Whats the NICEST thing that has happened to you at WDW???

[Talking Hands]

Two magical moments. In June I was in a cast. I went to MK the day we checked out by myself since my daughters wanted to go to MGM and ride rides. I had all sorts of problems including several people hitting my leg and missing the show I wanted to see. I was literally in tears. Well, somehow it got back to the castmember who sets up the interpreters. He came to find me at the parade to make sure I was ok. I was by then because I had already taken pain meds and been cheered up by the interpreters who also noticed I was down.

Second, in September I adopted a family so they could watch the parade with me. They had 2 young kids so I tucked them in front of my wheelchair so they could see. When the parade came by one of the artists gave me the drawing he was doing. I handed it to the older boy. You should have seen the look on his face. It was as if I gave him gold.

 

[jillybeans]

It was our next to last day in Dec. 2000 - we were on our way back to BC to go swimming around noon'ish and happened upon the EPCOT Character caravan.... DD (4 yo at the time) got on line for all the characters, which that day happened to include the elusive Jiminy Cricket! She got his picture and an autograph - with a few hugs thrown in for good measure..... So far nothing out of the ordinary.

The next morning we had Breakfast at the BC with the characters and DD went out into the lobby area for a rather lengthy meeting with Minnie, her favorite character aside from Cinderella..... Since no one else was around Minnie spent some quality time with her. Before we left Minnie took DD by the hand and walked over to the check-in podium. The CM gave Minnie a piece of paper and on that paper Minnie wrote the following:
"Jiminy Cricket told me that he met you in EPCOT yesterday!!"
Well, DD was just amazed that Minnie knew this and it really made her day.....
DH on the other hand said "How could she possibly know that Jiminy met DD yesterday". I explained to him that Minnie and Jiminy probably "had dinner together last night" - it took him some time but he finally figured it out.
Me? I was amazed that with all the kids these CM's see in a day that Minnie/Jiminy was kind enough to remember my DD! Of course, she is a very memorable child if I must say so myself!

We are heading back right after Thanksgiving and I'm looking forward to lots more magic!!!!!

 

[MelanieC]

On our first trip to Walt Disney World. My DD was 3 years old. I had been debating the entire trip if we should buy her the EPCOT passport book. On the 2nd to last day we did. We had no idea that you had to go to each country to get it stamped. I thought it was just a book that she could put stickers in herself. So that evening, we got several countries stamped before the night ended. On our last night there, I went back to EPCOT after a day at MK. It was then, as I was running that I really learned how large this park was. I was trying to get to the countries to get the rest stamped before the park closed. Needless to say I only made it to one Country.

On my way out of the park, I stopped by the Customer Service desk. I explained to them that this was our last day, but I wanted to finish the passport as a souvenir of my daughters first trip to WDW. I asked if someone could get it stamped and mailed back to me. I was very skeptical that I would ever see it again. But it was worth a try.

About a week later, the passport showed up in my mailbox. Filled with lots of wonderful wishes and extra writings!!! I was very impressed!


On our last trip to WDW, we were waiting at the train station in Mickey's Toon Town Fair. The Conductor let my daughter wear his conductor hat, and was entertaining them while we waited. The kids had a ball and felt really special.

Also on our last trip, my DH lost one of our 6 day Stars and Stripes passes while getting a fast pass. We had 4 days left.
I was sitting on a street corner while he went to get the pass. He only came back with 3 passes, but yet 4 fastpasses. He immediately went back, and we still could not find it. We spent most of the day, going back to see if anyone had turned it in. We also checked with City hall to see if we could get it replaced. We went back to the Shades of green. Nope, everyone told us we would have to buy a new one because they use stock that is not associated with a name. That evening, when we got back to our hotel. I went to the front desk. Some really nice CM, printed me a 4 day complimentary pass that was good till the end of our stay. I thanked her so many times. She really doesn't know how much I appreciated not haveing to spend the extra money to buy another pass. It really was not in our budget.


This is a great thread!! Thanks for the smiles,

Melanie

 

[zakatak]

THE nicest thing in my life happened at WDW! On February 14, 2002 at approximately 9:15am, a housekeeper at AKL found my lost 19 month old dd.

The 15 minutes of checking the pool, lobby, and bus stops was the longest 15 minutes of my life.

Thank you AKL staff.

