>>>I truly hope your summer vacation this year. And remember WDW is what you make it. If you enjoy the moment it will be great, if you complain about the cost, crowd, past, etc... it won't be as much fun.<<<
Well my grand kids will be seeing it all for the first time so they have nothing to compare it to. So though I'll be missing the once magnificent Journey Into Imagination compared to the current chopped to pieces one and having to endure "test track" barf barf in place of the all powerful Horizons and what ever took the place of the wonderful ORIGINAL version of Universe of Energy I'll be suffering those nostalgic memories in silence for the sake of my grand children. At least world show case is still in its former glory and thank God they have not ruined Space Ship Earth yet or The Land (even though last time I was there parts of The Land ride was looking a bit dingy as was the Monorail). I'm sure my grand sons will all LOVE Test Track though.
That was still when the nation was reeling from a recession though so I'm hoping to see some improvements this time.
Complaining about the cost--- Heck yea its way to expensive but like all the millions of other folks out there that complain and complain about the cost but know darn well there is no theme park any where on earth better....
Disney once again is going to get a giant chunk of my change.
But hey!... they gave me 25 percent off two Pirate rooms at the Caribbean Beach. Off each room! I was amazed. All because I wrote an angry email saying....
"Hey! YO! MR MOUSE! Momma's not feel'n the magic here! I know your parks are the best in the world but tell me why I should pay all this money for rooms at your on site hotels when I can stay at a much nicer one not a mile from you? All I wanted was a little discount for my daughter being a Florida resident. I know I can't have one on both rooms because I'm coming from California but she lives there and your cast members have given me nothing but the run around about it and if they had not told me to begin with I'd get that discount I would not have told my poor husband who is paying for us to go there that, "Yay Dear Disney says they will give you a discount for Raven being a Florida Resident!" so now he wants to know how much discount and now I have to tell him you all are giving me the run around and I'm sure not looking forward to that conversation so I've a mind to cancel the whole thing!"
This was because my daughter lives in Florida and I was told when I booked the reservations that we would get a Florida discount on the rooms because she is allowed up to 3 rooms on her Fl discount the CM told me. Well that was wrong information but that CM said I should call back after Oct and they would tell me how much of a discount. I did in Oct and they said call back in Nov because they still don't know then in Nov they said call back in Dec until finally the last CM said there is no Florida Discounts on Rooms only on park passes.
Thats when I decided to email Mr. Mouse and have a little talk with him.
Next morning bright and early a CM is calling me. I was surprised because I never expected to hear back from them because its not like Disney is going to be hurting if I cancel my booking. Even though its for two rooms its still not like they will even miss us or any thing but they were so nice and completely redid my whole reservation giving me that discount. It took a big chunk off the original price! And on top of that she gave me her personal ext number and name and said if I have even the tiniest problem call her directly. They called it a "bounce back discount" . It bounced back the discount to my credit card because I had already been making payments on the package.
I swear its like having my own personal concerige (sp?) service. They have been fantastic to me on the phone. I call them a lot and ask all sorts of questions and they are so nice and helpful. And I can be quite talkative but they never act like it bothers them at all.
She said is there any thing else that I don't like maybe she could help. I said well yea there is....
Why the heck do I have to pay a parking fee for my daughter to park her car at the CBR when we are paying to stay there?
If I stayed off property I bet that hotel would not charge me a parking fee. For an 8 night stay! And don't tell me the off sites don't provide transportation all over WDW because no offense dear but MULES WOULD BE A FASTER WAY of getting around than Disney buses. Thats why we are using my daughter's car.
She noted on my file not to charge me for that either. Which they really should not do in earnest any way because they had not started the parking fee charge thing till AFTER I made the reservations.
All I was expecting was one of the rooms, the one my Florida resident daughter is staying in would get a 10 or 15% discount for her being a resident. I never expected I would end up getting the huge discount I did. But they had me say clearly that I understand that this is a ONE TIME DEAL. Not to expect it again. (grin)
You know, sometimes it pays to be a little aggressive. Not hateful or nasty....
Just a little bit bothersome. Explain things to Mr Mouse in a way he can understand.
(sigh) any way... went way off topic again didn't I?
Sorry. I'm bad about that.