Not in my home (resort)!....Unbelievable event I witnessed at AKV

[disneychic]

I forgot that this even happened until my husband brought it up out of the blue during dinner tonight or I would have posted it sooner. OK, we were staying at AKV - Kidani (one of our home resorts) a few weeks ago. One evening after dinner at Sanaa (it was about 7:00) we decided to walk out onto the savannah look-out that's down on the ground level. We went over to the savannah guide to ask her a question but noticed she was on the phone and she asked us to wait a moment. There was another guest waiting also and a bunch of other people looking up at something. Apparantly a family staying in Kidani w/ a savannah view room were out on their balcony and the boy who was playing with a toy gun that had plastic dart like bullets was shooting down towards the animals on the savannah and at one point accidentally dropped the gun from the balcony onto the savannah. Another guest who was out on the ground level savannah look-out saw this and notified the savannah guide (who was now on the phone w/ management). Management was already aware of this because the father of this boy had the NERVE to call the front desk and ASK FOR HIS KIDS TOY GUN BACK. Are these people kidding me? It gets better, as the other guest was telling us the story the family comes outside and over to the guide and the kid (who was about 10 years old) asks her if someone can get his gun for him! They were already informed by management that it is up to the hotel whether or not dropped items can be retreived, and under the circumstances they would most likely not get their gun back. So, I guess these people weren't satisfied with that so they went out and asked the guide for the gun. Can you believe that!? The savannah guide pretty much just gave them the same answer. I'm sorry but that whole family needed a talking to!

 

[JimMIA]

Come down to the Everglades sometime and watch the visitors with the alligators!

 

[Sandisw]

It does amaze me at times about how some people just don't think about things.

It certainly is even more interesting that they would ask about getting the toy back when the child should not have been out there with it in the first place, due to safety for the animals.

 

[disneychic2]

Unbelievable! Not a rational family member in the bunch! I'm glad they did not return the toy.

 

[BeesKnees]

I don't find this that shocking. Spoiled rotten children at Disney is nothing new and they didn't get spoiled without help from their parents.

 

[hakepb]

Crazy!
Hopefully no animals got hurt. Those guests should be forced to spend the rest of their trip with no straws (old time DAK before they got paper straws)

is Kidani different than Jambo where no animals actually touch the Jambo building (due to nearly invisible electric? Wires in landscaping) so anything dropped is not actually in the animal habitat?

 

[Sammie]

I don't find this that shocking. Spoiled rotten children at Disney is nothing new and they didn't get spoiled without help from their parents.

Yep it's truly sad at times to witness.

 

[buzz5985]

Come down to the Everglades sometime and watch the visitors with the alligators!

LOL I went on the tram tour in the Everglades about 10 years ago. There was a group of tourists that went up to a lounging alligator, laying with his mouth wide open as they do, and were taking pictures about 6 inches from his teeth. This gator had to be 6 feet long at least.

That tour was one of the most interesting tours I have ever been on.

Janis

 

[Wedgeh]

I agree, unbelievable! Just hope all of the animals are OK, it surely could be very serious if they accidentally eat any foreign object.

 

[moredisneyplease]

as a mother of two boys all i can say is "blame the parents!!!" would my kids do something like that, absolutely. would i ever ALLOW my kids to do something like that? HECK NO!!!! slacker parents with no respect for others (people or animals)

 

[ssawka]

Get their gun back? They should have been evicted from the resort!

 

[dianeschlicht]

Get their gun back? They should have been evicted from the resort!

That was my thought as well! Idiots!

 

[ShuisFan584]

Wow! I can't believe the parents didn't try to stop the kid from shooting his gun. I really hope none of the animals were hurt. This family should just be happy that they weren't thrown out.

 

[KPOP]

i guess i shouldn't be surprised...but I find this behavior completely unacceptable.
as an AKV owner, I would have liked to have seen this family evicted - (although I don't know if that is realistically possible)

 

[JimMIA]

LOL I went on the tram tour in the Everglades about 10 years ago. There was a group of tourists that went up to a lounging alligator, laying with his mouth wide open as they do, and were taking pictures about 6 inches from his teeth. This gator had to be 6 feet long at least.

That tour was one of the most interesting tours I have ever been on.

Janis

That's the Shark Valley Tram Tour and it is a great experience. 8-10 years ago I might have conducted your tour, because that was before I moved on to EMS there.

We've had numerous visitors actually touch alligators, truthfully not realizing they are real. If the alligator blinks or moves, they freak out.

 

[JimMIA]

Get their gun back? They should have been evicted from the resort!

I agree, but under Florida law that's pretty much impossible, no matter what the guest does.

And Disney, of course, is not going to run off a paying customer. They'll just sell the kid a new gun -- problem solved!

 

[SevenSeasLagoon5]

People never cease to amaze me. We were just at our local zoo this weekend, and in the Australia exhibit. In the first room, a man with his wife and kids started banging on the glass where a reptile was. I gave him a dirty look, but that was all. Then, we moved onto an area where there are wombats. This very large and adorable wombat was sleeping in an open pen. He was belly up. This man and his family came in. The father started poking the wombat with a long umbrella to try to wake him up!!!! I yelled at him (not normally something I would do), and then another man started yelling as well. I can't stop thinking about the fact that this guy did that! Unfortunately, there was not a zookeeper around to be found.

 

[ajf1007]

Get their gun back? They should have been evicted from the resort!

I COMPLETELY agree!!! That's just so ridiculous - it's really beyond words how people act. Unbelievable is all I can say to this story.

 

[lugnut33]

Atleast it wasn't a real gun!!

 

[Lynne M]

I could have sworn I read that a family was booted out of AKL in the middle of the night because the kids were out on the balcony with a slingshot, trying to hit the animals. Doesn't seem like much difference here. I wonder if there's some rider on the paperwork you sign at AKL/AKV that says you won't interfere with the animals.