I'm waiting until a couple days before my intended date to buy our tickets so I can be fairly sure we'll get decent weather. If it's rainy, I have a backup date in mind. I'm not even telling the kids we're going until then. But I'm fairly local so this is easy for me to do.
Last year was going to be a very busy one for my family so we decided to skip buying APs that year. I really missed Disney and was sad that I would not get to take my traditional birthday trip in December. I decided to take the kids to a
MNSSHP in September to get a little taste of Disney.
The weather was horrible. Rain, rain, rain. Of course I didn't blame Disney for the rain, but what was bad was the lack of organization. NOTHING happened on schedule but none of the CMs had any idea what was going on. We waited for a parade that never happened (well, it happened, long after we gave up and left), as well as the Hocus Pocus show and the fireworks. At least for the fireworks they made announcements regarding the postponement so we didn't stand there waiting for long, and then gave another announcement later with a ten-minute warning that fireworks would be beginning soon, so everyone could rush to get back into fireworks-viewing position.
Even worse than CMs having no information was when they gave wrong information. At midnight, when the final Hocus Pocus show was supposed to start, I asked a CM if it was still going to occur and was told that it had been cancelled, so we left, only to hear later that it did go on around 12:30. We would have stayed had we known. Anyway, we missed Hocus Pocus, the parade, plus a lot of characters who were not out due to the rain. We never could find the Cadaver Dans where they were supposed to be. We did get to see the fireworks, and we saw Madame Carlotta, and we got some candy, and we rode some rides, and we enjoyed seeing people's costumes. We actually did have a really good time, it just wasn't what I was expecting, as we missed so many of the party events.
I had never before felt the need to write a letter to Disney--I'd never had much of anything to complain about--but I wrote in about this. I was not trying to get compensation, I just wanted to offer some constructive criticism. I think they could have handled the rain much better if they'd made announcements like they did about the fireworks, so guests could know when things were being postponed, and when they were about the occur. So I pretty much said what I've stated in this post. I received an apologetic email along with 1-day passes for my entire family, even for my husband who did not attend the party with us. I thought that was very nice of them, and I got to spend my birthday at Disney after all!
But this year I want the chance to experience the full party, haha! I want to see those Cadaver Dans!
