Stories of CMs spreading pixie dust

[DaniDownUnder]

I'm getting geared up for my WDW trip in July and would LOVE to hear about people's experiences with great CMs who spread their own pixie dust.

Any takers???

 

[4theloveofdisney]

There have been many fun and surprising moments on our various trips but the one that stands out the most in my mind is was when, years ago, we had a vacation planned and we were staying at CBR. My middle DD was seriously ill. I called WDW and explained the situation and they not only pushed our ressie back for us without a problem, they told us to keep them informed if we couldn't make it and stated there would not be a penalty.

We did end up making the trip and our DD turned out to have something other than what the doctor's thought and we went on our vacation relieved and thrilled that she was going to be okay. Upon checking in at CBR, we were asked by the CM about our situation and we shared our story with this person.

The next night we arrived back at our hotel room after a day at MK and when we walked in our room we found two baskets packed to the rim with cookies, a keepsake photo album, stuffed Mickey for my son and Minnie for my daughter, disposable cameras and more. They were both topped off with Mickey mylar balloons. There were cards on the table as well that were addressed to our kids and signed by Buzz and Cinderella.

We immediately thought that one of our parents or other relative had sent the baskets but after calling them to "thank" them, we discovered that no one knew anything about them. Not one friend or relative had done this.

So, that night, we came to the conclusion that it was a special CM who had taken our situation to heart and made this trip extra special for us all. I still believe this to this day because there is no other explanation.

 

[DaniDownUnder]

bumpy bump bump bump

 

[cajunfan]

Wow, that is a great story!

Would love to hear more too!

 

[pplasky]

While the previous post is wonderful just because of the whole story surrounding the pixie dust, we have had many small things done for us on our trips throughout the years. Last year all of my children were old enough to ride space mtn. They loved it. When exiting, there were 2 cm's going up for a shift change and heard my children pleading to go again. The cm's told them to follow them and brought them up the back stairs to ride again with absolutely no wait. It definitely made their night.

 

[Belle Amy]

We still quote this.

On our way into MGM (our favorite park) we flashed our AP at the CM at the booth. He smiled and said "Go Play!!!"

It's the small things, but it made our day.

Every time we step foot into any of the parks, we say this like our mantra.

 

[Accash]

We had a great time this past January. We decided that we would go on a "Food Tour" and buy all the candies, jams and jellies, syrups, chips, etc from each country and have enough to be able to enjoy it when we got back home. Our first stop was Canada and it is there where we met CM Aubrie. We bought 3 out of the 4 chocolate bars they had, some maple syrups, and maple hard candies etc. We got to talking with her and she was a real sweetie. We used the "ship it back to the hotel so I don't have to carry it" thing and we were on our way. The next day we got our bag full of goodies and inside it was a small white envelope with our last name on it. We open up the card and on the front is a gold picture of Mickey inside it says:
**** Family:
I noticed that you did not purchase a regular Coffee Crisp bar. It is really good and I hope you enjoy it.
Aubrie from Saskatchewan

She gave us a free candy bar. That was really nice since they cost like $4.50 a bar LOL

Melissa

 

[blessedby3]

We had a couple of great things happen on our last trip. One was when we were in MGM and going toward The Great Movie Ride. Our DD7 had her Birthday button on and she fell on the concrete as we were heading toward the door. She was crying like crazy and the CM from the ride came over and said it was her lucky day because it was her birthday and told her to follow him. He took our whole party in a back door and put us right in line in front of the doors to board the ride. He also gave DD a daisy duck trading pin and he rode in our vehicle and had everyone sing Happy Birthday at the end to our DD. She also had the chance to drive the Jungle Cruise Boat for the whole ride (and she really thought she was driving- it was priceless) from a very nice lady CM on the boat. The CM interacted with her the whole time and she loved that experience so much.

 

[Kimi313]

We went to DW during our DD 8th birthday, when we made ressies the cm asked how old the child and I said 7 well she will be turning 8 while we are there. She said oh really my b-day is in January too what day is hers. I told her and never thought anything about it. Checked in nothing said, then when we returned the night of her birthday there was a cake, plates, 8 candles, a small stuffed mickey, and a card from mickey that said happy birthday. She was so surprised and felt soooo special.

