Has anyone had bad experience at DLR with another guest?

[cquick]

It bothers me, too, to see people making out in the parks. I don't mind an occasional kiss or whatever, but no tonsil hockey, people.

I wish people would watch out more when they're moving across people going one way. I have friends in wheelchairs and I don't know how many times I've seen people, kids and adults, not watching where they're going and running into them or tripping over their footrests (these would be the same people who are tripping over everyone's strollers because they have tunnel vision and are trying to get to the next ride). Also, if you are coming towards someone in a wheelchair going the opposite direction as you (whether they're pushing themselves or someone is pushing them), please step out of their way--it's a lot easier to manuever on two legs than 4 wheels. Also--if you see someone in a wheelchair going uphill, please don't do anything to stop their momentum (again whether or not they're pushing themselves or being pushed) as it's pretty hard to get going again, especially in certain areas of the parks. And this is pretty important going downhill, too, as momentum is pretty hard to stop. I can do it with a stroller, no problem, but it's really different when you're pushing someone who weighs over 100 pounds.

Hey! I'm with you!

 

[50thisyeartoo!]

I can't stand it when people cut in line. I wish DL had a policy to kick them out of the park if caught!

 

[Dukland]

Yes I I have, it cost me 45 minutes with the Anaheim PD and Disney security...it was worth every second of the time I spent with them. Bullies will always be bullies until they find themselves on the short end of the stick.

Jack

That's all you're going to tell us?

Spill it!!

 

[Dukland]

This past April we were at MTTM (on my DS's 5th bday) and we were gathering 3 chairs to sit and watch the dedication ceremony when this crazed woman ripped my sons chair from beneath him and he crashed on the to cement. This is after we had been seated for 2-3minutes -- THEN she had the guts to say that HE was blocking HER view!!!! His head barely comes to the top of the chair!!!!!
I just looked at her and explained that he was 5 and you do not treat children like that -- she should have said something to me and I would have taken care of it. The worst of all she started cussing like a sailor -- in front of her kids as well as ALL the other children -- people just looked at her (lol including her husband!!!) like she was possessed!!!

Funny thing ... about a minute later the ceremonies were about to start and the CM doing the MC on the ceremony noticed the whole thing and he made my son go up to the front and had the entire audience sing Happy Birthday to him!!!!

When we left I told her to have a "Happy day elsewhere because Disneyland was for "happy" people and maybe she needed to reflect where she was and who was around her before she shot off her foul mouth!!!

Heidi

You are a nicer and kinder person than I am. I think after that, security would have been escorting ME out of the park! How dare she!!!

When we went last year, ds and I ducked into the candy shop in ToonTown. I was buying candy for ds in a desperate attempt to keep him from eating candy and popcorn he found in the street there. Anyway, the counter there is round, and there are many places along the counter for guests to be served. And some guest started yelling at the CM because she felt she wasn't being helped fast enough. I had to raise my eyebrows at that. I actually thought to myself, "HELLO!! Happiest Place on Earth? Ring any bells?" My 19 month old ds had more patience waiting for his candy that that idiot grownup woman!

Oh, and coming out of the parks one afternoon, some woman tried to bum a cigarette off me. ( I don't do cancer sticks, either) When I didn't have one, she read my shirt. It was Donald Duck, with a big lump on his head, and he was thinking "I shoulda stayed in bed!" She read this outloud and said, "yeah, you should have." Gee, sorry I didn't have any coffin nails for you, but get your grouchy butt away from my family!!

 

[Pirate-Emery]

Same day. I was taking 2 4 year olds on BTM and I have 3 teenagers screaming bloody murder behind me. The ride had not even started...

I calmy turned around and asked them to shut up because they were scaring my kids.

My kids are not afraid of the ride just the screaming petrified them! The kids apologized about 5 times...
I then had extra fast passes that we didn't use and at the end offered them to them to let them know that there were no hard feelings but to look and think before you scream..


Rapunsel

Well, that sounded like a happy story then. Being a teenager, I do understand those teens. They were just goofing around, as any teenager would likely do in Disneyland (I don't: I become a 5-year-old kid when I enter the park). You did the right thing. Good teens most likely will mess around until they are told that their 'messing' is harming others, then they'd automatically stop and apologize.

It seems you were lucky enough that those teens weren't jerks. Every teen should respect adults. Every time.


Now, this is a little tale that has to do with my experience with another guest: my aunt.


