worst experience at disney?

[wildbill]

I guess mine isn't as bad as most of these are but here it is....

The credit card bill when I got home!!! How did we spend THAT much????

Bill

 

[Tigger&Aidan]

My mom and I ate the same thing at Raglan Road back in Nov and within a few hrs, we were both sick! She got it much worse than I did! She missed some time at the parks, but all in all, it was a good trip. Don't think we'll be in a hurry to eat there again

 

[Todd&Copper]

My worst experience involved being physically apprehended & restrained by some jerk who claimed to be a police offier on vacation for giving his son a "Bronx cheer" after the 5-year-old boy kicked me repeatedly while waiting in line after I asked him several times to cut it out. I gave him the "raspberry" at the exit to the ride, and Dad rush up and screamed in my face that I assaulted his son. He grabbed both of my wrists and said he was making a "citizen's arrest" for assualt and battery. I was 13 and terrified and dug my nails into his arms and scratched until he bled and he still wouldn't let go until my 6'4" tall dad turned the corner (Sis & I were going on Peter Pan and Dad & Mom were taking a break in a CS restaurant for a bit). The security CM showed up at the same time as Dad, the jerk immediately let go and all of a sudden I think the absolutely insane-on-crack-or-meth severity of his actions hit him as his face went ashen. He lamely babbled something about and assault and a citizen's arrest, but the security CM gave him a look along the lines of "give me a break, buddy, are you some kind of *****?" and asked me what happened. I told the CM everything, admitting the Bronx cheer was not very nice, but I was mad that the son was such a little so-and-so and the CM sent me on my way after chatting with my dad and me for a couple of minutes. I am not sure what happened to the other guy. I hope the scratches I gave him got infected.

 

[RedStarlette]

I went with my (now) Husband and a couple of our friends (Hus and Wifey) for a New Year's trip a few years back and we stayed at Pop Century. My girlfriend had just gotten her husband a very nice electric razor for Christmas that year and on our very first full day the razor disappeared from our room (it would not fit in the safe with the other items we had placed there).

Of course we were beyond upset, but tried to maintain perspective. This can happen anywhere, not just Disney, and we tried to not take our anger out on anyone. He had used it the afternoon before, just after we had gotten in and before we went out to grab some dinner, and specifically rememered putting it back inside his suitcase. Before we made any complaints we tore the room apart, every crevice, every pocket on every suitcase....everywhere. We even went out and tore our vehicle apart just to make sure it didn't end up back there by some magical happening.

So, I ended up calling the front desk, who called security and Mousekeeping. They asked us to wait in our room so they could speak with us. No one ever came to the room, ever called back....nothing. So, I finally called the front desk back after an hour or so of waiting this was the basic response I got, "We spoke with the Mousekeeper who took care of your room and they said they didn't remove anything from your room." What a friggen joke! I told them I wanted to file a report with security, they said they would send security to the room immediately. Another 2 hours go by and nothing. Finally we just called the front desk and told them we were tired of waiting and wanted to actually enjoy our vacation. They said we could file a report at any time and not to let it worry us....haha...yea right.

We just tried to make the best of the rest of the trip and not think about it. I think the worst part was just how we were treated throughout the trip. After the incident we placed our "Do Not Disturb" sign on the door. Mousekeeping still came in the next day. I called them and told them we DID NOT want service the rest of our trip and made sure our sign was still on the door. They continued to come in. Even at checkout things didn't go well, when I wanted to express how disappointed we were, we were basically blown off and made to feel like we didn't matter. We didn't expect anything major, but a heartfelt apology could've made a world of difference.

We of course called the numbers we were given to complain about the incident, plus wrote letters of complaint, but we never heard anything in response. Not even a generic form letter or anything. It was definitely my most disappointing trip.

 

[MightyMom]

My worst experience still hurts me..... and it was 3 years ago.

We were at Star Wars Weekends. We saw that the Jedi training was going to start in 30 minutes. DS(who was 6 at the time) wanted to participate.... but I didn't see a ramp leading up to the stage and he uses a wheelchair. I asked a CM if he would be able to participate. They asked me to wait while they went backstage to ask.

