Worst untruths inexperienced WDW people say...

[keith-atl]

So an old friend from high school is planning a trip to WDW. She was asking on facebook about food and tickets. She believes that Disney will buy back any unused days on your ticket. She also said they were going to eat a lot at McDonald's by legoland on the $1 menu. She also was just going to buy her tickets at AAA so she could get the perks from AAA, like the AAA lounge at the Magic Kingdom. I tried to educate her....but some people just won't listen. What strange things have you heard... (Ok, as I write this, I wonder if maybe I am the one that needs educated, and will really look stupid for writing this, but I think I'm Ok.)

Just the idea of eating off the dollar menu at McDonalds is disturbing for the entire trip.

 

[keith-atl]

Just today I had someone tell me they paid $50 for a express fast pass they can use at every park for every ride.

I want one and I am willing to pay the 50 bucks to get it!

Kelly

Is she going to Universal Studios? Cause they have that and its $49.95 I believe on top of your ticket costs.

 

[kellyg403]

Is she going to Universal Studios? Cause they have that and its $49.95 I believe on top of your ticket costs.

That was my first thought as well. She said they had been going for years and then about this express ticket. I asked if she meant US or IOA but she said no, WDW. I said I never paid for fastpasses I just went to the machine and put my ticket in. She said no these are special ones that cost 50.00 etc etc.

I am no expert so I didn't argue, but for the life of me could not figure out how I missed this deal!


Kelly

 

[GaSleepingBeautyFan]

On my last trip, I was chatting with a grandfather and his grandson while waiting in line for the Living with the Land ride.
The grandfather told the grandson that after they rode Soarin', they'd go back to the hotel for a swim.

They were seated in front of me and when they got off the boat the grandfather told the grandson that he had heard Soarin' was better than that. They thought Living with the Land attraction was Soarin'.

I stopped and told them if they wanted Soarin' I could show them where it was and they said yes. So I walked them over to the entrance to Soarin' and off I went.

I don't know if they actually stood in the 120 minute line for it but at least I'd pointed them to the attraction they really wanted to ride.

Also on this trip, I was at Hollywood Studios and overheard someone asking a CM where the Harry Potter World was there because they didn't see it on the map.

 

[Sadie22]

Just today I had someone tell me they paid $50 for a express fast pass they can use at every park for every ride.

I want one and I am willing to pay the 50 bucks to get it!

Kelly

Do you suppose they mean park hopper tickets? They're in for a surprise.

 

[BrownDalmatian]

I didn't read this whole thread (yet) so not sure if this was mentioned. We live in Orlando, and it seems like whenever family/friends come to visit, or for work or whatever, they always say "hey can you get us Disney tickets?" Or "hey you got the hook up for Disney?"

Like we have some kind of inside connection because we live in Orlando.

I just want to say "oh yeah sure, let me call up my pal Donald and get you free tickets."

 

[disneyfreakk]

I didn't read this whole thread (yet) so not sure if this was mentioned. We live in Orlando, and it seems like whenever family/friends come to visit, or for work or whatever, they always say "hey can you get us Disney tickets?" Or "hey you got the hook up for Disney?"

Like we have some kind of inside connection because we live in Orlando.

I just want to say "oh yeah sure, let me call up my pal Donald and get you free tickets."

Maybe they want you to get them discounted FL residents tickets?

 

[NotUrsula]

We are going over Spring Break to Hawaii, staying Oceanfront in a 5 star hotel, Club level, for less than a standard view non-club room at a Disney deluxe hotel. And we don't need to buy park tickets.

For those of us who don't live on the West Coast, that's just a dream. The airfare is what makes the difference. From here in the midwest, the airfare to Hawaii costs us 3X what the rest of the trip does, so I know very few people who have managed to ever go. (I can get to London for a lot less than I can get to Hawaii.)

If the poster who originally said that about Hawaii is also someone who normally drives to WDW, you can see how that would seem ridiculous from that POV.

 

[livndisney]

Maybe they want you to get them discounted FL residents tickets?

Nope, they usually expect FREE tickets. When you live in Orlando the only thing more plentiful than bugs is "friends" who want free tickets and sometimes a free place to stay. They both crawl out of the woodwork.

 

[Purseval]

Nope, they usually expect FREE tickets. When you live in Orlando the only thing more plentiful than bugs is "friends" who want free tickets and sometimes a free place to stay. They both crawl out of the woodwork.

I know plenty of people who live in and around Orlando. The vast majority of them never go to any of the parks. We actually have received free tickets but only from Disney employees and the last thing in the world any of them wanted to do on the day off was hang out at WDW.

 

[maddiesmom0116]

For those of us who don't live on the West Coast, that's just a dream. The airfare is what makes the difference. From here in the midwest, the airfare to Hawaii costs us 3X what the rest of the trip does, so I know very few people who have managed to ever go. (I can get to London for a lot less than I can get to Hawaii.)

If the poster who originally said that about Hawaii is also someone who normally drives to WDW, you can see how that would seem ridiculous from that POV.

I live in Indiana and I have gone to Hawaii cheaper then WDW flying out of Chicago for the Hawaii trip. It is all based on what you spend on a WDW trip. It cost me $400 less when it as all said and done to go to Maui for a week.

 

[livndisney]

I know plenty of people who live in and around Orlando. The vast majority of them never go to any of the parks. We actually have received free tickets but only from Disney employees and the last thing in the world any of them wanted to do on the day off was hang out at WDW.

