Hello everyone.
I want to tell my story and know your thoughts on the matter. That happened on jan 20th.
I was hired by a family of 6 to guide them through California and consequently Disneyland was on the tours. Since I navigate the parks for over 10 years now I do know the ins and outs and sold tickets to this family, I am also a travel agent.
Upon entering the park, I was doing my job, taking their pictures, showing them some cool disney facts and monitoring lines, I was stopped by a CM telling that guiding people on property is not allowed. To my surprise since I do that for over 10 years now.
I chose not to lie because I don’t think that’s ever the way to go so I told him about our operation, that led me to a 24h ban and I was escorted out from property in a very sad way, walking with security around me with everyone watching including the family I was guiding. I consider myself lucky because some people were banned indefinitely.
Weird enough that Disney is doing this to tour agents that actually bring them guests, those guests were in the park because of me, they would never go if I wasn’t there in the first place and that situation led to a horrible day, far from a magical one.
So based on this, will Disney ever ban Nannies, influencers, streamers or anyone that’s actually making money at the parks? Is this attack on actual partners associated with disney, as per the disney travel agent website, the way to go here?
I understand some guides abuse annual passes and DAS, I never did that, no investigation was conducted, I was basically under arrest and felt like a criminal on the “happiest place on earth” for helping my passengers.
Bonus fact: first thing I did when I arrived there was introduce myself to guest relations as a tour guide and asked if they could provide first visit pins with my passenger’s names on them. The CM said: “you’re a tour guide? That’s so cool!” Which means not everyone that works in there is actually aware of this ban and this is a major flaw that I wasn’t at least warned first before being kicked out like a criminal.
Anyone know any similar story?
I want to tell my story and know your thoughts on the matter. That happened on jan 20th.
I was hired by a family of 6 to guide them through California and consequently Disneyland was on the tours. Since I navigate the parks for over 10 years now I do know the ins and outs and sold tickets to this family, I am also a travel agent.
Upon entering the park, I was doing my job, taking their pictures, showing them some cool disney facts and monitoring lines, I was stopped by a CM telling that guiding people on property is not allowed. To my surprise since I do that for over 10 years now.
I chose not to lie because I don’t think that’s ever the way to go so I told him about our operation, that led me to a 24h ban and I was escorted out from property in a very sad way, walking with security around me with everyone watching including the family I was guiding. I consider myself lucky because some people were banned indefinitely.
Weird enough that Disney is doing this to tour agents that actually bring them guests, those guests were in the park because of me, they would never go if I wasn’t there in the first place and that situation led to a horrible day, far from a magical one.
So based on this, will Disney ever ban Nannies, influencers, streamers or anyone that’s actually making money at the parks? Is this attack on actual partners associated with disney, as per the disney travel agent website, the way to go here?
I understand some guides abuse annual passes and DAS, I never did that, no investigation was conducted, I was basically under arrest and felt like a criminal on the “happiest place on earth” for helping my passengers.
Bonus fact: first thing I did when I arrived there was introduce myself to guest relations as a tour guide and asked if they could provide first visit pins with my passenger’s names on them. The CM said: “you’re a tour guide? That’s so cool!” Which means not everyone that works in there is actually aware of this ban and this is a major flaw that I wasn’t at least warned first before being kicked out like a criminal.
Anyone know any similar story?
