Disney World and Tripadvisor.....

[draybook]

Yep agree... and I am a senior contributor to Tripadvisor Unfortunately alot of people just *don't get* Disney. And thats OK ... "go somewhere else where you will be happy". Dif' strokes for dif' folks. In the mean time I will continue to visit Disney every chance I get

Yeah, I only have about 5-6 reviews on there. I could do a bunch more but I always forget to post.

 

[PrincessNelly_NJ]

I post to TA regularly, I try to be as honest as possible. I always say that I'd be willing to try a place again or maybe I attended on an off night. If something was wrong and I didn't complain or ask for it to be corrected, I always state that too.
But I agree that many of the negative reviews of WDW have come from lack of knowledge.
I planned my first trip by myself in 2012 a month in advance.
I spent only about an hour and found out the positives/negatives of each moderate resort and picked one, found out I needed to book dining reservations and spent a little while browsing the Disneyfoodblog, and picked 3 TS restaurants & 1 Signature restaurant: Coral Reef, Sci-fi, Bongos Cuban Cafe, and Yachtsman Steakhouse. We knew some what about emh but never used them and we missed out on free dining because we waited last minute but did get a room discount.

To this day, it was the best/least stressful trip I have ever taken to WDW.
That hour of researching went a long way!

 

[Pumbas Nakasak]

My reviews are a must read, no one can talk e better than me.

 

[DisneyDebNJ]

Yeah, I only have about 5-6 reviews on there. I could do a bunch more but I always forget to post.

I read reviews on there and it makes the hair on my neck stand on end... I review on what my take was on regarding a resort, restaurant or experience. Unfortunately alot get kinda ticked if you dont agree with them...

 

[The Tuna]

It's not always as simple as "go during the off season". There are a lot of people who can't take time off for job or other reasons. You just can't take kids out of school for 5-10 days dying the off season. Yes, there are a lot of online resources, must most of us are here because we are repeat visitors, not first timers. You can go to Six Flags, Sea World, Cedar Point, etc without much planning. To the first time WDW visitor, they may, incorrectly, assume it's the same thing.

I think it depends where you live, but we can take our kids out of school without Issue. UK not so much. I understand not everyone is a Disney nerd like myself, but I also don't go anywhere without doing my research because I don't want to waste time and money, especially thousands of dollars.

 

[The Tuna]

It's simple really, expecting hot, crowded and expensive is a given, pretty much everyone expects that. But a lot of people have literally no idea the levels that Disney takes those things too. Too a lot of people their definition and understanding of crowded is the mall on a Saturday. Expensive is a movie and a trip to Olive Garden. It's all relative and they're are very, very few things in the world that can prepare someone for Disney World in July and all the issues that come with a trip like that.

Think about it. You're going to Disney for the first time. What else have you done in your life that has prepared you for making reservations for every meal 6 months out? What other places have you gone that require you to plan every minute of your day 3 months out? Where on earth can just buying a ticket to get in be as complex? Where else can you be packed sardine style in blistering heat while waiting in line to wait in line?

Nowhere. Nowhere at all. First timers have nothing to prepare them for the levels that Disney takes things too. Then imagine trying to research a trip and every website you go to is full of gibberish like "Doing EMH at MK with the new MB and hoping 7DMT is open, if not it's BTMRR while MSEP is running, unless DW changes her mind and we head over to DHS for TGMR, ST2 and then to EPCOT for ROE, TTv2, LwtL and a nightcap in WS before heading back to WDPOFQR." I can totally see where it would be overwhelming for someone trying to plan a trip today.

Slow Clap...Well done. hahahaha

 

[CheshireCat12]

I think its important to remember there are a lot of families who say "I went to Disney this summer" but mean "I went to Orlando this summer" and tried to squeeze 4 WDW parks, 2 Uni parks AND Sea World into a one week vacation.

I did something like this...but in one week we went to all four WDW parks, both water parks, and SeaWorld with one "resort day" in the middle. So much fun but very tiring, and it would not have worked if I had not done my research.

 

[Dwarful]

Now think about all the poor souls who do this and have no background knowledge. I'll admit....back in 2010 we went to Sea World with the family on a big group trip. I did research...but screwed up somehow....we arrived at the parking lot forty two minutes before the first workers. I know because my family in both vans timed it. But hey...we got premium parking baby! But my error could have easily gone the other way and we could have arrived 42 minutes after park opening and waited in long lines all day.

 

[Bluewaves]

It's simple really, expecting hot, crowded and expensive is a given, pretty much everyone expects that. But a lot of people have literally no idea the levels that Disney takes those things too. Too a lot of people their definition and understanding of crowded is the mall on a Saturday. Expensive is a movie and a trip to Olive Garden. It's all relative and they're are very, very few things in the world that can prepare someone for Disney World in July and all the issues that come with a trip like that.

Think about it. You're going to Disney for the first time. What else have you done in your life that has prepared you for making reservations for every meal 6 months out? What other places have you gone that require you to plan every minute of your day 3 months out? Where on earth can just buying a ticket to get in be as complex? Where else can you be packed sardine style in blistering heat while waiting in line to wait in line?

Nowhere. Nowhere at all. First timers have nothing to prepare them for the levels that Disney takes things too. Then imagine trying to research a trip and every website you go to is full of gibberish like "Doing EMH at MK with the new MB and hoping 7DMT is open, if not it's BTMRR while MSEP is running, unless DW changes her mind and we head over to DHS for TGMR, ST2 and then to EPCOT for ROE, TTv2, LwtL and a nightcap in WS before heading back to WDPOFQR." I can totally see where it would be overwhelming for someone trying to plan a trip today.

Thread winning post there

 

[EpcoTim]

Now think about all the poor souls who do this and have no background knowledge. I'll admit....back in 2010 we went to Sea World with the family on a big group trip. I did research...but screwed up somehow....we arrived at the parking lot forty two minutes before the first workers. I know because my family in both vans timed it. But hey...we got premium parking baby! But my error could have easily gone the other way and we could have arrived 42 minutes after park opening and waited in long lines all day.

There's a quote from Vacation, where the family parks and they're the first ones there, that I'm trying to think of right now.

 

[Bluewaves]

There's a quote from Vacation, where the family parks and there the first ones there's, that I'm trying to think of right now.