Line Cutting

[wcpamotm]

If we have extra spots at our table and there are no tables available, we always offer seats to folks who are looking. It's fun to get to know someone else and it helps spread the magic.

Thank you for this! I've seen other posters suggest that others are welcome to sit with them, but I think most would be afraid to ask for fear of intruding or seeming rude (I would). How many have written that they don't like Biergarten because of the seating arrangements?

Reaching out and inviting makes all the difference.

 

[MikeandReneePlus5]

CS restaurants and tables -

avoid the whole mess by making ADRs. Better food, more relaxing, doesn't really take much more time when you add it all up.

 

[chiefmickeymouse]

I have to admit that it never occurred to me that there was something wrong with one party member getting the table while the other gets the food. The single parent who wrote in does have a good point though, and I have had to struggle alone with food, no table and small children - it is a hassle. My husband is military and I've done trips alone with the kids when he was deployed.

I guess the table debate all comes down to the situation you are dealing with. I know that if we go into a QS and there is nowhere to sit, we leave. I have no intention of fighting over a table (I'd prefer to fight over something meaningful - like whether or not your kid is too old to ride in a stroller!).

 

[KSDisneyDad]

CS restaurants and tables -

avoid the whole mess by making ADRs. Better food, more relaxing, doesn't really take much more time when you add it all up.

This really isn't practical for most people due to the cost. Even if you are on free dining, you eat at least one Counter Service meal per day. To upgrade to the Deluxe Dining Plan is expensive.

We are DVC, so the Deluxe Dining Plan would cost our family $338 per day! We can eat two CS meals for around $100 per day. We will eat an occassional TS meal and the price tag always seems to be between $140 to $180 for our family of 5.

That's why we stick with two CS meals at $100 per day with perhaps 2 or 3 TS meals thrown in throughout our trip.

 

[GinnyEmma]

Counter service equals 20 minutes. I've never seen table service in less than an hour And a half. And Disney ts food is nowhere near worth the cost!!! Most of it is average at best. And I refuse to live my life around a feeding schedule made 6 months prior!

 

[Ramsfan28]

And don't push your kid infront of me at a parade when I've had my spot for 45minutes or so beforehand and you decide to show up last minute. This happens almost every trip an adult stands back and shoves there kid up to the front as the parade starts.

I had one kid elbow his way through with his ipad to video tape the parade. I made sure to move in front of his shot about dozen times before he gave up and walked away.

Also I just adore the "friendly" stroller smack on the back on the ankles to remind you that somebody is behind you and can't see when the parade is going on.

As far a line cutting, I haven't really witnessed it during my trips but it does bother me. There are lines for a reason and people should not be allowed to cut in front; however, I am all for being VERY understanding for bathroom emergencies especially for little kids - these things happen.

Oh, not enough silly popcorn guy for this thread and I am saying 15 pages for the thread.

 

[Zeppelin]

I had not experienced line cutting at Disney in the past. But on this past visit, I encountered a lot of it. Have others noticed this too?

The main experience we had was seeing people step past us or step under ropes ahead of us to join others. We also had multiple sets of teenage girls step past us (at separate times) saying they were looking for their mom. In one case, I was resting my hand on one of the bars that separates lines and a guy lifted my arm so he could push through!

This was so frustrating.......

yes..i hate to point fingers but.... the times i've had trouble with people cutting the line its almost ALWAYS been in July- i pointed the situation out to one of the cast members and they said, "unfortunately we get a lot of people from Argentina, Brazil and other SA countries this time of year and its' always a problem"...don't want to offend anyone but that's what it was...

 

[Kayleejade]

And don't push your kid infront of me at a parade when I've had my spot for 45minutes or so beforehand and you decide to show up last minute. This happens almost every trip an adult stands back and shoves there kid up to the front as the parade starts.

I remember last year at Star Wars weekends our family had sat in a spot for the parade route for more than an hour prior to the parade. It was a tight spot with no room behind us. They had tape down to mark where you could stand and it pinched our spot down to the bushes behind us. Ten minutes before the parade, a guy walks up and stops infront of me and my kids with a large stroller. He looks at me and says "can I stand here?" I said "For a minute or two if you need a walking break but not for the parade". He says "Ohh, so I can't watch the parade from here....?.....". I said "NOPE!" and he strolled away.

