Little tiny things that irritate you about WDW...Let's vent.

[babynurse1]

Can I say what annoyed me about WDW from a CM perspective? I can? Thanks. It annoyed me when guests came in with really high standards and unreasonable expectations!

Hey, they promise a magical vacation. I'm paying for magic. Wow me with the magic.

Pixie Dust, Dreams Come True, and all that crap.

 

[Mean Queen]

There should be an enforced limit of how many of your group can cut the line. I have seen 8 seats taken by these "friends" and others who waited for 30 minutes standing. I think it's wrong.

That happened to us on our last trip. We just missed a bus, waited 30 minutes for the next and were at the front of the line. 2 scooters were loaded on first, along with all their family members who were in the middle of the line... no where near the front. Then, another group with a wheelchair just rolled up past a huge line and onto the bus. The driver was totally floored because he already had his spots filled with the scooters and their family members. Luckily, another bus pulled up and all of us waiting jumped on while the first bus dealt with the scooters and wheelchair people. I think Disney needs to find a better way to transport scooters/wheelchairs and even strollers.

 

[babynurse1]

Oh goodness! I feel like i just stepped into a pile of doo!! What have I started?! Sorry ladies. Didn't mean to stir up anything. I am not a frequent visitor on the Community Board. I have found both of your comments humerous and I don't mean anything by my comments.

Princess Jasmine-I respected the fact that the CM said something. I was glad that they did. That child about ran me down. I appreciate all that the CM's do for all of us "visitors". It makes my trip magical.

Babynurse1 - I loved your comment and it made me laugh out loud. Gotta have a little fun in life. I have learned that the hard way.

We're just playing around. You didn't start anything. I actually went to visit PJ in August at WDW. She was working there. We like to give each other a hard time. That's all. I really did have legitimate irritations about the gravy, not meeting Cpt. Jack, the Hannah Montana shirts, and the ride signage. Other than that it was a perfect trip.

 

[PrincessJasmine08]

We're just playing around. You didn't start anything. I actually went to visit PJ in August at WDW. She was working there. We like to give each other a hard time. That's all. I really did have legitimate irritations about the gravy, not meeting Cpt. Jack, the Hannah Montana shirts, and the ride signage. Other than that it was a perfect trip.

What she said. We know each other in real life and this is just how we roll. I give her a hard time, she gives me a hard time.

Back to the topic at hand: it annoys me when large tour groups push people off of the trams to the parking lots.

 

[happybratpack]

Hey, they promise a magical vacation. I'm paying for magic. Wow me with the magic.

Pixie Dust, Dreams Come True, and all that crap.

Hey now, I just want to be assured that if my thighs give out while I'm hovering over the toilet, the cover slips and I fall on the seat I'm not going to get butt fungus from a dirty bathroom.

 

[babynurse1]

Hey now, I just want to be assured that if my thighs give out while I'm hovering over the toilet, the cover slips and I fall on the seat I'm not going to get butt fungus from a dirty bathroom.

 

[northcapemaymom]

For me it's waiting in line for EVERYTHING! If I want a soda or snack in the park..I wait in line. If I'm trying to get just 1 item in a food court no matter what the time of day...I wait. Concierge desk..wait...water fountain...wait. It can get tiring after awhile. Yes, I know its WDW and there are zillions of people everywhere, but I have a reoccurring fantasy of just walking up to a counter and not have anyone in front of me. Otherwise than that, I always have a great time!

 

[LUVMYTINK]

ITA

This is my own little pet peeve from years back, when my son was a toddler, but I was amazed that people on the bus back to the resort would just sit there and watch you struggle to stay upright while you stand on a moving bus while holding a sleeping 2 year old. classy.

How about (on the way to a park) a whole bus load of adults sitting while you play human pinball with a 3 yr. between you & your SO everytime the bus would stop or make turns so the kid wouldn't get thrown to the ground cause there is nothing for him to hold on to cause he is too small.

 

[Jillpie]

Sometimes I just wish in Epcot's world showcase, that there were golf carts every now and then to pick up the folks that can't walk another step. I remember feeling that way once or twice, like I sure wish I could hop on a ride to the front entrance! But thats just wishful thinking.

 

[mickaholic4077]

I don't know how to quote multiple posts,so I just wrote down the numbers as I was reading. Posters 49,76,and 92,the working toll free number for Disney is 1-877-939-3732.

 

[chamonix]

Back to the topic at hand: it annoys me when large tour groups push people off of the trams to the parking lots.

Whaaa-at? You mean when you are already on the tram, a tour group comes up and demands you get off so they can ride together? Could you clarify, please?

'Cause I can tell you that would sooo not happen if I was on the tram.

