The most annoying or aggravating thing you see at WDW.....get your flames ready!

[dreamergirl78]

Well by using the title of this thread, it's aggravating because the guests who break this rule are taking up spots for guests who stay at the Magic Kingdom Monorail Resort and for the guests who just go there for ADR's and follow the rule of not leaving their car parked there all day. Besides as someone who always stays at the Contemporary, it's not a selfish thing to want the best parking spot my family and I can get.

Just to add to my last comment, I know we can always valet park and there would be no problems with the self parking lot. However we don't want to keep spending $10.00 + tip everytime we need to leave the Contemporary, when it's not to any of the 4 theme parks. It's not that we don't have the money, it's the principal that we should not have to when we are allowed to self park and save that money to purchasing a nice souvenir while in WDW.

I guess you missed my point.
Really, if the parking attendants are ALLOWING these people in and not monitoring their time, they are just taking advantage of the situation that was given to them. Doesn't make it right, but I don't think you can be mad at them when obviously that burden falls on Disney.
The part I bolded .... what in the WORLD do you mean by that? Is a parking spot really worth all the upset? I just don't get it.
Just like pool hopping and reusing mugs. If people are allowed to get away with it, they will continue to do it. Again, does not make it right, but that's the way the cookie crumbles sometimes. And I also think that these scenarios get way blown out of whack. If Disney saw it as a huge problem, I am sure they would take steps to correct it. Just like they did with smoking. So until Disney gets crazy strict, let it roll off your back. Enjoy your vacation and stop worrying about a parking space you didn't get that is 30 feet away from the one you had to take.

 

[CR Resort Fan 4 Life]

If Disney saw it as a huge problem, I am sure they would take steps to correct it.

The thing is the Cast Members don't need to tell these guests not to do this, because when you enter the Magic Kingdom Monorail Resorts that says "We do not provide parking for the Magic Kingdom". I should also add that this sign is big enough for these people to see, just like signs that would say no wearing Healies in the theme parks, or no pool hopping. In the past they have towed cars out of these Resorts so it's not like they don't do nothing about this. During the major holidays and when the Contemporary hosts major conventions I know they turn away guests if they don't have ADR's, so they would obviously be staying somewhere else. That also goes for guests wanting to just look around. Plus on the major holidays they have Disney Security Cast Members ridding around the parking lots looking for cars with 3 hour temporary passes and etc. The sad thing is it only takes a major holiday to really enforce these rules.

I know that this might sound like something to get worked up over, however I am sure if your spening $485.00 per night (value season rate for the Atrium Club at the Contemporary) or $465.00 per night, (value season rate for the King Kamehameha Club - Garden View room at the Polynesian) you would be upset to if guests who were not staying there and were breaking this rule, because as paying guests you have 1st right to the best parking spots they have.

 

[Tinkerbelle's Mom]

Wow, I'm glad you know his medical history by looking at him..Impressive.. My DH has a bad leg.. He can walk on it for a short time...He had an Aortic Dissection on Jan 27th. He had emergency open heart surgery and spent 9 weeks in the hospital, 5 in intensive care.. They had to cut his leg open from knee to ankle to save it.. He's had 4 surgeries on the legs including skin grafts.. It will be less than 6 month since his open heart surgery when we go in July. He has been told, "you must use a wheelchair when you leave your hotel".. He will be wearing jeans so that people don't see what are some huge and nasty scars... You will see him sit in a wheelchair and then get up to get on a bus or to get on a ride.. You won't even see a sling in his case..Unless he has an open shirt and you can see the chest scar you will see a *healthy* looking 41 YO man, and let me tell you anyone who says a thing to him will really get an earful

By the way, Look at my picture.. Would you know I had AIDS and Cardiomyopathy?No you wouldn't but there have been times when I would have needed a wheelchair at WDW, like right after I had a stroke from the Cardiomyopathy or when I was recovering from congestive heart failure.. I wouldn't limp to get on the bus..You would never know I had so much wrong with me. Believe me, I'd give up my disabled wheelchair if it meant I would live to see my kids marry

I just had to respond to your post.

