Your worst moment at a Disney park?

[David Brent]

yea, it's pretty bad....it's worse on the bus during evening times when the parks are closing. most of the time, the people i ask are so grateful i even asked in the first place and half the time will refuse nicely....

 

[kathleendsm]

I think ours was last May. DS (2 years old and non-verbal) was kind of fussy all morning in Epcot. He and I were waiting at Soarin' for DH and DD (5 years old) to get off, then I was going back on with DD with the rider swap pass. It was almost lunchtime so when they came out, I told DH to take DS to Sunshine Seasons and get him started on lunch since he was probably hungry (I should have paid attention to the fact that he didn't eat his Cheerios when I was offering!)

DD and I rode and met DH and DS with our lunches. DS hadn't eaten much and kept putting his head down on the table and whimpering, so finally we figured we would just cut our losses and head back to BWV where we were staying. I was worried that DS would be fussy in the stroller, so I decided to put him on my back in the Beco baby carrier. He seemed happier as I put him in, but the second I hoisted him around to my back....BAM! He threw up ALL over me. I froze for a few seconds and had no idea what to do.

We were very quickly surrounded by the Disney swat team, cleaning up and being very nice while we profusely apologized to them and those around us (thank goodness he only got it on me and the floor, not the people around us!) Everyone was nothing but nice and sympathetic. We started to flee when we were as cleaned up as we would get, but were stopped by a CM who said to wait, his manager was in a meeting but they could give us vouchers so DS and I could get new clothes in a gift shop. We we bowled over by that, but said we just wanted to get DS back to the hotel to rest since we were right at BWV (plus we felt a bit guilty taking it since we could do laundry there!). LOVE those Disney cast members though, how generous and wonderful!

Nothing like tearing through Epcot smelling vaguely of vomit holding a sniffling 2 year old! Luckily he was ok in a few hours, but I managed to get the stomach flu myself a few days later and missed most of our last day there!

 

[SEC71]

Riding in an ambulance from Polynesian at midnight with my sick 16 month old daughter. We were in the ER until 5 in the morning.

 

[Lava124]

Mine would be the trip I just got back from yesterday.Everything was fine the first 2 days but then I came down with some stomach virus the 2nd night.It never went away the rest of the trip and I only spent about a total of 3 hours in the parks over the last 4 days.I was glad I had our Sil and daughter with us so at least my wife could enjoy her vacation.

Since this was basically a wasted trip for me,I am now planning another week long trip in September so I can get my yearly disney fix in.

 

[CandleontheWater]

We had one horrible night, but it was a whole family affair. It was our first night of vacation, and we went and had dinner at the Rose and Crown and watched Illuminations. Well right after Illuminations we were walking back to our resort and I started to feel really sick, I didn't end up making it back to our room at BCV and had to puke in the bushes off to the side of the walkway! I then high tailed it into the room and spent the entire night sick in every way imaginable (sorry if TMI).

Well around 3 am DH knocks on the door of the bathroom to tell me that my mother is in the hospital and he think that I should go too. It turns out that after I made my graceless entrance, my mother started having chest pains and thought she was having a heart attack! She was OK, and her doctors at home thought it might have been due to too much stress at her job, but it was really scary.

I didn't end up joining her at Celebration (mostly because I'm stubborn and hate hospitals), but it was a bad night all around.

The next day was much better, when I started feeling human again and my mom was released from the hospital, we just relaxed around Stormalong Bay. I can't think of a better place to chill and recuperate!

 

[fadingjamie]

Not an in-Disney disaster but our last trip, my boyfriend's mom was driving us to the airport for our 6:30am flight. She took a wrong turn and got us completely turned around. We got in just as our plane was boarding and the guy at the counter said we'd never make it through security in time. We wound up being put on stand-by for the next flights to MCO. Three false starts later (we actually boarded twice because the attendants thought they had two seats available), we were on a 3:00pm plane which basically wasted our whole first day. We did make up for it by seeing my first Wishes ever that night.

This time we're booking a car service to take us.

 

[SRUAlmn]

There have been times of disappointment or negativity, but I can only think of 1 that really stands out as qualifying as the 'worst.'

