Well after a interesting week at WDW here is a breif summery of the trip. Overall it was agood trip how can anyone ever have a bad trip to WDW.
*IT WAS HOT HOT HOT, every day all day, we were at MGM and it rained mid day for about 30 mins to an hour and then it was cloudy all day which kept the temps nice a cool, other then that it was sunny hot and humid.
*Crowds were very mixed, MK was busy everytime we went, we went to MK 3 different times on 3 different days, and it seemed so busy. Peter Pan, Small world, Splash mountian, and Space Mountian, were averaging 50-60 min waits. All the other parks the longest wait was 20 mins. Hit Soarin first thing in the morning there will be no wait by mid afternoon wait time was about 70-80 mins.
* I went with friends, I was their "tour guide" plus I was visting friends that I have down there. Any the party consisted of two kids 12 and 14 the 12 year old was a royal pain, but now misses the trip and the 14 year old was so excited to be down there. The heat didn't help the 12 year olds mood.
*Stayed at the Poly, now I can't stay anyplace else, such a nice resort, maybe the GF but I can't stay anyplace else, they just won't be as nice.
*Stood on entrance line with Joe Pantalioni(Ralphie on Soprano's), Nice guy talked to him for a few moments and shook his hand, didn't want to make a scene since he was going at the parks without a VIP tour guide.
Now some of the negatives,
Bus transportation must have been cut BIG time, we were always waiting for buses, it took from the time we got to the Downtown stop back to the resort almost 45 mins. we waited almost 30 mins for a bus. I don't know what they are doing but its such a pain these days.
The new key cards are BAD they are having major problems with the cards getting demagnatized, we had the get new cards 4 times.
A lot of parks just look dirty these days, It seems they aren't being cleaned as well at night. And a lot of rides are not at 100%. Animontronics are not working on some things, audio systems were messy and un clean sounding. Being a former CM and being a big fan it makes me sad that things are not being maintained like they used to. The average guest probally won't notice but us die-hard fans will. ALso the monorail narrations were always messed up, and 6 out of the 8 days there was no "Please Stand CLear of the Doors...." which is always a highlight of a Disney Trip.
Semes to be less charecter greeting variety, Chip and Dale were every where and we had such a hard time finding Donald Duck.
The new Biometrics STINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The lines to get into parks are long and they never have enough lines open to handle the crowds, thoruhg on top the fact that people have NO clue what to do with the machines, they got to just push the button and let people in that are clueless.
Like I said overall I had a good time, Its DISNEY how can you not have fun and I can't wait to go back, probally after Everast opens, since the ride just looks AMAZING
*IT WAS HOT HOT HOT, every day all day, we were at MGM and it rained mid day for about 30 mins to an hour and then it was cloudy all day which kept the temps nice a cool, other then that it was sunny hot and humid.
*Crowds were very mixed, MK was busy everytime we went, we went to MK 3 different times on 3 different days, and it seemed so busy. Peter Pan, Small world, Splash mountian, and Space Mountian, were averaging 50-60 min waits. All the other parks the longest wait was 20 mins. Hit Soarin first thing in the morning there will be no wait by mid afternoon wait time was about 70-80 mins.
* I went with friends, I was their "tour guide" plus I was visting friends that I have down there. Any the party consisted of two kids 12 and 14 the 12 year old was a royal pain, but now misses the trip and the 14 year old was so excited to be down there. The heat didn't help the 12 year olds mood.
*Stayed at the Poly, now I can't stay anyplace else, such a nice resort, maybe the GF but I can't stay anyplace else, they just won't be as nice.
*Stood on entrance line with Joe Pantalioni(Ralphie on Soprano's), Nice guy talked to him for a few moments and shook his hand, didn't want to make a scene since he was going at the parks without a VIP tour guide.
Now some of the negatives,
Bus transportation must have been cut BIG time, we were always waiting for buses, it took from the time we got to the Downtown stop back to the resort almost 45 mins. we waited almost 30 mins for a bus. I don't know what they are doing but its such a pain these days.
The new key cards are BAD they are having major problems with the cards getting demagnatized, we had the get new cards 4 times.
A lot of parks just look dirty these days, It seems they aren't being cleaned as well at night. And a lot of rides are not at 100%. Animontronics are not working on some things, audio systems were messy and un clean sounding. Being a former CM and being a big fan it makes me sad that things are not being maintained like they used to. The average guest probally won't notice but us die-hard fans will. ALso the monorail narrations were always messed up, and 6 out of the 8 days there was no "Please Stand CLear of the Doors...." which is always a highlight of a Disney Trip.
Semes to be less charecter greeting variety, Chip and Dale were every where and we had such a hard time finding Donald Duck.
The new Biometrics STINK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! The lines to get into parks are long and they never have enough lines open to handle the crowds, thoruhg on top the fact that people have NO clue what to do with the machines, they got to just push the button and let people in that are clueless.
Like I said overall I had a good time, Its DISNEY how can you not have fun and I can't wait to go back, probally after Everast opens, since the ride just looks AMAZING
You stood in line with Joey Pants?! I want to stand in line with him! Not fair! FYI he's no longer a Sopranos star. Tony took care of him a couple seasons ago. 
