What has been your most magical Disney experience?

[W.E.D.]

In '03 on a MAW trip with my step-daughters. They have CP and are wheelchair-bound. We were at the UK pavilion. Pooh was there. We had just come around the corner. I could tell they were ready to take a break. Pooh and his friend came up to our kids and probably spent a good ten minutes with them. I knew they didn't have to do this, and it truly touched me. And yes, we made darn sure we stopped by GR to make commendations for those awesome CMs.

 

[disneyfav4ever]

Any of DD's character meetings last trip, which was her first trip.

 

[PadmeNaberie]

My mother uses an ECV. We were staying at Fort Wilderness, and thus had to use the internal buses to get anywhere. We had an early breakfast planned for Chef Mickey's and were running a little late. We had a WONDERFUL bus driver who cheerfully and quickly loaded the chair on the bus (something we have found is surprisingly rare at Disney- loading the chair usually seems to be a huge nuisance to the driver and makes my mom feel terrible.) After the chair was loaded, she asked where we were headed and we told her, thinking she was just making small talk since this was the internal bus and she was just taking us to the boat dock.
After a few minutes, we noticed we were taking a route we didn't recognize. Turns out, she was taking us straight to the Contemporary! We were so grateful and she really made that day wonderful, for my mom especially

 

[TabithaStephens]

2nd trip...my oldest daughter was 4 at the time. We had just got on the carousel when all the princesses came out of CRT from the late dinner and rode the carousel. Aurora sat right next to her and talked with her the entire ride!

That's so cute! I always see commercials and advertised photos of characters on the rides and wondered if they actually did that or if it was just for show

 

[JustCallMeMommy]

During our 2010 Christmas trip, we were in Animal Kingdom, and DD approached a CM to do pin trading. The CM asked how many of us were in our party and then asked if we wanted to be in the Jingle Jungle Parade that afternoon. It was so much fun to ride in a float around AK on an extremely crowded day and get to wave at everyone.

As a side note, we did a pretty good job staying out of the crowds during this trip, but from that vantage point, I got a true appreciation for just how many people were in the park.

 

[Dancemomof3]

This moment right here. It was hot, we were miserable. My son had been obsessed with Woody since he was 1 and carried a small one with him everywhere. We happened to time it perfectly there was no line for Woody and Jesse. My son ran right past Jesse's outstretched arms to Woody and Woody was there to catch him. All the whining and miserableness of the day washed away. I may have cried a little

 

[TabithaStephens]

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This moment right here. It was hot, we were miserable. My son had been obsessed with Woody since he was 1 and carried a small one with him everywhere. We happened to time it perfectly there was no line for Woody and Jesse. My son ran right past Jesse's outstretched arms to Woody and Woody was there to catch him. All the whining and miserableness of the day washed away. I may have cried a little

What a sweet picture and story!!

 

[orna14]

My last trip, in 2014, we took my little cousin and she got tired so my parents took her back to Art of Animation to go to bed. Wishes was just starting but my sister, Maddie, and I are 15-17 so we weren't quite ready to retire. In our Disney haze, Maddie and I skipped away from Tomorrowland over to Frontierland - it was practically empty so we were giggling and laughing and crazy towards Big Thunder. The mountain was juuust beginning to show up and we were passing by Tortuga Tavern and there was a CM out sweeping, dancing to the music. In our ~Disney haze~ we shouted out "We love your dancing!" and did a little jig in the empty walkway. He shouted back a shy but giggly "thank you!" And we proceeded to ride Big Thunder a dozen times. Fantastic night!

 

[Eastern]

January 2015 I didn't book CR because it was too $$, then it got sold out. I booked Poly instead. We drove up to unload and the woman told us we were the family of the day and we were upgraded to the Ambassador's Suite. It was great.

 

[eeyoresmom]

