Funny disaster?

[Lucky]

Have you had a funny "disaster" at WDW? I mean, something that in the real world world would have been upsetting, but somehow, because you were at Disney, it really didn't matter?

One night we had the perfect spot to see the Illuminations at Rose and Crown.....as the time for the show approached, I noticed that my 6y DD was burning up with fever and minutes later the skies opened up at it poured and poured and poured. Needless to say, Illuminations was canceled. My DH carried my 6 yo DD and I carried my 5 yo DS out of the park in the pouring rain along with the disappointed and very wet Illumination crowd.....it was crazy, yet, crazier still, it is a fond memory. Hey it's Disney World!

Andrea

We took the boat from MGM to Epcot and arrived around 8:30. We weren't having any luck with standby at Rose and Crown and it started pouring. We got drenched and just wanted to go back to our room at CBR. It would have been a long wet walk to the Epcot buses, so we got back on the boat to get out of the rain. A very nice guy on the boat headed for one of the Epcot resorts offered to drive us back to CBR. Thanks to him the evening was only a semi-disaster.

 

[PrincessK]

How about a wedding mini-disaster to add to the mix?

My DH and I got married 8/17/06. Throughout the planning, we had several "issues" with our wedding planner not calling us back, etc. I wasn't overly concerned as I was a very small wedding and we were bringing a lot of the decorations, flowers, etc. with us. My spirits were up until 5pm the night before the wedding, as we were about to walk into the rehearsal dinner, I get a call from the WP letting me know that I was being passed off and good luck. Now, I know WP's can be double-booked, etc, but what made me so nervous was that I had zero details about the game plan for the next day. I freaked. DH called Fairy Tale Weddings and got ahold of a supervisor. My uncle made me drink a Mai Tai with my meal to calm me down, which combined with dehydration, not eating and panic = Rehearsal Dinner in the bathroom of the Polynesian. Rock on.

Continue on to the wedding day. It's now 10:45am. I'm in the hotel room dressed with my mother and my girls. I'm getting married at 11:00am. I haven't had pictures yet. Eeek! I get a call on my cell. It's DH asking "Where are you all??" Yeah, the wedding planner FORGOT to pick us up!! She then had the nerve to ask if we could walk from our room to the lobby, then up to Sunset Point. In my wedding dress. I laughed. DH told her to go to hell, but by way of the Wedding Pavillion to get the bigger golf cart and get his bride.

I later found out that it was indeed our originally scheduled planner who was at our wedding. I assume after all the calls we made, her supervisor told her to get her butt to our wedding. She never did introduce herself to me--no wonder. I probably would have killed her! :brick:

But, once I got to Sunset Point, it was the best wedding ever! We laugh about it now! :ROFLOL:

 

[DisneyPhD]

Thanks for the temp correction. Yup, that would be waaaay too hot... 103ºF it is! I have been to 105º before... I was hallucinating at that temp.. Thank you for the correction, i am really bad with numbers.

Why no hospital?? Well, seeing as my wife is a nurse, she knows that the hospital wouldn't do much for me until I was basically dead. Even with a 105º temp, they would only immerse me in an ice bath, and she already had that ready to go... (we were too close to the ice machine!!). And as any nurse will tell you: Emergency rooms are for emergencies, gunshots, missing limbs, broken bones. As we knew it at the time, a high fever with aches, chills and a bit of wheezing is more or less the flu, not an emergency until I lost conciousness with a high fever... until throat swabs come back to prove I did indeed have pnumonia I would have sat and sweated in an uncomfortable waiting room chair... and by the time the tests would have been done, we probably would have been on our way home, to Canada, where we wouldn't have to pay for any of the above services.

Also if you have the pleasure of living with a nurse, like a real bedside nurse, you will know you get no sympathy from them and very little concern until you start bleeding or show signs of distress.. they have ALWAYS seen worse.

