Your worst moment at a Disney park?

[Anna_Marie]

Ours was in June '03. First ever trip to Disney. I didn't know anything about the Disboards, or planning for that matter. So there we are, in the heat of the afternoon, in an awful long line at Jungle Cruise.

DS12 was a "drama king" and he is one of those kids, who when upset, is really upset...no in between for him! So he starts whining that he's hot, on and on, then he starts this cry-whine thing....DS 14 says "lets pretend we don't know him," . People were staring but we stayed in line. Now I am ashamed that I didn't just leave the line and go somewhere to cool off.

So anyway we ride Jungle Cruise, then head over to Casey's and get some hot dogs and fries. Dh started grouching about how much it cost, the kids were all red-faced from the heat, and I said, "ok we are just all going to go home!" which started the crying again. Not my proudest moment. I'm sure the people around us thought we were terrible.

But half hour later, bellies full and everyone cooled off, we proceeded to have a good time.

Now the melt down incident is a funny story, and when it is brought up, DH always has to throw in how much Casey's cost that day . I don't think he ever got over it.

I guess that was our only bad moment at Disney.

 

[kkbeats]

My worst Disney moment is a little gross. haha. In 2007, my mom and I were exiting It's a Small World, and crossing the bridge when we see poop. yes, a piece of poop with baby powder around it! it must of fallen out of a baby's diaper, it was gross!

 

[pigletmom]

Another sickness story. Before I start, you need to know that normally, IF my kids got sick, it was usually over very quickly and within an hour they were completely fine- playing, running, whatever, just like a PP said. I was in awe of their bounce-back-ability. I never get sick and when DH gets a sniffle he's a baby.

On day 2 of our 2nd trip ever, DD8 "gets sick" in the late afternoon. She feels really lousy, so we head back to the CR. The stomach bug doesn't stop and the poor thing is so sad looking. DH stays with her and I take DS6 and DS9 to Epcot for a few hours. By evening the bug has subsided, so we feel the worst is over.

The next day DD is afraid to leave the room, but I convince her that she has to get out of the smelly room so Mousekeeping can air it out. Mouskeeping brought in a huge fan/air purifier machine for us. DD looks wiped out so we take it easy, but she wants nothing to do with eating.

By day 4, she's back to normal, so we head over to MGM (at the time). It starts pouring, but we've missed so much we decide to troop on soaking wet and freezing in all the air-conditioned shows. After lunch we are in the waiting area for Muppets 3D when DS6 says his "belly hurt." DH eyes get wide, but I shake my head and remind him that this is what DS6 ALWAYS says when he needs to use the bathroom. I ask if he can wait another 15-20 minutes, as the show is about to start. He nods his head, but within minutes repeats "my belly hurts." DH starts to panic, but I remain calm. Of course he begins vomiting just as the doors swing open for the crowd to enter !!!!! Of course everyone is looking at me like I'm the worst mother in the world. I wanted to scream "Ever since he was little, saying his belly hurt meant that he was going to have a BM in a little while! It doesn't help that DH is looking at me shaking his head. We all decide to head back to CR to dry off. I stay with DS while DH takes the other 2 to the hotel arcade. Now, I procede to get sick too. I've only ever been sick twice in my entire adult life, and one of the times has to be at Disney! I'm sick all night

Day 5 comes and everyone is better. The day goes fine so we keep our ressies for the HDDR. It will be our first sit-down dinner of the trip! About 1/2 way through, DS6 says "my belly hurts," so I grab him and we run downstairs and outside to the bathrooms. Nothing happens, so after 10 minutes we go back. Five minutes after we return, DS6 repeats his belly phrase, so out we go again. Five more minutes and nothing, so I make him try to go the bathroom, just in case. We head back just in time for the Strawberry Shortcake dessert. Of course, just as the show is winding down, DS6 vomits all over the table. What happenned to bounce-back-ability?

We call it a night. We fall asleep, but sometime in the middle of the night DD sits up in bed and proceeds to get sick, AGAIN, all over the covers !!!!! We get everything cleaned up, hand the sheets off to Mousekeeping, quickly remake the bed, and lay down to sleep. Bounce back, already!

