time, he'll take a cab!)

After we left AK, we went to ESPN so I could pick up my race packet. I had to sit in the back seat so we could all fit in my Camry comfortably (I normally drive). When I hopped out to go get my packet, I put the key fob on the center console between the two front seats so the car would stay running. (It's a hybrid and needs the key fob to keep running.) We then proceed to Downtown Disney and park in the nearly empty parking lot, next to my DH's car. My parents and DH took his car and went back to the resort while DD and I rushed into BBB because we were running a little late.

Well, we didn't get into her appointment until an hour after the scheduled time. (Second note to self and others: don't make a late evening appt. at BBB on the night of a MNSSHP, unless you're going to do it at MK!) DD ended up falling asleep in my lap on the floor of the store waiting for her appointment!! Anyway, we finally get in there and she comes out dressed as Sleeping Beauty, looking beautiful!! By the time we make our way out to the parking lot, it's dark and the lot is full.

I'm sure you can guess where this is going......I couldn't find the car!!

Since I didn't park it myself, I didn't have that great of a recall of where it was. I knew the basic area, but DD and I kept walking up and down the lanes and it wasn't appearing. Then, I thought I'd do what everyone else does - get out the key fob and set off the alarm. I dig through my pockets and purse and then I remembered.

I left the key fob on the center console!

By now, I'm REALLY freaking out, but trying not to alarm DD, who is getting quite tired of walking around. DH calls, wondering what's taking so long and I frantically tell him that I can't find the car and I don't have the keys to it 'cause they're IN the car. I was convinced my car had been stolen, and why not? I made it SO easy for someone to take it by leaving the freakin' keys IN there!

So, DH drives over from the resort. Meanwhile, I'm talking to a CM from security, trying to give him the info about my car, with my frazzled memory of what my license plate is and such, STILL trying not to freak out too much in front of DD. When DH pulls up, DD and I get in his car and he starts running down one of the aisles, and then immediately runs back saying, "I found it!" That's when humiliation sets in for me, and I break down in tears.

We drive back to the resort and I calmed down a bit by then, but DD decided she didn't want to be in her Sleeping Beauty costume anymore. So, we changed her clothes and made it to MNSSHP around 9pm.

Lessons learned:
1) NEVER try to do a park, a BBB appointment, and MNSSHP all in one day. Just doesn't work for me and my family!

2) ALWAYS check and make sure I have the keys before I leave my car!

3) ALWAYS ALWAYS ask DD where we parked the car. She knew it was in "D for Daddy" - I was looking all over the C lot.

 

[the who #3]

on christmas day 2008 i was in the park with my family when i stopped to get a scooter due to an injury. they ran to ride splash mountain and i was to meet them in front city hall. when i got close to city hall a cm told me that i would have to move with a group of people to a different area because the parade was coming. i was hoping to see the parade! i followed his directions with the other people and it took us behind the buildings. the cm said we would be coming back out on main street where we could see the parade. to our surprise we were brought back into the park area in future world and could not see any of the parade.

i could not believe that when the next parade came that day, we were stopped from getting close enough to the parade to see anything at all.

i was really disappointed that we never got to see the christmas day parade at all. my biggest dissappointment was that the cms were all so rude that day. maybe because of the crowd?????

 

[lovemickeyshouse]

You folks had some great stories .I will share the horror of eating alone at Disney World first its not fun cause some people don't wanna be bothered talking at dinner .Second the servers are too busy and its all around weird to sit there and stare into space never eating solo again.

 

[sandym718]

I will share the horror of eating alone at Disney World first its not fun cause some people don't wanna be bothered talking at dinner .

Can I ask what you mean by this more specifically? Do you mean like at Biergarten where you are seated with other parties? That others at the table did not talk to you? Or do you mean at regular table service or quick service locations?

 

[lovemickeyshouse]

Sandy at places like Lecell steakhouse and Liberty Tree

 

[Disco]

Sandy at places like Lecell steakhouse and Liberty Tree

Are you grotesquely hideous? If so, that might explain it.

 

[Disco]

When I was a teen ager (how many years ago was that?) we were at the wave pool at Typhoon Lagoon. I was sitting at the very edge of the water with my back to the waves enjoying the water. A lifeguard walks by me not once but twice and doesn't say anything about the hughe waves that are about to come crashing down on me in a couple of minutes. So I'm sitting there and a wave comes up and drags me along the cement, somehow the entire top of my foot gets scraped up and I'm bleeding all the way to first aid. Here's where it gets I limp into first aid (by this time my foot is covered in blood) the lady there takes one look at it and hands me a regular size band-aid. When I ask her if she has anything to clean it with she points me to a sink where I have to perform acrobatics to try and rinse my own foot. When I tell her that the little band-aid isn't going to cut it she hands me 2 more and then moves on to the next person. 2 days later my whole foot is infected so I had to ride around in a wheel chair for the rest of my vacation.

