Have things ever ruined your vacation?

[Jennasis]

Wow! We DIS'ers are a tough lot! We roll with the punches, put on a happy face and truly make lemonade (the frozen kind like they have in the parks) out of lemons. this is a group I am always proud to say I am a part of!

 

[mamalle]

lucky for us nothing has ruined any of our trips to wdw. dd did catch a gi bug back in march 2001 and puked all over the bus on the way from the mk to epcot. closed that thing down. we ended up spending the day in the hotel room but it was our last day anyway. we did end up going the week after 9/11 that same year and we almost cancelled but changed our minds at the last minute and went. we have had little things here and there but nothing ever to ruin our disney vacation.

 

[AllisonG]

Well, there have been major speed bumps in our road of vacations, but never ruined.
In December 2000 my Mother fell down a small flight of stairs in MGM and blows out both her ankles. She spends the rest of the trip in a wheel chair, on heavy drugs (thank god! ).
January 2002 Mom fell in parking lot at home 2 weeks before WDW trip. She spends the whole trip in casts and a wheel chair.
Then there was January 2004 when my Mother tripped and fell walking along the deck in back of WL. She broke her wrist.
I guess you can see my Mom is a klutz. None of it was ever Disneys fault. She just can't be trusted to walk by herself. I'm not kidding.

Then last year in November my cousins and I went to WDW for the F&WF. We were having a great time till cousin Ed had too much to drink and took off. It took us hours to find him. He didn't cause trouble or anything, it was just irritating.

 

[klofan]

The only thing bad about our trip was that some large woman bumped right into me and it hurt. So I said, excuse you? and she said don't EVER speak to an adult that way. so i cursed her off like there was no tomorrow (i was 15)! haha...i was sooo mad at her. I'm surprised my mom or aunt didn't get involved. they look a good fight haha. it was actually funny seeing a 40 year old woman cursing back and forth with a 15 year old boy, lol.

 

[Kramer]

Well... we got confined to our room during Hurricane Jeanne last September. Disney would not let us out until very late in the day. It really didn't spoil anything because we flew down a day early to avoid the hurricane, so we would have been in NJ had we not come down early.

And it was kind of like an adventure... we stocked up at Walmart the day before and Disney treated us to free movies in the room. All in all it was fine and made for a good story when we got home.

 

[WDW LOVR]

Haven't seen this one listed. My wife's dad passed away while we were at WDW.

They hadn't seen each other in 15 or so years when he passed (don't ask, it's complicated) so we didn't cut our trip short, but as she was one of only 2 surviving heirs, she had to spend 2 days faxing, calling etc. Definitely put a damper on the rest of the trip.

 

[mercydisney]

On one Disney vacation I got food poisening in Epcot..I could not find a bathroom soon enough...no accidents but my dh was laughing not because of my pain but because he said he's never seen me move so quickly in all our time together...we had parked in MK so after the monorail we had to take the ferry back to parking lot... well before getting on monorail I thought I was safe..oh well something about moving on water..my dh said I did a Steve Austin (bionic man) jump off the ferry boat..I didn't look back but Dh said the cm gave me a look of Wonder! OH well some might think it as losing a day in Epcot, I think of it as losing a few extra pounds..


ps..I wanted to put smilies. but I don't know how..all I do is read the threads I don't want to miss not one thing, I am obsessed

 

[kizmac]

For our December 2003 trip, we got on the road ( Pennsylvania ) just in time for our first, massive snow storm of the year. Our conversion van is like a giant sled in snow and there we were not even a mile down the rode sliding down a hill to our deaths ....( I was sure we were going to die) I wanted to turn around at that point but we made it.

Then what starts as a sore throat with my one daughter....leads to an outbreak of the flu on our second day there. Spread rapidly due to a sharing of a footlong weiner in Toon Town. Before we all knew it high fever, chills and the worst sore throat ever hit my father, 3 of my boys and myself who is also 7 months pregnant. I had NEVER been so sick in my life. Being we are in Disney for MVMCP for the first time, I was determined to carry on as planned so DH rented a wheel chair and pushed my butt around. I remember it was so cold and when it rained at MGM, I just sat there in my yellow poncho in my wheel chair and cried.

Luckily the boys didn't get sick till the last day we were there. I remember dosing them all up with Tylenol infront of the Castle. They got worse on our trip home. We were trying to get home as fast as we could and wouldn't you know it, major ice storm in VA. Ice inches thick on everything. Stayed the night there and roads were fine until 30 miles from home. Cars were doing donuts on the road, wrecks everywhere. I don't think I had any finger nails left by time we got home. I was soooo thankful to have made it home alive!

I can't wait to go again at Christmas but not unless we all have flu shots and airline tickets!!! Funny thing is.........you know you're a Disney freak when you actually have wonderful memories from a trip like that.

