NOT the best trip:( And I HATE the busses. Never again.

[johnGorski]

1st off Jesus has nothing to do with this as the OP stated "Jesus Chill out"

The nerve of the OP to tell people to Chill out! Well the point to take away from this DONT GO TO A PUBLIC PLACE WHEN YOU HAVE A CONTAGIOUS ILLNESS.


We where in Branson in the Fall of 2009, some moron was at our time share reception hour hacking all over the place and pale as a ghost. Guess what a few days later everyone in my party including me "Mom, Dad, Wife, Brother, Sis In Law" all got H1N1. I am almost certain it came from this moron at the reception hour hacking away touching everything.

Please think about how many other families trip you destroyed, now that would be rude IMHO! Your post just has me

I canceled a Vegas trip before because I was sick BTW

 

[Flamingomo]

Sounds like you are really upset you were caught in a lie...not a big deal why are you making it so. You knew you were all sick or getting sick...so what. You made the decision to go...accept the consequences which is a less than steller trip...

Not sure what I lied about?

 

[Suellen]

Nope, sorry. We got to the airport about 25 minutes prior to the flight. Luckily no one was in the check in line and since we got to use the stroller security line, that was fast. We pretty much ran and so we got to our gate 15minutes before our flight...like I said. I just happened to luck out with quick, short lines at the airport. If I hadn't, we would have missed the flight. Everyone knows you should be at the airport no less than 90 minutes before your flight for theses reasons and especially with the new security precautions they have in place. This was totoally our drivers fault. He even apologized for his being confused and not knowing where he was supposed to be and moving a little slow.

You must be a better at this than I am. Checking in with lap baby requires special paperwork which I know doesn't take long but does take time.

Getting everyone's shoes off, baby out of stroller, stroller folded down and through the security area easily (without waiting in line) THEN getting everyone dressed again on the other side takes me easily 10 minutes and I only have two kids.

Then the monorail thingie ride over to the terminal takes about 5 minutes of getting in and waiting for doors to close and to travel over.

I'm not saying you are lying... I'm saying there is no way I could do it in 10 minutes.... I don't think even if I was alone.

We've had our share of illnesses (hubby had h1n1 while at WDW and pneumonia and had to be taken to the clinic) I had DD#2 who vomited everything she ate until she was over a year old. So if we were going to a restaurant we'd feed her long before we went or after we left. Even though it wasn't illness related I'd be hard pressed to bring a vomiting child, baby, adult into a place where people are eating.

I'm sorry ~ someone should have taken baby back to room.

JMHO!

 

[plutoyensid]

Not sure what I lied about?

well then to clarify for you...

From trip report...

"And please stop saying I should not have even gone on this trip. NO ONE WAS SICK WHEN WE LEFT!!!!! NO ONE!!! How was I to know that my DH and my son were going to get it while we were there? I assumed that since my oldest was fine for a few days that we were in the clear. Was I supposed to cancel and lose all that money "just in case" we got sick? I mean really. You know none of you would have done that either. Don't judge me."

From you PTR...
"We leave sunday for our trip and my oldest son jsut came home from school throwing up Nurse said it has been going around which means my 6 year old will get it too and then probably the rest of us. My DH, baby and me are already sick with horrible colds. What am I going to do if one or more of us is sick when we need to get on that plane? I am so nervous right now that this will just ruin our trip. I don't even know what to do. We have MVMCP the day we get there too.

Hopefully no more"

I would think that was pretty clear cut no??? Not a big deal just saying.....

 

[RNBelle]

I was waiting to check in at a resort (we were switching resorts halfway through our trip) and I was vomiting. I had mastitis when my baby began sleeping through the night (I had it before so I knew what it was when I got it again). It was awful. I hid on a lounge chair away from the main crowd at the pool and I was throwing up in a plastic bag. I had people walk over and glare at me.

I wanted to just crawl into a room and hide from anyone, but needless to say- my room was ready in about 15 minutes after my family explained the situation. The resort desk did the best they could. I understood completely that I may have to wait until 3pm (or later) to get into my room.

It wasn't a good feeling.

I've been sick on vacation. I'm sorry you went through that. It wasn't fun for me, and I sure as heck wouldn't wish it on anyone else. I stayed in my room for 2days, and on the third was just a pool day. I'm surprised anyone felt up to exploring WDW.

