... I am there to see AND HEAR the ride, and take in the atmosphere. A bunch of people singing would ruin the experience for me, as I would fixate on how annoyed I am and how inconsiderate I feel it is for them to assume the other people want to hear them singing. I would be unable to enjoy the ride as I sat there, fuming. That's just me.
I get hotheaded when I feel people are being inconsiderate
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I am totally with you on this. I'd be so busy fuming I'd miss the ride.
I find that very inconsiderate, even if you were in a boat near mine and not even my own. If you really sang the whole time I'd have no problem asking you to stop and if you didn't, I'd complain to a CM at the end to see if I could ride again.
I'd ask them to stop as well, if they were at all approachable. I really don't appreciate amateur group singing; I avoid karaoke at all costs for just this reason. I sure didn't pay Disney prices to hear it there!!!
I don't care what people do so long as it doesn't detract from the experience of others. Singing detracts from the experience of others....
That really is what it is all about, isn't it?
It would bug me, too. BUT.....it would be so much better than my last experience on POTC when the guy behind us was trying to "save" the entire boat. He quoted scripture the ENTIRE ride. Wow.
I would have flipped out. Would have insisted he stop AND would have reported him to a CM. That is horrible!!!
...Your experience is no more important than mine.
Relax and dont look for things to be mad about.
That statement is as rude as singing on the ride!!! We aren't looking for things to get mad about. We're irritated by others distracting from our enjoying the ride the way it was INTENDED to be enjoyed!
Do I enjoy squaling babies?
Crying children?
Chatty people?
Pukers?
People eating things that stink the whole place up?
People who hold the bar and in doing so pull my hair the entire ride?
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You must realize that other than chatty folks and eaters, those are things people don't have control over so there is no comparison there! As for your hair, why don't you say something? I'd never just sit there while someone pulled my hair. I constantly have to say to people behind me, "Um, I'm sorry, I think you've got a bit of my hair there." They let go, I move my hair into my own area and that's that.
...Follow the rules of movie theater, and you will be a considerate soul!
YES YES YES
...I wish you would save it for a sing along during the car ride home or something and just let people enjoy the regular audio on a ride.
Very well said!
So I have to ask, because I am honestly curious. Is it just someone signing a few bars to a song in the ride, or does it bother when people vocalize anything during the ride?
If I can hear and make out what they say, they are being too loud and that is rude.
My opinion is, if they can sing well, more power to them. If they sound like a asthmatic cat rolling around in a dryer, they ought to know to keep their volume at a minimum.
I won't shoosh anybody though.
but I disagree. I don't care if they sound like the next Etta James, keep it to yourself!! My exception to this is special needs adults and children. I know, I'm a big hypocrite!
... People are having fun, that's what DL is supposed to be about.......
Yes, EVERYONE is supposed to have fun, not just the singers. I'm surprised more people don't understand how irritating and rude it is.
The way I see it, is we all work hard for our beloved
Disney vacations and we all deserve to have fun. It should not effect your level of fun by simply enjoying the ride quietly, but it MAY ruin someone else's fun who does not want to hear you singing, and would rather take in the atmosphere Disney works so hard to create.
This may be the best post in the thread. Thanks for putting words to what I couldn't seem to express.
OP, I hope we end up in the same boat as you someday! That sounds like fun!
Every once in awhile one of the guys in my group with shout to the Blue Bayou tables "Toss me a dinner roll!" or something like it and the diners will usually laugh and some will feign tossing an item.
People do get picky on this ride though. When my DS was 2 or 3 he briefly and unexpectedly had a fear of the dark phase and brought a flashing sword on the boat and kept turning it on during the non-lit parts of the ride (not the actual scenes, just the pitch black parts) to make him feel better. We got yelled at, but the other boat riders didn't appreciate his crying at the dark during the next pitch black part much better so they decided the light was better ...
We also only tend to go on this ride when there's little to no line so its not like one couldn't just go again easily.
Can't please everybody.
My son also got scared on POTC. That's where we learned he doesn't like dark rides. He cried some, mostly quietly. When we got to the end I told the CM that the riders in our boat should get to go again without a crying child, and THEY GOT TO!!! Light would have helped him and those on OUR boat, but people on other boats can even see it, so that was never a thought for me.
I am there for the "Disney" experience, not someone's rendition of POTC!
You want to sing it in the que or on the way out, have a ball, but not during the ride please.
Yep!!!!