It was our first family trip to WDW, ever. My dad had died from cancer in April and my mom took us to WDW for Christmas so we could be away from home. I was 16 and my sisters were 14 and 11. We were in line for Mickey and were so excited. It was Christmas, lines were long, etc... and this woman behind us was getting impatient. She then proceeded to 'go off' on my sisters and I because we were 'teenagers' (we're tall, so even my sister who was 11 looked older) and she said we had no right taking up space in line for the kids who really should be there. I was devastated. Here we were, having been through the worst year of our life and all we wanted was a little Mickey happiness and this lady made us feel AWFUL! It was terrible It was the first and last lesson I ever needed in "don't judge anyone based on how they look because you don't know what they've gone through."

 

[Orangeandwild]

We were in MK watching the Twas the Night Before Christmas show in the old theater (now gone) next to Buzz Lightyear when my DH got a phone call. He had silenced his phone, but listened to the voice message to find out his 91 year old Mom had passed away unexpectedly

 

[T1gger]

Riding in an ambulance from Polynesian at midnight with my sick 16 month old daughter. We were in the ER until 5 in the morning.

Every parents worst nightmare - did she have a good/quick recovery? xx

 

[jennymouse]

Some of you long timers may recall my telling this story before.

I was there with my dgd8, and a friend/coworker. It was my first DVC trip and we were staying at BWV. We had gone to AK that day, of course, and I made the mistake of wearing blue jeans shorts on Kali and got soaked. Denim shorts don't dry out very fast, even in sunny hot AK. By the time we left AK the insides of my thighs were very badly chaffed. I had to walk stradled legged chaffed.

To make things worse, we had tickets for (I can't remember what it was called; it was EMH but you had to pay to go) at MK for that night. After AK we went back to BWV to rest up and get ready for the EMH thing and I spent the whole time trying to come up with some way that I could go and not have to walk like I'd been riding a horse for a week straight. Bandaids weren't big enough, there wasn't enough lotion or potions in the room to make it go away. Then I came up with a brilliant idea! Moleskin! If it works wonders for blisters, and chaffing is a lot like blisters....... Well, I took a whole sheet, what about 2 1/2" x 4" moleskin pad and stuck one to the left side over the chaffing and one over the right side. It worked! I could walk normal!

We go on to MK and everything is going pretty good. At some point I started feeling a little tugging on, how can I say this?, my hair down there. I went to the bathroom there by Peco Bills so see what condition my condition was in. That moleskin had started getting all rolled up on the edges and had adheared itself to, well, you know. I didn't know what else to do so I pulled it off. I did it fast and once off I realized that it took all the flesh off with it. I swear, it was gross. The inside of my thighs where I had chaffing was now raw meat.

I came out of the bathroom and my friend said I was white as a ghost in Haunted Mansion. I told them to stay, the have to pay for EMH hadn't even started yet, and I was going to head back to BWI. They quickly agreed I think mainly because they didn't want to be seen with me the way I was walking.

I made it back to BWI. Yes, it hurt. I was in pain and exhausted so I went straight to bed. Stuck the sheets between my legs so my thighs couldn't touch and was asleep by the time df & dgd got back.

The next morning of course we had a day planned for Epcot but since we/they had done EMH that you have to pay for the previous night we weren't planning on an early start. We ordered room service breakfast and then I sent my friend down to the little gift shop to see if they had anything better than what I had in the way of first aid supplies. She came back up empty handed and was all proud of herself saying that she'd told the gift shop CM what happened and she said they have a first aid/medic person on staff and would send one to our room. I've been on the disboards a long time and never heard of this but, hey, great, maybe they'll have something to put on the fire red raw meat that were now my thighs.

I had a nightgown on and of course had to sit with my legs kinda spread to keep my thighs from toughing. I was in the bedroom and heard someone knock on the door in the living room area. The next thing I know is there is a georgeous hunk of young man standing at the bedroom door with a little bandaid in his hand. I swear I could hear porn music playing and I sat there all spraddle legged. When I finally come to my senses I just look at him and that little bandaid and say, that's not gonna do it. He sees my thighs, turns red and says no and I swear, ran, out of the room! They sent a lifeguard up there! OMG, I was soooo embarrased.

To make this long painful story shorter, I ended up getting some gauze that didn't work too well because it kept falling down my leg. I rented a scooter at Epcot and went to thier first aid place and they had these sleeve like netting that was great b/c it held the gauze in place. I still had to rent a scooter at every park for the rest of the trip. And I definately didn't go anywhere near the pool so I wouldn't run into that lifeguard again.