 

[Accash]

This didn't happen to us but it is such a good story I have to tell LOL. In my previous post, we went this past January during the Marathon. It's Sunday morning and we are on a bus from AKL to Epcot. The bus is kinda crowded and many people are hitching a ride to get to the finish line at Epcot. There is an older woman standing next to us chatting on her cel to her daughter that is running. There must be thousands of people running - and I am not joking - she's chatting away and the woman says to the DD - where are you? The DD says I'm coming up on marker 26 next thing you know WE in the bus are coming up on marker 26 and the woman is happily yelling into the cel look at the bus on your right and she got to wave to her DD and see that she was okay - the whole bus started clapping for the older woman - it was so funny. If that's not pixie dust magic then I don't know what is LOL

Melissa

 

[magnumaid]

On our last trip I sent my DH to get the stroller while I waited in line to have our backpack searched. The security gaurd looks in my backpack and points out the apple that DH had packed. "What have we here?" he said loudly. "An APPLE!" "And just WHAT do you plan to do with this APPLE?" "This wouldn't happen to be a POISON apple WOULD IT?" (Now everyone is staring at me) He then tells everyone to watch out for me and to not let me near Snow White!
It was a great way to start the day.

 

[tkd lisa]

On our spring break trip this year, we were on the monorail back to the TTC at park closing. My DD had her birthday button on, and a young lady asked when her birthday was. DD told her (the 27th), and the young lady said "mine's the 25th, go Aries". Then she saw DD's Stitch/Tower of Terror ears and asked if DD liked RnR too? DD said "Yes, it's my 2nd favorite behind ToT". The lady handed her 3 or 4 babyswap passes to RnR. Turns out she's a CM there! We just used the last one this Saturday.

 

[Amps]

Just a had a bit of pixie dust delivered at my door!

I had been putting off deciding to use Disney's Magical Express or taking a limo/town car for a while now and finally decided to go with DME on Monday...8 days before our trip. So called the DME direct number (got from calling disney reservations) and explained our situation to the wonderfull lady on the phone and she said that even though it would be too late to get us our tags (normally take 10 days to ship to Toronto) we wouldn't have a problem as long as we presented or baggage check tags at the DME booth.

*Knock Knock* this morning and there's a UPS envelope waiting for me. She had sent me our DME package UPS overnight express with our tags, info book and pin voucher (which we would have otherwise missed out on).

 

[zagafi]

From June 2004 (We added twins to our family 3/04 and my wonderful dh sent me and our oldest to WDW for some "mommy and me" time):

While eating at the 'Ohana character breakfast, one of the character "wranglers" starting talking to Zane about his favorite characters. He started this litany of villains and I mentioned that Maleficent is our "Holy Grail" and that we've never seen her outside the parade. The CM asked us to hold on while she went to check something, and when she returned, she asked for my cell phone number and gave me hers. She said she was trying to see when/if her Royal Badness might be about and would let me know. I thought, "ok, cool!"

Well, later that afternoon as Z and I enjoyed an afternoon snack at Epcot, I checked my messages, and there were THREE from this CM begging me to call her back and let her know if Z and I could be at MK by 3:30 or so. (Keep in mind it was now 2:40). So we flew to catch the boat to BWI, jumped on the MK bus and got there about 3:20. She told us to check in at Guest Services at City Hall and that it was "all arranged". I figured Maleficent would be making a park appearance and they were going to give us a "heads up". Boy, was I ever (happily) wrong! We got a private audience with Maleficent! The CM at Guest Services gave Zane an autograph book (his was already packed in his luggage as this was our departure day), a coupon for a free Maleficent t-shirt, and 2 "priority entrance" coupons for the attractions of his choice! I don't know who was happier, me or Zane. I'm still amazed that CM went to all that trouble for my little boy, and it still makes me a little misty eyed. I wrote a very nice letter to WDW thanking them for this extra sprinkling of pixie dust, and got a call from the Executive Office thanking me for taking the time to write.

 

[isyne4u]

Wow! these are some great stories!

I've had several brushes with pixie dust but two stand out.

One was in 1999 when we checked into Dixie Landings and it turned out that the cm checking us in was someone I had gone to college with. Honesty, I didn't remember her well but she remembered me (it had been 6 years since graduation). We talked about school and what we were doing now and it was a very pleasant check in. The next day when we returned from our day at the park we found a fruit basket in our room that was stuffed full of wonderfully fresh fruit. There was a nice note in the basket from the CM too.

