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[KSDisneyDad]

We are a friendly bunch!

I didn't have any real kid problems (just the 2 days of telling kids to get out of our hallway -- AJ & Aly were down the hall....).

I wasn't happy with people not understanding Elevator ettiquitte --- let people get off first, let people that were waiting before you get on first, don't put your small child on the elevator and tell them to *meet* you on another floor.... The last thing happened 2 different times when I was on an elevator...The first time was about 11:30 at night!!!!

As I have previously written, we experienced much of what you did with adult guests and lack of elevator etiquiette.

After reading your post, I thought oops, I hope our youngest wasn't your 11:30 rider. We had a rule that we could not take the elevator for two floors or less. As we were on Deck 6, we rarely used the elevator.

On the very last night of the cruise, I was exhausted and went to drop off my pager and pick up my youngest DS from club about 11:30 or 11:45 at night. He too was dragging and claimed that he was just so tired that he didn't want to walk up one flight of stairs and wanted to use the elevator. After reminding him of our rule, he still whined, so I gave in and let him take it by himself thinking their wouldn't be anyone on it the lsat night so late. When he got off, I noticed there were a few others on it. I was so embarassed as I had broken my own rule and it affected others as it drove me crazy when people would use the elevator for just one floor. I apologize if this was our son that last night. I know that was the one and only time we let him do it.

 

[M<3'sMickey]

I would also agree about the rowdy kids on board. We have been on many cruises and never have had this amount of disruption and out and out obnoxious behavior. It seemed we couldn't get on an elevator without having to deal with visiting every floor and climbing the stairs was not much better as most times we were having to avoid kids either pushing past us or jumping around us. We were of course on deck 2 and it did seem like the kids were worse there but there was no reason for these kids to be wandering the halls after OQ was closed. The night I stayed up all night doing laundry I was amazed at how many tweens and teens, were hanging around in the stairwells and hallways at 4 am. Which was when I was delivering FE's so I saw this on many floors not just deck 2. My in-laws who are in their 80's had several stories to tell about the rudeness of kids to elderly folks who couldn't move as quickly, like stealing elevators and pushing in front of them in line. They also witnessed the ice machine draining. We even saw kids who were out and out wrestling in the middle of the hallways. When asked where there parents were they told us they didn't have any. When asked by the room steward to settle down they just laughed at him and continued on. Truly, I was surprised by the basic lack of manners and common courtesy of many kids. Now I know that this wasn't every kid and there were those who were very polite and were watched closely by their parents, but they seemed few and far between and like someone said there was probably a lot of guilt by association going on too. It is a shame that a few could ruin it for so many. Really makes you wonder what their parents were doing and why the kids didn't seem to know how to follow the rules. Of course, they were probably the same people who didn't think that the dining room proper attire request for No shorts, please, applied to them.

There were always kids loitering on deck5 aft. One night after dinner, I was coming back up the steps and there they were, all standing around one girl on top the stairs who was saying to her friends, "Now, what do you think is the best way to tumble down the steps?" I went running into my room, barely got the sentence out to my sister who said they were doing the same thing minutes before when she came up the stairs, and she called guest services. They came and dealt with the situation. I was worried about being knocked down the stairs by some ST who thought tumbling down the stairs was a good idea (where do they come up with this stuff? I'm 23 and never, ever thought to do any of these things!) Not for anything, Ducky Williams' room was a few doors down for us and Disney allowed this sort of teen behavior by his room which shocks me.

Hi Cheryl! Yes, it was truly a TOAL!

This is my first post since the cruise...it's been a whirlwind back at work and the kids starting school! At least they didn't have a lot of homework missing the first part of school.

Arlene, your pics of Gatun were great. We also had some great ones as we stood out in front on Deck 10 getting drenched and used our water camera into the first lock. We finally had to cry uncle, grab sweatshirts and dry clothes and head down to Deck 4 as we were freezing. That storm was amazing to experience and having the lights on going through Gatun made everything seem a little surreal.