 

[SueM in MN]

I haven't been through the whole thread so I don't know if this has been posted already, but I can't stand it at WDW when people who clearly don't need the wheelchair get it anyway so they can get to the front of the line. I know too many people who try this.

That is a common misconception, but it's not true.
People using wheelchairs or ECVs don't get out of waiting in line.
Also, there is no way that someone can tell who needs a wheelchair and who doesn't. We have had the experience of someone commenting to a companion that our DD was "one of those cheaters, just using a wheelchair to get ahead in line" because they saw her sitting on a bench, next to her wheelchair.
They 'clearly' saw someone they thought didn't really need a wheelchair, but in actual fact, the girl can't walk and can't even get from the bench to her wheelchair without us lifting her.

Most of the lines at WDW are wheelchair accessible, so there are very few situations where someone actually goes thru a wheelchair entrance. In most cases, they wait in the same line with everyone else. For a very few attractions, there is an alternate entrace because the regular one isn't accessible and was not able to be made accessible (most in MK or Epcot since they were built before accessibility was thought of). There are some others, where the boarding area is not accessible and wheelchair/ECV users wait in the regular or Fastpass line and then are pulled into a different area for loading (Buzz Lightyear, Haunted Mansion and Splash Mountain are examples).

One of the other things that people who don't use wheelchairs don't know is where people with wheelchairs go when they are taken out of the line. They assume those people who 'disappear' from the line are boarding right away, but that is not usually the case.
If they can't board at the regular boarding spot, they are pulled out of the line - usually just before the regular line gets to the boarding area (so they have already waited as long as everyone that got in the line the same time as they did).
For example, at Buzz Lightyear, the 'pull off point' is after you have gone thru the room with the large Buzz Lightyear, near the point where regular line is beginning to enter the actual boarding area. Guests with wheelchairs/ ECVs are pulled out of line at that point and sent to the exit - not to board right away, but to wait. If there are too many people with disabilities already on the attraction, you have to wait for some to get off (for fire safetly and evacuation reasons). Because our DD can't get out of her wheelchair easily, we have to wait extra for a special car that the wheelchair can be loaded on. We usually see the people who were right ahead of us in line getting off after riding while we are still waiting to board. In some rides, boarding at the accessible area means you miss part of the attraction; for example, at Haunted Mansion, you miss the entire 'stretching room' part of the attraction.

The Safari at AK is notorious for extra waits for people with disabilities. Our longest wait there was an EXTRA 40 minutes at a time when the regular line was walk on and Safari Trams were pulling out partially loaded because people were not walking up fast enough to fill them.

Spaceship Earth is a ride with a handicapped entrance, but during times when other passengers are able to walk right on, our wait is usually 20-30 minutes. I have heard the renovation is not going to change that.

AK and the Studio were built with what are called 'Mainstream Lines'. These are lines where the regular line is wheelchair/ECV accessible and a person using a wheelchair or ECV waits in the same line with everyone else.

Here's what it says in the official WDW Guidebook for Guests with Disabilities about Mainstream Lines and the list of attractions with Mainstream Queues:
As you can see, most of the lines are Mainstream Queues:

Magic Kingdom® Park
Ariel's Grotto
Astro Orbiter
Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin
Donald's Boat
Judge's Tent
Mickey's Country House
Mickey's PhilharMagic
Mike Fink Keelboats (seasonal)
Minnie's Country House
Pirates of the Caribbean
Space Mountain®
Splash Mountain®
Stitch's Great Escape!™
The Barnstormer at Goofy's Wiseacres Farm
"The Enchanted Tiki Room Under New Management"
The Hall of Presidents
The Magic Carpets of Aladdin
The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
The Laugh Floor
Tomorrowland® Indy Speedway
Toontown Hall of Fame
Walt Disney's Carousel of Progress (seasonal)

Epcot®
FUTURE WORLD
Imagination!: All Attractions
Innoventions East
Innoventions West
Mission: SPACE
Test Track
The Living Seas: All Attractions
The Land: All Attractions, including Soarin'
Universe of Energy: "Ellen's Energy Adventure"

WORLD SHOWCASE
China: "Reflections of China"
France: "Impressions de France"
FriendShip Boats
Norway: Maelstrom
The American Adventure: "The American Adventure"

Disney-MGM Studios
Disney-MGM Studios Backlot Tour
Fantasmic!
Lights, Motors, Action!™ Extreme Stunt Show
Muppet*Vision 3D
Playhouse Disney - Live On Stage!
Rock 'n' Roller Coaster® Starring Aerosmith
Sounds Dangerous - Starring Drew Carey
Star Tours
The Great Movie Ride
The Magic of Disney Animation
"The Twilight Zone Tower of Terror™"
Voyage of the Little Mermaid
Walt Disney: One Man's Dream