 

[Flamingomo]

I was waiting to check in at a resort ( we were switching resorts halfway through our trip) and I was vomiting. I had mastitis when my baby began sleeping through the night (I had it before so I knew what it was when I got it again). It was awful. I hid in a corner of the pool and I was throwing up in a plastic bag. I had people walk over and glare at me.

I wanted to just crawl into a room and hide from anyone, but needless to say- my room was ready in about 15 minutes after my family explained the situation. The resort desk did the best they could. I understood completely that I may have to wait until 3pm (or later) to get into my room.

It wasn't a good feeling.

I've been sick on vacation. I'm sorry you went through that. It wasn't fun for me, and I sure as heck wouldn't wish it on anyone else. I stayed in my room for 2days, and on the third was just a pool day. I'm surprised anyone felt up to exploring WDW.

We all were fine when we were in the parks except for the last day. On the last day, my DH was just drained from being sick all night but started to feel better halfway through. My son got sick on the way to the party on the first night and we left. He spiked a fever, but never threw up or had any other symptoms. He was fine 12 hours later. My DH left the park on tuesday when he started to feel bad. Thank you for understanding and I am sorry you went through that too.

 

[Flamingomo]

well then to clarify for you...

From trip report...

"And please stop saying I should not have even gone on this trip. NO ONE WAS SICK WHEN WE LEFT!!!!! NO ONE!!! How was I to know that my DH and my son were going to get it while we were there? I assumed that since my oldest was fine for a few days that we were in the clear. Was I supposed to cancel and lose all that money "just in case" we got sick? I mean really. You know none of you would have done that either. Don't judge me."

From you PTR...
"We leave sunday for our trip and my oldest son jsut came home from school throwing up Nurse said it has been going around which means my 6 year old will get it too and then probably the rest of us. My DH, baby and me are already sick with horrible colds. What am I going to do if one or more of us is sick when we need to get on that plane? I am so nervous right now that this will just ruin our trip. I don't even know what to do. We have MVMCP the day we get there too.

Hopefully no more"

I would think that was pretty clear cut no??? Not a big deal just saying.....

AGAIN...I did not lie. No one was sick when we left. Why is that so hard to understand? I wrote that on the 30th. We left on the 5th. My son was sick that day and the day after and was fine for three days before we left. Not sure why you don't understand that? All of our colds had all but disappeared by then since we got meds, which I stated in a later post. I'm certainly not lying, I think you are having trouble reading. And don't even try to tell me that if you were all feeling well you would have cancelled your trip "just in case" anyone else got sick. That is a crock.

 

[RNBelle]

I was waiting to check in at a resort ( we were switching resorts halfway through our trip) and I was vomiting. I had mastitis when my baby began sleeping through the night (I had it before so I knew what it was when I got it again). It was awful. I hid in a corner of the pool and I was throwing up in a plastic bag. I had people walk over and glare at me.

I wanted to just crawl into a room and hide from anyone, but needless to say- my room was ready in about 15 minutes after my family explained the situation. The resort desk did the best they could. I understood completely that I may have to wait until 3pm (or later) to get into my room.

It wasn't a good feeling.

I've been sick on vacation. I'm sorry you went through that. It wasn't fun for me, and I sure as heck wouldn't wish it on anyone else. I stayed in my room for 2days, and on the third was just a pool day. I'm surprised anyone felt up to exploring WDW.

I should have said on a lounge chair away from the main crowd in the pool. The way I wrote it sounds like I was puking in the pool.

 

[Magic Mom]

AW! That poor baby had to sit through a loud buffet right after projectile vomiting in public? He must have been miserable. Hopefully that virus wasn't passed to any of the cast members or other guests. It would be terrible to make others sick.

 

[plutoyensid]

Believe it or not I have cancelled trips. I have a 2 year old and a 5 year old and when they are sick we don't go places. I would never take baby somewhere after they have thrown up twice...we would have split up. Don't tell me you couldn't do that because of the other kids...you just sound selfish.

And yes I can't read that is the problem....when you stated in your PTR that your son had thrown up before the trip and your baby, You and your DH had colds...yes I can see how I can't read and understand....

 

[Flamingomo]

AW! That poor baby had to sit through a loud buffet right after projectile vomiting in public? He must have been miserable. Hopefully that virus wasn't passed to any of the cast members or other guests. It would be terrible to make others sick.

He wasn't miserable, that is why we decided to still go. he was acting fine. I'm not sure if it was the same thing or just a fluke. He had jsut eaten his bottle and baby food and we were moving him around quite a bit and were on the bus, so who knows. He never got a fever and had no other symptoms. He was absolutely fine at dinner and happy when the characters showed up too. He was nowhere near the food at all and he was on the opposite side of the table away from the table next to ours just in case.