As the parade starts and they are heading towards our location, a group of late teen (19-20YO's) walk up and stand infront of my two kids. My wife flipped out and told them they had to move, not only because they were blocking our kids but they were outside of the tape and going to impede the parade. They tell her "Well then step back so we can get behind the tape". She turned three shades of red and let them know if they wanted a further debate someone was going to end up KO'd on the parade route. They decided the nasty woman was not going to bow down so they simply walked 6 feet down and stood infront of the people who were waiting beside us.

Next up a woman and her kids plows infront of the people directly to our side, to which they had bottled water sitting at theit feet. One of the woman's young kids grabs their water bottle and starts chugging from it!!! They were like "hey that's our water" the woman says "sorry" and gets the kid to let the bottle go. She then leaves the kids and walks across the street to buy water from a vendor. She returns, opens the bottle of water and hands it to the kid. Does not bother to replace the bottle her kid slobbered on...........

Then a couple guys walk up with a young boy and ask "Can we stand in the spot behind you?" I said "In the bushes?? Ok with me but not infront of me or my kids" One guy says "That's fine, I'm going to put my son on my shoulders, we don't mind missing the parade but he really loves Star Wars". Shortly after they got in, the disney people shooed the rest of the spot jumpers away. As soon as we did not have to deal with any more a-holes, I turned and told the guys "I'm going to back up and stand beside you guys, let your son move up here and stand with my kids". They thanked me and then we swapped spots.

I don't understand why more people can't be nice at public places. The people around us kept their mouths shut and allowed others to ruin the enjoyment they had waited and hour for. They were trying to be nice and got stepped on by rude jerks. I also wanna know who is raising all of these rude people?
If I did the things I see people do, my dad would have slapped the back of my head hard enough to elicit stars.

 

[larryz]

I'm going to cut on over to page 11 now, if that's ok...

 

[bytheblood]

disney just has to put signs up saying that anyone cutting will be removed without refund...

But they wont do it. And even if they posted signs, they would never enforce the rules.

 

[Zeppelin]

I had one kid elbow his way through with his ipad to video tape the parade. I made sure to move in front of his shot about dozen times before he gave up and walked away.

Also I just adore the "friendly" stroller smack on the back on the ankles to remind you that somebody is behind you and can't see when the parade is going on.

As far a line cutting, I haven't really witnessed it during my trips but it does bother me. There are lines for a reason and people should not be allowed to cut in front; however, I am all for being VERY understanding for bathroom emergencies especially for little kids - these things happen.

Oh, not enough silly popcorn guy for this thread and I am saying 15 pages for the thread.

just as long as the delivery is polite- "excuse me- can i cut and front of you to be with my husband/mom/dad/brother, etc?" is fine....

the assumed cut the line, or worse yet, the "i was holding this spot for my twelve friends" will not be tolerated....

 

[Disney Von Drake]

I cut the big lines all the time at WDW. The best method I use is that I tell people that I lost my cell phone during my previous wait in line and that it was found by the CM at the front of the line. The CM is holding my phone for me and I need to get it right away before they turn it in to lost and found. I just ask people to let me get to the head of the line so I can reclaim my cell phone.

When I get to the front of the line, I mumble a few words to the CM (with my back to all the people that just let me pass) and I then turn around with my cell phone in my hand and I hold it high in the air and say, "Thank you, I got it!" I then just stand there in line. It works every time!

 

[A Mickeyfan]

I cut the big lines all the time at WDW. The best method I use is that I tell people that I lost my cell phone during my previous wait in line and that it was found by the CM at the front of the line. The CM is holding my phone for me and I need to get it right away before they turn it in to lost and found. I just ask people to let me get to the head of the line so I can reclaim my cell phone.

When I get to the front of the line, I mumble a few words to the CM (with my back to all the people that just let me pass) and I then turn around with my cell phone in my hand and I hold it high in the air and say, "Thank you, I got it!" I then just stand there in line. It works every time!

"Honey, are you up there.. oh, excuse me, my husband is up there with my child, I just had to use the rest room".. now how many walk past saying that, with another child in tow .. and you wonder.. hmmm is it real or is it... a LINE CUTTER

 

[focusondisney]

I'm going to cut on over to page 11 now, if that's ok...

I don't think so! You should be back on page 1.

 

[Stitches]

As you know at the bus stops you are suppoed to board through the front doors of the bus, unless you are part of a wheelchair/ECV party. Once at POP there was alot of people waiting for the buses. My husband and I were there waiting at the handicapped entrance with my mom who was in an ECV. We had already sat through one bus, due to there being two wheelchairs already there when we arrived. Anyway, our bus started to pull up and this young lady came running up, just as the driver started to open that back door and lower the ramp for us. She took one look at the long line, realized she wasn't going to be able to fit on the bus, so jumped in behind us trying to get in the back door. The driver looked at her and told her to go to the back of the line. She smiled sweetly, then blantely lied and said she was with us. I looked at her and said, "Pardon me, no you aren't. We don't even know you." That sweet innocent look on her face quickly disappered and she called me a b-tch. Excuse me, she lied, tried to jump line, then lied to a bus driver and tried to say she was part of a handicapped party, then had the nerve to call me a b-tch?