At the time Saratoga was not fully open, but the first section was open... as I clearly remember staying there, and feeling lousy in such a beautiful place.

It sucks to be sick on vacation, even more so at WDW! I know I have been, as been my kids. ER's in Canada might only be for life and death, but in America they can be for other situations too. Even better is we have a number of critical care centers, walk in places to see a doctor when you can't see yours. One is called Centra care in Orlando and we have been twice (any trip you don't need to go to Centa Care is a good trip.) Even then it gets better because of centra care. The cost is around $100 and they see both children and adults. They will transport you from any WDW resort and are open on weekends too. They have a pharmacy close by too and will take you there.

They will also send a Doc to your room, but that cost a bit more (like $200.)

Also here, they do chest x rays for pneumonia. :veryconfu

Also it is best to get these things taken care of instead of spreading anything to other vacationers too.

I am positive SSR did not open until May 2004. I was at VB that time and wanted to visit SSR for the grand opening. We tried to enter by car at the main gate. We only had an hour to look around before we had to go to the airport. They would not let us in. We had to take a boat from DTD. I know it was May 2004 because I was pregnant, and my DD was born Aug 04.

SSR was not open in Jan 2004 (we also went to WDW at that time that year) and stayed at VWL. Maybe you got the year mixed up. Could it be Jan 05?

Anyway, it sucks to be sick on vacation. Sorry it happened to you.

 

[marni1971]

My dad (6ft 5) managed to grab the perfect angle to video Sorcery in the Sky in 1990. Got the whole show. On Super VHS. Brilliant. Just as the final 30 seconds began the guy in front put his kid on his shoulders. Dad tried to shoot round, couldn`t, stepped to his side and zoomed in, and proceeded to get the ooos and aaaahs as Sorcerer Mickey appeared with the final pyro barrages in the sky with the camera shooting the floor.

It`s taken me 17 years to piece the whole show together...

 

[sittle]

It sucks to be sick on vacation, even more so at WDW! I know I have been, as been my kids. ER's in Canada might only be for life and death, but in America they can be for other situations too. Even better is we have a number of critical care centers, walk in places to see a doctor when you can't see yours. One is called Centra care in Orlando and we have been twice (any trip you don't need to go to Centa Care is a good trip.) Even then it gets better because of centra care...

They will also send a Doc to your room, but that cost a bit more (like $200.)

Also here, they do chest x rays for pneumonia. :veryconfu

Also it is best to get these things taken care of instead of spreading anything to other vacationers too.

SSR was not open in Jan 2004 (we also went to WDW at that time that year) and stayed at VWL. Maybe you got the year mixed up. Could it be Jan 05?

Anyway, it sucks to be sick on vacation. Sorry it happened to you.

Thanks for the advice about the office.

I have had Pneumonia 4 times during my life. Never had x-rays, usually symptoms and and the swab are tell-tale enough.

Contagious?? Yes it is, but it is LESS contagious than most people think. The cold virus that starts the coughing/sore throat in the first place is contagious. But the pneumonia part of the illness down in the lungs is far less contagious. People who are exposed to someone with pneumonia may catch the normal cough and cold symptoms of the virus, but usually don't progress to pneumonia. The formation of the pneumonia is not determined by the particular cold virus or bacteria that the person has, but rather by each person's susceptibility in their own lungs. It's more of an infection!... Yup, I have had the Pneu waaaaaaaaay too much!

Emergency rooms... *sigh*... yup you can go there if you have a cough or cold, but during triage, they will assess your need to see medical attention, and since coughs and colds are very low on the list, you would be waiting, a very long time that's when the walk-in clinic or the Centra-Care's come in handy.

I will definately take note of Centra Care, hopefully no one needs to use it on the next trip!! Thanks for that one good to know!

Thanks for the correction on SSR, I should really concentrate on work instead of goofing around on the boards... but I just can't help myself, I have Walt's Happiness Syndrome.... that will require a brain swab! It was January 05 that my illness took place... gosh... I just gotta get my head checked!!