Last time I was there I was thinking that the pool coating was pretty abrasive. Now I know it is.
Also someone drowned why we were there...

 

[Disco]

on christmas day 2008 i was in the park with my family when i stopped to get a scooter due to an injury. they ran to ride splash mountain and i was to meet them in front city hall. when i got close to city hall a cm told me that i would have to move with a group of people to a different area because the parade was coming. i was hoping to see the parade! i followed his directions with the other people and it took us behind the buildings. the cm said we would be coming back out on main street where we could see the parade. to our surprise we were brought back into the park area in future world and could not see any of the parade.

i could not believe that when the next parade came that day, we were stopped from getting close enough to the parade to see anything at all.

i was really disappointed that we never got to see the christmas day parade at all. my biggest dissappointment was that the cms were all so rude that day. maybe because of the crowd?????

LOL, I can see the CMs shuffling you away all the time saying "NOTHING TO SEE HERE, KEEP MOVING".
"B-but there's a para..."
"NOTHING TO SEE HERE!!!"

 

[pixiefairy]

Luckily, most of our trips have been pretty magical. Just a few little bumps in the road here and there. I'm sorry for the things you all have had to go through!

Our first family trip, there were two things that didn't work out or didn't go as planned. Both were restaurants, and while they didn't break the trip, it was still disappointing. First was Coral Reef....the CMs were the most "un Disney" I've ever encountered. They seriously couldn't be bothered with us. They were running behind, but they never really told us what was happening...and never told us there was a seating area to wait in! We sat on the floor by the doors with a sleeping 3 year old. Our waitress was horrible...messed up on a lot of our orders and demanded we order for above mentioned sleeping child. I had also arranged for special menus to be printed for dh and eldest ds...they only made the one for ds, so after the rest of the baloney we went through there, I finally burst into tears. Yeah...not so magical. I did complain to the manager via email, and we she did apologize, but I hope that the CM we had was spoken to about her lack of desire to be working at WDW.

Second was Chef Mickey's. Again...CMs that were totally not in the Disney spirit. I don't expect sunshine and rainbows...but a smile would be nice. I still think my experience here was colored by it being our last day before we left, lol.

On our anniversary trip last February...the whole trip was fabulous....but one night while waiting for the bus from DTD to POR...we encountered those magical people that appear out of nowhere and push you out of the way while you are just about to step on the bus. Yeah..not proud of my response....we had some words. We were all pretty packed on...and the pushers were also having to stand (so much for pushing past us)...and then our bus driver proceeded to drive like a maniac. It was scary. We reached the main stop at POR and even though our stop was waaaaay in the back..we bolted and walked to our room. It was seriously the scariest bus ride ever.

 

[Disco]

Luckily, most of our trips have been pretty magical. Just a few little bumps in the road here and there. I'm sorry for the things you all have had to go through!

Our first family trip, there were two things that didn't work out or didn't go as planned. Both were restaurants, and while they didn't break the trip, it was still disappointing. First was Coral Reef....the CMs were the most "un Disney" I've ever encountered. They seriously couldn't be bothered with us. They were running behind, but they never really told us what was happening...and never told us there was a seating area to wait in! We sat on the floor by the doors with a sleeping 3 year old. Our waitress was horrible...messed up on a lot of our orders and demanded we order for above mentioned sleeping child. I had also arranged for special menus to be printed for dh and eldest ds...they only made the one for ds, so after the rest of the baloney we went through there, I finally burst into tears. Yeah...not so magical. I did complain to the manager via email, and we she did apologize, but I hope that the CM we had was spoken to about her lack of desire to be working at WDW.

Second was Chef Mickey's. Again...CMs that were totally not in the Disney spirit. I don't expect sunshine and rainbows...but a smile would be nice. I still think my experience here was colored by it being our last day before we left, lol,

Sorry you had a breakdown. I guess having a cry fest at the happiest place on the planet is just sadly ironic. It just doesn't take much to push someone over the edge especially if they're tired and have been tromping around the park all day with have a child in tow.
We had the opposite experience once. We were tired and it was like 8PM after a long day in the parks before we made it to dinner at the Maya Grill. We get there and it is not that busy and our server was really friendly and great. We were so beat though that we just were not up for his "friendliness". He offered to take our picture and we were like "umm, OK... whatever". I don't think we were rude or anything but he probably noticed the forced smiles.
Needless to say he called our manager later that night and made a formal complaint...

 

[BBQChick]

So our worst trip was in December 2006. We had forgotten the parade was being taped and found ourselves on Main Street in total chaos. As DH wheeled the double stroller down the sidewalk, a cm shouted at him to move it along when he stopped to prevent hitting a child who had jumped infront of him. The CM was persistant that DH move his stroller out of the way when infront of us was at least 2 doubles stopped in the middle of the road.