I too have been to WDW and have needed a little extra assistance but most certainly did not look like it. A few years ago as I was recovering from radiation treatment for a rare form of lung cancer my mother found out she also had lung cancer. She really wanted to take my dd her granddaughter to WDW so we did. We tried the first night to walk but it was too much. So we got an ECV and would take turns using it and pushing my dd. My mom died a little over a year later. My dd while young at the time still remembers that her grandma took her to meet Mickey Mouse for the first time. Each time we travel back to WDW my dd tells me that it feels like her grandma is there with her. Should we have stayed home and not used an EVC becuase some people may have thought we were abusing the system? NO!!! I am so gald we did. That trip gave myself and my dd memories to live on.

So I guess my point is take your trips, enjoy your kids and husband and never worry about what people say - each day is too important to waste!!

 

[Davscotcar]

My biggest complaint on my last trip was the rude people on cell phones. YOU ARE ON VACATION! PUT THE PHONES DOWN FOR AWHILE! People were even talking loudly in the shows and on the rides. The rest of us don't really want to hear all about your private life.

That will be us as we have 2 kids of different ages who can't ride all the rides and we have to catch up with each other to know where each other is.

 

[LindsayDunn228]

Do you honestly think that people ask to be in a wheelchair?

Tell me this, why would anyone in their right mind want to ride in a wheelchair?

My grandma said it is the worst exerience you can have. Having everybody staring at you, not being able to ride, why would anyone want that?

I have been a paraplegic since I was 6 years old. I will be 29 this summer. So obviously I have been using a wheelchair a long time. I have to disagree with grandma. IMO, using a wheelchair is not the worst experience you can have. My life rocks, I just happen to use a chair to get around. Granted, if I only used a chair for things like WDW I would probably have a different opinion. But since I don't, I have to say, it truly is not a horrible thing to endure.

Not everyone who uses a wheelchair cannot drive, cannot ride the rides, cannot push themselves from here to there, even get stared at. I'm not flaming you, Disneyworldlvr, just taking the time in this ECV/wheelchair griping thread to point this out. Not everyone who uses a chair considers it torture.

You adapt to your circumstances and move on.

Things that annoy/aggravate me in Disney? Hmmmm.
- People who insist on making out while you are in line
- Flash photography where it not allowed
- Families of 10 walking arm in arm across and blocking paths, not letting anyone by
- The BIGGEST one: having to leave

 

[Disney_Mama]

Parents that allow their children to put their feet up on chairs that later someone will be sitting on. People that lay down on a bus and take up more that one seat when the bus is full. One more... Parents that let their children occupy a bus seat when there is an older person standing. These are things that happen everywhere. Not just Disney.

 

[StarLight StarBright]

I've only read to page 6, so I don't know if this has been mentioned. This happened to us several times...After waiting a long time for characters to come to our table at a character meal, when they finally made it over, a family would walk by, say "Look Mommy, it's Tigger, take my picture!" Of course Tigger would pose with the family. My DD4 who had been waiting all this time, would look at me and say "Mommy, I thought it was my turn". So rude, wait your turn people!

 

[KingdomHearts]

There was a story in my local paper a couple months ago about a trend going on now where, young, healthy people are renting these ECV's now.
It wasn't in Disney though I think it was in Vegas cause of how much walking there is and such. unbelievable

This is one thing I can not stand, and normally when I see a young person or someone who "looks" healthy I always say to myself, that maybe that person really does need it because of health reasons that arent visable. Plus I always look for the good and honest in people. UNTIL my last trip in November, we stayed at the Yacht Club and my DH and I were walking in to Epcot when we staopped right on the hill and sat to wait for my psrents. My parents had to take the bus because my father has bad issues with his back and hips. So as we were waiting there, we saw this family, there were 15 of them!! yes 15, the youngest had to be around 12 or 13 and ALL of them rented a ECV. A lady came over to where we were seated and starting to take a picture, she was with the family. An she was laughing, she looks at us and said well one of them needed it so they all decided to rent one, she thought it was the funniest thing in the world! So they took 14 ECVs away from some family that honestly could have used it. So my reply, " was well that is nice so that when some one comes in and they REALLY need it, there wont be any left". She just looked at me and kept taking pictures. That is was SOOO Rude!! I didnt let it ruin my day because I was in WDW so whatever, but I hope it didnt ruin any one elses day who could have really used one!