As we waited.... people began gathering around the stage..... but I didn't want to leave the spot we were in because I was afraid the CM would find us.

Finally the CM came out and told us to try to make it to the front of the ropes because they were trying to figure out a way he could participate... but the "Jedi" on stage would need to see him.

By this time there was a LARGE crowd gathered and I knew it was hopeless. We would never make it to the front. (I didn't want to be rude and push through)

We stood in the back...... and this part still amazes me...... people began PUSHING us through the crowd. The crowd parted and everyone so graciously.... and so kindly began pushing me and my son forward. I didn't even have to ask. I tried not to allow what happened next to overshadow the kindness shown to us that day.

We were almost to the front... but between us and the ropes stood a woman next to her son.

People around me kept telling me to ask the woman to stand BEHIND her son so I could push my son forward into her space. Reluctantly, I asked her. She turned to me and said, "NO!"

The woman next to me (Who had a very strong northeastern accent) said, "Hey! I thought this was for the kids?!?!?!"

The woman in front of me snapped around and started yelling at me. (Apparently she thought "I" had yelled that) She said the most horrible things to me.... infront of my son.

One thing that echoed over and over in my head was her shrill voice yelling, "You think you deserve special treatment because your kid can't walk? It's not my problem your kid can't walk and mine can!"

I looked down and my son was crying. I was shaking. The "TEXAN" came out of me and I told her if she didn't shut her mouth I was gonna shut it for her.

The northeastern accent lady next to me put her arms around me. I'll never forget how comforting that felt.

A gentleman at the front of the ropes overheard the whole thing and moved my son forward. I was so grateful.

My son was picked..... the mean woman next to me was livid because her son wasn't picked.

The worst part was that our children had to hear such horrible words. I hope my son has forgotten about it..... and I hope her son learns tolerance from someone besides his mother.

Wow. that was long!

 

[meowmarie]

OMG How awful! I don't understand how some people just live and wallow in such negativity. These are the same people who go to church and park in the visitors spaces even though they are members because they are closer, and complain when church runs a little late and they miss the free donuts. It's like they just miss the whole point of life! How can you be like that at the happiest place on earth?!

 

[SuperTink]

Oh Mighty Mom, your story breaks my heart.

But I'm really glad the "northeastern" lady was there for you. I'm also really glad that I wasn't there because I think it would have ruined my family's vacation to have mommy in jail.

Take care and enjoy your beautiful children.

 

[leeh1530]

After my friend and I practically paid off the bus driver from MK to make it back to All Star Music so we could get the ME to the airport (what a great woman she was! She thought we'd get nervous, but I told her we were from Boston. Wild driving is the norm.), we got there five minutes prior to supposed to being there. Phew. My friend believes in waiting UNTIL THE LAST POSSIBLE SECOND TO BE SOMEWHERE! So, we get our luggage, we think we're set. We stand out there for half a friggin' hour. I went to the CM and demanded to know where this bus is. He said, "Oh you missed it." I told him that was impossible, since we had been out there for the better part of about 40 minutes. He showed me the log, including the time. Well, the time on there said 5:23. We were at the stop at 5:20. I lost it. I "went Irish" as my family calls it. Then he tried to make it seem like it was all my fault. Oh, that went over like a lead balloon. I tried not to let it mar our trip, which was great. And I don't let it hang over WDW at all. Just not really a "magical" Magical Express moment.

 

[leeh1530]

Oh Mighty Mom, your story breaks my heart.

But I'm really glad the "northeastern" lady was there for you. I'm also really glad that I wasn't there because I think it would have ruined my family's vacation to have mommy in jail.

I agree. We "northeasterners" don't like jail. And for the record, I would have done the same thing!!!!!

 

[OneTreeHillAddict]

One thing that echoed over and over in my head was her shrill voice yelling, "You think you deserve special treatment because your kid can't walk? It's not my problem your kid can't walk and mine can!"

I would have beat her down! It's one thing to talk like that to me but God forbid someone do that to my child! And to make such a statement about a child in a wheelchair!!!??? Some people can be so ignorant! I'm sure Karma got the witch later that day! (She got a taste of it instantly when they chose your kid over hers!) I would have loved to had seen her face when they asked your little guy to join in the show.

