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I really wish I hadn't done that?
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BEARSHOUSE4
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I bought tickets ahead of time for Disney Quest for all four of us. On the way to Downtown Disney, I heard on the bus intercom that DD was open till midnight. We planned to shop, eat dinner, and finish out the night in DQ. We arrived at 9:15, gave our tickets to the person working the window and were let in. At 9:55 we were told this would be our last ride of the night since DQ closed at 10! What a disappointment! I was SO UPSET. But my fault, right?
Jason21783
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This past Oct, we did both Universal parks AND the Universal Halloween party in one day, the day before the Tower of Terror 10K. We could barely walk the day of the race, let alone run.
Philhar-Fanatic
Active Member
Upon the return of our 1st trip we discovered...Don't over plan, have a NO PARK TICKET DAY to chill and enjoy resort, don't eat any buffet's except for breakfast, and when your tired...go take a break!! The following 4 trips have been so much more enjoyable!!
bethymouse
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Not riding Maelstrom before knowing it was closing.
PhilharMagician
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Booking too many TS meals. We had ADR's for both breakfast and dinner TS meals and it wasted too much time and was way too much food. No more than one TS meal per day for now on.
Fox&Hound
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I agree with too many table service. Too much time spent eating. Also, would never eat at the Disney Junior buffet at Hollywood Studios. Food wasn't great and it was very overwhelming.
A mistake my Dad made: letting the FP schedule dictate him instead of dictating the schedule. He was a man on a mission and spent so much time running from place to place that I don't think he had fun. He'd miss time with grandkids cause he had to run off to do a fastpass. Lesson I learned from watching him: who cares if you miss a fastpass. Live in the moment- they only happen once.
A mistake my Dad made: letting the FP schedule dictate him instead of dictating the schedule. He was a man on a mission and spent so much time running from place to place that I don't think he had fun. He'd miss time with grandkids cause he had to run off to do a fastpass. Lesson I learned from watching him: who cares if you miss a fastpass. Live in the moment- they only happen once.
Zipadeelady
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Boma's
sophie_the_pooh
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May I ask why? I've enjoyed both lunch and dinner (on different occasions, of course!
) at Crystal Palace and we had a great time, food was very food and lots of character interaction. Did you have a bad experience somewhere?
Roakor
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for a time my girls were living in Florida with their mom. I was going to go down one year during their spring break to stay with them. I noticed the cost to book a hotel in Fort Myers for the week, plus expenses to do things while there was nearly the same as taking the three of us to Disney. So we all went to Disney, during their Florida spring break. The parks were running capacity crowds. Fortunately about tuesday a cold front moved in and the crowds moved out somewhat. Apparently the locals think the low 50's is cold or something. We also took advantage of the late extra magic hours. 1am must be way past the locals bedtime because the parks were empty. Anyway if your going in spring (april) check when the local spring breaks are and avoid the parks those weeks.
JIMINYCR
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Went during August one year. It was a year when that was the only available time for me to go. I knew it would be hot, humid, overly crowded, and I'd have less opportunity to do all I wanted to do but I really wanted/needed to go to Disney and booked the trip. Well at least I learned from my mistake.
Twin mommy
New Member
Getting fastpasses for the morning when we are always there at rope drop. Such a waste since we can usually walk right on first thing. This summer all MK and Epcot FP will be after 6pm.
Visited WDW for our first time in August, the week before school started. I live in Florida, so you'd think I would know about August heat. This was in 1996 before the days of even paper fast passes. Stayed at an All Star and took advantage of the 1990s version of EMH - which was one day a week guests staying at a Disney hotel could get in at 8:00AM. Let my then 8 year old daughter convince me that her first ride ever on a coaster and at Disney should be Space Mountain. MY knowledge of Space Mountain was Disneyland's, with the 2 person car, so I thought OK. I can remember getting to the park around 8:30 (it seemed the bus ride took FOREVER), got in, wandered around finding Space Mountain and standing in line outside in the blazing sun, even at that time of the morning - I believe this was before SM was renovated with the enclosed queue. By the time we got to the load area, I was now freezing cold from sweating in the sun and the air conditioning. And then shocked to see single rider cars. I sat in the front, with my daughter behind me and as soon as the ride started, she was screaming "Mommy, I'm going to fall out" and kept screaming that the ENTIRE ride. Needless to say, it was difficult getting her to ride anything at Disney that left the ground, so no Thunder Mountain or Splash Mountain, Astro Orbiter. Just Dumbo (and it took some convincing to ride Dumbo), People Mover, the old boat ride around Tom Sawyer Island (not the river boat, more like a canoe), a really expensive and horrible lunch (must have been McDonalds, lol). And then it started to pour, we didn't have ponchos or anything (once again, live in Florida, should have known better and brought rain gear). So we headed back to our room, wet, tired, Mom starting a headache, with plans to go back and see the fireworks. But no, we fell asleep, I wandered over to the food court and bought an expensive and not too good pizza (it seemed like the food court was in another county) and stood outside hearing the boom of the fireworks. And did I mention my daughter had a cast on her arm since she broke her wrist a couple weeks before our trip? Which meant no pool time for her. Needless to say, not a good introduction to WDW for either of us. But my daughter got her ears. And we didn't go back for 14 years.
Most recent "I really wish I hadn't done that"? Going to WDW for 4th of July, forgetting (or not even thinking) that this is BRAZILIAN TOUR GROUP SEASON. ARRRRRRGH!!!!
Most recent "I really wish I hadn't done that"? Going to WDW for 4th of July, forgetting (or not even thinking) that this is BRAZILIAN TOUR GROUP SEASON. ARRRRRRGH!!!!
jloucks
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- Not bringing rain ponchos
- Not reserving Be Our Guest restaurant in advance ...way in advance.
- Never knowing the maelstrom ride even existed to ride it. ...twice.
- Not grabbing the cute snake out of the tree in the line to Expedition Everest and relocating him to someplace safer
- Letting the waitress at the 50's restaurant goad me into eating way too much and then puking my lungs out in the bathroom. ...freeing up plenty of room for desert. ok, that one is a draw.
- Getting into a verbal altercation with a bunch of teen line jumpers at the bus stop
- Getting into a verbal altercation with a bench jumping fellow at an onsite restaurant
righttrack
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Not arranging meeting times and places in advance.
Touring the parks with people who stayed at another resort - timing is very difficult with a lot of waiting on both parties.
Not eating before doing "Drinking Around the World"
Doing "Drinking Around the World" ... two laps
Living behind the camera instead of in the moment
Touring the parks with people who stayed at another resort - timing is very difficult with a lot of waiting on both parties.
Not eating before doing "Drinking Around the World"
Doing "Drinking Around the World" ... two laps
Living behind the camera instead of in the moment
Philhar-Fanatic
Active Member
May I ask why? I've enjoyed both lunch and dinner (on different occasions, of course!
There's has not been a single dinner buffet that we've done that we enjoyed the food at. Chef Mickey, Crystal Palace, Askerhaus, Bomba, Trails End...characters were great at the ones that offer...food not so much! But, breakfast 1900 Park Fare and Crystal palace...characters were great and food was great and cheaper!! Just our opinion!!
Victor Kelly
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You got that right. We did the same exact thing. Oh my god!! Way too much food. We will be doing the same one TS per day, the rest will be eat anywhere. Weeeeeeellllllll, unless it is Epcot, way too much good food there.