 

[Doc CW]

What really gets me flamed is when someone is about to pay for something and then they see more stuff they want and then run out of line to get it. Every time I went to ask about a Aurora doll for my baby sister this happened. (sigh)

 

[XOoOoVEEoOoOX]

I hate when people bump into me and dont say sorry. I mean I undestand if its a stroller or something they may not have REALISED they have hit me, but if you full on body check me I mean the least you can say is "sorrry" before rushing along on your way. Im the kind of person who will say "sorry" even if it wasnt my fault, why do people think that they are so important that they can trample you to get where they are going and they dont have to say sorry ? that really just

also I get mad when people giving me dirty looks for scolding my neices and nephew in the parks, I have certain things i WILL NOT let them do (play with the chains dividing the line, climb on the rails, touch the merchandise in the stores) I do this for the comfort and safety of other guests as well as them ( im sure you would be looking at me even dirtier if I LET them flip their happy selves over the pole and one of their cute little feet caught you in your shin). Just because its Disney doesnt mean that they can do whatever they want, so dont look at me Like Im a bad person if my kid is crying b/c I DARED to scold them in WDW of all places!! *gasp*

 

[darlak]

I haven't read all of the posts, only the first few pages, so if this has already been mentioned, I apologize.

My personal pet peeve is young people who won't give up their seats on a crowded bus for an elderly person. My DH (48 and healthy) and my DS (22 and healthy) would never sit on a bus and allow any woman or an elderly man to stand while they are sitting. I (48 and healthy) and my DD's (20 &13) would never sit while an older person was standing. Yes, we're tired too, having usually been at a park from opening until closing, but my DH and I were taught and have taught our children, that sitting while an elder is standing is just plain rude. As for my DH and DS, while it may not be politically correct, as good Southern gentlemen, they could never sit while a lady of any age is standing.

That's just my opinion, and as a regular visitor at WDW, I'm aware that it isn't shared by many. As for the ECV's, I try not to judge since they may have disabilities that can't be seen. As for line cutters and just plain rude people, I just gotta keep believing that what goes around comes around.

 

[chipndales]

I've only read to page 6, so I don't know if this has been mentioned. This happened to us several times...After waiting a long time for characters to come to our table at a character meal, when they finally made it over, a family would walk by, say "Look Mommy, it's Tigger, take my picture!" Of course Tigger would pose with the family. My DD4 who had been waiting all this time, would look at me and say "Mommy, I thought it was my turn". So rude, wait your turn people!

I agree! We took my DD to the Cinderella buffet and it was murder. She was so excited she couldn't eat for fear of missing Cinderella or Prince Charming, and while it was our turn several times, this obnoxious family next to us kept occupying their time to the point it was really unnecessary.

 

[chipndales]

I haven't read all of the posts, only the first few pages, so if this has already been mentioned, I apologize.

My personal pet peeve is young people who won't give up their seats on a crowded bus for an elderly person. My DH (48 and healthy) and my DS (22 and healthy) would never sit on a bus and allow any woman or an elderly man to stand while they are sitting. I (48 and healthy) and my DD's (20 &13) would never sit while an older person was standing. Yes, we're tired too, having usually been at a park from opening until closing, but my DH and I were taught and have taught our children, that sitting while an elder is standing is just plain rude. As for my DH and DS, while it may not be politically correct, as good Southern gentlemen, they could never sit while a lady of any age is standing.

That's just my opinion, and as a regular visitor at WDW, I'm aware that it isn't shared by many. As for the ECV's, I try not to judge since they may have disabilities that can't be seen. As for line cutters and just plain rude people, I just gotta keep believing that what goes around comes around.

Not just elderly people, but mom's holding their sleeping toddlers or babies. I remember how my arms would fall asleep holding my daughter so when we were at Disney, I always, always offered my seat to mom's with their babies as well as the elderly, or young children who were ready to drop. It's just common courtesy. I'm exhausted too, but I'm a healthy adult and I can handle another few minutes to the hotel.

I was quite shocked to see a lot of men just sitting there in their seats while people who should have, in my opinion, been offered seats, weren't. I'm from NY and people talk trash about us a lot, but it's pretty much the norm here to do something like that. And it was the middle aged men! The college kids or young adults were giving up their seat. It was crazy.

 

[scourtneyb]

Not just elderly people, but mom's holding their sleeping toddlers or babies. I remember how my arms would fall asleep holding my daughter so when we were at Disney, I always, always offered my seat to mom's with their babies as well as the elderly, or young children who were ready to drop. It's just common courtesy. I'm exhausted too, but I'm a healthy adult and I can handle another few minutes to the hotel.

