Tour Groups and rudeness

[Shubunk]

I think a lot of people would ague this point with you. I know I'd rather encounter Brazillian teenagers than American cheerleaders any day of the week.

Thats very true i have been in line with the american cheerleaders and my god by the time you get to the front of the line you just want to strangle them

 

[dkostel]

Just back yesterday, the BTGs were everywhere and were very well behaved. I even got pushed into a Brazillian teen in a store (by an American mom) and the teen smiled and said excuse me even though I bumped into her (the American mom said nothing). I heard a couple of cheers, but not during shows or rides, and I wasn't annoyed by it.

 

[David R]

At ToT the other night I had the pleasure to be in the boiler room with a rather large Brazillian tour group. All they did was chant "you are going to die!" at the top of their lungs. I was so relieved when the last of them was finally put in an elevator and sent to the 5th dimension.

 

[*NikkiBell*]

I can't *STAND* these tour groups! I remember our encounter with them on POTC during one of my first trips as a child. UGH is all I can say!

 

[Shubunk]

At ToT the other night I had the pleasure to be in the boiler room with a rather large Brazillian tour groups. All they did was chant "you are going to die!" at the top of their lungs. I was so relieved when the last of them was finally put in an elevator and sent to the 5th dimension.

Maybe they just learned that phrase and were trying to practice their English

 

[SlightlyGoofy]

I have been on a few tours in my life and I know how hard it can be to be with a large group of people, most of whom you do not know, going to a strange place. I can understand the need to have the group wear something distinctive so that the tour guide can keep track of their group as well as the members of the group to be able to tell where their group is.

As the mom of the family I am the one in charge of getting FP's and organizing things and it is hard enough to do for a relatively small family. It boggles the mind how hard it must be for a group, of unrelated and unknown individuals.

Maybe many of the problems that have been reported are more because it is a group of young people, away from their country and families for the first time and feeling their oats? Brazilian, American or whatever- I try to remember what it was like when I was a kid myself. It is difficult sometimes though but I try.

I can remember one bad experience I have had but I guess it is easier to remember the bad than the many good experiences I had.

I am going to DW and enjoying whatever it brings, good, bad, ugly and pixie dusted.

Slightly Goofy

 

[bobcat]

We've seen them every summer trip and have only had one negative experience one year at BB, and it could have happened with anyone not just the tour group. Mostly we just go a different direction when we see them, as I would with any large tour group.

 

[David R]

Maybe they just learned that phrase and were trying to practice their English

Hehe. Good theory. Actually they were chanting it in Portuguese, but I'm fluent in Spanish and Portuguese is close enough to Spanish that I could understand what they were chanting.

 

[Bushman]

Well, they shouldn't be singing or chanting TOO much about their soccer team this time, seeing as how they were unceremoniously dumped fairly early (for them anyways) in the World Cup.

Bushman

 

[Mecha Figment]

a small group of them got booted perminatly from the park and had their tickets confiscated. last week they were charged with trespasing and personaly charged with asalt.

A group of them literaly punched and beat up Wendel the country bear in fronteer land last week.

and when the Attendant tried to intervien , she got dropped too.

 

[Shubunk]

a small group of them got booted perminatly from the park and had their tickets confiscated. last week they were charged with trespasing and personaly charged with asalt.

A group of them literaly punched and beat up Wendel the country bear in fronteer land last week.

and when the Attendant tried to intervien , she got dropped too.

 

[Karnak]

I don't get it. Why in the world would any group want to stay together in any of the parks? They could get so much more done and seen if they each went their seperate ways.

If you had a group of very young grade schoolers to chaperone, I can see it. Don't want to get any of them lost. But olders kids? Why keep them together?

Anybody got a reason for that?