Your worst moment at a Disney park?

[pampam]

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 :/

I really hope you didn't mean this. We are all talking about our worst moment in a Disney Park. You mention someone you didn't know getting one of the best magical moments ever, a thrill of a lifetime really, and it was a worst moment for you!!

I think anyone would be thrilled to recieve such a surprise, regardless of age or gender, and I don't think Disney would discriminate on such.

 

[DanPadavona]

I came down in February about 12 years ago. I got to the Magic Kingdom around noon, and an already cool day turned miserabe when it started to rain lightly. It got colder and colder.

By mid afternoon, it was so cold we could all see our breath. I decided to hop on the monorail and hole up at the Contemporary for a while. A television was on, and it showed the current temperature for Orlando at 47 degrees Fahrenheit. Here I had come all the way from upstate NY to escape winter, and it was absolutely miserable in central Florida. In fact the next day was almost as cold and rainy.

January and February can be rather risky in central Florida. When it's nice, it's awesome. But sometimes is kinda stinks...

 

[Mixie]

Fast forward to about six months later, where I got together with some college friends. I ran into a guy that I haven't seen in about ten years. A big goofy type of guy....as we talked, he mentioned that he worked for the Mouse, and with a twinkle in his eye asked me how my Valentines day was!!!!

I burst out laughing

That is the *best* story!

 

[scarlet_ibis]

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!

We were trading pins with a CM near the Town Hall and my DD (probably 5 at the time) was wearing a Cinderella shirt. The CM started asking her if she liked Cinderella and then he whipped out these stickers and told her, "These are very special stickers. Only little girls who get to sleep in the castle get these stickers." And then he gave her the stickers and that was that. We all thought that we had won the night in the castle, but no. Why would he say that???

 

[Virtucomp]

It looks like AK is the place to be! We were at the park for a few hours when the sky opened up. The water was coming down so hard that the walkways were rivers. We had rain ponchos but they didn't stop your socks and shoes from getting wet.

To make matters worse there were little kids walking along kicking their feet in the water splashing everyone. Of course the Mom didn't think that was an issue.

It took days to dry out the sneakers.

 

[lundve]

hmmmm, I wonder of the nacho cheese and margarita story a million posts back ended up being the family who is suing Disney because the cheese is too hot?

I'll start with the creepy but now funny story which I have posted before. It was Valentine's Day over a decade ago and I was at DL with my then boyfriend. All the characters were feeling quite amorous and having fun with a park full of couples. We ran into Goofy walking along a path and he grabs me and spins me around dancing and then dips me. He covers my face with his gigantic mouth in a kiss which seemed to last a little too long. His huge paws seemed to wander a little too far down my butt. Finally he lets go and I try to bolt out of there. I thought I was losing my mind. It is hard to explain but I felt "icky" and kept trying to convince myself that he just has giant paws-lol!

Fast forward to about six months later, where I got together with some college friends. I ran into a guy that I haven't seen in about ten years. A big goofy type of guy....as we talked, he mentioned that he worked for the Mouse, and with a twinkle in his eye asked me how my Valentines day was!!!!

I burst out laughing

Utterly hilarious!

 

[umichigan10]

I have another story that took place at Disney's place on Hilton Head. So me ans my family are driving out to the island on the two lane highway. Once we get to within a few mile of the bridge to the island there's a huge traffic jam. Took forever to get there. On top of that, it poured buckets. I mean it was like a rain storm of biblical proportions. It rained the whole day we were there, so we didn't even get to see what the hotel and the stuff around it really looked like.

 

[stargazertechie]

Mine would probably be the day I spent 3 hours at AK guest relations with ticket issues, and ended up wandering out and having a panic attack in front of the park turnstiles.

My poor fiance had to fireman carry me back to the car I was so freaked out.

 

[TandLMommy28]

Gosh, I can't think of anything really horrible that ever happened to me AT Disney... My only story is of trying to GET to Disney and screwing up the GPS. I had apparently selected "Avoid traffic" and since we were due to hit Atlanta around rush hour on a Friday night (which we used to drive in every weekend when we lived down south... we were prepared for it). So the darn GPS rerouted us and we didn't realize it. We ended up going over 100 miles out of our way (And we were already driving almost 1100 miles, so this was NOT fun). I remember just CRYING because Disney was so close and yet so far!!! (And I know I'm an idiot for fully trusting the GPS but I had CHECKED it at our most recent stop to make sure I still liked the path it was taking.... it changed itself to avoid traffic after that. Sigh...)

