Recent content by Soakbros

Honestly? Yes. On a monthly basis, since they change it with no notice.

Not at all, I am not including guiding on the parks when I sell my packages anymore. I am actually now teaching them how to navigate the parks before they go there and how to manage the app, tell which rides are worth the lines and define a group leader and I also add round trip transfers. I...

Yeah, after I was escorted out I went to look for more info and saw some videos and it dates back to nov 2023, crazy that we work in partnership with Disney selling tickets as registered resellers and travel agents and one e-mail to us would have helped a lot so I could adapt. This is not common...

Oh I even showed them photos of my previous groups and groups I know that were in wdw at the same week, security was clear that they were just “not caught yet”

I mentioned those, I am one of those, they are not allowed to operate inside the disney parks. Any of them.

They have a Chaperone or a Group Leader, so they are not guiding, just responsible for the group, many of them have no knowledge of the parks and are just having fun with them. Sometimes they are the only adult with these groups so they must be there to take care of them.

That’s why I went full transparency mode with them, we can’t afford not having them around. Before going I asked guest relations before the gates if there was a flag on my name, ID or tickets she said there wasn’t any, maybe I wasn’t even trespassed since I have seen people receive a note by the...

Very true, I even thought I would be escorted to security when I entered the park as if they would be watching my photo ID. That did not happen, I went there by myself and now I am pretty confident on the next steps of our operations moving forward.

Yeah! Security that escorted me out did so because of my backpack alone with “tour guide” written on it. It was arbitrary, since we can wear what we want so I could have lied that I was’t guiding but I chose to tell the truth because I honestly thought it was alright since I did that for years...

And you’re right! And since I have other guides working with me that’s why I went back to understand every single thing they are targeting now, learned a lot.

I am not trying to act. I started a conversation on a topic that’s all, I am not even looking for sympathy, that would be naive of me. I actually learned a lot reading on the many responses I got but yours.

Yes, we do everything by the book, the caught me off guard on that one though, as clear as it looks to be to everyone here, this is not something tour guides know about honestly

I have returned with the latest news, I went to disneyland again, this time alone with no group as they were enjoying their day somewhere else with the other guide. It was indeed just for 24h which is fortunate, I also took sometime to talk to security and guest relations on what happened and...

I guide them through the parks, say which lines are worth the experience, go into the lines with them, some have fears of height or speed so I tell them what’s safe to go or not. I also say what I learned from Walt Disney history and what the parks represent and answer overall questions. We also...

Yes, I feel very lucky that was the case, I know it could be worse. But still, escorted off property in front of guests like I was fist fighting or troublemaking is still a harsh way to go.