"And yes I can't read that is the problem....when you stated in your PTR that your son had thrown up before the trip and your baby, You and your DH had colds...yes I can see how I can't read and understand...."

BEFORE the trip. 6 days before the trip. On November 30th in the morning he threw up, not after that. We left on December 5th. Not sure why you can't figure out that was not when we left even though I have said it over and over. He was not sick when we left. NO ONE WAS!!! Not when we left or for a few days prior. The colds were gone when we left also because we got meds. No one would cancel a trip because they had a cold. If any of us were sick the day we left, we would not have gone. What are you not getting? You are only seeing what you want to to cause an uproar here. You refuse to believe that we were all fine when we left and for days before we left. I did not lie. I am not selfish. I do everything I do for my kids. You are being a moron. You are just a lurker here with your 9 posts, so I am assuming you have nothing better to do than be rude to people.

 

[Mkrop]

So your kids vomited all over the buses on several occassions, if I read that correctly, and the bus drivers were GREAT about it but your big complaint about the trip was how awful the buses were? I don't get it.

I'm sorry they all got sick on the trip, that sucks. But honestly, I think your viewpoint of what happened was distorted by the fact that you were also getting sick. It doesn't really sound like anything actually went wrong. Disney upheld their end of the bargain every time but the one extremely late bus (and one late bus over an entire week is actually pretty good. I promised myself, personally, I wouldn't complain about buses unless we had three or more major issues)--and honestly, if you had to wait an hour and 15 minutes and got there at 11, that means you didn't even hit the bus stop until 9:45... if you were serious about getting on TSM without a line, shouldn't you have been out there at 8? Just saying...

Yeah this part sounded goofy.


OP I am going to say this WORDS MEAN THINGS, so when you describe yourself as livid, when you dont get your room, even though it clearly says everywhere you read that rooms are not ready until 3. That is pretty standard practice in most hotels. I dont care if you were lucky every single time, there is no gurarantee.

WORDS MEAN THINGS, when you first describe a baby projectile vomiting, and that SEVERAL other family members had been ill with stomach or fever issues, why dont you think people would assume the baby was just as sick and tell you not to take a sick baby to CM.

WORDS MEAN THINGS, if you had expressed your disappointment with spending so much for CM when everyone's appetite was not up to par then people would be sympathetic, but instead you expressed anger and blamed Disney for their pricing.

I am sorry you had sick family members, been there done that, it isnt fun. DH had to stay in the room on our summer trip to Vegas he was so sick, I took the boys out in hopes the rest of us did not catch it and to make some fun for them. So I know a sickness can be a bummer on vacation.

Also the buses can run poorly, the monorails were having major problems when we were there. We were at BLT so this was a pain. One morning the monorail was not running and the bus for AK could not pull up bc of all the buses to the TTC, resorts and MK that had to come.

My DS7 threw up this last trip as well at 4:30am, we slept in and waited quite awhile to see if he was ok, we did determine it was eating a brownie at 10:30 (thanks DH LOL) vs a bug.

So we all have hiccups in our trips, some bigger than others, to me it is the way life goes sometimes.

I think you should reread your OP and realize that your WORDS, set the tone for this thread, and it is why many people are responding this way.

 

[WDWisTheBest]

Gotta love this thread. We are approaching 7,000 views and soon we will be at 125 posts. Right on.

Love those buses.

 

[roomthreeseventeen]

Next time, leave the sick kids at home or re-schedule.

Also, you waited more than an hour for a bus? That's your own issue. If I wait more than 20 minutes for a bus, I just get on the next one that comes. Flexibility is awesome.

 

[Magic Mom]

He wasn't miserable, that is why we decided to still go. he was acting fine. I'm not sure if it was the same thing or just a fluke. He had jsut eaten his bottle and baby food and we were moving him around quite a bit and were on the bus, so who knows. He never got a fever and had no other symptoms. He was absolutely fine at dinner and happy when the characters showed up too. He was nowhere near the food at all and he was on the opposite side of the table away from the table next to ours just in case.
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Then why did you include it in the reason everything was so horrible? If he just randomly projectile vomited all over the bus and then randomly vomited again, but felt perfectly fine and had a wonderful time, why mention it? Either he was sick or he wasn't.

I still hope that no on else got the nasty virus all of you seemingly (by your post) had.

