EPCOT... UGH!!! DOUBLE UGH!!!!!!!!!!!

[chapie1968]

You're assuming your definition of family vacation spot is the same as everyone else's.

I think everyone pretty much would call Disney a family vacation spot. I'll bet you one of my paycheck's against yours that Disney is one of the top family vacation destinations in the world.

Wanna play?

 

[fairy oma]

We were at the Food and Wine Festival in late September 2013 on a hot and humid Thursday afternoon and I can tell you there were a lot of people feeling no pain at 2pm. We laughed and commented we would not want to be them later.

 

[whiporee]

This is an interesting anecdote.

Disney World was almost in St. Louis. Site picked. Papers signed, deals made.

Then be of the Busch heirs got a little drunk at a reception and said, in a voice loud enough for Walt to hear, that he couldn't trust anyone who would build an amusement park and not sell beer.

Walt cancelled everything that night.

It's a different world, but if you're in the what would Walt do camp, I do doubt he would approve of the Pub crawl Epcot often seems to be.

 

[megster1123]

I think everyone pretty much would call Disney a family vacation spot. I'll bet you one of my paycheck's against yours that Disney is one of the top family vacation destinations in the world.

Wanna play?

You may want to re-read my post. I never said it wasn't a family vacation spot. My point that you very clearly missed is that a family vacation spot should be one that all types of families enjoy. And that includes my family of 7 adults that chooses to drink in WS.

Nice try though.

 

[Accident]

If your the type of person that gets fixated on something it's really easy to see epcot as a place that everyone is doing nothing but running around drinking. Yes there is a lot, yes there is more on the weekend. I've found just shrug them off, slow down your walk and then your around people not running from drink to drink. There are days it's pretty bad but overall I don't find it very prominent unless I get fixated that it's happening and stop seeing epcot and only notice the visitors.. Weekends it really ramps up, especially when the locals or someone visiting a local who isn't working can join them..

Why people like doing that in an area that it's rough to stay hydrated in the first place is beyond me but that's what they want out of their vacation. I never really see anyone from an area where going between drinking establishment is the norm so for them this is a treat.

Now when the beer muscles come out and they walk back past mission space is when the bus back to the resort can be interesting. Epcot is not the place to slowly linger and wander out at closing because they have the chance to finish, get sick on mission space and meet you at the bus for that ride back....

 

[jrmasm]

They were the only two "Ugh's", and I didn't say I didn't enjoy EPCOT, I said I did not like it loaded with drunks people in mid afternoon.

I've never seen anything like you describe, but we did take take our daughter for her 21st birthday....

 

[chapie1968]

You may want to re-read my post. I never said it wasn't a family vacation spot. My point that you very clearly missed is that a family vacation spot should be one that all types of families enjoy. And that includes my family of 7 adults that chooses to drink in WS.

Nice try though.

Clearly a difference of people enjoying a drink or different types of drinks for the experience, and people there with the sole purpose of getting drunk.

I have no problem with the first. I have a problem with the people at the bar stop in China doing shots chanting shots shots shots shots as I watch most of them each do at least 3 apiece

 

[North of Mouse]

Don't come down to New Orleans.

I logged in just to say the same thing.

Bet OP would have a field day with Mardi Gras.

Born and raised near NOLA, and go there quite often, especially to the FQ for our beignet fix, and see very few people with 'drinks' in their hands - even walking down Bourbon St. Granted, this too, like the OP is during the day. The weekend nights especially, and Mardi Gras is entirely different, but we aren't there then - purposefully. Your posts make it seem like the City is this way all the time - it's not.

 

[SaintsManiac]

Born and raised near NOLA, and go there quite often, especially to the FQ for our beignet fix, and see very few people with 'drinks' in their hands. Granted, this too, like the OP is during the day. The weekend nights especially, and Mardi Gras is entirely different, but we aren't there then - purposefully. Your posts make it seem like the City is this way all the time - it's not.

Ok don't come down to Bourbon Street. Is that better? Born and raised there and I know that OP would not want to be near the FQ.

Also, there's this thing called sarcasm...

 

[megster1123]

Clearly a difference of people enjoying a drink or different types of drinks for the experience, and people there with the sole purpose of getting drunk.

I have no problem with the first. I have a problem with the people at the bar stop in China doing shots chanting shots shots shots shots as I watch most of them each do at least 3 apiece

Well then there's the difference and I agree with that. It's about being responsible in your choices.
IMO your original post gave off a teetotaler kind of vibe.

 

[Missyrose]

I just love how people decide that the way they vacation is the only proper way to vacation and everyone else are out-of-control hooligans. My friends and I can be giggling uncontrollably while walking through the World Showcase completely sober and I'm sure plenty of you would lump us into the drunken group simply because we're a group of adults having fun at Disney World without any kids.

But last time I checked, my ticket costs just as much as yours, so I would hope I'd get to decide how I get to enjoy my time in the parks.