With respect to the hypnotist -- we didn't go (thank goodness) but let the kids go to it and they thought he was hilarious.

With respect to the rowdy kids -- this was the first time we've ever experienced this on DCL and we wrote something in our comment card about it. We did see two OQ kids get reprimanded by a counselor for sitting in the elevator talking and going along for the ride with whoever joined them. However, that was about the extent of any action we saw taken by Disney employees. We saw a group of boys by the Deck 6 forward elevators being quite loud one night and when we asked them to be quiet, they just backtalked to us. Fortunately, our persistence finally got them to quiet down and it helped that we knew one of the boys (he wasn't being loud but it was guilt by association). We also experienced a lot of running and jumping on the stairs, screaming and overall obnoxious behavior. The worst was a group of young teen boys in line at Topsiders bragging about how they drained the ice cream machine by Goofy's Galley. Someone else told us they would try to deliberately break the ice cream machines.

The issue with the kids was minor in the overall scheme of things and we truly had a wonderful time.

One week ago today was our sea day with some of the calmest seas I've ever seen. And it was pirate night! I got chills standing on Deck 9 travelling about 21 knots in the middle of the Caribbean watching the fireworks!!

I don't understand why they have to be destructive. Why would you go out of your way to break something?

We were told that the delay at disembarkation was due to a surprise health inspection. That wouldn't surprise me, since the ship had been gone for so long, and had been in Colombia.


The hypnotist? A joke. I was onstage for one of his shows on Norwegian. As we left the stage at that show, all of us agreed that we weren't "under" and the ones who "acted out" admitted to faking. I had just sat in my chair the whole time.
At DCL's show, I was in the very front row, and watched people's eye movements, feet movements and hand movements. Not to mention the smiles I saw that were trying to be held back. We were at the early show in the theater, and I seriously doubt anyone was truly hypnotized.

Kid behavior? Some of the worst I've seen. Out of control enough for Christiaan to practically beg parents to get their kids into the Clubs.....and then to have us come out of our room one night to find a kid stuck ON TOP of the elevator (Deck 8, Aft) with the doors open and it halfway between floors, while Security & Maintenance were being called to "unstuck" him....his friends had abandoned him, except for the one inside the elevator. I hope they either dumped the family off in Aruba, or made him stay in his room for the rest of the cruise, but I doubt it. From what I've seen, DCL isn't hard enough on misbehaving kids.

Anyway.....since none of this really affected me to any extent, I don't really care. I didn't have kids on the ship to worry about, and had a great cruise.
We had the later breakfast on the day we got off the ship and no early flights to catch, so we just sat at our table, enjoyed our servers on a more personal level and waited.

The hypnotist and Darren Romeo were very, very, very poor choices for entertainment. For my sister to walk out of Darren Romeo, you know it had to be bad considering some of the garbage she watches on tv!

Wow, those photos bring back some great memories. I'm still not over my post-vacation slump...it's hard to get back to reality after 15 days on the Magic. We were on the deck 7 aft verandah for the early part of the crossing. It was pretty dead to start with, but eventually people figured out it was a prime viewing area so at one point they were four-deep. We had gotten a rail spot early on, so it was perfect. Mickey and Donald came there to visit, which made for great photo ops. We bought the Shutters stock photo of the back of the ship, as you can see hubby and me as little green dots (green shirt) with my red hat. Pretty cool.

That's why I bought the picture of the back of the ship! I was like, there I am! There I am! I'm that white dot with the sunglasses! My sister was like, shut up, it's not you! But it is! It is!

The tweens were definitely a rowdy bunch this cruise. I heard the screaming deck 5 forward so they must have moved my way after they were busted aft!!!

