Orlando Smackdown: Dis vs. Uni. Ch.16 Japan Hates me, Just Hates me 7-13

Ok guys, I need more help. We spend a combined 4 hours on the phone with disney today in regards to a Pin code they (apparently erroneously) sent me today. We spoke to 3 different CMs and 2 levels of supervisors with an ultimate resolution of us getting 10% room only discount. (a savings of $100)

While that seems nice, by the time we were through with the phone calls I was pretty upset. I've never, ever been "mad" at Disney, but today they really hurt my feelings. I called them because they sent me a code whether it was sent in error or not. By the time we got off the phone we had been made to feel like we were the disney version of 'extreme couponers', and the type of people who would do anything to get a few bucks off our trip. Being that we've never booked with any kind of special rate or pin code before, we do the most expensive package at BBB every year, and we love DxDP, I obviously feel that's not true. I feel like I've been quite happy to part with my money at Disney, and I hope that's not going to change.

My question is this Neboites (and Marita in particular if you don't mind)-what do I do now? Do I email or call Customer Service to explain that this happened to me? (and of course risk being treated again as a couponer) Or, do I let this go and hope that the memory has faded by the time we go on this trip?

Well, I'm not Marita, but I would let it go. You can't change their minds. They are wrong about you and your spending habits at WDW. Honestly, I'm surprised that they don't have access to your prior vacation files to see your spending patterns. Yes, they should have treated you with respect, but sometimes you have to be the bigger person. :hug:
 
I appreciate your feedback Marie. I just got my feelings hurt, and I shouldn't have let it go that far.

I'm actually on the phone now trying to switch to a more expensive resort. :lmao: Not going to let it dampen our excitement over another WDW trip!
 
My question is this Neboites (and Marita in particular if you don't mind)-what do I do now? Do I email or call Customer Service to explain that this happened to me? (and of course risk being treated again as a couponer) Or, do I let this go and hope that the memory has faded by the time we go on this trip?

So sorry, Shan, but I have absolutely nothing to do with booking, so I have no insight at all. Sorry really. Hope you get it sorted out.
 
YAY, Nebo's back!

And you know, brushing your tooth really goes well with combing you hair.

Maybe all the lizzards were hibernating, did you think of that? November is cold after all. Come to think of it, I havent seen any for months around my house despite the nice weather.

Hmmmm ...............
 

Thanks Marita, sorry to have asked you to bring your work home.:hug:

I was thinking that maybe Nebo's reputation for falling down had preceded him and the lizards had been hiding from him?
 
You know, when I got up this morning

You got up this morning, that's a good thing right?

and after I got done brushing my tooth, I realized this report is in trouble;

Uh oh. What did the report break now? Bad report, bad report.

I don't want it to slip into the next trip, so I need to get this one in the fast lane.

Life in the fast lane,
surely make you lose your mind.

"Yes officer cast member,,, I was the the one,, take me away,,,I will serve my time now."

What was your sentence, life at WDW?

One problem,,,we aren't done yet!

You could wrap it up now and be done with it. Uni WINS! :dance3:

Whats that mob of people heading this way, and why do they have torches?

I believe we are at Universal 9,,,,Disney 5.

And I believe, when life gives you lemons, you find someone who's life has given them vodka and have a party (Ron "Tater Salad" White)

From Sue's Land we walked on back to the resort.

See, if you would've bought a wand from WWoHP, you could've just apparated back to the resort.

We finished the Good Doctor,,,

Is that some kind of concoction we missed? I looked at drinksmixer .com and couldn't come up with a recipe for that one.

saw what we wanted at Hogwarts

You saw what you wanted to? Now I'm a little confused because at first you said you couldn't see anything. So which is it?


Here's a little song I wrote, you might want to sing it note for note, so don't worry, be happy. When you worry your face will frown, and that will bring everybody down, so don't worry, be happy. Don't worry be happy.

Don't cha want to know why?

Not if it's going to make me sad to.

So far,, I have seen ONE stinkin lizard this whole trip!

I would be sad too if it was stinky. I would prefer to see one that's not stinky.

I WANT LIZARDS! I want gators,,, I want snakes,,,,

Lizards, gators and snakes, oh my. Lizards, gators and snakes, oh my.


"And please don't say Coppertone, I have my reasons for that."

Ponzi, please don't do what I think you're going to do.

give me a beer, and there's reason to cheer,,

Give me a beer and I'll cheer with you.