In the midst of a terrible year last year for our family( serious illnesses, job loss, chronic pain from a back injury), DD was accepted into the Disney College Program. She had dreamed of this and worked so hard for it. It was a real stretch for her to do something like that but she wanted it so badly she made it happen. Her college doesn't participate in the exchange so she had to double up on classes at home in order to graduate on time. It's a long drawn out process. Application, telephone interview, maybe a second telephone interview and then just wait weeks to months in between to find out if you have been accepted. Well, she was one of the last of that semester to get her acceptance email. She was soooo happy she got in. They don't tell you where you will be working, not even what type of job. You can request merchandising, food service etc. but it is not guaranteed. We talked for months about how amazing it would be if she got a position in any of the parks but we knew that was a real stretch, she thought maybe one of the gift shops in a resort was most likely. The weekend she was to move in, I went down there with her and we stayed at POFQ. We were at the pool and she was on her phone....Through a fellow college program friend she met on FB she found out that the CM's at the Disney resorts have access to that information and if she went to the front desk and asked, they "might" be able to tell her. She kept asking me if I thought she should go ask and I encouraged her but she didn't want to impose on the CM's. This went back and forth for about a half hour. Finally, she gets up and tells me she's going to ask. Right when she walked away I thought to myself "I should go with her" but I was in a wet bathing suit . She comes back 5 minutes later and says "Mom" in a cracking voice and starts crying .It took her a minute to be able to tell me that she approached the CM at the desk and asked if they could tell her where her assignment was. That particular CM didn't know how to do it so called over another CM. She was clicking away on the computer and they are both looking at the screen and one says to the other "you tell her". The inexperienced CM says "Magic Kingdom, Main Street USA. The emporium" Needless to say we were both crying and she had an amazing 4 months.

 

[a1970model]

A few years ago, we visited the Magic Kingdom on the first day of our trip for only a couple of hours. As we were leaving to meet up with another friend (who had flown in), we were stopped by a cast member as we walked through the town square about 5pm. He asked my husband if he was a veteran. He motioned to me and said "We both are." The cast members got super-excited, exclaiming that it's not often they get a married couple as their Veterans of the Day. DH and I assisted with the retirement of the colors and our kids got to lead the crowd in the Pledge of Allegiance. (Talk about being terrified... we just knew we were going to mess something up in front of all those people!) Afterwards, we marched down Main Street in the parade and were presented with special pins and certificates. We've had other magical moments on other trips, but for this military family, retiring the American flag in the Magic Kingdom that day tops all of them!

 

[rastahomie]

My most magical "Disney" experience came not from Disney, but from American Airlines.

Mrs. Homie and I were at the Saint Louis airport, waiting for our 7:30PM-ish flight to Orlando. They were making all of the passengers check in again at the gate, and judging from the conversations we were overhearing in line it appeared they had overbooked. The man in front of me in line was having none of it, raising all kinds of hell and berating the poor ticket agent, like it was her fault. When I stepped up, the young lady politely explained that they had overbooked but they would do their best. I politely told her to do her best, that it was no big deal, that we weren't going to walk to Orlando, so if we had to take a later flight, so be it.

About twenty minutes later they called our name and gave us our boarding passes. FIRST CLASS!

We were seated in our seats as the passengers were boarding the plane when the gate agent stepped aboard and looked for us. She caught my eye and gave me a thumbs-up.

Just goes to show that you catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.

By the way, I never did see that rude guy.

 

[donac]

Someone reminded me of this just the other day. We were there in Aug and were celebrating our anniversary. Dh and I were wearing our anniversary buttons. We walked up to Jungle Cruise and saw a 45 minute wait. We really didn't want to wait that long. The skipper at the FP saw our buttons and asked how long we were married. We told him 31 years. He told us anyone who has been married that long deserves a break so he let my family into the FP line. It was paper passes and he gave us some so that we could get in as we got closer.

 

[jhaig]

Family of the Day 9/2/10 - an awesome unexpected experience!

 

[donac]

I just remembered another one that my sons and dh talk about to everyone when they are talking about Disney.

Ds1 had a figment hat from when he was 3. When his brother turned 3 we went to Disney and our younger son got to wear the figment hat (which was no longer being sold). we were on the boat back to FW and they were in the back of the boat with a few other kids. Next thing we know another kid had knocked the hat off our younger son's head and it went into the lake. Dh was angry but there was nothing we could do. A cm must have seen the problem. As we were getting off the captain told us to wait at the dock. When the next boat came in the captain was wearing the wet figment hat. They had scooped it out of the water and brought it back to us.

This is why we keeping coming back to Disney.

 

[JRatManda]

We were family of the day a few weeks ago on my in laws and my daughters (6yr old) first trip to Disney. MK was our first day/park so that was their first experience ever! That was obviously amazing.

That next night we did the Pirates & Pals fireworks cruise, the boat captains mentioned they needed 2 kids to carry the boat flags (one for each boat), lead the way and to help captain each boat. My daughter was already in front of one of the captains and made it quite known she wanted this job. They laughed and apologized and told her they had already picked the names. She voiced her disappointment and how she would have been a great captain (politely). Then the one captain announced the first kids name....which was hers. The guy died laughing and just looked at me and said 'Are you serious??'

So needless to say, she had a magical trip