The sitting on the stairs was getting a bit old by the end of the cruise. I should have tried your method, my loud and clearly heard "Can't they find anything else to do?" didn't make them move an inch

Sorry, that was probably partly me and my sister who got them busted aft. They were just so rude and obnoxious and I don't handle teenage shenanigans well, I never have.

yes some of the kids were bad on this cruise. a few times i go to get on the elevator all the buttons are pushed for every floor. hanging out in the stairs all the time. lets not forget about the parents taking their kids to cove cafe. and the nightclubs past 9 oclock, the workers should of said something.

One night I was in RBD and a mother left her 2 kids sitting in there! She was all, you just sit here, ok? Thankfully, Luke came over and told them nicely to get out.

Encountered that as well.
We're so naive at first we didn't even think it was kids doing it... we figured people just couldn't make up their minds where they wanted to go and got off somewhere. We're slow I guess- took us awhile to figure out kids were pushing buttons on the elevators. LOL

We DID however notice the last couple of days all the announcements about keeping kids from running in the halls and on the stairwells.... and thought it odd that they even commented "for parents to set an example for their children". Does that mean parents were also running up and down the hallways? LOL

The parents weren't necessarily running up and down the hallways but there were quite a few parents who were treating the adult pool as if it was a frat party. I was like, what? are they filming "Animal House on the Disney Magic" down there? I know I'll probably get flamed, but it's a sad state of affairs when security, lifeguards, and other CM have to be stationed around the adult pool because adults can't behave themselves.

 

[ga9497]

DH went through once and he said that was enough -- he thought some of the women should have worn bathing suits that actually covered areas that shouldn't be seen by people not related to them......

I'm glad someone else noticed that so I don't feel like such an old fuddy duddy. LOL

We were talking about the same thing today with some family members when telling them about the cruise!!

 

[Stepht5]

We were talking about the same thing today with some family members when telling them about the cruise!!

See Bip. We are all *fuddy duddys* when it comes to women not flashing body parts in public.

On the very last night of the cruise, I was exhausted and went to drop off my pager and pick up my youngest DS from club about 11:30 or 11:45 at night. He too was dragging and claimed that he was just so tired that he didn't want to walk up one flight of stairs and wanted to use the elevator. After reminding him of our rule, he still whined, so I gave in and let him take it by himself thinking their wouldn't be anyone on it the lsat night so late. When he got off, I noticed there were a few others on it. I was so embarassed as I had broken my own rule and it affected others as it drove me crazy when people would use the elevator for just one floor. I apologize if this was our son that last night. I know that was the one and only time we let him do it.

Christopher, I am talking kids about 3 yrs old! And they didn't even know they should punch the button for their floor! The first one I had to take by the hand to his mother who was waiting on a different floor.......

 

[ga9497]

I don't understand why they have to be destructive. Why would you go out of your way to break something?

I agree I don't know why they have to be destructive - I am older then you but we never thought to do anything like that as teenagers either


The parents weren't necessarily running up and down the hallways but there were quite a few parents who were treating the adult pool as if it was a frat party. I was like, what? are they filming "Animal House on the Disney Magic" down there? I know I'll probably get flamed, but it's a sad state of affairs when security, lifeguards, and other CM have to be stationed around the adult pool because adults can't behave themselves.

The only time I went into the adult pool was in the mornings when it was quiet or on port days if we were back on the ship before dinner. By 2pm it was a zoo on sea days. There were other times that I walked by but it would be so crowded that I would just sit and read in the shade somewhere because if I was in the sun I would have to get in to cool off

 

[got2travel]

Great pictures! We must have been standing right next to each other on the front of Deck 10 as I have nearly the same picture (see second picture below)!! That storm was incredible. I hope someone captured some of the lightning. Here's a time sequence of the storm and having to wait on the left hand side behind that large freighter while ships went through the right side.

So was I out there right next to you and didn't know it? Is that June in the picutre or just some random picture of the crazy women out on Deck 10? That's me in on the left. I tried to brave it out but once the 2 storms from each side hit and the wind started blowing furiously, I had to give up. Went down to Deck 9 to dry out a bit.