Hello? Hello? Anybody still there?

Well I am, but you may have scared off Lady H. You just struck on one of her biggest fears. Now I may never get her to go back to Orlando.

We were changed

Changing again? To who this time?

Getting in to see Harry early really helped out the pool time.

Oh I get it now, Harry changed each of you and sent you to the pool. Got it.

A cool thing by the Royal Pacific pool is that there are stations set up around that contain large urns of ice water with lemons and oranges in them, free for the taking.

You should've told me. I would have went and got one. I could use a station like that at my house.

But first, we are going to take a slight commercial break,,,

I hate commercials.

I think I moved that last chapter too quickly for the pics to keep up, so let's go back to Seuss land for a minute: I took the pictures, I uploaded them, and by golly you are going to see them!

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Ok, I'm a little confused here again. Did they move Hulk from Seuss Land to Marvel Land before we got there? Cuz it was in Marvel Land when we went.

Ok,,, I'm on a roll,,,

You're supposed to eat rolls, not be on them.

let's finish this part up,,,,

This part? You mean there's more?

Relaxing in our loungers was nice,,,, bright clear sky, lower seventies,,,, not many kids in the pool,,,
yet.

Then the Darlings moved in by us.

Wow, you even know their last name.

Two families,,,, about 4or5kids total,,,and two women that didn't know how to laugh.

Well I'm sure they know how to laugh, but how they laugh is a different story. Which I'm sure you're going to tell us. Otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned it.

The bar was just opening,,,, that's where the husbands went to sit,

Smart husbands.

a couple of the kids went in the water.

Ok, lets do the math. 4 or 5. For this instance, lets say there were 5. A couple (generally meaning 2) went into the water. That leaves 3. This isn't looking good for Nebo.

No, not a laugh, not a chuckle or a chortle or even a guffaw,,,, this was a full, Wicked Witch of the West, cackle!

I'll get you my pretty, and your little Nebo to.

Then I got spritzed again, but no cackle this time,,, and I'm looking for low flying sea gulls,,, but no,,, it's just water hitting me.

Well thankfully it wasn't sea gulls, or any other type of bird for that matter. Or should I say, bird matter.


No, this will not do.

Dum, du dum.
Dum, du dum dummmmmmmmmmmmm.

This time when pool kid wound up to throw the "sponge" to mommy,,,who is already cackling in anticipation of missing it again,,,,I simply stood up from my lounger with a leg on each side, intercepted it about head high and yelled out "confiscated!"

Man, for a guy that can't see, you sure can see well enough to still catch things out of mid air.

I then sat back down and put the nerf ball under my lounger.

Did Smidgy see you do this? I wonder what she was thinking. Oh great, now I have to fight two witches for their Hansel and Gretel's stupid foozball.

I had kind of planned on yelling out like a football announcer,,,It's intercepted!, but instead "confiscated" is what came out.
:lmao:

The third planet from the sun stopped dead in it's orbit.
Australians and Chinese flew off into space.
I'm sorry,, "Frew" off into space.

Kids stopped yelling and playing in the pool.
No more cackling.
The crickets stopped cricking.
The loudpeakers and canned music went quiet, the breeze stopped blowing and the sun went behind a cloud.

I could sense the change, and it wasn't going to be good, they were all ready to turn on me.

I saw that movie, didn't end very well.

I had to do something, and right now,,, and apologizing to the Cackler was not an option in my mind,,,, but I need to look cool in the outcome as well,,,,I grabbed the ball underneath me,,, stood up and yelled into the pool for the kid to "go deep", and threw it well out there, everything was then back to fine in the world. We started to orbit again,,life went back to normal,,, well, except for those Chinese,,, And they didn't throw it over me anymore.

Oh man. Not the ending I expected. I thought the husbands were going to get off the bar stools, come over and you were going to toss them into the pool with their kids.

A quick change,

Harry's spell wore off huh.

a cocktail in the room and one for the walk and we were heading on back to Islands.

Naturally.

It gets dark early this time of year,, and I'm thinking of trying Forbidden Journey tonight before closing.
yeah,,FJ at night,,, I can't wait!

Maybe you'll get to see this time.