 

[roomthreeseventeen]

I still hope that no on else got the nasty virus all of you seemingly (by your post) had.

Yeah, I keep reading on the Theme Park board about people who are getting sick in Orlando, and you wonder why, and then you read about families who travel sick to MCO/WDW. :/

 

[DWGal210]

Mkrop, what you said was spot-on. OP, I'm sure you're a nice, good person but you're coming across as verrrrry defensive & angry. I'm sorry that we're not giving you the responses you want to hear - but that's part of posting on a board like this.

 

[DWGal210]

And really - calling posters "morons" and saying "I think you are having trouble reading" isn't helping your cause.

 

[johnGorski]

OP is clueless on how the real world works thats it! Then to call people rude ect. well thats just being selfish.

Its already been proven that you are streching the truth on this, why are you still arguing your points?

I thinks its time to find another vacation spot and move on.

 

[bumbershoot]

SO true!! I cannot tell you how many obviously sick people were walking around the parks, coughing all over the place...When I am sick, I STAY HOME!!

I was someone coughing. But I didn't know I was sick. I'd been out in the cold, and on our last universal day DS made me (OK he didn't MAKE me) with him on Flight of the Hippogrif 14 times in a row. That was the 13th, one of the coldest days. I got hoarse a few days after that, but I just thought it was the cold air and the wind.

OK so NOW I am sick; got sicker and sicker while I was on the airplane (ugh). Until then I thought it was just the cold air and my sensitive body. I still have no voice. We got home on the 17th.

Sometimes you just don't know. Vomiting isn't one of those those situations for me, but coughing is (coughing also goes along with asthma for me, and I get asthma when I'm outside in the cold as well).

Magical Express told us to be downstairs at 9:30am for our 12:05 flight.

If ME told you this, it's stunningly wrong. I'd get the paperwork where this was stated and take it up as far as you can go.

We ended up renting a car, but we were set up for ME. On my paperwork that was there the day before we left... for a 6:15pm flight, Pick-up Time was 3:05pm.

Further.... "Your motorcoach pickup time should be approximately 3 hours prior to your flight departure time..."

Further... "The motorcoaches make multiple stops and must depart the resort promptly so please arrive at least fifteen minutes prior to your pick-up time."

All but our names, flight info, and actual pick-up time, it's all boilerplate, just standard normal stuff. If your paperwork had different info on it, take it all the way!

All of our colds had all but disappeared by then since we got meds....

Oh Flaming....no no no. When you suppress the symptoms of illness, you're not WELL. You're just suppressed. Never ever go by "well I don't FEEL ill" as indication that you are well, if you have taken drugs. Same for a fever. The fever is finished when IT says it's finished; don't go by how long without the fever you've been, if you have taken drugs to suppress your body's responses.

You almost certainly were sick when you got on that plane. Even though you weren't aware of it. Your body was still fighting it off. As they say, you can not take drugs and have a cold for 7 days, or take drugs and have a cold for a week.

October of 2009 we learned our lesson BIG time. My son had been sick. We don't do the drug thing, maybe some homeopathy (but not generally for colds, as it doesn't do much, just like nothing actually does much for colds, they just take their course and you can be aware that you're sick or drug yourself up to forget), so we knew he was sick and knew when he started getting better. He was *basically* better when we went to DLR. But run down, definitely. Tired.

A few days into the trip he slipped while in line and caught his mouth on a line chain. And then started getting slammed. When we got back home, I took him to his ND who did the tests, and the results were a VERY high reading of strep. He was nasty-sick (which is why I took him in, I very very rarely, that was actually the first time he's seen a doc when *sick*, take him into see anyone other than our chiro), just awful.

His system was worn down by the cold he had. He was basically OK, and if we'd stayed home he would have healed up just fine. Instead we stupidly took him on vacation, and he encountered another bug and got hit HARD by it. Ended up so much sicker than he would have been.

You guys were primed by those colds to get hit HARD by what your first throwing-up son had. You just didn't realize it because someone told you that feeling better after taking drugs means you ARE better.

Now you, just like my family, know better! Get the changeable tickets in the future, figure out a date to reschedule, call, explain that you're sick, and Disney will almost certainly reschedule you without much of a fee. SO much better than torturing yourselves and others nearby.



For the record, I'm sorry for everyone on that plane that I didn't realize I was actually ill until we were well into the air. I'll put more slush fund into our budget in the future! (though what that would have done for us when we were on a non-stop flight I don't know, but I'll pay more attention to myself as well)