Moral of the story: Moleskin is for your feet, not chaffed thighs.

 

[kkacar]

Ours would be at DHS on day 3 of a 9 day trip. We made it to rope drop and we were in the TSM line, when hubbys phone when off. Test message from my sister. Yeah sister never calls hubby unless there is an emergency. I dig my phone out of the bag and see that I have 5 text messages from her. 4 from my brother and 12 missed calls. I know this was not good. I got out of line, left hubby and DD8 in line. Well of course it was seriously bad news. Bad car accident with my uncle, who was more like a brother not making it. As i was posting random pictures of my daughter on FB neither none of my family wanted me to see it before they had a chance to tell me.

I had not planned to try to catch up with my family, but I was so upset that I just needed my hubby and DD. I caught back up with them in the line and quietly told hubby what was going on. By this time I am crying uncontrollably as is DD who has figured out what is going on.

I had calmed down some but was still crying, because I just could not stop. As we rounded the corner where FP meets standby, a CM came out and got us. He asked what was wrong and hubby told him 'we had a death in the family'. He put us on the ride immediately. (Hubby later joked that we were bringing morale down and they had to get rid of us)

I got the guys name and went back and wrote a glowing thank you note and before we left we took it back to DHS and dropped it off.

We leave one week from today to make up for the trip we did not have last year.

kelli

 

[ocd4disney]

A couple of years ago my DH and I took a trip without the kids. I had guilt in the first place about leaving them behind but DD (then 8) had been on a WDW trip the year before with just me and DS (then 2.5) was too young to know the difference. The day before we left DS started coughing....but I figured it was just a cold and nothing to worry about.

My sister is a nurse and was going to be staying with my mom and the kids....really, if you are gong to leave your kids for a long weekend there is nothing like leaving them with a nursewhat could go wrong? right? Anyway, DS didnt seem very sick when we left. He was a little stuffy and had a slight cough but we felt sure he would be fine.

The next morning...our first day at the parks while we were at breakfast, I get a call from my sister. She was just checking in to let us know that everything was fine but that they had spent several hours in the ER with my son He had croup and had to do breathing treatments. I felt like such a horrible mother for leaving him when I knew he was sick. I had to leave our table and go outside to talk on the phone since I was having reception issues. Pluto was waiting at our table for pictures, but when I came back they could see I was upset so everyone scattered Nobody wanted to be photographed with the crazy crying lady.

It all turned out ok though...fortunately croup didnt last very long. He was already much improved by the time I talked to my sister (partly due to a shot he had received in the ER) that DH and I were able to stay and enjoy our weekend. I havent tried to take a trip without the kids again though

 

[POOHsie]

One of my worst moments was when my dd was about 5 or 6 and we were in Ellen's energy adventure. We were in the first room where the pre-show is and it was packed. I was standing there with my dd when someone in a scooter in front of us started to back up. The place was packed and there really wasn't anywhere to move. I tried to pick up my daughter, but not in time and the scooter plowed her over. I still have no idea why the person decided to back up her scooter in the middle of the crowded room, but after knocking down my dd, without even a glance in our direction she preceded to pull forward and knock down another child in front of her, then acted as though the little girl was in her way. If i wasn't so concerned with the well being of my dd and the other little girl I would have lost it. Luckily neither child was hurt badly.

These days, scooters aren't allowed inside Ellen's Energy Adventure. You have to park your scooter outside and transfer to a wheelchair. Probably because of accidents like what happened to your child and the other one. It is pretty dark in the pre-ride area without worrying about scooters moving around.

MY WORST WDW MOMENT. I use a scooter and bring it with me to WDW. Last year DD, her BF, and I were at DHS and it was pouring buckets. We parked my scooter at RnR under some trees, and covered it with ponchos, and I transferred into a wheelchair for the ride. When we were done it was raining worse. We wanted to go to ToT, which also requires transfer to a wheelchair. So we just left my scooter covered up at RnR and DD pushed me towards ToT in the wheelchair. Since DD was pushing me, I was kind-of wrapped up like a mummy in my poncho. The street was all downhill, and all-of-a-sudden, I found myself free-wheeling and gathering speed. DD had lost her sandals in the downpour flowing down the street, and (not thinking) went back to get them, leaving me to fend for myself in a rolling wheelchair down an incline. It took a few moments to unwrap from my poncho and get control of the wheelchair. I got it stopped, and DD ran to me and said OOPS, SORRY MOM!