Same time, same place. We had stopped in Liberty Square around 2pm to have an ice cream break before the afternoon parade. Both girls were eating their ice cream when a CM told us we had to move because we were in a handicap section. We quickly jumped up to move and in doing so I had knocked the ice cream out of DD4's hands who then dropped it onto her pants. I quickly grabbed napkins to clean her up. The same CM came over to us and said, "I told you to move your stroller out of this area because it's handicap and you are not." Can I just say I was very shocked at the rudeness of this CM?! I understand the holiday season is stressful, but we certainly were not planning on staying there, but a little understanding would have gone along way.

It's safe to say we will NEVER be back during the Christmas season.

We went to WDW over Christmas 2007 and I can safely say I will never go over Christmas time again either. While the theming is magical the crowds and chaos are NOT.
no horror story here just a word of agreement.

Except my husband and I behaved extreemly poorly in Epcot, got into a huge fight that ended in me yelling at him to 'go home to mommy' and storming off. The whole argument was stemmed from the fact that he was in a very fould mood because it was snowing at home on Christmas day and were in the hot florida weather.

 

[DisneyDreamerMN]

This isn't a real bad story, I was just kind of disappointed in the service.

While checking into POR I asked the CM helping us if she could have our park tickets added to our room keys. On our previous stay we were checked in at the concierge counter and they offered to do this for us. The CM advised we needed to go over to the concierge desk to have that done. DH and I started to walk over to the concierge counter where 3 CMs were standing with no one else in line talking to each other. We stood a couple of feet from the desk waiting for one to ask us to come forward. One of the CMs looked up at me and gave me a strange look. It kind of bothered me because hey, we were at Disney, I would think a smile would be in order! I asked if something were wrong and she said "Are you waiting to be helped? Because you aren't standing between the two ropes." She was referring to the ropes that make the line. I said sorry and advised I was waiting.

Like I said, it isn't a horror story, but just kind of thought it was rude that since I wasn't standing a foot to my left between the ropes meant that I wasn't waiting to be helped.

 

[MizlurksaLot]

You folks had some great stories .I will share the horror of eating alone at Disney World first its not fun cause some people don't wanna be bothered talking at dinner .Second the servers are too busy and its all around weird to sit there and stare into space never eating solo again.

Now that's just depressing - thanks for that .

 

[MizlurksaLot]

Let’s see . . . Ah yes, a few of the reasons why I don’t always find the Magic Kingdom to be all that “Magical”: There was the time the security guard grabbed me for trying to cross the street. Ok, so it was during a parade – but he didn’t give me any options. I’ll admit this one was partially my fault, my friend and I didn’t know what time it was when we got on Splash Mountain, and then the ride got delayed while we were on it. By the time we got off it was, of course, 3 o’clock. We were pretty much trapped inside, and had a bus to catch to the airport in less that an hour. We managed to get to the main entrance where I explained the situation to the guard, and asked if there was any way we could get around the parade or the crowd, he flat out refused to help. Came to find out that there were only a few floats left and he could have just had a CM walk us to the end of the parade where we could have crossed the street “safely”. So I did what I felt I had to, shrugged out of his grip and crossed the street anyway (naughty me, I know). My friend wasn’t quite as fast as I was, and I ended up sitting outside of the park crying while he apparently took her into some building where she was “questioned” and made to write down her name and address (I still have no idea why they took that info). Turns out our plane was delayed two hours so we would have been fine to take the next bus – all that for nothing .

Then there was the time that my wallet got stolen in an MK bathroom. I was on the CP at the time, visiting the park during EMH with my roommates. My wallet was there, and then it was gone - nowhere to be found. Every single piece of my identification (because I was an idiot back then), all sources of money, my CP housing id and my Cast member id were all in that wallet. It took over a month for me to fix this problem. They don’t let you on CP housing property without your id, you can’t clock in, get paid, or get credit for attending training classes (which I had for a transfer the next morning at 5 am) without your employee id, which you can’t replace without a state id or driver’s license, and of course you can’t do much of anything without some access to money. I’m getting stressed just thinking about the fun of that mess .

And last but not least, not in the park, but in the MK parking lot – the time that I was verbally assaulted, accused of stealing, and literally trapped inside a bus when a high school band leader told the driver to shut the door and not let me leave – and he actually did it! All this because I accidently got on the wrong bus, and was just about to get up to ask the driver if it was the right one – how dare I! I would handle that situation so much differently now than I did back then!

 

[SelfEmployedDebtFree]

How about a real horror story, Me and my Mom left the Magic Kingdom for the day and hopped on a Monorail, all things went smoothly until we reached the curved rail that goes into the Contempary...

The Monorail Stopped we sat their helplessly as other Monorails passed on the other side of the rail causing our car to shake and just freak everyone out more, we could see the ground outside the windows, and everyone was pushing their weight to the right side of the car.

Then after a few seconds of pure terror the monorail worked again, Mom got off at the contempary station and that was the last time we rode on that thing on our trip, from then on we used boats to get to MK.

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, (and it's possible) but isn't that where the Monorail frequently stops for clearance? I know it has stopped there for us a couple times. I think maybe that's normal.