I swear that we no sooner lay our heads down on the pillow, when DS9 sits up and upchucks all over his covers and the wall next to him. You. have. got. to. be. KIDDING!!!! When they returned, the Mousekeepers looked at us like we had a hex on us

Day 6 comes, and we were all pretty exhausted, but we really need to get out of the room so Mousekeeping can bring back the big air machine. Maybe you saw us, the family that looked like they escaped from the Haunted Mansion? We all felt like zombies, except for DH who hasn't been sick once! Day 7 comes and we fly home. Now I'm the optimistic type, so throughout the whole vacation sickness, I'm saying to DH, "At least it isn't our sheets and our carpets"

We get home, walk into our house, and what happens? You got it.......DS9 immediately gets sick all over our carpet, and I finally dissolve into tears. The vacation from he** had followed us home.

Like I said, we laugh about it now but we didn't laugh a lot during that vacation!

 

[bigdaddy511]

I lost the car at Downtown Disney once. It was packed and almost every spot was taken and I just completely forgot where we had parked. Searched the lot for ages before finally finding it. The saving grace was I was the only one irked as the rest of the family just kept shopping.

Man did I feel stupid!

 

[MeganFyne]

So I just wanted to post this before I read everything else!

My ex and I (no no no it's ok, we are besties, and both with other partners!) went to Disney a bit ago. First I would like to mention that the CMs we encountered on this trip were all just amazing. It was in February so I admit it wasn't super crowded, but really, I'm AMAZED at how well these people handle us on a regular basis. I imagine that there is at least the OCCASIONAL consumer who is less than appreciative of a CM's position. I'd be much less aggreable in most positions but I really have to say every single CM from waiter to check in to the late night lady at the food court - they were really all just wonderful during our trip. I was truly impressed - especially since I work in a customer service industry!

Anyway. We were in Epcot
And Magic Kingdom
And whereever we went


BRAZILIAN GROUPS

AND

(I hate to admit they exist)
DANCE AND CHEERLEADING TEAMS

The cheering wasn't obtrusive, it wasn't there when we wanted to sleep in, or sleep early, just noted. Actually, we mostly only saw the girls in the parks, but my BF (ok ok and I) were just not expecting to be in the company of thousands of 98 lb cheerleaders.

and there was a coach who SCREAMED at his cheerleaders at about 6 am one day. These girls were in high school. Yes I have the sensible adult contempt for teenaged cheerleaders. BUT this man was abusive. My boyfriend flipped OUT. He was angry enough to be woken up, but to be abusive to teens (who we, by the way, didn't hear apart from their practice, at least the ones in our building at CBR) This coach on several occasaions (THOUGH WE NEVER SAW HIM! WHERE WAS HE?) found ways to scream at his cheerleaders, at one point calling them *****s! They were at most 17! BF tried to find out who he was. We complained, but the worst we heard was the night before we checked out.

I sincerely hope this coach gets his comeuppance. I understand being the coach of a competitive sport. I myself was an athlete in high school. But we had never heard of anyone treating someone in this manner. I'd have called the police if I had heard someone in an apartment next to mine treating someone in this manner. Appalling.

So that makes my utter distaste of the Brazilian groups seem so paltry. But damn, They can sure be so RUDE!

 

[Lorelei Lee]

Wow, the kid dying a Disney kind of puts everything else in perspective.

A lot of what everyone else wrote about happened to us too!

(1) One of my dd's came down with strepon the very first day of our trip. Luckily doctors make "hotel-room calls". After a single dose of Tylenol and amoxicillan she was recovered enough to enjoy the rest of our trip.

(2) My other dd refused to ride the roller coaster at the Studios for many years because the first time she was going to ride it...we started to get into the car only to realize someone had vomited in it. She had a phobia about vomit .

(3) One summer we met up with friends. One of the friends was a young man, about 20 years old. We were all sitting under a tree when a bird gave him a "present" and he had to change his shirt.


(4). I was one of the chaperones for a school trip. We were in the Magic Kingdom watching fireworks. My daughter and one of her friends wanted ice cream, so I agreed to take both girls to the ice cream place on Main Street. When we got there, the girl couldn't find here wallet . The last time she'd seen it was at lunchtime. She emptied her backpack, but no wallet. I bought her an ice cream and we headed back to the resort. When we got there we found out one of the other kids had her wallet. Seems all the kids on the trip had identical backpacks (with the team logo on them). When she sat down to lunch she put her wallet away - in her friend's backpack instead of her own.

 

[cegreenf]

I think I have two lol:

1. Many years ago, we were at river country. My dad and I were riding the slides, and my mom and brother were meeting mickey and minnie. Suddenly, my dad realized his water wallet fell from around his neck! We didn't have cell phones so we couldn't find my mom or brother, and we had to spend a decent amount of time in the river country office cancelling all the credit cards in there. Fortunately, two hours later, an employee found the water wallet!