Hmmm, we must know different people. Most (if not all) of the people I know in the area all have passes. CM's get in for free. We run into them all the time in the parks on their day off. (What was shocking was running into them at Walmart LOL).

 

[tlbwriter]

Hmmm, we must know different people. Most (if not all) of the people I know in the area all have passes. CM's get in for free. We run into them all the time in the parks on their day off. (What was shocking was running into them at Walmart LOL).

The first time we visited WDW, we got together with friends who had moved to Orlando a couple of years earlier. It was their first ever trip to any part of WDW.

 

[NotUrsula]

I live in Indiana and I have gone to Hawaii cheaper then WDW flying out of Chicago for the Hawaii trip. It is all based on what you spend on a WDW trip. It cost me $400 less when it as all said and done to go to Maui for a week.

I'll grant I should have said that Chicago was the exception, because the volume there allows for good package deals, but for the rest of the midwest, not especially likely.

Just for jollies I just priced airfare to Honolulu for the same dates as our upcoming Disney trip (week before Memorial Day, coming home before the holiday, and travelling on Saturday each way); the best I could find was $784 pp with 3 stops; the trip takes 12 hours out and 18 hours back. So for 4 of us the airfare alone is $3136. Packages priced out to a little over $4200 if we went 3 star. The same trip for us at WDW, with airfare, is normally about $2800, and there is an add'l hotel night with the Disney trip, because for Hawaii one night is spent on the plane. The land part of the trip WAS cheaper, absolutely, but as a whole, it's normally pricier because of the cost of getting there. Could we drive to Chicago to catch the plane? Sure, but that's 6 hours on the road each way, plus a hotel night at ORD, plus airport parking, so it's probably not worth the trouble.

PS: I agree about Orlando locals; most of the ones that I know don't go to WDW at all, but then, most of the ones that I know are retired.

 

[DVCBELLE]

My mom always laughs when we get in conversations with strangers about Disney and they start spitting out misinformation or horrible advice - she said it is funny to listen to me thank them politely - even when the advice is HORRIBLE

My brother and his wife went with us this last year with their 2 and 3 year olds. They would arrive around 10 and leave by noon or 1 everyday and that included eating lunch in the parks not to return again to that park. Then my brother complained that everything was at a fast and furious pace and they had no fun. Well - if you show up in a park for 2 hours and ask what you should do and want to see it the most you can in 2 hours - that will be the pace!!!

 

[pasta37]

Two adult women were seated behind us on the safari at Animal Kingdom. The one lady (at least in her 40's) was the most negative sounding person and quite loudly, more than once, expressed that she could not believe that people were really buying into that these were real animals. She said that "everyone" should know that they are only the animatronic ones and, in her opinion, some weren't even very good!

I sooooo wanted to turn around and say something....but what would have worked ?? That was when I wished an animal had come right up to the jeep - or there was a way to engage a cast member (the one on the safari's is actively speaking and driving of course)

It aggravates me every time I think about it!

 

[Lisa loves Pooh]

Two adult women were seated behind us on the safari at Animal Kingdom. The one lady (at least in her 40's) was the most negative sounding person and quite loudly, more than once, expressed that she could not believe that people were really buying into that these were real animals. She said that "everyone" should know that they are only the animatronic ones and, in her opinion, some weren't even very good!

I sooooo wanted to turn around and say something....but what would have worked ?? That was when I wished an animal had come right up to the jeep - or there was a way to engage a cast member (the one on the safari's is actively speaking and driving of course)

It aggravates me every time I think about it!

My my sister and I were in our tweens/teens and camping at Fort Wilderness, we came across a snake. I don't know what we were thinking, but said snake looked very....unreal. Not moving at all--but in a particular posture. There was a CM nearby and I told my sis' that it must be an animatronic snake--how cool tha Disney would think of everything and put in wildlife at the Fort.

Well than said "animatronic snake" decided it was going to eat the little rabbit or whatever (don't recall the animal) that was nearby. We SCREAMED like the typical freaked out tween/teens.

And the icing on the cake, without losing composure and in the politeness that we had known of our Disney CM's, the cast member says "We would appreciate if you did not scream so as not to alarm other guests" or something like that.

We still joke 20+ years later about the "animatronic" animals that Disney has all over their property.

 

[perdidochas]

I know plenty of people who live in and around Orlando. The vast majority of them never go to any of the parks. We actually have received free tickets but only from Disney employees and the last thing in the world any of them wanted to do on the day off was hang out at WDW.

Funny, I've ridden in a boat in IASW with CMs there on their day off.

A friend of mine and his wife are working at Disney because they love the parks so much.

Now, I have heard that locals avoid the parks in the summertime.

 

[PrincessSuzanne]

Two adult women were seated behind us on the safari at Animal Kingdom. The one lady (at least in her 40's) was the most negative sounding person and quite loudly, more than once, expressed that she could not believe that people were really buying into that these were real animals. She said that "everyone" should know that they are only the animatronic ones and, in her opinion, some weren't even very good!

I sooooo wanted to turn around and say something....but what would have worked ?? That was when I wished an animal had come right up to the jeep - or there was a way to engage a cast member (the one on the safari's is actively speaking and driving of course)

It aggravates me every time I think about it!

I'm sorry, but I don't think I could have held my composure, I would have had to turned around and corrected her. Then I would have had a good laugh at her expense.

Suzanne

 

[BellaBaby]

IMO, all the people that dislike Disney so much or have seen it all and refuse to go back equals less crowded parks for my family and all the diehards here on the DIS!!