 

[MissNurse]

Our miserable Disney moment was in June of 2008. It was me, DH, my parents, and our two kiddos (then 6 and 3). We had just finished up our first dinner @ Chef Mickey's. We had a fabulous time, and finished just in time to hop over to MK to see Wishes. My mom was in her personal scooter. It was the kind that is just a chair with the controls on the armrest. There is a very steep ramp coming down from the monorail in front of MK, but it didn't appear so steep at the time. For some reason, my DS 3 was riding on my mom's lap in her scooter. Not the best idea in hindsight, but we were excited and rushing to get a good spot. Well, on the way down the ramp, one of her wheels got turned funny or something. The chair, my mom, and DS went flying down the brick ramp. Luckily, the chair didn't land on my mom or son. My mom had some bad road rash on her knees and was very shaken up. DS only had a small knee scrape, but was absolutely terrified. Some CM nearby came over quickly and had medical people there in a flash. They took reports, names, addresses, everything. We didn't get to see Wishes that night, and my mom stayed in the room the next day. She was very sore, but luckily they were both ok. We learned our lesson, and no one rode on her lap for the rest of the trip! DS never even asked to after that!

 

[Disney_Jill]

The worst moment I can recall was when I was little. I haven't really had anything terrible as an adult at WDW. I was about 5 1/2 years old, it was November, 1975. I went with my mom and her boyfriend. You know those stockades? Well I was terrified of them for some reason. My mom insisted on taking a picture of me in there, I wasn't even tall enough, so she had to hold me up there. I cried that I didn't want to do it but she made me and called me a baby for crying. That reminds me of another worst moment. Same trip, we rode 20,000 Leagues. I thought it was real and we were really deep under water. I got sooo scared when the sirens went off and the water starts leaking in. I cried and cried. Again, my mom called me a baby and told me to stop crying.
I have forever hated the stockades and that ride and was glad when it was gone. My kids know the story because I pretty much retell it every time we pass the stockades and the site of 20,000 Leagues.

 

[Mrs. Sojourner]

On our first real family vacation ever Day #3 we were just into DHS after RD and headed to the Back Lot Tour. I took our youngest DD (2 at the time) out of her stroller and she puked all over me! Of course I had extra clothes for the kids packed in the backpack, but not for me. The rest of our family continued on the ride. I took DD to the bathroom and got her changed and cleaned me up as best I could. I went and got a new shirt at a gift shop and changes into that (which helped, but I still had a vomit drenched bra...ewww!). We met up with our family and I told them I would head back to the room with DD. We got on the bus back to our resort and she threw up again on me and all I had was her blanket to catch it in! I think everyone on the bus was totally grossed out and they all just silently stared at me. I was so glad when we finally got back to the room!

 

[Tony NY]

the worst thing that happened to me was havening a bad real bad spasms that looks like a grand mal seizure at the closing of the magic kingdom just at the entrece to monoraill I was down on the ground shakeing kick my sister dead in her face and I did not even Know I did it un till it was over and I came to it with a slew of people around me and I seen I kicked my sister in the face that is the worst thing that happen to my sister & me at Disney

 

[Sugar Jones]

I would have to say our whole Fantasmic experience left a lot to be desired. I was honestly scared for my kids safety during the whole line up and dash in procedure. It was awful.

However the show was great and now I know for future visits to do the dinner package!

 

[2kidsForMe]

On our first day at MK my contacts were driving me nuts. I went into the bathroom to see what was going on. I took my right contact out and promptly dropped it on the floor, and of course I could not find it. I then remembered I had left all of my supplies in my carryon, which was back at the resort. I spend the better part of the day only being able to see out of one eye. Not fun.

 

[Phil'sFrontier]

lol...I like that one eye story.
My(our) worst moment was on stich's great escape. As soon as the lights when out our dd8 started crying and freaking out. Too bad she did because I think she would have liked the ride if she wasn't so scared. Then we almost forgot out photos we got from a few other rides! Luckily the great staff there had gone through before the next visitors to the ride came and grabbed our bag.