Worst Experience at a WDW park, ride, or Hotel.

[ImaginEars]

Tell about a bad WDW park, ride, or Hotel experience.

 

[KimWDW]

Honestly never had one that I could blame on Disney. The only bad things come from bad people. The one that sticks out was a trashy man who was cursing at his children.

 

[2Xited4Disney]

My worst experience is leaving

 

[weirdpaintballr]

My dad had a little kid pour a very large glass of orange soda down his back at a parade.


Also, I can't stand it when people get all up in your personal bubble. (fireworks, parades, lines, etc.) ITs just like sheesh. Can you not see me standing here?!?!?!

 

[vicb]

I think there is too much focus on bad behavior by guests and CM's. Any vacation will have its highs and lows. People tend to have such high expectations for magical perfection at WDW that they are easily jaded. I tried really hard not to get into that on my trip last month. There were a few things that could have set me off but I kept thinking "I don't have to catch that ball if I don't want to". A couple of times I saw bad guest behavior and caught the eye of a nearby CM and we exchanged head shakes. I'll bet they see a lot of unbelieveable stuff.

Mostly we encountered really nice guests and CMs and what few "lows" we had we chalked up to our being overly tired or hungry.

 

[dsnycrzy]

I arrived to get a pretty good spot behind a family of 6 for the spectro magic parade. The family were fine with the group to the left of them (their same race) but kept turning their nose up at my kids and I. I paid them no mind because all kinds of personalities visit WDW. Well this group was up front right behind the tape and we were right behind them. They had NO KIDS WITH THEM. (YOU'LL SEE WHY I SAY THAT IN A MINUTE). Jiminy Cricket starts telling us all the parade will be starting soon. Seeing how uncomfortable the people were that we were there, I kept making sure my kids didn't kick them or anything (you know how kids are when they are excited). The street lights go out and the music starts, I have good view for pictures, my kids can see very well. Then 3 of the people in front of us look back as I am adjusting my camcorder and they laugh and do the worst thing ever...
THE 3 ADULTS IN FRONT OF MY VIEW AND MY KIDS STAND UP . Of course I said something like "you've got to be kidding me". My kids are screaming "mommy I can't see" over and over and I try to position then a little better. As the people in front of me see me doing this...they reposition themselves to continue blocking them. All my pictures have half of their shirt in it because when ever they seen my flash, they'd move in my way. Being I had a digital camera with a delay capture, it would do a flash to produce some light and then take the picture. So they'd see the flash and move in front of me. I was so mad because as you know there is nowhere to move while the parade was going on and my kids were upset. I was so mad that when the parade was over, I lost my pixie dust for a moment and rammed the ring leader of it all with the stroller acting like it was a mistake. I'm sorry I had to stoop to their level but I was so angry. What they did was pure mean to do for no reason at all. After that we watched wishes and I was restored my pixie dust.

 

[michaelwilliammidd]

Another post thats not Disney's fault as I can't think of anything they have done that sticks out. Anyway, this past trip we had just arrived at MK and upon entering saw DMIL's favorite characters Chip and Dale in front of Tony's. So being the fan that she is we get in line so that she and DW can get a quick picture with them...we wait for about 5 minutes and when they get to the front as they are posing with Chip and Dale some hateful mom back in the line yells out "oh my God there are children waiting......please!!!!". I couldn't believe someone would act that way as everyone there has the right to have their picture made with who they want or take part in whatever activity they want to. I am sure she had a very happy Disney day with that attitude.

 

[Hugpug]

The worst one I had was when I rode Dino (AK) I was sore for a week afterwards. Never Ever Again.

 

[KCinVA]

The only really bad thing that ever happened to us was a bad Mears bus driver. He pulled into the hotel from the wrong direction, and ran over a sign post. He then backed up to try again, and hit a lightpole or something like that. When they finally got him straightend out with his bus and hotel management, he got lost on the way to the airport and had to call for directions. When that was finally over, we heard him talking very loudly to someone on the phone about how the job 'sucked'. We swore we'd never take another Mears bus, but gave Magical Express a try, and have had three great experiences with it.

 

[ImaginEars]

My worst experience is leaving

Same here

 

[grumpymakesmehappy]

My worst experience is leaving

So true...so true! Leaving is the absolute worst.

 

[ImaginEars]

So true...so true! Leaving is the absolute worst.

It really is!

 

[ReninDetroit]

My horrible experiences at Disney tend to happen off Disney property, at the ORLANDO AIRPORT. I hate, hate HATE that airport. It is so poorly designed. I get aggravated every time I have to go through, from outdated security procedures (schlep your own bags to x-ray, etc) to lack of restaurants and lack of seating, to grumpy ground crew, and it is always SO HOT in there.

Actually, we had a funny bad experience on our flight to Orlando for our last trip. Flying DTW-MCO, a family member has platinum elite on Northwest because he travels for business 50 weeks a year (yes, he's always gone) and so naturally they love to please him; one perk of this is unlimited first class upgrades whenever there's space available. So it turns out there was ample room up front on this flight.

About 15 minutes after we board, this real 'klassy' couple walks on, yelling and hooting about real nice first class is and how theyre going to really live it up and start their vacation early. It was bluntly obvious that they were tickled to death to be sitting up with the rich folk (though realistically in my experience most of the people in first are there because they fly so much on behalf of their companies, not because they pay for it) and they were going to REMEMBER it.

As soon as the seatbelt sign goes off and we're at our cruising altitude, they whip out the cameras and start taking pictures of everyone in the first class cabin, posing with the flight attendants, getting pics of the lavatory as if it's different from the coach toilet, and I even heard the man asking the purser if they could get a picture with the captain up in the cockpit.