 

[liamsaunt]

We have definitely had some bad experiences, but they were pretty much all our fault! The worst one actually occurred when we were staying at Portofino, over at Universal. I was coming back from a dressy dinner and wearing high heels (which I almost never do) and my ankle (which has a hyperextended joint) gave out and I fell forward…into the corner of the wall! I had to go to urgent care and have my eye socket checked to be sure it was not fractured. I felt so bad for my DH while we were waiting because I had a horrific bruise and of course it looked like someone sucker punched me!

The next day we transferred to Animal Kingdom Lodge as planned and the swelling on my eye was so bad we could not go to the parks. I spent the day sitting on the balcony, alternating heat and ice. At least we had a savannah view room! The rest of the trip I had to wear pancake makeup to cover the bruise. I made poor DH go to a drugstore and pick it out for me! Who knows what the store clerk thought of the man by himself buying pancake makeup and blue eye shadow! Honestly, I think it was at least two months before the discoloration left completely. Horrific!

Then there was the time we tried to leave Disney, but couldn’t! The day that we were scheduled to fly home there was a blizzard back home and Logan Airport closed. Fine, we thought, we will just stay a couple of extra days rather than toughing it out at the airport. EXCEPT, it was the start of college spring break week, and every hotel was booked! There was not a room to be had on Disney property. All the rooms on i-drive were booked, and they even had gates up on the properties saying so! We were not the only people looking for a room either—it was so nerve wracking. This was before cell phones so we were literally driving up the roads running into every hotel/motel and asking for a room. We finally got the last room at a Red Roof Inn on the edge of Kissimmee. Whew! But, we did get two more days at Disney!

 

[leeh1530]

Then there was the time we tried to leave Disney, but couldn’t! The day that we were scheduled to fly home there was a blizzard back home and Logan Airport closed. Fine, we thought, we will just stay a couple of extra days rather than toughing it out at the airport. EXCEPT, it was the start of college spring break week, and every hotel was booked! There was not a room to be had on Disney property. All the rooms on i-drive were booked, and they even had gates up on the properties saying so! We were not the only people looking for a room either—it was so nerve wracking. This was before cell phones so we were literally driving up the roads running into every hotel/motel and asking for a room. We finally got the last room at a Red Roof Inn on the edge of Kissimmee. Whew! But, we did get two more days at Disney![/FONT][/COLOR]

Stupid Northeast weather! Ugh. At least you got two more days at the World!!!!!!
I'm from MA. I feel your pain.

 

[lbklyn]

MightyMom, thats the first time a post has ever made me cry. Then complete anger. I too would have been locked up had I seen that.

 

[skier_pete]

OK - nothing as major as many here - but DW and I took a trip in 2000, within days of getting back DW came down with Chicken Pox and missed two weeks or work, she was just awful sick for the first week. (Fortunately I had already had it.) However, I had started having problems with my foot on the trip, and after coming back it got worse and worse to the point I couldn't walk. It was eventually diagnosed as Planar Fasciastis (Sp?) or a heel-spur. I eventually got two cortisone shots in my heel. After the second one the pain actually went away for good, but it was about 4 months later.

That same trip - we left on Friday the 13th and after our flight took off about 15 minutes in I looked out the window and noticed we were flying pretty low, I turned to my wife and said so, a few minutes later the pilot said they had had to shut one of the engines down because of an electrical problem and they were turning the plane around. ...the good news, we were upgraded to first class the next morning!

Oh, and our 2006 trip Buffalo got hit by 22 inches of snow on October 12th and shut down the airport. We were without power our last two days(Even though we had only gotten about3 inches of snow.) , and when we called the night before leaving they told us our flight was going...only the next morning our flight was the only one cancelled and we were told two days until the next one, well it was only a 5 day trip, so we instead got a flight out of Pittsburgh, about three hours away....well drove down the Lake and while Buffalo was fine it was snowing the whole way down into Pennsylvania...I knew we were cutting it close, and tried to drive as fast as I could without getting us killed - which was about 45 MPH. We made it literally walking onto the flight as the door closed, a total day of panic, but we did it!