I was quite shocked to see a lot of men just sitting there in their seats while people who should have, in my opinion, been offered seats, weren't. I'm from NY and people talk trash about us a lot, but it's pretty much the norm here to do something like that. And it was the middle aged men! The college kids or young adults were giving up their seat. It was crazy.

I completely agree with this statement. I was at the TTC one evening waiting for the bus to MGM...we were standing in front of a group of teenagers that apparently were supposed to have been at their groups bus at MGM 20 minutes earlier...(they had been at the MK). They were overdramatically (is that a word?) and loudly making everyone around them aware that they were late. When it became obvious to the group that they were not going to make the 1st bus and would have to wait for the second they ran around to the front of the line and tried to "blend" into the people who were entering the bus.
Thankfully, there was a marine in uniform who was standing in front of my family and he went to the front and told them they better go to the back of the line and wait for their turn.
It is crazy how rude and irresponsible people can be!

I have also seen mothers trying to hold their babies while standing on a crowded bus, while kids are sitting....

 

[tinkerbell1967]

Parents yelling at their kids in the parks. Come on people, these kids are tired!! have probably been up since who knows what time of day and the parents are yelling at them telling them they are never coming back, etc. Just annoys me!!

 

[nascargirl]

People who are holding spots in line for the rest of their very large party. The unsupervised class trips who are very obnoxious and ruin everything. The kids who wear those sneakers with wheels on them. People who are running to just be first in line and making those of us trip. People who eat their entire meal in LeCellier and then complain it was no good so they can get a free meal. The smokers who do not obey the no smoking signs.

 

[dreamergirl78]

The thing is the Cast Members don't need to tell these guests not to do this, because when you enter the Magic Kingdom Monorail Resorts that says "We do not provide parking for the Magic Kingdom". I should also add that this sign is big enough for these people to see, just like signs that would say no wearing Healies in the theme parks, or no pool hopping. In the past they have towed cars out of these Resorts so it's not like they don't do nothing about this. During the major holidays and when the Contemporary hosts major conventions I know they turn away guests if they don't have ADR's, so they would obviously be staying somewhere else. That also goes for guests wanting to just look around. Plus on the major holidays they have Disney Security Cast Members ridding around the parking lots looking for cars with 3 hour temporary passes and etc. The sad thing is it only takes a major holiday to really enforce these rules.

I know that this might sound like something to get worked up over, however I am sure if your spening $485.00 per night (value season rate for the Atrium Club at the Contemporary) or $465.00 per night, (value season rate for the King Kamehameha Club - Garden View room at the Polynesian) you would be upset to if guests who were not staying there and were breaking this rule, because as paying guests you have 1st right to the best parking spots they have.

Do you read the entire post or just pick the snipits you want to read? My point (for the 3rd time) is that if DISNEY would enforce their OWN RULES situations like the one you are talking about would not happen. You need to be upset at Disney, not the people who are parked there. We all know how well people ignore signs. So posting a sign does not solve your problem. And I bet that the majority of those people are not out to take YOUR spot that you paid $485 a night to have the right to. Why re you so worked up about it? It's a parking space. I understand you pay x amount, etc etc... but until Disney cracks down on it you getting all huffy about it doesn't do one bit of good. Are you going to spend your vacation playing parking lot police? Or are you going to enjoy your vacation?
You said it takes a major holiday for them to enforce THEIR OWN RULES... well maybe they know there is plenty of parking available for everyone at regular times, so they don't see it as a big deal. Take the hint from Disney and don't make it a big deal either! If they are not worried, maybe it's ok for you to relax on this issue a little bit too.

I have been a paraplegic since I was 6 years old. I will be 29 this summer. So obviously I have been using a wheelchair a long time. I have to disagree with grandma. IMO, using a wheelchair is not the worst experience you can have. My life rocks, I just happen to use a chair to get around. Granted, if I only used a chair for things like WDW I would probably have a different opinion. But since I don't, I have to say, it truly is not a horrible thing to endure.

Wow, you are awesome!!! Thanks for putting things into perspective!

Parents that allow their children to put their feet up on chairs that later someone will be sitting on. People that lay down on a bus and take up more that one seat when the bus is full. One more... Parents that let their children occupy a bus seat when there is an older person standing. These are things that happen everywhere. Not just Disney.

This bus issue is a hot topic. But my son has a hard time standing and hanging on and balancing on the bus all at the same time too. Usually we wait for the next bus so we can have a seat. Last year he sat on my lap a lot of the time so we could free up a space for someone else. And it was uncomfortable but we did it. But if we wait for the next bus, then we should not feel guilty about keeping our seats. If someone does not want to stand, I guess they can wait too right? But I do not think a KID should have to give up their seat.