Thanks for the chapter Nebo.
 
funny chapter, honey!!!:rotfl2:

I gotta add the cackler, couldn't decide where she wanted to sit, so she kinda commandered 3 loungers. one behind us, one next to us, and one she turned sideways in the aisle between the 2 rows of loungers. and she kept moving from one to the other to the other.

it was kinda eerie. you never knew from which direction the cackle was going to come from. if you lied there with your eyes closed, it was behind you.. no next to you, no...I kept expection to open my eyes and have her standing right over be, cackling in my facing looking like Kathy Bates in Misery.

ya know, we sure run into irritating people at the pools..;) I think all people should go back to their room for an hour or so if Nebo and smidgy get there first, don't you? :snooty:
 
The bar was just opening,,,, that's where the husbands went to sit, but

....... Ten minutes later and I was willing to give them a twenty to go and join their husbands.


...... No, not a laugh, not a chuckle or a chortle or even a guffaw,,,, this was a full, Wicked Witch of the West, cackle!

, I can't wait!

Oh you poor sweet thing! Don't you see your mistake? You should have taken the 20 and yourself over to the bar with the husbands and gotten the story straight from whichever one was married to Hepsibah about how in God's name he ended up hitched to her without knowing the heart-stopping nature of her so-called laugh?
 
Sorry didnt get to read the chapter sorry a little busy.... But about to board a space cruiser and kick some more DH booty!
 
and Chinese flew off into space.
I'm sorry,, "Frew" off into space.

OK, move over all you folks in the handbasket, that one cracked me up.

Also had to laugh about the lizards - we were at the World from 1/22 - 1/29 (POR and Yacht Club) and the first few days it was kind of chilly, like low to mid 60's. No lizards! I looked everywhere for them - I paid my fee, I want me some lizards! But then it warmed up and they all came back out again and all was right with the world.

As for the PIN code, I've never gotten one, even one where they took it back (can't you say to the CM "no takesies backsies? That would work on me, but then, I'm nice that way) so I don't have anything to offer. But yeah, I would be ticked off. Royally ticked off, since it's Disney.
 
Oh I'd fight for that code with everything I got!


One thing I have noticed is the water. Tastes great in HS and EPcot but the change hasn't reached MK yet.

Heading back for some pool time! Taking Smidgy's advice.
 
I appreciate your feedback Marie. I just got my feelings hurt, and I shouldn't have let it go that far.

I'm actually on the phone now trying to switch to a more expensive resort. :lmao: Not going to let it dampen our excitement over another WDW trip!

Shan, I would ABSOLUTELY send an email/fax to Disney customer service. CM's and their managers are frontline employees, which means they are to do everything they can to protect the companies interest and maintain good customer relations. The code was probably sent to you in error as they said or misprinted or something like that, however that is not your fault as the consumer. But, as the frontline, they are supposed to try and "fix" the mistake. It's a tough position to be in for them, but that still doesn't change the fact that you were solicited by Disney with a promise and Disney needs to honor it. I would contact customer service as they may have a little more leeway and it probably would not hurt their metrics one way or another to honor your code, where there may be backstage metrics we don't know about preventing the CM's from giving it to you. I hope you get it:goodvibes I am sorry you had to go through this. Good for you for moving forward and not letting anything, including Disney, to get in your way of a wonderful time at Disney World:thumbsup2
 
Oh Buzz, Capn' Buzzette is the cutest pirate I've seen! She is adorable!
Jill in CO

Buzz, what a cutie! Thanks for the pic!

Buzz,
Your daughter is so cute !

Thanks you guys! I thought it might give everyone a smile! She's getting so interactive now. And after all, she is a TR baby! ;)

What a cutie Buzz. She is adorable. Where's her sword? All pirates need a sword. :laughing:

T-Man, I bet it wouldn't surprise you one bit to know that we have one or two of those pirate swords lying around, with the ball and chain thrown in as well. When I say I support Marita with her retirement, it's not just in resort stays and park tickets. Those after ride gift shops are a huge magnet for the kiddos! :sad2:

Buzz, your DD is just adorable!

Meanwhile, I caved last night and said DD could get a puppy, she finally wore me down. So now I sit here waiting to see if they come home with one. Hopefully it will be for a short time as she is planning on moving out soon, but I will probably end up with lots of chewed up stuff and messes :headache::headache: Why oh why did I cave??

Thanks Marita! By your later post, maybe the search for the perfect dog will take a while......you can hope, right?

aarrrrrrrrrr....

No wait, that should be: aaaawwwwww....

Terrific pic!

