Kind of down and out...need some pixie dust please.

[VickynMickey]

When I found the DIS boards in Oct 2005 we were one month away from our much anticipated trip .... I came onto the boards very excited and ended up SO worried by all of the people who were telling horror stories - saying how rotten the Values were ( we were staying at ASMo ) ... how inconvenient the DDP (which we were so very excited about - our first REAL family vacation and it was "all inclusive" ) .... Well , I was fretting about all of the negatives before we went but WE HAD THE TIME OF OUR LIVES !!!!!! As they say , life is what you make of it, and a vacation is, too. Now I have definitely read some negatives on the boards that were certainly upsetting and worth commenting about, but for the most part I think people might just be expecting a tiny bit too much perfection. Sure, a couple of CMs were less than friendly , not every meal was perfectly suited to our palates , the lounge at ASMo was smoky when you walked by at night , a couple of buses were crowded , yada, yada, yada. But we chose to overlook those little negatives and dwell on the MANY friendly CMs, the fabulous meal we had at Kona , the looks on our kids faces when the REAL Pooh and friends showed up at CP, our clean little movie-themed room (our Toy Story bedroom as our DS, three at the time, called it), our sweet smelling Mickey soaps, our high scores on Buzz, our favorite parade (MGM!), our monorail rides, our NINE rides on IASW (courtesy of DS3), our fabulous dinner in the castle (OK, I hated my food, but we were IN THE CASTLE! and dessert was yummy), etc etc etc ... Most of all it was *totally* Magical to be in a place like that with my family ... I CAN'T WAIT to go back ... anyway, my point is that people will complain (and complain and complain!) and I don't think its new ... as I said, they scared us back in 2005. But its a package deal, and the positives WAY outweigh the little negatives. So just stay positive and you will have a GREAT TIME ... Have fun!

I have been stressing the last couple of days that I am going to regret going in March. People are talking about horrible crowds and FP running out before noon. But your post made me realize, its WDW and its going to be ok. Thank you