 

[orlandothebeagle]

How bad was it? I mean what were they doing?
We had no problems at all on on last and only cruise?
I do believe you but I just cant think that it could be that bad.
I hope it will not be bad on the next one.

 

[got2travel]

I have pictures!

Are they on the pirate zone? I'd love to see them!!! Also want to ask DS if he knew the kid.

 

[got2travel]

We are a friendly bunch!

I didn't have any real kid problems (just the 2 days of telling kids to get out of our hallway -- AJ & Aly were down the hall....).

I wasn't happy with people not understanding Elevator ettiquitte --- let people get off first, let people that were waiting before you get on first, don't put your small child on the elevator and tell them to *meet* you on another floor.... The last thing happened 2 different times when I was on an elevator...The first time was about 11:30 at night!!!!

If anyone, kid or adult walked into the elevator before I had a chance to walk out, they most likely got bumped into by me. I don't care if they had a full tray of food or were a small child (well okay 3 or 4 and haven't quite learned yet, no bump, but the older kids were fair game). For some reason this is one of the things that really peeves me. I do it on any elevator, not just Disney. Guess some may have witnessed this and considered me one of the rude adults? Oh well!

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

I have thought a long time if I would post this or not but as we are on the subject of rude adults, there is something which happened to me on the Magic and I am still suffering from it.

In the first week of the cruise, my family were in the queue for the WDT, at 7.50pm, for the 8.30pm show I cannot remember the actual show, but I think it was formal night so that is second night, first sea day, Golden Mickeys but might be wrong on the night.

Anyway we were about 10th in the queue, there was a couple of adults behind us and near opening time their grown up son joined them, the doors opened, my kids did go ahead, but I was pushed hard into the door of the WDT entrance by the son,and banged into the wood frame with my shoulder taking the full force,and fell over, the people behind didn't stop just overtook.

My kids went ahead to get the seats and were rather surprised I wasn't there, I picked myself up, and slightly in a daze, walked to join my family, they said where were you and I said I had just been pushed into the door, very firmly.

I dint wish to make a scene and it didn't seem to bad at the time.

However over the next few days I started to get the biggest pain I have ever had in my shoulder, A deep muscle pain maybe frozen shoulder. I still have it now and its been getting worse. I tried to swim it out at the Cove pool, and various exercises, but its now two weeks later at least and its still bad.

 

[dahuffy]

The parents weren't necessarily running up and down the hallways but there were quite a few parents who were treating the adult pool as if it was a frat party. I was like, what? are they filming "Animal House on the Disney Magic" down there? I know I'll probably get flamed, but it's a sad state of affairs when security, lifeguards, and other CM have to be stationed around the adult pool because adults can't behave themselves.

No flames here. I have pictures of the "Belly Floppers" and I felt so sorry for Claire,the new CM,when they decided to pick her up and jump into the pool with her. I "heard" that she got into a bit of trouble for this.

 

[dahuffy]

Are they on the pirate zone? I'd love to see them!!! Also want to ask DS if he knew the kid.

Which pictures?* Of the adult pool antics?* I haven't been able to load my pics yet(issues with my puter).

 

[dahuffy]

I have thought a long time if I would post this or not but as we are on the subject of rude adults, there is something which happened to me on the Magic and I am still suffering from it.

In the first week of the cruise, my family were in the queue for the WDT, at 7.50pm, for the 8.30pm show I cannot remember the actual show, but I think it was formal night so that is second night, first sea day, Golden Mickeys but might be wrong on the night.

Anyway we were about 10th in the queue, there was a couple of adults behind us and near opening time their grown up son joined them, the doors opened, my kids did go ahead, but I was pushed hard into the door of the WDT entrance by the son,and banged into the wood frame with my shoulder taking the full force,and fell over, the people behind didn't stop just overtook.

My kids went ahead to get the seats and were rather surprised I wasn't there, I picked myself up, and slightly in a daze, walked to join my family, they said where were you and I said I had just been pushed into the door, very firmly.

I dint wish to make a scene and it didn't seem to bad at the time.