 

[sittle]

Martin, are you ill too?

 

[marni1971]

Martin, are you ill too?

I hope not :lol:

 

[DisneyPhD]

Thanks for the correction on SSR, I should really concentrate on work instead of goofing around on the boards... but I just can't help myself, I have Walt's Happiness Syndrome.... that will require a brain swab! It was January 05 that my illness took place... gosh... I just gotta get my head checked!!

I always get the year for Jan mixed up too, after all just a few weeks before it was Dec 04, changing years can be hard. :lol:

We have to dream about O8 because we are not going back to WDW until then.

 

[jessfriends]

About half way through my trip in July of 2004 (I was 18 at the time), we ate at Le Cellier Steakhouse and I ordered a steak medium rare. The next afternoon we ate at La Cantina De San Angel. This was our first time eatting there and I have been begging to eat at this place forever. I am the only one in my family that really likes mexican food so they finally gave in. Before we were seated, I began to feel dizzy, tired, and still hot after being inside for awhile (we did El Rio Del Tiemp before our meal). When we were seated and we ordered, I immediatly layed down in the booth leaning on my mom's arm. I am never one to need to take a break or to take a nap because I just want to be in the parks doing something at all times and I get mad when we have to go back to the room to nap (even though it is a good idea to do that) so my family thought it was odd I was not myself. I don't remember much about the meal which sucks since I wanted to eat there so badly. Anyways I guess I either got food poisning or some kind of stomach thing but from that part of our trip and on I was stopping at every restroom I saw, and my family made fun of me but looking back now it was kind of funny. The rest of my family was fine, but I am guessing it was my steak the night before. After we were done at WDW we went to Universal for about 4 or 5 days and I only got better with about 2 days left. I was still able to do the stuff I wanted but it was annoying. I am just mad that I can't remember my mexican meal . The family did like the meal and last summer we ate the counter service and sat outside it was AWESOME!!! So hopefully when ever I get a chance to go back I am going to eat at Mexico right away!!! LOL!

 

[DisneyPhD]

Ok, here is my centra care story, but it isn't that funny (but it isn't too bad either.)

Our 1st time taking DD to WDW she was almost 9 months old. It was early Dec 01 and she has an ear infection before we left. Being a smart mommy I took her to the doctor for antibiotics before we left and she was fine by the time we flew down there. 7 Days after staring the penicillin she broke out in a massive rash. Big red welts all over her body. It started out slow as a diaper rash and we were at MK. We took her to 1st aid where they confirmed it was an allergy. We wanted to rush back to Poly (our resort) but ended up in a massive bottle neck of people taking the monorail (and most weren't even staying at any monorail resort, just parking there grrrrrrrrrr)

Anyway the next morning (even after giving her benerdryl and stopping the antibiotic) she was so swollen and puffed up. We called Centera care and they took good care of us. The cortisone really took the swelling down. However it left red welts all over her body. Everywhere we went people were like what a cute baby, then got a better look at her and slowly back away. We had to explain she was not contagious. The good thing was the rash did not seem to bug her at all. She was a super great baby the whole trip. (she is 6 now and LOVES WDW.)

The funny thing is her red welts were in the shapes of hidden Mickey's all over her body. :lol:

We don't try new antibiotics before leaving anymore.

 

[pinkrose]

I have one good one that always seems to get told to our friends.

My wife and spent 5 days at the parks on our 1st anniversary. On the last night of our trip we went to Jellyrolls at the Boardwalk. We got there at 7:00 and stayed all the way to close at 2:00 AM. I was expecting to have to take a bus back to PI and then another bus back to or resort (CS). When the first bus pulled up I was filled with glee because is was going straight to CS so my 1 hour be ride just changed to 10 minutes so I jumped on the bus expecting my wife to follow. I sat down and then all of a sudden the diver jumped off. I then see my wife get on board holding her right elbow and her jaw. I asked what happened over and over again and got no answer. We got off the bus at CS and my wife finally tells me what happened. "I fell off the curb and hurt my arm and hit my chin and it is all your fault!"

