Well, I just told my cousin's wife about this. She was in tears. This poor girl has her 10 day Disney vacation planned from Dec 4th to Dec 14th. She's staying at Riverside.
She can't afford to stay at a deluxe. Her flight tickets are non-refundable. She's taking her kids without her husband (he's overseas in the military).
My cousin's wife told me she's probably going to switch to Pop Century. She feels that if she's going to be stuck with the Pop Warner kids she might as well spend less money on a resort. She was really looking forward to Riverside, but like she said, she probably can't enjoy Riverside with swarms of kids in the food court, at the pools, etc. She was just so upset.
We had originally planned to go from Dec 6th, but change to arrive on Dec 11th due to Pop Warner.
I will never forget how terrible it was when we went to a family event in Maryland. The entire town was sold out of hotels. We stayed in a suite at Hampton Inn... and were stuck on a floor with a bunch of rowdy, vulgar, loud, rude preteen and teenagers there for a baseball tournament. They called our telephone over and over, banged on our door, threw balls against the walls, played loud music, ran up and down the halls screaming, slammed doors, etc. right until around 3am. We had to be at a family event at 10am. It was just awful. Then we had to put up with it again the following night. The staff did nothing. They did give me my money back though after I complained over and over again. My husband tried to talk to the parents, but was threatened with bodily harm for even complaining.
I'm not saying that Pop Warner kids will act like these baseball kids in Maryland did, but if I'm going to spend thousands of dollars on a Disney vacation I certainly don't want to take that chance.
Mean for me to say, but I arrive on the 11th. I'm hoping a majority of them leave on the 12th.
I feel so badly for my cousin's wife. We was just so upset.
Thanks for telling us about what's going on though. That really helped.