We were in DL for my Aunt's 50th B-day last October. Slowly our families are making their way to the Grand Californian. My older cousins are both students at Chapman and my youngest older cousin, Tyler, had a couple lectures he had to go to in the morning: so he had to come later.

Well, he gets there before dinner, we have a nice Birthday dinner at the Napa Rose, and go back upstairs (Concierge Floor) to go back into the park.

We went to the Concierge Desk to get an entrance ticket for Tyler (who hadn't been in the park yet that day), but the woman behind the counter said we had to pay full price (it was about 8 pm).

I was okay with it (seemed a little unfair, but it was something we could get over).

My aunt blew up. I really felt bad for the lady behind the desk, but she perservered and did not bow down to my crazy aunt.


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Another story was during the Fantasmic show. Crazy mother kept telling us to move out of the area because she could not move. Instead of working together so we'd both be able to watch the show, she butts in and tells us to get out.


Apart from those, I rather enjoy the other guests at the park. Or, I do not interact with them at all and see them as things in the Queue for Screamin' California that I have to wait behind.

 

[wowsmom]

On our trip in the end of June, my husband's foot was run over by an electric scooter. The scooter driver looked at us and I said "Ohmigosh, I'm so sorry!" because DH had not been paying attention and had stuck his foot right in front of the guy.

On the same trip, we staked out a spot for Fantasmic! about 90 minutes before show time. People gathered behind us and right when the show is about to start, this kid taps DH on the shoulder and says "Excuse me!" like he wanted to get in front of us. DH just said no. So then the kid started tapping me on the shoulder, repeatedly, saying "Excuse me." and at first, I said no, then I just ignored him. I realize he wanted a better spot to see, but we'd been waiting for 90 minutes to get our good seats - why should our kids not be able to see so he could?

 

[eatmypixiedust]

On one of my trips to DL last summer, I remember I was trading pins with 2 CM's on Main St. Normally if someone asks to see my pins I just stick my lanyard out so they can see it. Well this lady walked up to me and grabbed one of my lanyards (I was wearing it around my neck too!) and said: "I want this one!!" and pointed at a bunch of pins I had on. I politely grabbed my lanyard and said: "Please don't grab my lanyards. You are welcome to look, but please don't touch them." She ignored me and continued to say: "I want these pins!" I politely told her: "Sorry, but I'm not trading those." She understood and could speak English, yet she still continued to say: "I want these pins!" Finally she was distracted by another guest wearing pins and I turned around and sped off away from her.

She was nuttier than Chip N' Dale I tell ya!

 

[Castaway Kev]

Back in January, my wife and I finished a long day in the parks. We were staying at the Disneyland Hotel and decided to head down to the Hot Tub by the pool. We got in and there was a couple of teenagers present who had about four words in their vocabularies. I looked at one of them and asked if they would mind cleaning up their language. He said flat out, "you're not my dad" and went right on. I dropped it at that, but was certainly anoyed by his lack of common courtesy.
Looking back at it, I should have told the kid that it was obvious that I wasn't his dad because I certainly wouldn't have let him carry on that way.

 

[Luvmy2Js]

When we were there in June we got to experiance some rude people. We had my FIL and MIL with us and wanted them to see the fireworks from a great spot so we staked out a spot in the round area under the statue of Walt and Mickey and right in front of the castle. We got there about 90 minutes before the show started. My son was only 17 months old so to keep him entertained I was tickling him and playing with him. He and I were sitting on the ground and he was making everyone around us crack up. The entire time we were there more and more people kept coming up and standing behind my family but they could see there were no spots in front of us and that all of us were sitting on the cement so as not to block the view of the people sitting on the cement bench type things.

Right before the show starts these two RUDE people come up, cut in front of my husband and three year old so they are inbetween us and stand there talking about walking in front of me. The people sitting behind us on the cement benches complained about them standing so they squatted down next to my stroller. I hear one of them tell the other to step over my son and I. I was soooo mad by this point, as was everyone around us. I turned to them and told them they needed to go somewhere else because there was no room for them and they were NOT going to step over my baby and myself. The guy got really rude and said he would if he wanted to and I couldn't stop him. I told him if he tried I would kick him as hard as I could. He said if I did he would hit me back. My husband then stepped in and told him if he touched his wife he would kick his *** and they had both better get lost because they were cutting inbetween our family and blocking the rest of the patrons views. By this time everyone around us had heard everything and they were all trying to run these two off and were about to go get a CM.

I just am still shocked that two young people would mess with a mother holding her infant child. So disgusting!!