Apparently my wife was not paying attention to the fact that there was a curb that she needed to step off of so upon reaching the curb she fell forward and put her arms out to break he fall. What she wound up breaking was a bone in her elbow which caused her arm to collapse and she tagged her chin on the asphalt.

In the end she wound up with her arm in a sling for a couple of weeks and I finally had a story that trumped me knocking myself out cold on a tour bus luggage rack going to grad night.

Your wife sounds exactly like me. I blame my husband all of the time for things like that. :lol:

 

[abug'saunt]

Our funny story took place in 2003. My DH and I decided we wanted to check out WDW as we'd never been before. We ended up going with my mom, sister, and neice. We stayed off-site because it was supposed to be cheaper. We rented a mini-van and thought we'd do everything there was to do. Now, my neice was only 2 at the time and pretty much well behaved for her age. But starting the third day of a 11 day trip, this little princess of ours began having screaming fits. But not about anything Disney related, no. She was screaming for her Chocolate Milk, "I want my Choco-milk!". I was the driver and offered to turn around to get it, but no, that made her scream louder. We told her we'd buy her one when we got to the park, but that didn't help neither. This became a daily event. Every morning she'd scream that she wanted her chocolate milk. I forgot to mention that most mornings she'd finish her milk before we left. To this day, whenever she starts to throw a tantrum, we start teasing her with, "I want my choco-milk!". Works most times to stop her .

 

[Disneybird]

We've been to WDW so many times that all sorts of disasters stand out. Lost tickets, sick kids, car trouble, a trip to the ER, etc.. But the one thing that I can laugh about now was the trip on the way to the World from home. What is normally a 9-10 hour trip (with food and bathroom stops), turned into 13-14 hours of thinking I would never arrive.
First, my dd and I left our house around 5am, driving 1 hour to meet my mother and sister-in-law. We put our luggage in my mothers car, left my car at my brothers and left. We were to meet another brother and his kids right above Atlanta (almost 2 hours away). We were almost there when I mentioned to my daughter something about the bag I had our tickets in. It had been left in our car. We had to turn around and drive back toward Chattanooga and meet the brother who had my car, to get my bag. Then back toward Atlanta again, where we met up with brother #2 waiting for us at a Shoney's where he had been for almost 2 hours.
At the Florida welcome center, my sister-in-law started driving. When we got on the turnpike she took an exit toward Orlando, not realizing she should have stayed on the turnpike. So north toward downtown Orlando we went, through toll booths, etc.. And there was nowhere to turn around or get off for several miles with my brother following behind. My mother had just made the comment that we girls are so good to travel with because we know exactly what we're doing and where we're going. We didn't tell her we had made a wrong turn until we were at WDW.
By the time we got my brother checked into POP and took ourselves to POR, it was dark and getting late. We had planned all day to go to Downtown Disney when we arrived. By the time we got off the boat, we were so tired, we walked straight through DD, caught a bus back to the hotel, grabbed something to eat at the food court, went to our room and crashed. We've laughed about this trip for 2 years now.

 

[Kandi]

When we went to WDW three years ago my little brother got the chicken pox! It started when we were checking into our offsite hotel when i noticed two red marks on his cheeks and i teased him saying it was chicken pox and my parents told me to shut up ( i knew what it was coz i was training to be a nurse at the time).

Anyway the next couple of days he is fine just getting a few spots that we pass off as insect bites. About the forth day in we were going to MGM and my brother woke up completely covered from head to toe in spots, you couldn't see any real skin lol! so we called a doctor coz he looked so bad. My poor brother had to stay in for a week after that and he couldn't go swimming at all. When we went BB and TL after his week quarentine we had to sit there and watch us have all the fun.