Last trip I was totally shocked that we made it down without incident.

SkierPete

 

[eccobleu]

Warning: Reader Discretion Advised...

Our second night at Disney last year, we were eating dinner at the Crystal Palace. DD (8 mos at the time) had a BM, so DH went to go change her. Well, a while later, DD comes back in a different outfit. After about 5 minutes, I start to notice this smell coming from DD. She had had another BM. So it's my turn to change her and I pick her up. About two steps from the table, I feel this wet spot on my arm. I looked down, she had pooped out of her clothes and onto my arm. Luckily, the baby center is right next door, so I did my best to sneak out so no one noticed what had happened. That's one thing I would not want to see in the middle of dinner.

A couple of days later, we were eating breakfast with Stitch. DD was sitting on my lap, chewing on a potatoe wedge. I'm not sure if this was caused by her stomach issues or the potatoe wedge going too far back in her throat, but she starting throwing up. I could not believe how much her little stomach could hold. It was over all her, my legs (luckily I was wearing shorts that day), it even got into my socks. We were sitting in a corner, so I'm hoping not too many people noticed.

She really wasn't acting sick other than her stomach issues, but I called her pedi just to be sure. They said it was probably nothing to be concerned about, just keep an eye on her and if it keeps happening, to call back (haven't heard that before). Thankfully, she didn't have anymore issues after that.

 

[arielchickenofthesea]

I have had a few bad ones, but the worst would be when we went to Disneyland Anaheim for Christmas, 2006. If anyone remembers that Winter, in Denver, we had blizzard after blizzard for 8 weeks in a row.

On the Wednesday before Christmas they closed the airport. We did not have tix to fly out until Friday morning, so we were hoping for the best. Well, Friday dawned and the roads were still closed around our neighborhood and we had a friend who four wheel drove us out to the airport. We got in the very long line of people waiting for flights and of course our flight at 9 AM was cancelled. They were to open the airport at noon when they had some runways that were not under 4 feet of snow!
We managed to catch a flight out on standby at 6:30PM that night. We were okay with that, at least we were gonna be in Disneyland for Christmas!

Well 3/4 of the way through the flight I started to feel sick, really, really sick to my stomach. I headed for the lav and just made it. Got back to my seat and was just nauseous and took some Dramamine.

Then: Turbulence hit. I am not talking about a little rough. I am talking about rocking and rolling all over the sky, extreme turbulence! And I at the time was really afraid of flying and of course because we were on standby we got the last two seats on the plane: NOT together. So here I was with two strangers and sicker than I have been ever and the plane is all over the place, people would let out little screams everytime the plane dipped or dropped or shook or rolled over halfway! I was scared. So I asked the guy next to me if I could hold his hand. He was with his girlfriend who was laughing her head off (fear hits people differently) and his hand was as cold and clammy as mine and we just held on with a hulk like grip til it stopped. Thankfully, they were from the same place I was, had attended the same University and we got along. I thanked her and him for leting me hold his hand and they both were okay with it. I think he was more afraid than I was. They were a young couple on their way to my alma mater which was their their school.

We landed at LAX and I found some benches to lie down while DH ran off to get some ginger ale to help settle my tummy. We finally found the Express Bus to DL just as it was leaving the airport and I ran after it and caught up at a stoplight and he let us on, thankfully.
We got to the DL Hotel and I went to bed. About 3 AM I awoke so sick, that I thought I was gonna die. I was in the bathroom and could not leave. It was coming from both ends and I was running a 103 fever. I ached ans I was so sick...I felt BAD! DH called for a house call doctor and he made it at about 5AM, (seems there were others with the same stomach virus in the hotel) and gave me a shot in the butt of some anti-nauseal meds and gave me some pills to take when I got nauseous again. He said the dreaded words.
"STAY IN BED" I asked him how long it would last and he said about 3-5 days.

