What Irritates you about DLP?

[BONITATIME]

When parents shout at the lil children for getting excited!! Come on parents you have taken your kiddies to disneyland, what do you expect!!

I agree with this one they seem to get so wound up and stressed about the holiday that it all ends in tears.

 

[angel659]

When parents shout at the lil children for getting excited!! Come on parents you have taken your kiddies to disneyland, what do you expect!!

Hi

I know its mad. I love seeing the kids getting so excited. I cant wait to see my kids excited and running around.

 

[Bexx]

When parents shout at the lil children for getting excited!! Come on parents you have taken your kiddies to disneyland, what do you expect!!

Again, this sort of behaviour is also very common at WDW.

 

[Lizzybear]

That sort of 'no mans land' near the train station where all the junk sellers are. I think it really lowers the tone of the area and it's a shame no-one can do anything about it

 

[luke]

That sort of 'no mans land' near the train station where all the junk sellers are. I think it really lowers the tone of the area and it's a shame no-one can do anything about it

Thats the one!!

Really hate that part, i know i can walk away and say no thanks as i storm on past, but i always feel anger building up when i say "non merci" to the 5th caricature drawer!!!

 

[woody73]

I hate it when we exit a ride and someone has stolen our baby stroller.

Woody

 

[wideeyes]

I asked dd what she did not like about DLP.

Her answer was the Baddies.
(I think she means the Characters like Jafar etc)

 

[NIK]

When I went last time some evil person was trying to force her terrified youngster down into the dungeon to see the Dragon. Poor little mite was screaming with terror but she just kept yelling at him that he was 'missing the show' and was making no effort to enjoy the holiday. This was at about 10am so I can only hope he made her day as miserable as she was making his!

I agree with this one they seem to get so wound up and stressed about the holiday that it all ends in tears.

 

[isma]

What irritates me about DLP? Some has been mentioned before like teenagers smoking while queuing and the design of Disney village (they built the most beautiful Magic Kingdom so what happened at the village? ). It also irritates me (although maybe it has finally been changed) that there is a missing doll in IASW in I think the indian part that wasn`t there this year and last year! Also that the swinging pirate doesn`t seem to do a lot of swinging. I know that these things are probabely only noticed by people that go very frequently and they don`t really bother me but I always wonder why they don`t change it. Oh, and parents that refuse to let strange children sit in the first row for the parade because they had the spot first, now that really irritates me but it`s not only at DLP.

 

[NETGURU]

On the note of the smoking, yeah I really noticed it in DLP. You don't realise how strange smoking indoors is until you've had it banned lol. Will be good to abolish it from the main park as it does make the air bad for sinuses.

tom

 

[Eclipsepearl]

As a 10 year resident, and now citizen in France, some of these amused me. They're very cultural!

1) Disorganisation - many times we encountered lines being unorganised. The CM would literally pace around while people were shuving and pushing kiddies away to get to the characters. When the CM should say thats enough and line appropriately.

While I wholly agree, the problem here is that if a CM tried to do this, the French would just curse him or her out and ignor the request no matter how polite.

The trick here is to isolate someone. If someone pushes in front of you, ask them if they're with the person in front of you. Then they're all "huh?" and often withdrawl, just because they've been singled out. I'll also do the "pardon, pardon, pardon". Get all exasperated and say "some people!" even in English.

2) Smoking. Even as a smoker I do not believe in free smoke around public places. Its common courtesy not to light up in lines. But at DLP no one understands that

Very French. They just don't get why people don't like smoke being blown in to their faces. This was also the attitude I encountered when I first moved to England 17 years ago. People had a right to smoke, but not to shop on Sundays. I have hope for France...but you may have to wait about that long! Honestly, it is changing (thanks to former smokers like my dh who now smells it 20 meters away and complains loudly when he used to smoke while I ate!)

4) Rude CM. Many times I encoutered the CM speaking in english to Spanish etc, but when I came up they made out they could not speak it. Not that I am condoning my sheer ignorance to learn how to speak French, but it was the sheer lie that did it for me.

This is amusing because with me, they'd switch to English if they saw me speaking it to my kids (I always speak to them in English even though I lived in France before meeting dh). This wouldn't be such a problem except poor dh doesn't speak English, only understands a bit. I'd turn to them and explain that I "now needed to translate this for my husband" and then tell him what the fellow French person just said, in French, in France.

The other thing is about the little kids peeing anywhere. Very French! OMG, I couldn't believe it when I moved here. They'll let them do it right in front of someplace like a hotel (the examples here were descreet!). Once, dh had ds peeing about 20ft from a restroom at a auto stop in California. I was horrified! You see men whipping it out on the sides of the highways over here. Big boys who could easily hold it till the next rest stop.

So there's my little cultural awareness lecture. Don't be shy in France. Tell them right away if something's amiss. You always know where you stand with the French, no cagey-ness. You don't like your seat, tell them right away. If you sit there, then complain, they'll think that's weird and wonder why you kept quiet. Speak up.