However over the next few days I started to get the biggest pain I have ever had in my shoulder, A deep muscle pain maybe frozen shoulder. I still have it now and its been getting worse. I tried to swim it out at the Cove pool, and various exercises, but its now two weeks later at least and its still bad.

Oh Andrew, I'm so sorry to hear this!

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Oh Andrew, I'm so sorry to hear this!

Thanks Debi, It shows some people will do anythnig to try to get further up a queue to get better seats. If it doesnt clear up after resting it this weekend I will have to go to the Doctors.

 

[orlandothebeagle]

I have thought a long time if I would post this or not but as we are on the subject of rude adults, there is something which happened to me on the Magic and I am still suffering from it.

In the first week of the cruise, my family were in the queue for the WDT, at 7.50pm, for the 8.30pm show I cannot remember the actual show, but I think it was formal night so that is second night, first sea day, Golden Mickeys but might be wrong on the night.

Anyway we were about 10th in the queue, there was a couple of adults behind us and near opening time their grown up son joined them, the doors opened, my kids did go ahead, but I was pushed hard into the door of the WDT entrance by the son,and banged into the wood frame with my shoulder taking the full force,and fell over, the people behind didn't stop just overtook.

My kids went ahead to get the seats and were rather surprised I wasn't there, I picked myself up, and slightly in a daze, walked to join my family, they said where were you and I said I had just been pushed into the door, very firmly.

I dint wish to make a scene and it didn't seem to bad at the time.

However over the next few days I started to get the biggest pain I have ever had in my shoulder, A deep muscle pain maybe frozen shoulder. I still have it now and its been getting worse. I tried to swim it out at the Cove pool, and various exercises, but its now two weeks later at least and its still bad.

That is pathetic, that would really,really upset me. WHY do folk act like this?
I hope your shoulder gets better soon.
On a brighter note, do you fancy or indeed have you done a translantic journey?

 

[got2travel]

Which pictures?* Of the adult pool antics?* I haven't been able to load my pics yet(issues with my puter).

Elevator boy

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

That is pathetic, that would really,really upset me. WHY do folk act like this?
I hope your shoulder gets better soon.
On a brighter note, do you fancy or indeed have you done a transl antic journey?

Thanks,

Personally I would not wish to do a transatlantic crossing, six days at sea was too much for me in 2007, plus the Atlantic is more active, and One way airline tickets to/from the USA are nearly as expensive as a return trip.

If the Magic is close to us I will prefer to do something local, and avoid a long flight and that cost, but it depends on when she is around, its very close to school holidays, but might be just 'before' and I would not take my kids out of school.

The transatlantic didn't sell to well in 2007, so I think there will be 'modifications' maybe include Bermuda, I have herd that, and possible, New York? before Southampton?? might still go via Tenariffe.

 

[CastawayCayLover]

The parents weren't necessarily running up and down the hallways but there were quite a few parents who were treating the adult pool as if it was a frat party. I was like, what? are they filming "Animal House on the Disney Magic" down there? I know I'll probably get flamed, but it's a sad state of affairs when security, lifeguards, and other CM have to be stationed around the adult pool because adults can't behave themselves.

The only reason security was there was because of the over reaction of a few people to the harmless fun being had by many. I mean really, throwing balls around a pool is hardly worthy of as much fuss as was made.

 

[PBader]

Andrew, sorry to hear about your shoulder. Hope it gets to feeling better without a visit to the dr. You are one of the few dissers I didn't get to meet.

 

[Andrew DEREK UK]

Andrew, sorry to hear about your shoulder. Hope it gets to feeling better without a visit to the dr. You are one of the few dissers I didn't get to meet.

Yes sorry we didn't meet up, I saw a lot of Dissers over the 15 nights, but I understand I was the 'difficult' one to find.

I was told there was an English man going around Disneyland saying, 'No I am not Andrew from the UK', as he was approached many times.

Whilst it was a 15 night cruise, I am not sure where all the time went.