I like the arrrrrr! Sometimes there's a wail/scream thrown in there for dramatic good measure as well. ;)

Thanks everyone for keeping this flowing,,,,and what a picture Buzz,,,,I'm going to go see if i can find my groove back.
groovy

Nebo, I hope you and Smidgy are able to meet her in person sometime within the next little while. She sure is generous with her smiles and grins! If I may be so bold, DD's pirate picture is much easier on the eyes than Spike Nebo, cow Nebo, Swiss Miss Nebo, or Coppertone Nebo! :rotfl2:

BUZZ! your little buzzette is just the CUTEST thing!!!! I can amost smell that baby smell from here!!!:cloud9:

I wish I could bottle it and send it to you Smidgy! I have the lavender baby shampoo and coupled with the new baby smell, I could sniff her all day long! ;)
 
We are what... 2 days and 4 chapters in... and there has been NO fuzzy cups yet?! Were you alright?!
ALSO- I heard today on the news that there is a shortage of Whiskey... apparently it's a worldwide thing. Maker's Mark has said that they are going to start adding more water to their batches... and in return that would lower the alcohol content by about 6.6%.
They can't make more to sell... because what they are selling now, has been aging for 6 years... so they can't make more now.
Anyway... was wondering if anyone on here drank whiskey and had heard that.:scared1:
 
You got up this morning, that's a good thing right?

well no, necesarillly,,,,,








Life in the fast lane,
surely make you lose your mind.

No, that song did'nt do it for me either..

What was your sentence, life at WDW?

Which SENTANCE are you reeferring to,,,oh,,, wait,, did I just type reefer?,, Oh look,, there's that critter ,, um,, the one with the big bushy tail,,,,uh,,, what's it's name,, Oh,,, Chipmonk,,,,,now,,,,what were we talking about?

You could wrap it up now and be done with it. Uni WINS! :dance3:

Whats that mob of people heading this way, and why do they have torches?

No kidding,, be carefull of guilt by association

And I believe, when life gives you lemons, you find someone who's life has given them vodka and have a party (Ron "Tater Salad" White)

I'm still waiting for is kid to take over,, Tater Tot.

See, if you would've bought a wand from WWoHP, you could've just apparated back to the resort.

Ok,, but can I asperate? I'm doing that just fine lately.







Here's a little song I wrote, you might want to sing it note for note, so don't worry, be happy. When you worry your face will frown, and that will bring everybody down, so don't worry, be happy. Don't worry be happy.

You know,,, when my co-worker at the bench next to me kept playing that song every day,,, I had no choice but
to kill him,,,,
please don't make me come down there!



Well I am, but you may have scared off Lady H. You just struck on one of her biggest fears. Now I may never get her to go back to Orlando.



Don'[t worry Mike,,, she rarely comes over here.
Ok, lets do the math. 4 or 5. For this instance, lets say there were 5. A couple (generally meaning 2) went into the water. That leaves 3. This isn't looking good for Nebo.

No, it's not.

I'll get you my pretty, and your little Nebo to.



Well thankfully it wasn't sea gulls, or any other type of bird for that matter. Or should I say, bird matter.


Wow,, a clever play on words,,, well done!

Dum, du dum.
Dum, du dum dummmmmmmmmmmmm.



Man, for a guy that can't see, you sure can see well enough to still catch things out of mid air.

It's a reflex issue,,, back in the day,, I was either, a wide receiver,,, a third baseman,,,, or a GOALIE!,,,and i have the lack of teeth to prove it!

Did Smidgy see you do this? I wonder what she was thinking. Oh great, now I have to fight two witches for their Hansel and Gretel's stupid foozball.


You know,,, I don't know if she did or not,,, but probably not,,, I didn't talk to her,,,and she wasn't in the line of fire like I was.


Oh man. Not the ending I expected. I thought the husbands were going to get off the bar stools, come over and you were going to toss them into the pool with their kids.



Hmm,, you know, it never ocurred to me to go and escape the cackler by joining the husbands at the bar.






Thanks for the chapter Nebo.

funny chapter, honey!!!:rotfl2:

I gotta add the cackler, couldn't decide where she wanted to sit, so she kinda commandered 3 loungers. one behind us, one next to us, and one she turned sideways in the aisle between the 2 rows of loungers. and she kept moving from one to the other to the other.

it was kinda eerie. you never knew from which direction the cackle was going to come from. if you lied there with your eyes closed, it was behind you.. no next to you, no...I kept expection to open my eyes and have her standing right over be, cackling in my facing looking like Kathy Bates in Misery.

ya know, we sure run into irritating people at the pools..;) I think all people should go back to their room for an hour or so if Nebo and smidgy get there first, don't you? :snooty:

Great post dear,,, and I agree heartilly with the new pool rules. Will they be in effect for our next trip?

