We Go On Vacation to Get AWAY From You People!! (half vent)

[BrerLizzie]

This is the wierdest trip we've taken.. normally we go on vacation to get away from the people we always see, but this time THEY ARE FALLOWING US!!! We leave in eight days, so the other day we are talking to Marvin, the guy that lives two doors down, and he leaves the day after us for WDW so we are meeting up with him and his wife.. not bad i guess. So, next in line are girls from my moms work, they are leaving the day before us! They think we will run into each other and hang out. They don't understand that its a big place. Not bad, we won't run into them. But wait, it gets worse/better. The people down the street left Thursday for a month stay in Naples. Thats HORRIBLE! They want to meet up for the day at WDW and ride the rides with us. They are very goody two shoes and won't ride the rides though. They have a 3 y/o and a mentally handicaped(spelled wrong?) 16 y/o. The 16 y/o is fully capable of riding things like Splash MT, BTMRR, and ToT but his mom babies him and tells him they are scary and he won't like them. I know he would because I went with him to another park and he was riding wooden roller coasters with me. (His mom won't be finding that one out.. lol) Anyone else had a problem like this? LOL doubtful... but n e way does anyone have a sudjestion of something else we could do with this family that is fun for everyone, but wont waste our day at the park? We only have 6 days, so we like to rush and ride and eat on the run..

 

[GailT]

Just tell them all you decided to go to another vacation hot spot, hopefully you won't bump inot them but you never know. Last year the person who was behind me on the plane from Boston to Disney, we bumped into her at Epcot when we were buying a beaver tail, don't fortegt " It's a small world afterall" .

 

[tassie42]

That is annoying!! I would maybe meet up with them for a couple rides or a meal and then split!

 

[jipsy]

Just be honest. It's your vacation; there's no reason to feel obligated to hang out with anyone. Tell them this is family time and you'll see them when you get back home.

 

[Tinkbell]

I'd just tell them that there is no way you will be able to predict where you will be on any given day at WDW, as there is so much to do. Geez, the last thing I'd want to do on vacation is worry about someone else's schedule. Forget it!

 

[KristaTX]

Maybe you should plan to meet up later in the day (like after 5 pm) somewhere, maybe do a few rides, have dinner, and watch Fantasmic, Wishes, or Illuminations. Or split up and take that poor 16 year old on some rides. How sad that he might not get to have as much fun as he could.

 

[Snoozan]

I agree with the other posters and tell these people you don't make plans on vacation - you just go where you want, when you want and don't know where you'll be any given day. My sister lived an hour from WDW for a few years and I made several trips to Florida without telling her as there was no way I was going to spend one of my few precious days at WDW travelling to Tampa. I never did feel guilty about that as I knew she would never be "inconvenienced" to come to Orlando to see me!

 

[disykat]

I agree. Tell everyone you don't make plans on vacation, then maybe you can plan a Disney party when you get home and have everyone bring their pictures! Then you can invite them all and enjoy reliving your trip at the same time.

WDW is big, but when we went we ran into someone from home. We were at Target the week before we left buying new shoes for the kids and talking about how they had to be comfy for our trip. Another family was doing the same thing and we sort of compared notes. Sure enough we saw each other in MK one day and we laughed and waved.

 

[Teris]

I would find it annoying too, unless we jointly planned it like that.

I had to chuckle tho, because this sounds like a good story plot for a Vacation comedy movie, which could star Steve Martin and Goldie Hawn ( I love them together,,lol)

 

[Figment22]

Originally posted by BrerLizzie
They think we will run into each other and hang out. They don't understand that its a big place. Not bad, we won't run into them.

I wouldn't count on this. Every single time we have been at WDW and are aware of friends/acquaintances of ours being down at the same time, we HAVE run into them. It absolutely amazes me. A couple of years ago, very good friends of ours from Boston were flying down for the same week we were. We had made plans to have two dinners together but decided that we had different things we wanted to do at the parks so we wouldn't park hop together. Wouldn't you know, the very first full day we were down, first thing in the morning we ran into them at TZTOT! Unbelievable. And this was in the summer so it's not like it was uncrowded.

Then, one year during Jersey week, we had pulled the kids out of school for the extra days and ran into not one but two teachers who should have been in school at that point! One was my older son's gym teacher and he said to my son "Hey, aren't you supposed to be in my class right about now?! Too funny. And that happened right near Tower of Terror also. Maybe that's the key--don't go to the Studios, at least not on the TOT side

 

[Talking Hands]

Happpens to me all the time. WDW is a really common destination for us liveing in So Fla and I bump into friends frequently. Plus if deaf friends are there at the same time we end up following the same schedule anyway so we just stick together.

 

[Virgo10]

Originally posted by GailT
Last year the person who was behind me on the plane from Boston to Disney, we bumped into her at Epcot when we were buying a beaver tail, don't fortegt " It's a small world afterall" .

OMG! That happened to me too!!! I didn't remember them but they remembered me from the flight down and we met up at EPCOT as well.

The first year I let my son go off on his own (I think he was 15 at the time) I kept meeting up with him and it wasn't because we said we'd be at such and such a place at a certain time. Really strange when you consider how big WDW is.

Roberta

 

[hrh_disney_queen]

You are too nice for even considering this!! Here's what you should do.. Think..about.. How much this trip is costing you.. How much you want to be with your family this trip..How much you want to get away from it ALL.. How much you DON'T want unnecessary stress on your vacation.(Won't your own family be enough stress?) THEN.... Tell your neighbors (all of them) that you can't seem to make every thing work in your schedule, but you would love to get together AT HOME and share pictures and stories....

DON'T feel guilty about this. There is NO WAY I would want any of my extended family along on my vacation, let alone neighbors...especially ones who have a different agenda than I do. It's going to be hard enough to compromise within your own family..

Good luck, I hope you have a great trip..