The second one was in 2003 when I was 7 1/2 weeks preg. with ds#2. Due to a snafu at home, I had to get from AKL over to ASMu to drop off tickets for a friend who was checking in on the day we were leaving. So I did the bus to DTD, waited for a bus to ASMu and then dropped the tickets off at the lobby. I did this all after a long day in the parks chasing my 3 year old and by now it was almost midnight. When I was done I went to the bus loop to wait for a bus but the DTD buses were only runing every 20 minutes or so and I had just missed one. Finally, I went to the desk and asked if they could call me a cab because I was feeling really sick. I explained that I was newly pregnant and exhausted and was willing to pay for a cab ride back to the hotel if htey could just call one for me. Never fear, a wonderful CM jumped up, ran behind "the door", and came back with a set of keys. He said that he didn't want me to have to wait for a cab so he drove me back to AKL. I couldn't thank him enough for his generosity!! Turns out that I was becoming dehydrated and was getting ready to be sick...I gues I had that green look about me! lol! I was very thankful for that brush of pixie dust too!!!!

 

[Minnie824]

5 years ago, DH & I went to Disney for our honeymoon. We arrived at the Living Seas late one night, around 8:30, closed at 9. We walked around and looked cuz I wanted to see the dolphins. There was a CM standing there, and I asked him where the dolphins were. He said, is it just the 2 of you? I said, yup, so he said, follow me. He took us up to the top of the water, I assume maybe where you go for diving? We walked thru there, back to a CM only area where the 2 dolphins were hanging out, ready for bed. We stood 1 foot away from them, their heads out of the water looking at us. We just weren't allowed to touch them. He proceeded to tell us a little bit about them, and the whole Living Seas Pavilion. We were there with him about 45 min. It was great! His name was Vincent. Great CM.

 

[Feralpeg]

When DD was 7, I managed to loose her in a crowd at TTC. She was missing for about 15 minutes. I was practically hysterical. It was in the morning prior to opening the gates for the monorails and boats, so there was a huge crowd. Once the gates opened and the crowd moved out, the CM and I managed to find DD. DD and I were both sobbing. The CM told DD that he had a special magnet that was only given to children who became lost at WDW. It brought a smile to DD's face immediately. I was still a mess for the rest of the day, but DD was fine.

 

[ksumn1]

On our 1st trip August 2002, we celebrated our Anniversary (Aug 27). DH apparently had been peeking at the Dis when I surfed the net because on our Anniversary he went down to ALSMO check in and told the CM it was our Anniversary and was there anything they could do to make it special. That night we went out to eat at Artist Point (received 2 free glasses of champagne and berry cobbler as an anniversary gift) and there waitning in the room was a bundle of baloon and a signed photo anniversary card of Cinderella and Prince Charming that was signed !

We're leaving on June 10 for our next WDW trip and every CM has been extremely courteos, polite and just so Disney like that our trip is already magical and we haven't even left yet!

 

[mikymouse]

We had dinner at CRT on 3-18-06 about a month after the changes to the menu/show. I was told during the reservation process that the children would receive a magic wand/sword after dinner but not to tell the children it was a surprise. We enjoy the dinner and show but there was no special surprise for the children. I asked our waiter (gosh I wish I could remember his name) and he assured me that there were no gifts with dinner that was only breakfast and lunch and he couldn't break the rules for us as he would have to for everyone. Well I told him I had only expected this since the CM during the reservation mentioned it but it was OK as he obviously knows the rule but my bubble was a little burst since my expectation were set. As we were leaving the dinning room, he pulls me and the kids over and secretly gives my daughter a little gold star wand and the servers very own sword to my son! How sweet and the kids thought the secret part was the BEST as it made them feel special. I was going to include him in my letter to Disney about some other great CM's but thought he might get in trouble, so if you are out there reading THANK YOU!!!

 

[nitsirk987]

this goes back to last october.. DH and I were celebrating our 5 year anniversary, and we decided to start the day off w/ a charater breakfast at O'hana's.

We were served our food, and everyone except for Mickey had made it around to our table for pictures. Our waitress, Kristin, kept coming over to us and saying that Mickey will be around in a bit, just to sit back and relax and she kept refilling our juice. Well after about 45 mins of waiting, after we had finished our food, we decide to leave. So we packed up our goodies, and started walking out. Got to almost the exit, and Kristin came running after us, saying that she had got her manager to get mickey for us, and that he would be right over to us.. Then the manager took our picture together w/ Mickey for our special 5 year anniversay picture.. I thought that was sooo nice of her to do that. Best service we ever had in Disney.

Kristin