Oh you poor sweet thing! Don't you see your mistake? You should have taken the 20 and yourself over to the bar with the husbands and gotten the story straight from whichever one was married to Hepsibah about how in God's name he ended up hitched to her without knowing the heart-stopping nature of her so-called laugh?


Well put Sam-Y-Am,,,,again,,, I never thought of joining them at the bar,,,not that I would look down on somebody drinking that early in the day,,,,

OK, move over all you folks in the handbasket, that one cracked me up.

great,,, I try to be as witty as possible and still be readable,,,, but it's a Chinese accent takeoff that cracks heer up..

Also had to laugh about the lizards - we were at the World from 1/22 - 1/29 (POR and Yacht Club) and the first few days it was kind of chilly, like low to mid 60's. No lizards! I looked everywhere for them - I paid my fee, I want me some lizards!

See?? YEs,,, you DO understand about the lizards.

"tell me about the lizards again, George,,,Please?"


But then it warmed up and they all came back out again and all was right with the world.

Yep,,,, there ya go!

As for the PIN code, I've never gotten one, even one where they took it back (can't you say to the CM "no takesies backsies? That would work on me, but then, I'm nice that way) so I don't have anything to offer. But yeah, I would be ticked off. Royally ticked off, since it's Disney.

Shan, I would ABSOLUTELY send an email/fax to Disney customer service. CM's and their managers are frontline employees, which means they are to do everything they can to protect the companies interest and maintain good customer relations. The code was probably sent to you in error as they said or misprinted or something like that, however that is not your fault as the consumer. But, as the frontline, they are supposed to try and "fix" the mistake. It's a tough position to be in for them, but that still doesn't change the fact that you were solicited by Disney with a promise and Disney needs to honor it. I would contact customer service as they may have a little more leeway and it probably would not hurt their metrics one way or another to honor your code, where there may be backstage metrics we don't know about preventing the CM's from giving it to you. I hope you get it:goodvibes I am sorry you had to go through this. Good for you for moving forward and not letting anything, including Disney, to get in your way of a wonderful time at Disney World:thumbsup2

Wow, very well worded,,,you're half smart, arent' you?
 
Hi, Nebo--one of your most loyal lurkers here. Glad you are feeling better and back to the report! I had to emerge from the shadows because your comment about grits brought back one of my favorite quotes:
"Grits is just a vehicle for whatever it is you rather be eatin'" (From "The Help")

...as far as the lizards and snakes go, I have nothing to say. And I now have the heebie jeebies.

Ok,, hey new person,,, glad to have you if you want to be had,,,,and for the heebie jeebies,,, guess my work here is done!
 
Well I am, but you may have scared off Lady H. You just struck on one of her biggest fears. Now I may never get her to go back to Orlando.

Don'[t worry Mike,,, she rarely comes over here.

do too! Don't think you can count me out just yet buddy! I'm here multiple times a day...I've just been slacking on the comments :worried:. I've been a little tied up trying to remember what i forgot for our TR and not doing a very good job at it by the way...and when I finally get over here and am ready to break things down...I've been beaten to the punch. :headache: I'll do better!
 
"tell me about the lizards again, George,,,Please?"

"I will hug him and squeeze him and pet him and pat him" sez Abominable...

I admit, I am also a lizard-at-WDW-picture-taker, even though they flourish in our own back yard. We only found one on the January trip, on the one day that was pool worthy (as opposed to the earlier days, that were earmuff/ glove/ hoodie worthy).
 
once we were at a Walgreens in florida (and I do believe we have visited more Walgreens than we have amusement parks..:rotfl:) um this one was on apopka/vineland road, north of buena Vista drive, we were in search of some sort of sling for Nebo's shoulder/neck, which was killing him. ......( now, which trip was that, I know nebo was wearing that sling at Gatorland?)

anyhoo, I saw the first lizard of our trip! and I reached down to grab it. ... and got it's tail. and it ran off, and I had the tail in my hand..... I felt so bad...:rolleyes1
 
just wanted to add that our grandson, travis,a senior, just made "state" in the wrestling tournament, with a record of 38 - 7. he competes in the state tournament next weekend.

his twin brother Dylan has won many medals in tennis, and is looking forward to his season coming up!!!
 





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