And, of course, they took advantage of the free drinks; the man must have had 5 bloody marys on our 2 hour flight and the lady had a couple of beers. Then the man starts flirting with these 18 or 19 year old girls in the row in front of him and his wife is just LAUGHING! The flight attendant noticed that our party was laughing our booties off at the sequence of events, and he mentioned to us that the plane was 'oversold in the back'.

 

[ImaginEars]

My horrible experiences at Disney tend to happen off Disney property, at the ORLANDO AIRPORT. I hate, hate HATE that airport. It is so poorly designed. I get aggravated every time I have to go through, from outdated security procedures (schlep your own bags to x-ray, etc) to lack of restaurants and lack of seating, to grumpy ground crew, and it is always SO HOT in there.

Actually, we had a funny bad experience on our flight to Orlando for our last trip. Flying DTW-MCO, a family member has platinum elite on Northwest because he travels for business 50 weeks a year (yes, he's always gone) and so naturally they love to please him; one perk of this is unlimited first class upgrades whenever there's space available. So it turns out there was ample room up front on this flight.

About 15 minutes after we board, this real 'klassy' couple walks on, yelling and hooting about real nice first class is and how theyre going to really live it up and start their vacation early. It was bluntly obvious that they were tickled to death to be sitting up with the rich folk (though realistically in my experience most of the people in first are there because they fly so much on behalf of their companies, not because they pay for it) and they were going to REMEMBER it.

As soon as the seatbelt sign goes off and we're at our cruising altitude, they whip out the cameras and start taking pictures of everyone in the first class cabin, posing with the flight attendants, getting pics of the lavatory as if it's different from the coach toilet, and I even heard the man asking the purser if they could get a picture with the captain up in the cockpit.

And, of course, they took advantage of the free drinks; the man must have had 5 bloody marys on our 2 hour flight and the lady had a couple of beers. Then the man starts flirting with these 18 or 19 year old girls in the row in front of him and his wife is just LAUGHING! The flight attendant noticed that our party was laughing our booties off at the sequence of events, and he mentioned to us that the plane was 'oversold in the back'.

Good one

 

[goofy's friends]

OK, you want a funny one?? It was the worst for me when I was 13, but it makes for a good story now

My dad decided we would drive a motorhome cross-county to Disney World--we pulled up at the Contemporary (I think, it was a long time ago) and my dad insisted he could make it under the awning. We were all telling him no, but he did it anyway! Inching under, he's saying, "see, we're fine" and all of a sudden, hits the sprinkler heads. Black water is running down all the windows, the alarms were going off, and people are running out of the hotel. I don't remember much about getting out, just how horrified I was!!!!

Needless to say it was an unforgetable entrance.

This is a repeat off the Shocking experience thread--sorry if you've read it already!

 

[anewvance]

OMG how embarrassing Goofy's Friends... I woulda died. Sounds like something my grandfather would do.

Like the time we were in Europe, in Vienna Austria... we were trying to find a hotel for 6 hours (not exagurating) it was a specific hotel he saw in a hotel guide book and he wanted to find THAT hotel, it was cheap and apparently clean. There was a little street that had a street market going on but cars could still drive, carefully. Problem was it was a one way street. My grandfather started driving the street the wrong way, all the people were yelling at us. To make it more embarrassing, we went around in circles and he did it not one more time but TWO more times... my sister and I were on the floor of the car at this point, we were dying of embarrassment. Never found that hotel and ended up at a 5 star Marriott!!! Whoo hoo, made up for the embarassment....a little.

 

[rnorberg]

We got a table at the cantina in mexico (EPCOT) 2 hours before illuminations, had a nice dinner and a few margaritas. Had a nice table right on the lake. As soon as the show started, some horrible people jumped the fence and stook right in front of us. sooo annoying!

 

[LaughinPlace289]

Being on Test Track when it broke down. The car I was in was right in the middle of the hill climb test and it just came to an abrupt stop. After 5-10 minutes of waiting a CM came walking in telling us the ride had broken down. But we did get a fantastic "behind the scenes" view of Test Track and a pass to get us to the front of the line the next time we visited.

 

[goofy's friends]

OMG how embarrassing Goofy's Friends... I woulda died. Sounds like something my grandfather would do.

Like the time we were in Europe, in Vienna Austria... we were trying to find a hotel for 6 hours (not exagurating) it was a specific hotel he saw in a hotel guide book and he wanted to find THAT hotel, it was cheap and apparently clean. There was a little street that had a street market going on but cars could still drive, carefully. Problem was it was a one way street. My grandfather started driving the street the wrong way, all the people were yelling at us. To make it more embarrassing, we went around in circles and he did it not one more time but TWO more times... my sister and I were on the floor of the car at this point, we were dying of embarrassment. Never found that hotel and ended up at a 5 star Marriott!!! Whoo hoo, made up for the embarassment....a little.

Mickey came out and tried to make up for our embarrassment, but to a 13yo. only made it worse. He came up to us and was holding his big ears (because of the alarm) and I just sunk farther into the couch. If everyone wasn't looking at me before, they were now!!!!

 

[travlnman1]

It was an interesting thread so I read all the replies and then just sat here to think. We go to Disney every year. There MUST have been a bad experience sometime..somewhere. I honestly can't think of anything.
Annoying people? Sure. But I get that at the food store so I just let it roll off my back. Rude CM's? I've never come across one. Bad food? Nothing so horrible that I had to send it back. Never a bad hotel experience.
Now you know why we go back year after year.
It's always a good time!

Only 75 more days!!