 

[disneegrl4eva]

gosh what is it about the fireworks show that has rudeness coming out of people ???

 

[maberlyne]

Oh, we had our fair share when we went this past June.

The day after POTC re-opened, my bf and I were in line a 8:00 AM sharp - the line started as soon as you walked under the tunnel to enter Main Street! We got up next to Tom Sawyer Island (the line moved pretty well) and a lone woman cut between us and the group in front of us. Now, the group in front of us weren't push overs - the mom politely told the lady that the line started way back there. What did the cutter say? "Oh, I'm looking for someone." Well, apparently she didn't find anyone cuz she ended up sitting next to us on the ride. Oh well.

Another day, my bf and I were waiting in line back near Matterhorn for an Icee. The line was looong. There were two teenage girls, with two preteen girls. It was hot. Hot hot hot! The girls were kinda messing around, nothing bad, and one of the younger girls accidently sprayed the woman's leg in front of them. The woman immediately looked back, and the girl was shocked. She said so deadpan that it almost seemed fake, "I'm soooo sorry!" The woman just looked at her. Then the other girl giggled over something unrelated and the woman turned back and went, "Oh, you think that's funny, do you?" My bf and I were like, what?!?! She was not happy! The girls accidently sprayed me a little, and said sorry, but I just said, "It's okay, it's hot, it feels good." They laughed. I mean, seriously?!?! It was like 95 degrees +!! Gosh!

Then one more time, even! We hauled our butts over to Fantasmic right after the fireworks. We got over quickly and started the first row behind a group that was sitting, and managed to hold the space until the show. There was some drama with a guy accusing another woman's family of standing in front of them, but it wasn't really her family, lol. Anywho, a lady who started behind me managed to edge her way to in front of me by the end of the show. I had to have my bf trade spots with me, then put his arms around me to keep my space. Grrrr... Not too much drama, though.

 

[munchkinsmom]

Once when we were in the Mickey and Friends Parking structure after a day at the DLR, DH and I had our children (3yrs and 1yr at the time) in the rear of our minivan, changing their clothes into pajamas for the ride home. As we were changing them, a big, huge SUV came up and the driver honked her horn right when she drove right by us. We weren't in the way...she was honking to get someone's attention at the other end of the structure, I think. With the horn being extremely loud to begin with and then coupled with the reverberation caused by being enclosed in the structure, we jumped out of our skin and our kids were totally freaked out by it! They started crying, poor things.

 

[LOLA2]

O.K.- at Animal Kingdom, went to Lion King show where we sit in bleachers. I was behind a lady and her husband. I was with my 2 kids and DH. Well when the show starts she whips out her camera, brings it up high so she doesn't get heads from people in front of her. Well recorder was right in front of my face. I was like no way. I told her I could not see. She said well I really want to get this on tape. I told her to go stand on the side where everyone else was recording. She looked at me like I had some nerve, and said some people only think about themselves, and then got up to walk away to record. HELLO- talking about thinking of yourself! Jeesh.

 

[SparklePower]

I just have to say it totally annoys me when I have staked out my spot for my family 1 hour before the fireworks or Fantasmic and some people just think they can come up 5 minutes before and horn in on my spot. Grrrrr... that really makes me put on my angry eyes!

 

[LOLA2]