2. This is probably my mom's worst Disney moment. Same trip (my brother was around 5 at the time), and they went to the enchanted tiki room while my dad and I rode splash mountain. After riding it, we saw that the wait to ride it again was only 20 minutes! So we rode it again. Then after, we saw that thunder mountain railroad was only 20 minute wait! So we rode that...twice. Meanwhile, my poor mother has been watching the enchanted tiki show on repeat for the past two hours...she wasn't too happy with us when we got back!

 

[pampam]

I've posted this on another thread, but it bears repeating. It happened 6 years ago.

I was enjoying our vacation at Epcot, when I phoned home and learned that my brother-in -law had died. I was in shock. We hurried back to our resort, the All Star Music, and I enquired what would happen if we went home early, since we had purchased a package. The CM got the manager. He said that we would get a refund on the nights we hadn't used, and we would get tickets to compensate for the days we didn't go to the parks. He took us into the end office, and he phoned Air Canada for us, and then he phoned Air Canada medical desk, to see about getting my daughter her oxygen for the flight home. The medical desk was closed, so he told me to come back after 8:00 a.m., when Air Canada medical desk would be open. He wouldn't be there, but another manager named Deanna would be at the front desk, starting at 7:00 a.m.

The next morning we went back to guest services, and spoke to Deanna. I phoned Air Canada, and got different options- for flights and the costs to change our tickets and the oxygen. By this point I was a mess. I couldn't collect my thoughts, and make a decision. She took me into the end office, and I phoned my husband. He talked me through it. It was going to cost an extra $400 to change the tickets, but we would manage somehow. So, she phoned Air Canada, set it up, phoned the medical desk, set up the oxygen for the flight home, and had me phone my husband to let him know what flight to pick us up. He reminded me about the Hoop de Doo tickets we had bought, which were non refundable. Deanne assured me that was no problem. She would refund them for us. She arranged transportation for us to go back to the airport. (This was before magic express.)Then she asked what we were going to do about supper. I had no plans. She tried to get us reservations for different meals, but most of them were booked up. She eventually made reservations for us for Boma's, and came back with a new room key for me, with charging priviliges on it. She insisted I put dinner on it, and they would look after it for us. She gave me her card in case I had any other problems. We left the next morning, and were home that night. I cannot stress how courteous, kind and generous Disney management was to us under very trying cicumstances. I'm very sure if we had been staying off site we would not have been treated as well. I just feel everyone should know how Disney goes the distance when one of there guests has a problem. I've stayed on Disney property many many times, and I always felt if I had a problem they would help me. Now I know for sure, yes, they will help to the best of their ability.

 

[ms_missy66]

We actually had a trip from heck last June. It was our 10th, we were staying for two weeks, and it had some high expectations attached to it.

We arrived on a Saturday. On Sunday morning, I scratched for cornea and spent the majority of the day in an urgent care, dealing with that. I had to use eye drops and wear my glasses for the whole trip. No sunglasses in June. :-(

On day one of the trip, we found out that DH had to return home (a ten hour drive with no direct flight options) for two days. He left early on Monday and planned to return on Wednesday. On Monday night, my ODD went to bed with a belly ache. At about 2:00 AM, she calls me about three second before she pukes all over herself and our camper. We get her cleaned up, medicated and back to sleep. I wake up at 4:00 AM with a horrid migraine. We spend all of Tuesday napping, puking, and trying to cope. I thank God we were in our camper because YDD had lots of entertainment and we had easy access to food for her. If we would have had to get food from a restaurant, I would have been up a creek.

On one of our last days, we had a fishing excursion booked to celebrate Father's Day. Even though we did the 10:00 AM trip, it was already over 90 degrees. We live in SC, so we're not sensitive to the heat, but this was day 12 of a heat index over 100 degrees.

We got out on the boat and YDD started not feeling well. By 30 minutes in, she was green. I tried to warn the captian, but he didn't have children and just wasn't getting my urgency. I kept asking her if she felt like she was going to puke. With no warning, bleah. All over herself, me, and the boat. Added to the unbearably hot weather, the smell was AWFUL. Then the captain goes to me, "Do you want to take her into a bathroom to get washed up? I can wait." Nice offer, but we were beyond needing to get washed up.

