I.M.Fearless
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Actually, I've only heard one piece of bad advice coming from here:
"Don't bother with Stitch's Great Escape. It isn't worth your time."
"Don't bother with Stitch's Great Escape. It isn't worth your time."
Laura22 said:Just the other day when I was making my meal "reservations" for my upcoming trip, one of the ones I made was for breakfast at Trail's End (Fort Wilderness Buffet). The lady on the phone asked where I was staying and I said Wilderness Lodge. She told me that I would need to allot an hour and a half travel time to get to Trail's End from WL!! I was like "ummm, we're riding bikes over, it's just next door". DUHHHH
MKCP 1985 said:MKCP's Top Ten List of Bad Advice:
hee hee
10. Don't use fast pass. It is too confusing.
9. If you stay at the All Stars or Pop, take a bag with a swimsuit and a towel and drive over to the Polynesian to swim at its pool. They won't mind!
8. Don't worry about staking out a spot to watch the parade. Just show up as the parade is about to start and let your darling children push their way to the curb and squeeze in.
7. If you bought a refillable mug at any resort at any time in your life ever, take it with you on your next trip and fill up for free all you want, regardless of where you are staying. That soda doesn't cost Disney anything and you deserve free soda for what you are paying for your room, not to mention what you paid for that mug to begin with!
6. As long as you are outside, smoke wherever you like. You're outdoors, so what does it matter? It is a free country.
5. Take plenty of flash photos when you go on dark rides. Those spiels about "no flash photography" don't apply to you.
4. If anything bad happens on your trip, don't hesitate to give a piece of your mind to the nearest cast member. It is their job to give you a perfect vacation - remember what you paid for it! Rained out parades, attractions closed for refurbishment - all is fair game.
3. Save a bundle on your park tickets by purchasing used tickets on e-bay!
2. Don't fool with reservations for meals, especially if there is a particular restaurant your family really, really likes. Just show up around noon for lunch and around 7:00 for your evening meal with your hot and hungry kids and they will take pity on you and find you a table right away with no wait.
and finally,
1. Tell those rent-a-cop bag checkers to shove off. This is America and they don't have a warrant. You are taking your video camera bag and going in and they can just get over it! They can't really make you let them search your bag. There's a little thing called the CON-STI-TUTION, which means you can do what you want and they can't stop you.
Well, there you have it. A mixed bag of annoying behaviours, risky financial gambles and simply false information all designed to ruin your day and, possibly, the day of others around you. :wave:
Actually, as Len Testa said in the post above yours, Mike was reporting his actual experience. I'm usually pretty good at writing down what he tells me, and it's reported accurately. (I know this is an old thread, but I haven't posted here for months and I'm just catching up now.)lebeau said:As far as the advice in Mouseplanet, I took it to be advice to those already "in-the-know" about how dining at WDW works. Which is probably a pretty safe assumption being that the column appeared on a disney-fan website. Also, remember that Mike didn't write the column himself. His advice was being passed along through a 3rd party. Something may have been lost in the translation. I just took it to mean that as busy as the crowds were right now, the restarants are less busy (again - right now) and PS isn't essential for a lot of them.
bsandersjr said:I seriously doubt that purchasing a stupid mug is gonna break you on your vacation. If it does, you may want to financially plan your vacations better.
No offense intended, Just stating my opinion.
7. If you bought a refillable mug at any resort at any time in your life ever, take it with you on your next trip and fill up for free all you want, regardless of where you are staying. That soda doesn't cost Disney anything and you deserve free soda for what you are paying for your room, not to mention what you paid for that mug to begin with!
angelfaerie52 said:Normally, I buy a new mug. Ever since I started going more than once a year, I've been rethinking the logic. I went in May with my bf to PC and we bought mugs. I am going with my mom this month (8 days), and we are on a tight budget (ie. only reason we are going is the free meal plan). So, to cut back, we're reusing those mugs. Cheap, I know, but just because it isn't the best time financially... I dunno, 25 bucks is a lot of money.
awallaceunc said::lol: That's hilarious! Although, in her defense, I *think* that's just a policy that comes up on screen and they have to read that to you. Still funny, though! Who knows, maybe you'll run into some unexpected bike traffic on your way.![]()
-Aaron
DisneyFreak529 said:It's funny you said that, my friend tired to do it in our June 2002 trip. My husband told him there is no way he could do it, just spend the money for a new and not to be cheap. The frist time he used it he got in trouble, and my husband busted on him the whole time about it. So they do watch for the mugs and they do change the design every few months.
DisneyFreak529 said:So they do watch for the mugs and they do change the design every few months.
While this is cheaper than buying a drink every time, Disney still makes a huge profit off this. Even if you refill it 20 times during your stay that only costs disney about $1.00. Fast food restaurants use this too. How do yo uthin they can sell a hamburger for $1.00, by over pricing drink s they make up the differnce because for one drink from a soda machine it's about $0.05 to $0.07. While it's a better deal than buying a new drink each time Disney still makes a huge amount of money from drinks. SIDE NOTE: This same philosophy goes for CD manufacturers also.JPVonDrake said:As a cast member, may I politely ask you to "Please stop returning with a mug purchased on a previous stay, and simply purchase a new mug each visit? Unlimited soda during your current stay for only $11.99 is still a great deal."
imagineer99 said:No...they don't.
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