We were in line for a roller coater at Kings Island over this last 4th of July. My DS4 was too small to get on so my husband waited. My dd 10 and I went on. There were two lines right next to each other. We were in line no longer than 2 minutes when I heard someone talking about he was proud to be an American, he isn't no corn bread eating line jumper. And this guy is really yelling this. I look over and it is the guy right next to me in other line. It seems he is talking to the other guy in his group there are about 4 of them mid 30-40 with two young 20 something girls. They all kept heckling each other back and forth that they were proud to be an American and how they are 100% American. I was like what the heck, I know it's forth of July but what the heck, quiet down. I turned slightly just to see if people behind me thought this was weird behavior also. Well there was an Hispanic man mid thirties with a young teenage brother (maybe 13). I was like oHHHH. This is a race thing. I could not beleive people would be so blatant about their views. I turned and said not everyone thinks like that, it is rather embarresing. The Hispanic man behind me said it doesn't bother me and just kept his face staight forward. Well the idiots next to us must have heard me and said to the Hispanic guy, do you have something to be embarresed about. The Hispanic man said no i was born in America and so were my parents we live in Georgia. Well the idiots or white supremisists whatever you want to call them said just looking at you it looks like you should be embarresed. I could hardly beleive this was going on, and my daughter was witnessing this all. I stepped back and let the 2 hispanic men go infront of me so they would be somewht seperated from the people across from us. And yes I was very nervous thinking I was going to be pulled into the middle of this for defending this poor guy, but it was the right thing to do. Well then these idiots (3 ) go in front of the people in front of them jump over the metal railing onto my side right in front of me and surrounded these 2 hispanic guys screaming at them and saying I'll beat your @ss just give us a reason. Well the Hispanic guy took his hands and put them behind his back and said I don't want to throw down. At this point I was shaking and knew there was about to be a fist fight so I knew I had to go but first I looked over at the two girls they were with thinking women are more compassionate and don't want to see their men fight. So I say come on this is a family park. One of the girls screams at me to shut the f@@@ up. I almost has a heart attack, I grabbed my daughter and started back down the exit. I did manage to try and scream for securiity but I could not see over anyones heads. At this point people were turning around to see what was happening and were trying to keep their distance. With my heart punding I ran through the exit with my daughter in tow whimpering. I told my husband, we are leaving now, and did not even slow down my pace. I was so upset that I could barely talk on our way up to the front gates. Once I got there I collected myself and thought I have to tell someone, just in case there was a fight and that poor guy does not get blamed. So I go up to a security gaurd and told him I just saw a fight break out at the Beast. He was on his walkie talkie right away and there was alot of commotion going on. He asked me if I saw what started it and I said yeah. He asked if I wouln'd mind making a statement becuase I fight did pursue. I felt I needed to so I said of Course. They took me to security office to fill out statement. While we were in there a castmember was there and said he had an altercation with this group of white people. It seems they wanted to take alcoholic drinks on ride and he sid no so one of the girls dumped a drink on him and they ran up entrance. He was not allowed to leave post so he had to wait until someone came to cover him then he ran up exit and sttod at top of platform looking for them, he heard someone yell security (that would be be). Anyway a fight did break out. The Hispanic guys were led into office with the older one having tears running down his cheeks. Supposedly the white people said the Hispancis started it. So good thing I was there to testify as well as that castmember otherwise I dought anyone would have believed him since he was the only Hispanic waitng in line and had tatoos and such. Yes it looks like he could have started a fight but on this day he did not - and I could not see someone going down for that. He gave me a hug when I left and shook my daughters hand and told her she was brave.

I can't beleive some people are so openly racist and try to ruin someone else's day like that. Poor guy.

We and the Hispanic men were offered season passes but did not take since were were from out of town.

 

[Alex2kMommy]

Oh, my gosh, how awful! That kind of behavior just makes me sick. I'm so glad you took the time to report them, and I hope they got what they deserved, including the stupid girls with them!

 

[Dis Ohana]

Lola2: What an awful experience for you and how horrible for your daughter to have to witness. It was so brave of you to stand up for those men. People like you are what really makes this country great. I hope you all weren't too traumatized by the whole thing and that you enjoyed the rest of your trip.

 

[LOLA2]

Lola2: What an awful experience for you and how horrible for your daughter to have to witness. It was so brave of you to stand up for those men. People like you are what really makes this country great. I hope you all weren't too traumatized by the whole thing and that you enjoyed the rest of your trip.

It was actullay last day of trip so not too ruined. And I'm not the kind of person who will bash a place because of one incident. Kings Island is a great place.

I did feel like telling the idiots though - your right the is America. The whole point of our country is too accept all cultures, religions ect. But I knew when to keep my mouth shut

 

[calena]

What stories! Coming from the South (originally) where politeness is sometimes an art form I think I bend over backwards to not be confrontational sometimes, and there are rude people out there, so I get walked over a lot. DH is big and does not put up with any nonesense. I love WDW - going to first DL trip this fall - and I'm an adult, but I think adults should really give priority to the children going to the parks. We enjoy it but there is great magic in the parks for them. That is what I hate is the adults who give glares to my children when they are just being children in a place meant for children. Hoping for a magical trip this fall!

 

[Dis Ohana]

I think large crowds play a big part in people becoming impatient and rude. We've always gone to Disneyland in the beginning part of December when attendance is lower and we've never ran into any really rude people. In fact, one of the reasons we love going to Disneyland is for the illusion; it's the happiest place on earth . We've met some of the nicest people at Disneyland. If that were to change I'm not sure that we'd continue to vacation there.