At least we got to go back last year so my brother could have a real holiday and we are taking my nanna this year and its her first trip. It's also our first time onsite Pop Century here week come on August 22nd!!

 

[OhioDisneyLover]

We spent our honeymoon at Disney in 2000. As soon as I got off of the plane, I felt a sinus infection coming on. I thought that I'd just deal with it and see what happened. We checked into the Dolphin on a Tuesday. I wasn't getting any better on Wednesday so I called my doctor at home and he called in 2 prescriptions to Turner Drug near WDW. Our friends were going to meet us at the Dolphin on Thursday so I really had hoped to start feeling better before they got there. Nevermind that according to my DH, I ruined our honeymoon. Like I did it on purposes. :shrug: Thursday morning my boss had sent us a very expensive bottle of champagne and chocolate covered strawberries. I was still pretty sick on Thursday so I decided to skip the parks. We stayed concierge level at the time (I hear they don't have that any longer) and one of the CMs in the lounge area was from the same city we are from so they at last could DH had someone to talk to, etc. Our friends checked in on Thursday evening so DH thought he'd take the bottle of champagne and strawberries over to their place since I clearly wasn't in any shape to celebrate. I noticed that he had opened the bottle before he left the room and didn't have shoes on which was totally not like him at all. He told me that he got onto the elevator, open bottle and all and some "lady" apparently dressed in her finest looked at him and said "I'm proud of you....a bottle like that, no shoes, walking around like you own the place." I was MORTIFIED because I felt like every time we left the room from that point forward, we were being stared at. I was so embarrassed to say the least. I laugh now but I sure wasn't laughing then. For a year I described it as the honeymoon disaster at WDW. I only got to spend 3 days at the parks.

 

[emmersandjack]

My friend went to Disney and while there her DS got sick (threw up) on Dumbo. Quite upset, she asked her DH, "Oh, what are we going to do!"
He said, "We're 6000 dollars away from home....we're gonna buy him a t-shirt and then go on Peter Pan's Flight!"

Let's keep this funny and light-hearted! Afterall, it's Disney!

Andrea

That might be the funniest story I have heard yet!!!!:ROFLOL::ROFLOL::ROFLOL:

 

[cdunbar]

That sounds like something my Dad would say, He'd be like Marilyn were two hours from home our car is in the valet and I already paid the guy and we have 3 days left on our reservations!
I think that is just a dad thing to say

 

[Jungle Skipper]

I don't know if its really funny or not...but last year I went to WDW with my aunt and younger sister (she was 22 at the time), both of them are diabetic, as is most of my family.

However, my sister, in her normal gripy-get-whatever-i-want-and-whine-like-a-4-year-old-even-though-I'm-22 fashion was able to turn a nice long vacation at WDW into a personal nightmare. She likes to blame everything she does on her blood sugar...and of course my aunt plays into it every time, giving her a free pass to act however she wants.

And now I'm getting ready to head back there with them in 8 days...but luckily this time my fiancee and cousin/best man will be joining us.

Here's hoping for a better trip.

Cheers

 

[TheSuperTom]

Does getting attacked by a mother hen at fort wilderness count? On my first trip to ever to WDW (10/82) my family was waiting for our reservations for Hop-Dee-Doo and my older sister were in a chicken pen, she handed me a baby chick & the mother hen attacked me. You can imagine how frieghtened a six year old was by the event, though to this day I will never forget that moment. A true happy disaster.

 

[wdwmomof3]

My friend went to Disney and while there her DS got sick (threw up) on Dumbo. Quite upset, she asked her DH, "Oh, what are we going to do!"
He said, "We're 6000 dollars away from home....we're gonna buy him a t-shirt and then go on Peter Pan's Flight!"

Let's keep this funny and light-hearted! Afterall, it's Disney!

Andrea

:ROFLOL:sounds like my hubby!