...when someone is planning a Disney vacation but doing it ALL wrong. And you know it's going to be a disaster. And no matter what you say, you can't convince them otherwise. Here's my example. A co-worker of mine is taking his wife and kids down to Florida. His kids are 1 and 3. Disney isn't the main part of their trip.
Here is their plan. Drive down, from Michigan, go to the Animal Kingdom Lodge for two nights. Go to "Disney World" (he means the Magic Kingdom) for one day, then spend the next 6 days at a condo somewhere near Fort Lauderdale. No one in his family has ever been to disney, except for when his wife was 2, 30+ years ago. I said, "well, if you plan ahead, you can get quite a lot of stuff done in one day if you are prepared." I told him they need to get to the park 30 or more minutes before it opens. He said, "well, we probably wouldn't get there til around 11am."
They are going the first week of april, prime spring break time, so it'll be crowded. I don't know why they are going then, his wife doesn't work and his kids aren't in school, so why they don't go at a less crowded time, I have no clue.
I already know what is going to happen. They are going to hate it. They are not going to know how to use the fastpasses, or know which rides to go to first. They aren't going to see much. And I'll feel partly to blame because I talk so highly of it. I told him that the best way to go there is when you really understand how the whole place works, and that the only way to do that is to go there often.
Oh well...maybe it'll turn out better.
Oh, I forgot, he didn't realize there was a distinction between Animal Kingdom and Animal Kingdom Lodge...oy.