That was it. I started to cry after everything we went through. Now I could not even leave the hotel room at Disneyland at Christmas! Well, we managed to get out the third day for our Holidaytime Tour which was about 3-4 hours and then back to bed for me. I was in bed for a total of 5 days there. Thankfully we were able to add on 3 more days to our trip and got to stay and enjoy a little bit. Our original trip was 6 days, so we would not have had any time to have fun.
When we flew back to Denver, there had been another blizzard and we could not get home on the shuttle. The shuttles were running to hotels, but not to residential streets that had not been plowed. So we ended up staying at the Westin a couple miles from our house. We finally got home by the same 4 wheel drive friend the next day.
It was a Trip from H-E double hockey sticks.
I love Disneyland at Christmas!
ariel

 

[aurora23]

The first "bad" trip was when I was four. I had a sudden allergic reaction to the sunscreen I was wearing. I had to be taken to urgent care, and for the rest of the trip (in the middle of summer) I had to wear long sleeve shirts and pants, because I was covered in hives and I couldn't wear sunscreen. The other guests must have thought my parents were abusing me. My poor parents had a hard time finding long sleeved clothes in Florida during summer.

The second "bad" trip I was a teenager and ignored my parents when they reminded me about sunscreen. I quickly put a little on (I thought I would be fine because I was only going outside for an hour) and ran outside to the pool. Needless to say, April in Florida is decidedly different from April in Wisconsin and I ended up with first degree burns all over my body. We had to call the doctor and I ended up on steroids for two weeks. I also missed most of the Magic Kingdom. Sad, but my fault.

The last trip I went on I caught an awful cold. We are going back for our Honeymoon hopefully next year. Hopefully we will both stay healthy. Regardless even with all the medical mishaps, I still manage to have an amazing time.

 

[Justish]

My "Bad" Experience is not NEARLY as bad as some I've read buut... since I'm in a sharing mood...

(Note, I thought it was funny that it's almost similar to the OP's bad situation)

Most of the bad stuff happened to my mother, but the humiliation was mine to enjoy (she didn't feel well enough to notice and bask in it's glory).

The bad times started as we got on the plane (though no one knew it then) as my mother had opted to wear her contacts on the plane (aparently not good idea). After arriving at the parks, and spending one full day in them, my mother started to complain of eye irritation.

"You've prolly just got something in your contacts, or dirt or something, take'em out, wash'em thoroughly, and leave them out until your eyes stop being red." Was my suggestion.

And so my mother went to dinner blind followed by a trip around in the monorail and then to bed. At about 3:00 am that night my mom is in too much pain and can't take it anymore. My dad opts to take her to CELEBRATION HOSPITAL by cab (is this where disney doc is? it sounds like a very happy hospital!) where they diagnosed her with pink eye they presumed could have gotten on her contacts if any where in the plane had had the bacteria? Woah... thats pretty sucky huh?

Luckily this is the Magical Kingdom and the happiest place on earth, they gave her some medicine, some "Million Dollar Eyedrops" (to quote the doctor) to numb the pain in her eyes and some Vicadin and sent her back to bed in her comfy hotel with a warning to throw away her contacts and see if she can just get by with her glasses (which she can).

Well.. the next day was... (What else) EPCOT day...
That right folks, we learned a valuable lesson about Vicadin... you see

Vicadin + Mission Space = throwing up and a totally ruined day.

It was so funny and sad at the same time because my mother ran off the ride at lightning speed when she was finally out but didn't make it very far (the bench with the garbage can next to it, with a very helpless looking CM in the background was her heaving point). My grandmother had gotten off earlier than her and tried to go back in to check on her but the CM said she couldn't go in the out and my grandmother got right up him and said " Son, my daughter is in there puking her guts out! Let me through!" So they let her come back to my mom as I am getting out of the ride and I see my mom and rush to her.

Thus begins a series of walking few steps, finding a trash can and puking, walking, puking, walking, puking. We made it back to the room and decided to call it a day.

Sadly this was a short trip (only 5 days) and wasting one on sickness is something we will NEVER do again...we are going to be prepared!

~Ally

 

[Rebecca12345]

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[wdhinn89]

My worst experience still hurts me..... and it was 3 years ago.

I'm sorry.

Some people are just jerks.