Karen

 

[ChesireMeg]

I think it's really nice when we get handed FastPasses while waiting in line. That has happened several times for us--it's the little things that count

 

[ZPT1022]

We were at WDW for our honeymoon in September. We made one of those build a pins, the background said 2002 and we put a Minnie bride, a Mickey groom and a castle on it to comemmorate our honeymoon. Well, we had the pin on our backpack and it managed to get lost somewhere. We went and checked at Guest Services at the Magic Kingdom to see if anyone had turned it in, hoping that since it was only special to us perhaps they had. No such luck, but the really nice CM working there (Cheryl, I believe her name was)gave us a pass to go and get a new pin made and then she said since she had had so much fun talking to us that she would give us a "skip the line" pass to any MK attraction we wanted. We chose Splash Mountain, as it was about 91 degrees with 98% humidity. It was a great choice and che really helped to turn our day around!

 

[Tulip]

I love all these stories!

 

[LvsTnk]

Many Many magical things have happened to us while at Disney!

The 2 most memorable would be the awesome captain of one of the friendship boats that took DH back to the restaurant in Mexico at Epcot to get our camcorder.

We had finished our meal and DH was taking DS back to our room at the BWI while I took the older 2 to ride TT.

DH was just getting on the boat to go back when he realized he didn't have the camcorder. The captain told DH he would take the 2 of them over there on one of the small boats they transport the captains on. Well, they flew over there right through the lagoon (Illuminations was about to start)and to a dock right by the restaurant. Camcorder was retrieved and DS got the card that said he was the captain of the boat.

Second thing that was just awesome was that a CM at Hollywood and Vine (manager) found out it was DS's b-day and that his favorite thing at MGM was the Doug Show. She tried to find out if the characters would be in the park that day and when they weren't she arranged for DS to meet the characters after the show.

We lingered after the show was over and were told to wait by the front steps to the stage, sure enough they all came out. Doug, Roger, Skeeter, and Patty. They didn't rush and spent about 15min. with him.

 

[Girls Scout Leader]

Does anyone mind if I bump this up? I mean, these are just too good, and I'l bet there are many more yet to come!!

 

[roque]

this is a wonderful thread. i'm glad it popped back up.
this should be required reading for the dis boards

 

[Mouseteacher]

We were in MGM this past August. I already had a PS at the Brown Derby but not the Fantasmic dinner package. I approached the CM at the reception desk and politely asked if we could have the dinner package seating even though it was not a part of my PS. She was wonderful and tried many things on the computer. I insisted that she not put herself out - that I was just asking and didn't expect her to get in trouble or do anything that she couldn't. She said don't worry just give me a minute to work something out. She told us to return about 15 min. before our PS and ask for her - she would them be able to give us the card for Fantasmic. We did as she told us and all went as she said. She gave us the dinner package. She didn't have to go the extra mile but she did and I told her she spread pixie dust on our vacation and she embodied the Disney magic we all know!

 

[Hsminnie]

Bump

Let's keep this going so I can add to it when we get back Dec 19.

 

[Eljay]

I spent the day at Epcot with 2 friends & on a whim, we decided to have dinner at The Flying Fish. Well, that's such a popular restaurant, you don't just stroll in at 7:30 & think you're going to be seated but we took a chance anyway.
As we were on the shuttle boat that takes you from the International Gateway to the Boardwalk, we were in the front near the Captain. He was making small talk & asked us what our evening plans were & we said dinner at the F.F. He asked if we had P.S. & we said "no". He said, "I'm sorry to tell you , but you probably won't be able to get in tonight". At that point a lovely English couple with 2 beautiful little girls said, "We have P.S. for right now that we aren't using. You're welcome to them!" They told us the name the P.S. was under & we walked into the F.F. like we owned the joint! Now that was an adult Magical Moment!

 

[dizfamily]

One trip about 2 1/2 years ago, when my dd was about 5 1/2, we were at Downtown Disney one night. We had just heard about pin trading before we left for the trip and I bought just a handful of pins to use for trading. The whole trip my dd was bugging me to do trades. A CM at one of the shops overheard my dd begging me once again to do a trade and said, "Wait right here." She went to the back and came out with 3 puzzle piece pins, gave them to my dd and told her they were HERS to trade for whatever pins she wanted! Of course, at that point they became special to her and she had a hard time letting go of them to trade!

 

[The Duchess]

My most memorable Disney moment from my last trip was at the end of the Family Magic Tour. I won't give it away for those of you who have not done this tour, but it was very magical for me and hopefully for my four year old DS.

 

[Pam Lau]

On our first trip to WDW my son was 1 1/2 years old and he picked out his first Eeyore. He now has about 120, but none quite as special as the original. On our next visit when he was almost 3 we had checked to see where Eeyore was appearing and when he did not come out with the rest of the Pooh Characters we asked the CM where he was. He told us that Eeyore was sick and unable to appear. So we asked where he would be the following day. The CM was gone for a few minutes and then returned to tell us that if we waited about 10 minutes Eeyore would be able to come out. Eeyore did come out and visited with us for a couple minutes before going back to the character area. As we left the park we stopped by City Hall to write a commendation for the cm who made sure that our son was not disappointed.