 

[Trentmom]

Not just elderly people, but mom's holding their sleeping toddlers or babies. I remember how my arms would fall asleep holding my daughter so when we were at Disney, I always, always offered my seat to mom's with their babies as well as the elderly, or young children who were ready to drop. It's just common courtesy. I'm exhausted too, but I'm a healthy adult and I can handle another few minutes to the hotel.

I was quite shocked to see a lot of men just sitting there in their seats while people who should have, in my opinion, been offered seats, weren't. I'm from NY and people talk trash about us a lot, but it's pretty much the norm here to do something like that. And it was the middle aged men! The college kids or young adults were giving up their seat. It was crazy.

Thank you for that.

On our trip last year....I was holding a sound asleep 2yr old, who felt like dead weight and there were no seats..


Not a single person offered me a seat

You know what though?...an older women in her late 60s...said "I would offfer you my seat, but I have leg problems. "

I said, no problem, but thanks for even offering. It is nice that some people still have common courtesy in this world.

Then, she offered to hold him on her lap for me...She had two grandkids with her, so I agreed and was so grateful to her. He never stirred the whole time.

When we got back to the resort, I thanked her immensely and me any my sleeping DS went back to our resort, where he continued to sleep until the next morning...

Thank you Kind Nice Lady wherever you are....

 

[chobie]

Thank you for that.

On our trip last year....I was holding a sound asleep 2yr old, who felt like dead weight and there were no seats..


Not a single person offered me a seat

You know what though?...an older women in her late 60s...said "I would offfer you my seat, but I have leg problems. "

I said, no problem, but thanks for even offering. It is nice that some people still have common courtesy in this world.

Then, she offered to hold him on her lap for me...She had two grandkids with her, so I agreed and was so grateful to her. He never stirred the whole time.

When we got back to the resort, I thanked her immensely and me any my sleeping DS went back to our resort, where he continued to sleep until the next morning...

Thank you Kind Nice Lady wherever you are....

Now there's a thought --a thread about the nice things people did/said at WDW.

Here's mine: my kids were swimming at the Pop Century pool and a man came over, pointed at my son, and asked if he belonged to us. We said cautiously "yes, why?" and the man said that our son was playing with his son who had severe autism and our son was making his son so happy and he just wanted to thank us for having such a nice kid.

 

[Amy5000]

My God, I really am being misrepresented here, and that was not my intention. I am not anti overweight or anything like that, but after reading my post it seems i am coming off that way. I was speaking more towards people who are big, that i have seen literally bound off the ECV...

Really, I wonder why you are coming off that way? If you were to replace the "overweight" description with a person's race, would someone consider your comment to be racist. If a person is abusing ECVs or behaving rudely, why does it matter if they are "big". Unless, of course, whether you recognize it or not, you are biased against the overweight and just assume no normal weight person would abuse an ECV. Or you notice what the overweight do more than the normal weight person.


Maybe you really have nothing against overweight people. Maybe you have just internalize our societal bias against overweight people. To me it seemed like you post was directed against fat people abusing ECVs where thin people could feel free to abuse ECVs. (I'm relatively sure that wasn't the message you intended to convey...but it more or less was the message you conveyed).

I was speaking more towards people who are big, that i have seen literally bound off the ECV when they get to a ride and attempt to knock you over to get in line.

Oh, I believe that seeing someone hop off an ECV with the greatest of ease and speed walk and all but knock someone else over to get in front of them

You are free to interpret that an overweight person "bounded" off an ECV. I wonder if you were just expecting them to walk more slowly b/c they were big, but it is possible that they did a mini-aerobics routine getting off. As for the "all but knock someone over"... what does that mean? Both are so subjective. Sure we all make subjective judgments. But based on the fact that you seem so caught on someone's weight, I have to question your judgment of what it means to practically knock someone over. Maybe the person really did almost knock someone over. Maybe you dislike fat people and are more likely to interpret their movements as agressive since they are taking up more space in the park. Maybe the overweight person you saw was a boor and really behaved poorly. The tone of your post really makes me second-guess your judgment of the situation.

Finally, you ask people to get out their flames in the title of your thread and then you seemed to be upset when we complied.

Enjoy your weekend everyone.