He gets us back to the dock and talks about rescheduling. We get to the tours office and it's kind of a different story. So the captain is still there and I ask my DH and ODD if they want to just go back without us and finish up the excursion. They agree and the captain takes them out on the same boat without cleaning the puke!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I would say that 95% of the time, I'm a bit sad as we leave WDW and 99% of the time, my children cry as we leave. As we pulled out of the campground this time we were all like, "See ya. Peace." LOL

Injury, illness for three of the four, a DH that had to leave for two days.... oh and the yellow flies. Holy moly we were eaten up!!!

 

[Tikitoi]

So what is your worst moment at a disney park?

Rude*** people and bad*** neglected kids. Too many examples to list.

 

[myheartlivesatwdw]

OMG...you have absolutely no reason to feel bad about that. I don't care if he had terminal hickeys, there is no excuse for that type of behavior. His family or the people with him should have been thrown out of the park for permitting and, I wouldn't be surprised, encouraging it. Why would any clear thinking person think that this was OK to do because he had Autism. Autism is not a free ticket for behavior. I'm not even sure it is a reason...seems pretty much of a stretch to me.

Personally I think you had every right to actually knock him on his butt. It showed remarkable restraint, in my opinion, to only do what you did. Don't loose any sleep over this one.

I 100% agree.

 

[Hollywoodhaha]

worst moment: I got sick right before we were going to Boma [my favorite restaurant!] so I didn't get to eat there. I spent the next day in bed throwing up and missed Epcot, my favorite park.

 

[sherpasmom]

Normally I would choose one of our "Dry is not an option" trips from either riding Kali River Rapids repeatedly in the rain OR from DD's younger days when chocolate/ride mix overload at MNSSHP produced an eruption I usually carried from Park exit all the way back to the resort....

But those weren't worst days....

Not even the trip DD was jumping from bed to bed (and we all KNOW this is a bad idea, expressed by mom who was in the shower at the time) and DD broke her arm....followed by an all-nighter at Celebration Hospital...that wasn't a worst day either?!

My worst day was the day I realized I should have been wearing Grumpy underwear and I was supposed to be at my Happy Place. Long story short, there was a hurricane, we were coming to Disney anyways and Disney was outside the projected landfall so we came but INCLUDED grandparents not originally booked.

Silly me, I still thought I was on vacation.

So after trying to please everyone from ages 5- 79 and not doing a superhappyfantastic job or being even appreciated for the attempted effort at trying to do a superfantastichappy job, I escorted a crying DD into an epcot bathroom, dried her tears and told her that we deserved a do-over. And it started right now. I had sortof an epiphany in that moment? I think I was trying to create a magic trip that simply could not exist in that space time continuim with that group under those circumstances. Up until that moment it was not my finest hour. But you know what, after I re-configured my expectations it WAS a bit of a magic trip, with my daughter having her Poppy there that under "normal" circumstances we could not have pushed, pulled or dragged him into.

It was a trip I'll never forget, for many reasons

We're lucky enough to go to Disney and "experience" it, in that moment, with who we're with, without worry of not getting to ride this, or not getting to eat that, or feeling compelled to see the "World." Even so, I always (and this is a Mommy secret) find one special "new" thing I've always wanted to do but have never done and it's MY thing that we do. I don't broadcast it, just casually steer us there?! Once it was corndog nuggets at Casey's while sitting on the bleachers, or climbing to the top of Swiss Family treehouse at night Sometimes it's those tiny little things that help the planners of the trip have their magic too and keep a Disney smile while juggling everyone's expectations?! That's my Disney secret

And I'm glad I had an AWFUL moment that helped me get there

 

[*QueenB*]

On our last trip alone me and DH were staying at POP. Now my husband has been drinking since he was 16 so i figured he could hold his alcohol. He had just turned 21 (and you know how 21 year olds like to go buy alcohol so they can be carded). So he decided to get a long island iced tea at the pool bar at the hotel. Long story short the alcohol and DH didnt get along very well and he had a melt down in the hotel room saying that he had a migrane and wanted all lights off so he could rest. Well it was only 7 pm and we had ressies that night. So needless to say we didnt get to go to dinner and he ended up falling asleep a little after. I was VERY unhappy!!

 

[eastcarolinafan]

I always get so caught up in the good moments, I rarely think about the bad ones; however, there are a few I remember.