 

[iheartdisney]

Gosh, I can't think of anything really horrible that ever happened to me AT Disney... My only story is of trying to GET to Disney and screwing up the GPS. I had apparently selected "Avoid traffic" and since we were due to hit Atlanta around rush hour on a Friday night (which we used to drive in every weekend when we lived down south... we were prepared for it). So the darn GPS rerouted us and we didn't realize it. We ended up going over 100 miles out of our way (And we were already driving almost 1100 miles, so this was NOT fun). I remember just CRYING because Disney was so close and yet so far!!! (And I know I'm an idiot for fully trusting the GPS but I had CHECKED it at our most recent stop to make sure I still liked the path it was taking.... it changed itself to avoid traffic after that. Sigh...)

This is so relateable! My sister lives in Pensacola, but they were married in Orlando. To quote Bugs Bunny, they must have missed the left turn at Albequerque, because they called from Daytona to have us mapquest it. (pre-gps days)

 

[tsme]

My worse time at Disney was when we took two 15yr olds. They thought they were too grown up for Disney & spent the entire trip complaining, pouting, & frowning.
My DD's would probably be last year. Two things. The first a man in a electric scooter came every close to running over her. I saw him started yelling & had to yank her out of the way & he never stopped nor did he apologize. It scared her & just mad me angry. The second she started having bad belly cramps. I asked if she had to go to the bathroom, she said no. My DH had to back pack her out of the park & shore enough after getting back to the hotel room, she had to go to the bathroom, then felt fine. To this day she denies that's why her stomach hurt.
Another scooter incident was while watching the fireworks at MK. A lady just ran over my DH's foot, never slowed down. Seriously, I wish the people riding those things would be more careful!!
Mostly though, Disney's awesome

 

[goofyernmost]

Gosh, I can't think of anything really horrible that ever happened to me AT Disney... My only story is of trying to GET to Disney and screwing up the GPS. I had apparently selected "Avoid traffic" and since we were due to hit Atlanta around rush hour on a Friday night (which we used to drive in every weekend when we lived down south... we were prepared for it). So the darn GPS rerouted us and we didn't realize it. We ended up going over 100 miles out of our way (And we were already driving almost 1100 miles, so this was NOT fun). I remember just CRYING because Disney was so close and yet so far!!! (And I know I'm an idiot for fully trusting the GPS but I had CHECKED it at our most recent stop to make sure I still liked the path it was taking.... it changed itself to avoid traffic after that. Sigh...)

I have found GPS systems to be the most useful within a city or surrounding areas. On a long trip they will send you in some of the most unbelievable places. I can remember one time on I-95 in Maine it directed me to get off the route, then only 5 or so miles later put me back on it. I lost all kinds of time doing that. It had figured out the most direct route and not the most convenient and logical. That same trip I was leaving Wells Beach, Maine heading back to Vermont (a trip I had taken a million times). I knew the route but I was curious to see how the GPS would handle it. It attempted to have me go off the normal route and direct me through every little town along the way. I didn't follow its instructions, I just stayed on the route that I knew was correct but I really wanted to see what would happen if I didn't follow "Hals" instruction. It just kept redirecting me every time I got to an intersection along the way. I kept ignoring it and it would reconfigure how to get me to go they way it wanted me to go until I think it finally blew out a chip and directed me to take a left turn into a lake. It was really funny.

However, whenever I have used it in an urban area it has been right on the money. For the long distance, non urban trips I use Mapquest which just spells out directions based on where I want to go. Then when I get close I turn on the GPS.

 

[Scrappy_Tink]

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!

Oh, I feel for you!!! I've lived through one of those violent quick-acting stomach virus' only once in my life. It started with my 9 month old throwing up at my sister's who picked him up from daycare for me....he only did it ONE time, and we just thought it was a reaction to new formula. Before the weekend was over....my sister, my two nephews, my brother-in-law, me, and my husband had all been struck by puking & "the other end", if you know what I mean!! All from one little tiny baby!! I asked the day care facility on Monday if anyone there had been sick over the weekend. One of my son's caregivers said she was in the middle of a baby shower and was suddenly overcome with "that feeling" and didn't know where the bathroom was, so she ran outside to throwup on the front yard. We still talk (20 years later) about the weekend from he**. I cannot imagine if it happened during a visit to Disney World, that would be horrible. BTW, did your DH ever get sick at all?

 

[dairyqueenmom]

Lost our 4 year old daughter in the play area of Animal Kingdom. Luckily we found her across the bridge in the Dinasour Dig, but it was the most scary 15min. of my life. She never realized she was lost.