It's not like people are bringing flasks into the park, they are grabbing a margarita at La Cava or a beer from Germany or a Grey Goose slushy from France. Magic Kingdom is the only dry(ish) park, adults are allowed to imbibe on vacation.

Enjoy your vacation and don't let what anyone else is doing affect you.

 

[bumbershoot]

Sorry you didn't enjoy yourself but please understand that someone can be walking around holding a drink and not be drunk. I'm sitting on my couch with a glass of wine right now and I walk around Epcot with a beer or glass of wine when I go and if that glass was not in my hand there would be no way you would know I had been drinking alcohol. To each their own, if they aren't being rude or disruptive and are legal age, what they are drinking is no one else's business.

Yep.

I haven't been to EPCOT in about two year and I thought the same thing then. This 'Drinking Around the World" is getting out of hand. Drunken,( and I mean the bride can't stand on her own or women trying to re live their Pop Warner days), bachelorette parties, guys with beer muscles fake fighting each other. It's pathetic.

Why is it pathetic? Happy women thinking of happy times. Fake fighting is better than real fighting. I just don't see the issue.

they were the obnoxious drunk type, commenting on people

Ahem. Might want to read that again.

but if you need to drink mid afternoon(to get drunk), especially in a place that is 80% families with children, you have a problem.

You're assuming a need when it's almost certainly a want. Needs are more easily and cheaply met at home.

I think everyone pretty much would call Disney a family vacation spot. I'll bet you one of my paycheck's against yours that Disney is one of the top family vacation destinations in the world.

Wanna play?

And your definition of what constitutes activities on a family vacation is different than others'.

I'm on a family vacation right now. Spent four nights at Universal Orlando with my son, and now we're in San Diego with more family, and ice had at least one drink each day. I'm too broke to have more, and the food I'm eating fills me up. But I'm currently drinking a baileys rocks, with family around.

I have a problem with the people at the bar stop in China doing shots chanting shots shots shots shots as I watch most of them each do at least 3 apiece

Why is that a problem for you? Explain it.

I see stuff like that and think "my son is laughing at them, which gives him more of a chance of not wanting to do that". Because that's what happened with me and my hippie mom.

 

[squeezle]

It is a theme park, for goodness sakes, not a church outing.

Ha!

On vacation I am ofter two-fisting it: a libation in one hand and a water in the other (I'm middle aged these days). And I am rarely, if ever, drunk. But I like a drink at lunch, a drink in the afternoon, a drink before dinner, a drink with dinner, a drink after dinner. That's right people, five drinks in eight hours and I don't care what day of the week it is. Watch out, I'm sickening!

 

[North of Mouse]

Ok don't come down to Bourbon Street. Is that better? Born and raised there and I know that OP would not want to be near the FQ.

Also, there's this thing called sarcasm...

Sorry, disagree - the FQ is a great place to visit during the day - the OP would thoroughly enjoy it during the day, just like our families do.

 

[princessjadesmom]

I agree with the OP. Drunkenness is unacceptable at a Disney park with all of the impressionable children around. I don't want that around my family.

 

[DLgal]

... if you need to drink mid afternoon(to get drunk), especially in a place that is 80% families with children, you have a problem.

Um, have you ever been to any of the resort pools that has a pool bar anytime between 11am and 3pm? People are drinking as soon as the bars open up at Disney. And what of all the breakfast places that serve mimosas and bloody Mary's?

What's with this notion that people should only drink after the sun goes down?

Who cares? If people want to have a cold beer or Margarita (or 3) in the afternoon, so what? How does that indicate a problem? 1-2 pm is well after lunchtime. Many people order drinks at lunch.

The amount of judgment coming from you is unreal.

 

[Missyrose]

I agree with the OP. Drunkenness is unacceptable at a Disney park with all of the impressionable children around. I don't want that around my family.

You can control where you take your children, but you can't control anyone else's actions. So it's up to you if want to be somewhere that legally allows drinking. Do you avoid eating at restaurants with a bar at home?

 

[boomgoesthemickey]

I agree with the OP. Drunkenness is unacceptable at a Disney park with all of the impressionable children around. I don't want that around my family.

There was no mention of drunkenness in the original post though, simply that people were drinking around world showcase drinking does not equal drunk.

 

[mikedoyleblogger]

I get the not wanting to see falling down drunkenness at Disney, either. But it happens, and unless someone gets rowdy, they aren't going to be asked to leave the property. (Though they may be cut off in a specific establishment.) Once Disney decided to serve alcohol, essentially, everywhere except MK outside of dinner at BOG, this is the way things are. There's nothing wrong with complaining to Guest Services about it. But you can't label everyone you see drinking as a drunk, either. People drink at WS. People drink at the pools. Last week, we saw two men who never left the lakeside bar at Coronado Springs for eight hours. You can't expect people not to be people just because you're at Disney.

 

[mikedoyleblogger]

There was no mention of drunkenness in the original post though, simply that people were drinking around world showcase drinking does not equal drunk.

OP said weekends outside of F+W have now become a "drunk fest," clearly referencing their weekend Epcot experience.