The rudeness of some has been covered Ad Infinitum here, so I won't go into that again. I do recall a very bad moment in a hot tub at POR when I was in there with another middle-aged man (it is a big hot tub and we were far way from each other) and about five girls (tweeners) decided they wanted to get in. Five very attractive girls, all between 14-16, I think. It was EXTREMELY awkward.

I and the other man stayed in the tub about a minute, until it was apparent the girls were intent on chatting us up and started giggling and flirting, as only girls that age can do. We were out of that tub and I mean FAST! Why are you leaving, they asked, come back, yada, yada, yada.

That was a bad moment. Had the girls' fathers been around, that could have been a VERY bad moment.

 

[Cherinva]

Our worst moment at WDW was caused by some ignorant man...we were up front waiting for the parade at AK. We had been there for almost 30 minutes so we would have a good view. Just as the parade was coming our way, this man procedes to push his way through and knocked down my DGD...and I mean she feel HARD on her backside...my daughter picked her up and said something to him, then he turns around and pretends he doesn't speak english...what an idiot....then some very nice lady who had a seat on a nearby bench, who saw what happened, got up and let my DGD stand on the bench so she could see...as by this time, a bunch of people has pushed their way through and stood in front of us....it all turned out well....but I am glad I didn't see him for the rest of the evening...it really made me mad.....he never even appologized either.

 

[waynesgirl]

Wow, there has been a lot of moments where I wish I could have crawled under a table or a hole swallow me up.

However, my worst was the moment I got run over by a woman in a wheelchair- and yes, it was on purpose-trust me, it was, because she rammed me 3 times in less than 1 minute. Took off some serious skin-instant bruising-and bled like crazy. Limping the rest of the week- and it was my bday at AK.

What made it so bad was I stalked her the rest of the day and continuously found her and called her out loudly in a crowd of people with things like, "Watch out! Traffic police coming through!" "She'll take skin off as punishment for not moving out of her way." "Miserable woman, coming through!"

Yes, tacky and classless, but hey...she got the point after about 4 hours and finally apologized- loudly enough for others to hear her. Obviously, I wasn't the only one, as a crowd of people glared at her every where she went.

But, normally, I am as quiet as a church mouse.

 

[forever11709]

I have 2 stories -- we went in October 07 during the year of a million dreams where you could win a night in the castle and me and my best friend were there with our moms and we were walking down main street when a CM pulled 2 teenage boys and their parents and told them they won the stay in the castle! We were so disappointed that Disney would choose 2 teenage boys over younger kids or even girls!

The next trip was Oct '09 I was about 16 weeks pregnantbyt hadn't told anyone yet exept my DF and wasn't going to yell anyone til we returned from Disney, it was HOT like record breaking hot, and I had forgot my bathing suit at home, so I decided to go to DTD by myself which was fine because I love shopping. I had gotten something to eat and ended up with food poisoning I spent a day and a half in the room alone because I didn't want to ruin anyone elses trip :/

 

[scarlet_ibis]

If I only have time to type one...

It was DD's 7th bday and the crowd was unusually heavy. We decided to do Belle's storytime and got there right as they closed the rope in front of us but told us we could stand outside and watch. About 5 minutes later, the CM lifts the rope for a family of 10 who decided not to stay. But he refused to let anyone in to sit on that bench, even though it was still at least 20 mins til the show started. (long enough for me to hike to Sir Mickeys and call for an area manager to complain, which us the only time I have done that!)

Ok, one more. I made 'Ohana breakfast AdRs for our whole extended family, 11 ppl, who had to travel from the BCV. Well, there were no busses. Someone wanted to call a taxi. I said we would wait bc I have 3 kids who need carseats and I wouldn't put them in a taxi. Hard feelings about the breakfast (shoot the messenger? I only booked what everyone wanted. ) and the taxi. I overheard two of them saying very nasty things about me and it ruined a whole bunch of my trip.

 

[Our 2 Princesses]

Ok, I have another puking story - Sorry but this is quite funny! My dd4 at the time and I were in the pool at PoR. About an hour before, we had lunch and she had a kid's pepperoni pizza. We are happily playing by the edge of the pool, under the lifeguard stand, mind you, when my dd swallows some pool water and starts to throw up. Little whole pepperonis (from her aforementioned lunch) start floating everywhere. I am doing my best to scoop them out of the water and throw them out of the pool. I look up and see the lifeguard just staring at me with his mouth hanging open. I panicked because I thought he would close the pool and ruin swimming for everyone. Instead he turned away and looked at the sky like he never saw a thing!