 

[seadd67]

This Is easy Its just one and only one time. Two years ago at MNSSHP. We where coming into the park and where just comeing up on the sidewalk, on the right side of Main street. There was a ton of People comeing out so we decided to walk on the side to avoid the people exiting. To this day I just can not frguire out why this happen. I had just step up onto the sidewalk, this lady In a very Mad Donald mood(I guess),she lower her shoulder and ram right into me. Now I am a bigger kind of guy,so if i seen it comeing I would of brace for it better,but I had just step and and look up from the ground to see this lady ram me in my shoulder. Now it shock me but did not budge me much but i could not belive this lady just kept walking with out saying nothing!. Really shouck me up as far as my Im- presson of the people that go to Disney at that moment. Later I felt so sorry for that lady, that she could be In that bad of a mood in the happest place on earth.

 

[Scrappy_Tink]

I have found GPS systems to be the most useful within a city or surrounding areas. On a long trip they will send you in some of the most unbelievable places. I can remember one time on I-95 in Maine it directed me to get off the route, then only 5 or so miles later put me back on it. I lost all kinds of time doing that. It had figured out the most direct route and not the most convenient and logical. That same trip I was leaving Wells Beach, Maine heading back to Vermont (a trip I had taken a million times). I knew the route but I was curious to see how the GPS would handle it. It attempted to have me go off the normal route and direct me through every little town along the way. I didn't follow its instructions, I just stayed on the route that I knew was correct but I really wanted to see what would happen if I didn't follow "Hals" instruction. It just kept redirecting me every time I got to an intersection along the way. I kept ignoring it and it would reconfigure how to get me to go they way it wanted me to go until I think it finally blew out a chip and directed me to take a left turn into a lake. It was really funny.

However, whenever I have used it in an urban area it has been right on the money. For the long distance, non urban trips I use Mapquest which just spells out directions based on where I want to go. Then when I get close I turn on the GPS.

Me and DH jokingly talk about him always having his GPS set for the "ghetto route". Once when we were in St. Louis (we were from a small town in Missouri) we were going from the mall to a concert. I told DH just to get on the interstate (which was right next to the mall) and go from there....no, he had to follow the GPS. We ended up in a very undesireable part of town (I think St. Louis beat Detroit this year on most violent city) and I was scared to death. I didn't realize how unsettled my DH felt, until he pulled out his extra weapon (he was a Deputy) and said here hold this, just in case. Seriously, it was that scarey! Anyway, we get around the Ghetto Route, and takes us BACK onto the Interstate I suggested we take in the first place!

I hate the GPS, unless we are looking for something really specific. Regarding Atlanta....I don't care what time of day you hit that city, there's traffic. We planned on hitting Atlanta once around 3:00 am, and was "off" by two hours and hit it at 5:00 am, and there was STILL bumper-to-bumper!! I can't imagine living there.

 

[Butler_chic07]

January 2011.

Leaving the Magic Kingdom AFTER the fireworks... caught a bus right away, but then thanks to a driver not being safe our Disney bus ended up in an accident.

Catching the bus right after the fireworks awesome! Filling out injury reports and waiting for another bus and the transportation supervisor - a memory I NEVER want to relive! It only then took us about an hour and a half to get back to our room...


But our bus driver was very good, and it wasn't his fault at all. Thankfully no major injuries, just bumps and bruises, and some whiplash. But it could have been so much worse.


Yep worst memory by far.

 

[kstrong001]

My 3 yr old vomited on me when I was holding him in line at Aladdin's carpet ride. We all had the flu that trip!

 

[AliceinMaryland]

Lost our 4 year old daughter in the play area of Animal Kingdom. Luckily we found her across the bridge in the Dinasour Dig, but it was the most scary 15min. of my life. She never realized she was lost.

We did the same thing!!! I didn't even know there was a dinosaur dig until my other child found him!! I bet it's happened to alot of us

 

[revdon64]

Dw and I were on an adults only trip about five years back. Just us, no kids. We were having a great time all week doing all the adult stuff we could handle. At the end of a long day at EPCOT we entered the empty line to get on the bus back to our hotel. Two adults and two young kids (looked like grandparents/grandkids) entered the line behind us but proceeded to go under the ropes for several lanes so that they were ahead of us. It wasn't really a big deal, but it had been a long day and I was short on patience. I think I said something to the effect of, "Is that the kind of behavior that you want to teach your grandkids?" He responded with a snide remark and seemed to want an argument. I wasn't really willing to have an argument right there in front of their children so I let it go, but his wife relented and let us in front of them. Again, not a big deal, but some things ought to stand on principle, right?