A special Disney moment for our daughter was appearing in a skit at the Comedy Warehouse in Pleasure Island.

 

[Russell]

The CM's made our last trips so nice! Our DS got bronchitis on the last day of our trip. We went to the World of Disney on our way out for last minute shopping. The manager noticed he was feeling down and asked about him. When she found out he was sick, she gave him a Disney pin (one of the villain series of Prince John). He was so happy about that. We had a wonderful waitress at Norway who made our dinner there very special. The characters were all wonderful. Marry Poppins walked with my DD age 4 off of the merry-go-round hand in hand to the castle. If Disney has cut corners to make it in these hard times, they haven't cut back on the quality of their employees.

 

[freecia]

When I was probably around 10 I went to Disneyland with my two cousins. One of my cousins decided to take a flying leap for his brother right in front of Cinderella's Castle. His head hit the stone wall instead. Being a brave kid and fairly athletic, he takes this in stride. My parents, however, were horrified they allowed their sister's child get hurt. He had a small gash on his head and it was bleeding.
We made a stop at first aid. It was determined that he would need to get stiches. While we waited for the ambulance, he was treated Wonderfully by a CM and even got a Pooh stuffed animal. Needless to say, I wish I had banged my head against the wall. He was showered with attention, taken to the hospital with one of my parents while we continued to tour the park. He came back to us with stiches and the Pooh.
I don't know if my cousin has a scar on his scalp or if he remembers, but someday, I'll remind him. Probably when we have our own children and I let his kid get in a scrape at a Disney Park.

 

[texmom]

A couple of things stick out in my mind...

1) While waiting for Spectromagic, my son's Buzz spinner ran out of batteries. I had extras with me, but didn't realize that the lid for the battery spot was screwed on. (The Buzz one is the only one that has a screw, don't ask me why!) I went up to a CM to ask about getting a screwdriver, and after ten minutes of trying to help me get the lid off, the CM left, spent another ten minutes tracking down a pushcart that still had Buzz spinners left, and brought me a brand new one. made my son's day!

2) Same son, at Epcot. DH and I thought he wouldn't want to go on Test Track so only got two fast passes. After we were done, he wanted a turn (of course!) but all the FP's were gone for day and standby line was 60 minutes (park was due to close in 20). We had him measured to make sure he was tall enough and he barely made it, so we told him we would get FP's first thing the next day. You all know how well that works with a 4 year old! LOL Anyway, DS is bawling and we're trying to comfort...CM comes up and asks if he's scared, we say no, tell the story. CM walks away, comes back with a pad of paper and writes out a special FP for the three of us to go on together right then!

3) Test Track again, different trip. This time DH is in Orlando on business so it's me and three kids by ourselves at park all day. Okay, we have four people and cars seat six, three in each row. Not good, as of course none of my kids wants to be in a row by themselves. We decide to do two and two, only my oldest son gets in first and my 6 year old DD is stuck in the middle next to (gasp!) a STRANGER!!!!! She starts freaking out (of course, as nowadays we have to tell our kids so much about stranger danger trying to keep them safe)...DS won't switch, the entire line is waiting for us (you know the scene) so I make the executive decision that we just won't ride (not quite that calmly, unfortunately...even moms get grumpy sometimes We get out of the car with the whole line staring at us, CM comes up to ask what the problem is...I explain that my DD doesn't want to sit next to a stranger but my DS doesn't like the middle because it's just a lap belt, etc., etc. CM says "stay right there a sec" goes and talks to another CM, and the next time cars came to unload he saved the first one for just my family!!! No strangers and once again the day was saved due to CM's and Disney Magic!


Thanks to ALL the CM's out there, you are AWESOME!!! You are a HUGE part of the Disney Magic and the magic is what keeps us coming back!!

 

[texmom]

Just thought of one more I had to share!!!

In Epcot, DS had just sliced open his toe and visited first aid (luckily no stitches but a nice cut). We went to the AP Lounge to rest and get a cold drink. While we were there Mickey and Pluto came in! My kids were the only kids there for a bit and Pluto got on the floor and played with the kids, Mickey colored with my DD, and then Mickey and Pluto both played hide and seek with my DS. DS hid behind the couch and Mickey went all over the room "searching" although everyone in the lounge could hear the delighted giggles coming from behind the couch! I took an entire roll of pictures and we still have the picture colored by Mickey...it is one of our prized posessions. How many kids get to go to Disney World and play hide and seek with Mickey?

And my DH still doesn't understand my love of Disney...maybe because he was working that day and missed the best magical moment ever!