 

[newholidayx2]

I do need to say parts of our vacation were salvageable.
In 2002 we had a cruise cancelled at 22hr notice and ended up at PO/FQ for the wk instead.

 

[goodferry]

Nothing has ever ruined our vacation either. Not the flu (confining DS to a wheelchair for the trip), not the heat (one trip in August, one in June) and not smokers! We travelled one year with two friends and their daughters and we learned that travelling with friends, especially ones that smoke when you don't, can suck, but won't ruin your trip!

 

[Snowysmom]

We haven't had vacations ruined but maybe challenged. Last WDW trip DH and I both got food poisoning at the same time. That was a challenge for a couple of days. On the one before that, older DS yelled when younger DS slapped him on his sunburned back. DH got really mad and said it ruined his vacation. I just roll with the punches and told younger DS not to do it again and that yelling (it wasn't really that loud) in the hotel room at 10:00 am is not as bad as DH thinks it was. We had a couple of interesting days after that but again, nothing that ruined the trip. When I am on vacation, I tend to chill out and try to go with the flow.

 

[kizmac]

oh yeah, another trip that was less than perfect.... we were there in Sept. 2001 during 9/11....actually at Universal IOA that morning and heard it on the radio just as we were parking the car. The first plane had just hit. Thought it was an accident. Got in the park and was in Suess Landing and heard about the second plane, so when we got over to Posideons there was an AOL computer you could sign onto and I signed on my account and saw the whole horrific news. Shortly after that we were all made to leave the park. We returned to our hotel room and watched endless, horrible news footage all day. Disney was closed and we didn't know what was going to happen. I'll never forget that aweful, sick, scared feeling I had. Like nothing would ever be the same again. It did make it very hard to feel ok and have fun at WDW while so many were suffering. I'll never forget when we went to Epcot on 9/12....the emotions when we were at the America pavillion were unlike any before. It brought tears to my eyes just to see the colonial marchers and musicians. I wanted to cry like a baby when the singers sang inside also. It was sooo moving. What a time.......still some good memories though.

 

[goodferry]

Hello Pittsburgh from Ligonier! What a beautiful way to remember such a horrible event. Not to hijack this thread or anything, but I am originally from NYC and had numerous friends die on 9/11. The most beautiful memory of that day was watching my husband run down to our front yard minutes after the initial attack and put flags in our front yard, it still brings tears to my eyes. It's nice to remember that so many of us had the same initial reaction to the same event.

 

[kizmac]

Well, there have been major speed bumps in our road of vacations, but never ruined.
In December 2000 my Mother fell down a small flight of stairs in MGM and blows out both her ankles. She spends the rest of the trip in a wheel chair, on heavy drugs (thank god! ).
January 2002 Mom fell in parking lot at home 2 weeks before WDW trip. She spends the whole trip in casts and a wheel chair.
Then there was January 2004 when my Mother tripped and fell walking along the deck in back of WL. She broke her wrist.
I guess you can see my Mom is a klutz. None of it was ever Disneys fault. She just can't be trusted to walk by herself. I'm not kidding.

Then last year in November my cousins and I went to WDW for the F&WF. We were having a great time till cousin Ed had too much to drink and took off. It took us hours to find him. He didn't cause trouble or anything, it was just irritating.

Allison, you just reminded me of when my mom fell in the MK parking lot when we were done for the day and packing the kids and the strollers in the car. She didn't see all our backpacks on the ground and stepped back, stumbled, tumbled and sprawled out on the pavement clutching her already bad knee. YIKES!! thank goodness she didn't break anything like your mom. She was ok.
Another time, my mom forgot her medication at a hotel we stopped at in Georgia. Took to almost the end of our vacation for the other hotel to ship it to our hotel in FL. She got sick from not taking her meds. Don't know why she didn't just get the doc to phone and emergency script in to a pharmacy. Mom's.....can't take them anywhere!

 

[kizmac]

Hello Pittsburgh from Ligonier! What a beautiful way to remember such a horrible event. Not to hijack this thread or anything, but I am originally from NYC and had numerous friends die on 9/11. The most beautiful memory of that day was watching my husband run down to our front yard minutes after the initial attack and put flags in our front yard, it still brings tears to my eyes. It's nice to remember that so many of us had the same initial reaction to the same event.

Hi there neighbor! I love Ligonier! It's a beautiful area. Yes, the feelings of that day and our trip will never be forgotten. I still get teary eyed when I look at my pictures from that trip. The patriotism was everywhere. I remember it only being days after and we were seeing people with flag shirts and remember 9/11 t-shirts walking around Disney. I only wish all my kids were older so they would be able to vividly remember that trip and all the emotions of that day and the days following 9/11.

 

[DisneyJen0504]

Nope!

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Nothing has ever ruined a WDW trip to me.

However, my trip to Daytona Beach once was ruined, thankfully it happened the day before we left, so my entire vacation wasn't shot. I broke my finger