OMG....that is horrible. I am very sorry you had to experience this.

 

[hookedonears]

I had one kid elbow his way through with his ipad to video tape the parade. I made sure to move in front of his shot about dozen times before he gave up and walked away.

Also I just adore the "friendly" stroller smack on the back on the ankles to remind you that somebody is behind you and can't see when the parade is going on.

As far a line cutting, I haven't really witnessed it during my trips but it does bother me. There are lines for a reason and people should not be allowed to cut in front; however, I am all for being VERY understanding for bathroom emergencies especially for little kids - these things happen.

Oh, not enough silly popcorn guy for this thread and I am saying 15 pages for the thread.

As far as bathroom breaks go, I also don't have a problem if a parent needs to take their child to the bathroom during a long wait, as long as that parent/child/family were all originally in line together from the beginning. If someone just comes up cutting in line, and was not originally with their group and says that they just were just returning from the bathroom. That doesn't fly.

 

[aubriee]

We have had to eat our fish and chips sitting on the curb before too. And it was actually kind of fun!

Something else to add to the whole table debate: How many of you, if you have extra chairs at your table, are willing to share your space with other guests? My dad and I have done that before when they only table that was available was a large one. We were eating when my dad noticed a couple of women with trays who couldn't find a place to sit. He invited them to share our table, and we all had an enjoyable meal chatting about our trips.

As a solo diner I've offered to share my table several times and have met some very nice people as a result. However as a solo diner I've also met some very rude people. Several years ago I was at Tusker House, back when it was still a CS restaurant. It was packed and as I walked toward the back with my tray I saw a family getting up from a table for four. I was putting my tray down and taking my napkins and silverware off the tray as I was sitting down, when suddenly this lady with a kid in a stroller ran into the back of my legs. I thought it was an accident, so just turned and smiled, expecting an apology. She very rudely told me I needed to move because her family needed that table. I told her I'd be glad to share with them, not a problem, but I wasn't moving. She informed me that with the baby they were a party of five and she wanted me to move, since that table was not for a single. Uh, I don't think so. She kept insisting. I gestured around us and asked her exactly where she expected me to sit. She said that since I was solo I could just take my food outside and sit on the wall. I finished sitting down and told her no way was I moving. She then threatened to get a manager to make me move. About that time I saw an elderly couple looking for a table and motioned them over, asking if they'd like to share my table. The stroller lady stalked off and I met a very nice couple from New Hampshire. As I was leaving I saw the stroller lady with her family and she was still red and puffed up arguing with them. I guess she just wasn't feeling the Disney spirit that day with anyone. lol

At parades I have no problems with asking little kids if they want to stand in front of me so they can see better. I do have a problem with parents who push their kids in front of me, then when I say OK, they push themselves in front of me too, saying that they've just got to be up front with their kids so they can watch them and they're sure I don't mind since I'm solo and afterall WDW is for kids you know.

 

[Hesky]

I have experienced it a couple of times. The number one strategy seems to be sending the kids to the front of the line and then the parents, pretending they are looking for their lost children, bypass evryone else on the line. Once they find them, they mysteriosuly don't return to the back of the line.

To be honest I don't care, for me Disney is about magic and getting worked up over it would be a sure way to ruin my vacation. I am there to enjoy every minute of my stay, and if i have to be on the line a few extra minutes, I honestly don't mind because I'm there to relax and enjoy. The thing is my wife is not as patient as I am.

 

[MikeandReneePlus5]

Until I started reading the DIS I had no idea how many people are incapable of going 45 mins without going to the bathroom. It really is a revelation!

Disney really should incorporate toilets into the queues I guess.

They could make them look like honey pots at Pooh, dynamite crates at BTMRR, R2D2 at Star Wars......

 

[focusondisney]

Until I started reading the DIS I had no idea how many people are incapable of going 45 mins without going to the bathroom. It really is a revelation!

Disney really should incorporate toilets into the queues I guess.

They could make them look like honey pots at Pooh, dynamite crates at BTMRR, R2D2 at Star Wars......

Or they could start a new package option: Depends or no Depends!