They wont get that mad or it'll be "rooster" like (lots of flapping but they're not actually that angry). No one will whip out a gun and blow your head off, like they would in Florida so that's a plus!

 

[Crokette]

It looks like you know a lot about the French, that's so true!

But about kids peeing everywhere, I must admit I saw way worse in Spain...

 

[StPot]

Oh, and parents that refuse to let strange children sit in the first row for the parade because they had the spot first, now that really irritates me but it`s not only at DLP.

I totally agree here ! I am 43 and have two big kids, but we still enjoy the parades (it makes me go all emotional to see all the childrens faces, so happy and everything ) . Nothing irritates me more than to see adults almost form a wall on the curb of main street, and small children standing behind them not seeing a thing.. It's not as if the adults in front will not be able to see the parade if the children stand in the front There again I suppose that the second thing that irritates me most is that when I let a child stand in front of me that mum or dad try to push their way through to stand in front as well...

 

[luke]

I totally agree here ! I am 43 and have two big kids, but we still enjoy the parades (it makes me go all emotional to see all the childrens faces, so happy and everything ) . Nothing irritates me more than to see adults almost form a wall on the curb of main street, and small children standing behind them not seeing a thing.. It's not as if the adults in front will not be able to see the parade if the children stand in the front There again I suppose that the second thing that irritates me most is that when I let a child stand in front of me that mum or dad try to push their way through to stand in front as well...

One of my best memories of a parade, is letting a little Spanish kid sit in front of us in WDS, and then being thanked profusely by the parents (who seemed very impressed with my ability to speak to them in Spanish, then Catalan when i learnt they were from Barcelona )

 

[PATMAGIC]

The only annoyance I have about DLRP happened last visit when I tried to get a photo with Chip or Dale and the character assistant told me oh but there's so many children, however there was not and also I dislike being treated like I am too old to pose with characters, thankfully this has only happened on one occasion and every other cast member is always willing to a take a photograph even if it means waiting a while to get to the character.

 

[NIK]

I totally agree here ! I am 43 and have two big kids, but we still enjoy the parades (it makes me go all emotional to see all the childrens faces, so happy and everything ) . Nothing irritates me more than to see adults almost form a wall on the curb of main street, and small children standing behind them not seeing a thing.. It's not as if the adults in front will not be able to see the parade if the children stand in the front There again I suppose that the second thing that irritates me most is that when I let a child stand in front of me that mum or dad try to push their way through to stand in front as well...

Having just got back from DLP the chaos surrounding parades was diabolical. Yes I do accept that children should be able to see but why on earth don't their parents stake out a spot early enough. As a grown up who has paid for my ticket too, I've no objection to a child sitting on the kerb in front of me - I gave way several times to allow youngsters to see better - but I do hugely object when I have been standing in the cold for an hour to ensure I get a good vantage point to see and photograph the parade when someone just decides they are going to stand in front of me. On the recent visit both for the Xmas Parade and Fantillusion people were pushing in all over the place and two women accompanying a small boy were adamant they were going to stand in front of us no matter what anyone, including the cast members said. Eventually there was a 'frank exchange of views' from two other folks and they decided to move off but it was an unpleasant scene in any event.

I do agree that it's hugely annoying when you have made room for the kiddie and mama and papa decide they are going to barge through too.

It's a bit of a sore point for me following my last visit however.

 

[arieliwish]

Well, apart from the smoking and the pushing in on queues, the staff aren't as friendly as in WDW. Ok, there's a language barrier in some cases but they seem to just get on with the job and not really interact that much. Just a small gripe.

When we were there recently my friend was allocated a smoking room. She didn't complain or ask to swap, but it hadn't even occurred to us to request non-smoking.

While waiting a very long time for our boys to have halloween scary hair done, a very well dressed, middle aged couple starting moving their way through the queue. We spotted them and spread ourselves so they couldn't get passed us. We found it odd that they had no children and really didn't look like they wanted scary hair! (He was thinning on top, she had gorgeous jet black very long hair). They sounded italian, and eventually pushed a map in front of my friend and pointed to the train station, asking if we were waiting for that!! We directed them towards phantom manor and the station beyond. Oh how we laughed at that!!

Lynn

 

[Crokette]

Well, apart from the smoking and the pushing in on queues, the staff aren't as friendly as in WDW. Ok, there's a language barrier in some cases but they seem to just get on with the job and not really interact that much. Just a small gripe.

Lynn

I totally agree with that. When I started visiting DLP, the staff was most of the time friendly, and played the Disney game. Those last 4 years there was a loss of that, we can even hear cast member complaining loud about anything (private stories, salaries, anything) now, and this splits the magic to me.
I never heard or saw something like that in WDW or even in DCA.

 

[Pirata]

Nobody complains about food quality in restaurants? Moreover, nobody complains about its prices?

 

[Cass]

This thread is scaring me.