Got this whole WDW thing figured out

[Micca]

After many years and thousands of posts and much of my life spent on these boards I think I have some definitive answers to FAQs about WDW

What it boils down to is that no two individuals or parties have exactly the same experience, and in-fact often have completely opposite experiences at virtually the same time/place. Some examples....

1) We were there on June 7--a Monday at 1:15 PM-- it was hot & crowded--every ride was minimum an hour wait. The next person will post: We were there on June 7 at 1:16 pm and we thought we were going to freeze, but every attraction was a walk-on.


2) Last trip we stayed at (your resort here) and we loved it! It was sooo Disney, the rooms were large and light, and our room was ready 9 hours before official check-in. The next post will be: We also stayed at (your resort here) and it was worse than the homeless shelter in (your city here).
We were claustrophobic and our room wasn't ready until the day we left to return home.


3)Is the (type of food) any good at (restaurant here)? First answer: We loved it, the food was hot, fresh and the service was fantastic. Mickey Mouse sat at our table and showed us how to play the Goofy drinking game.'
The next post will be: It was fine until everybody in our party had food poisoning and those glow cubes hurt coming back up. Honestly, I'd rather eat sand from the beach at the Poly. After that there will be the inevitable:
Wow, the sand at the Poly was our favorite meal of the whole trip! We now have Poly sand at home and next time we're going to ask for extra shovels and buckets.

Hope this has been helpful and you understand that I love WDW, Dis-ers, and a bit of satire.

 

[nmmom95]

 

[SeaSpray]

You are SO right, and this is what I love about the DIS!

 

[Becky2005]

Tony's is ours -- I was avoiding it due to bad publicity but ended up there since we were tired of character meals. We liked it but what do we know, we aren't fancy eaters in general. I'm happy with McDonald's often enough.

 

[snarlingcoyote]

 

[laurie31]

Yeah, it's all about perspective and expectations.

reminds me of when I had to take DD to the ER.

Several years ago, DD fell on the school playground and needed stitches. I dreaded going to the ER, thinking that because it wasn't THAT serious (a small but deep cut on her knee, not a huge laceration on her face or anything) we'd be sitting there for hours. Well, it was the middle of the day and not busy at all. We only waited about 20 mintues in the waiting room before being taken back.

(I normally wait longer than this for a well visit at the ped for which I have an appointment!)

So, the doctor comes in, says yeah it needs suturing, and the nurse puts a local anesthetic cream on it. It takes an hour for the cream to work, so they leave us there with DD happily watching cartoons. I am THRILLED about how fast we've been seen and treated.

Interestingly, the kid in the next bed is also there for stitches. The mom is talking loudly on her cell phone. She is complaining about LONG they are having to wait, and (in a put upon voice) said she guessed they had an *emergency* come in, and that's why it's taking so long.

Um...it's an *emergency room* - the chances of an actual emergency are pretty high. Also, even if we had been the only two patients there and the staff was just sitting around, we would still have to wait for the cream to work. I guess they didn't explain to her that it would take an hour. That's all we were waiting for. As soon as the hour was up, the doc reappeared, did the stitches and we were on our way. The most they could have shaved off the total time we were there was the 20 minutes in the waiting room. DD had a great experience, didn't feel any pain, got some Disney princess stickers, loved the adjustable stretcher-bed and the TV remote, and wants to go back! (Despite my "good" experience, I have no desire to repeat it!!)

So I don't know what the other woman's expectations were, but if she were posting about her experience, which was pretty identical to mine, my guess is she would say how CROWDED it was, and how LONG she had to wait, etc.

Disney is the same. If people go expecting an empty park and tons of CMs to be at their beck and call, they are going to be disappointed even on the least crowded days.

 

[airhead]

After many years and thousands of posts and much of my life spent on these boards I think I have some definitive answers to FAQs about WDW

What it boils down to is that no two individuals or parties have exactly the same experience, and in-fact often have completely opposite experiences at virtually the same time/place. Some examples....

1) We were there on June 7--a Monday at 1:15 PM-- it was hot & crowded--every ride was minimum an hour wait. The next person will post: We were there on June 7 at 1:16 pm and we thought we were going to freeze, but every attraction was a walk-on.


2) Last trip we stayed at (your resort here) and we loved it! It was sooo Disney, the rooms were large and light, and our room was ready 9 hours before official check-in. The next post will be: We also stayed at (your resort here) and it was worse than the homeless shelter in (your city here).
We were claustrophobic and our room wasn't ready until the day we left to return home.


3)Is the (type of food) any good at (restaurant here)? First answer: We loved it, the food was hot, fresh and the service was fantastic. Mickey Mouse sat at our table and showed us how to play the Goofy drinking game.'
The next post will be: It was fine until everybody in our party had food poisoning and those glow cubes hurt coming back up. Honestly, I'd rather eat sand from the beach at the Poly. After that there will be the inevitable:
Wow, the sand at the Poly was our favorite meal of the whole trip! We now have Poly sand at home and next time we're going to ask for extra shovels and buckets.

Hope this has been helpful and you understand that I love WDW, Dis-ers, and a bit of satire.

I love this.

 

[Planogirl]

I love it!!!

You know, you'd think that every restaurant in WDW is awful and every hotel is filthy and every CM is out to get you and so on if you pay too much attention to the threads on the other boards. Then there are those who think that everything is completely perfect and those who had problems must be problems themselves. Somewhere in the middle of all of that is the truth. I think...

 

[airhead]

You are SO right, and this is what I love about the DIS!

Absolutely!!!
(...hey,I think we met at a DIS meet a few years back!)