Disney's Animal Kingdom® Theme Park
Caravan Stage: "Flights of Wonder"
DINOSAUR
Grandmother Willow's Grove: "Pocahontas and Her forest friends"
It's Tough To Be A Bug
Kali River Rapids
Expedition Everest
Kilimanjaro Safaris
Lion King Theater: "Festival of the Lion King"
Maharajah Jungle Trek
Primeval Whirl
Finding Nemo
The Boneyard
TriceraTop Spin

And, some attractions have limited number of spots for wheelchairs. We have already shown up for shows where there was still room for ambulatory people, but the wheelchair spots were already filled for that show and we had to wait for the next one (Voyage of the Little Mermaid, where we had Fastpasses; and ITTBAB, where the CMs were practically begging people to come into the queue because there was no wait in the standby line.) On our last trip, we wanted to see The Enchanted Tiki Room, but all the wheelchair spots were filled, even though there was still plenty of space for people who could walk in. Since it was the last show of our last day, we never did get to see it.

 

[Trentmom]

People who think they are above everyone else and who just stop right in the middle of a row, after the CMs are telling everyone we have a full house, please move all way to the end of your row..

I think I Might have "accidentally" stepped on a few of their feet while following directions and going all the way to the end

 

[R.S.Winters]

What my dd calls the "Disney World walkers." You know, the people that walk SOOOOO slowly and then stop dead in the middle of the road for conference around the map.

We occasionally run into these same people at our local Target and mall.

i despise ppl like this with a passion! slow walking people deserve to be punched in the back of the head everytime they stop dead in front of you!! that has to be one of my biggest pet hates.

 

[DISUNC]

- The WORST coffee in the world
- No Fridge in the Values

 

[MushyMushy]

I'm sure someone already said this because I didn't read the whole thread but it annoys me to no end when people get up to the gates and decide to get their tickets out at that point. And then it always seems like they can't find them all or have some other difficulty. Have the tickets ready, people!

On our last trip, there was this family at the front of the line for rope drop (we get there 45 min early, so they had to have been there at least an hour). They waited until the last minute and only THEN did they find out that the husband had left the tickets in the room. The wife had a major meltdown. I felt sorry for them, but I wonder why it never occurred to them to check for their tickets in all that time they were waiting.

I'm not venting - I mean, everyone deserves to enjoy WDW! - but we found the roving packs of overweight scooter people to be, erm... kinda startling. Never seen anything like that in our lives.

My kids are now convinced Americans are the fattest people in the world.

Very nice.

If someone said "Germans are the smelliest people in the world." or "Brits are the rudest people in the world," then we'd be jumping all over that (rightly so).

Sometimes I just wish in Epcot's world showcase, that there were golf carts every now and then to pick up the folks that can't walk another step. I remember feeling that way once or twice, like I sure wish I could hop on a ride to the front entrance! But thats just wishful thinking.

Or how about a monorail stop! I'm always wishing for that. One time we left through the International Gateway and caught a cab from whichever resort we got to first from the boat. Sorry I can't remember what, but it was a much more pleasant trip than traipsing back through Future World to get to the entrance.

 

[arielsleepingbeauty]

I stay on property so it doesn't affect me, but how about paying for parking? YOu already have to pay to get in, why for parking too? Its not like you are parking there and going someplace else. YOu are not using their parking lot to go to Sea World or someplace else, you are there because you are going to WDW and are goin g to pay to get in, not just sit in your car all day. I just don't understand why people have to pay for parking, they should just figure it into the ticket price. I think that it is crazy.

 

[LaraK]

Leaving

 

[rie'smom]

no free internet
lack of variety of tv channels
the coffee stinks
people stopping in the middle of the row

 

[Magpie]

Very nice.

If someone said "Germans are the smelliest people in the world." or "Brits are the rudest people in the world," then we'd be jumping all over that (rightly so).

You'd only jump on that if you happened to consider "fat" to be as bad as being smelly or rude. Me, I don't consider it a moral failing or a sign of bad character or hygiene. Members of my own family have struggled with their weight, and diabetes.

I've also pointed out to my kids that in actual fact the US only ranks number nine in the world, though it's unarguably number one among first world nations. It's just in their case, experience trumps statistics.

http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/07/worlds-fattest-countries-forbeslife-cx_ls_0208worldfat.html

I'd heard the US was on average considerably heavier, but I know my country also struggles with it's weight, so I hadn't expected it to be quite so obvious as a visitor. It was a startling experience. I believe in the "obesity epidemic" now!