The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

[Gabe1]

I actually think that the worst Bus Service, was from the "Pixie" hotels. aka french quarter and riverside.
Despite being in the low season.. the buses were always very few and mostly full.

at least that is my experience and what I've read here.

We had real good luck at the FQ in April. A few times it was longer but the resort is so small the stop was far closer than parking so that saved time too. The ferries had long lines to DTD though in the evening though. So many non resort guests on them now, wasn't like that in the early years much like the resort loop monorail. Not that it is wrong but now how the transportation was originally conceived. Way back we could pool hop anywhere as a resort guest, that got out of hand and ended.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

I did better with later classes. My DD is a morning person. My DS is like me, so not a morning person.

My mom and I are not morning people. My dad and my brother are not really "morning" people either as they prefer to stay up later and sleep later, but the two of them wake up happy. Which can be quite annoying. My brother woke me up twice in Hilton Head because he was up, therefore I should be up too. After the second time he did it, I told him that if he got up before me, he had to take his laptop, leave the room, and shut the door behind him. And not come in and say, "Missy, wake up!" 30 minutes later.

My dad wakes up, and he's happy. He says he's happy in the morning because he's woken up alive. He starts singing, whistling, talking to me...and I just want silence. I don't care if it is 11 am; I have just woken up and I need time to boot up before the singing begins.

And then I'm happy at night. And they're not.

It doesn't work.

 

[donaldtoo]

Once you have babies, you'll understand.
Women are genetically programmed to be able to get back to sleep.
Historically, it wasn't necessary for men to get up two, three, four times for night-time feedings.

Maybe not historically, but, I darn sure did.
As I've related before, I used to sleep like a stone. Once we had kiddos, I awoke at every sound. Baby would make known they were ready for feeding. I would go check diaper and change as necessary, then bring baby to mommy for feeding. Then, I would take baby back to crib and do same diaper drill.
I figured it was the least I could do.

 

[Gabe1]

We go in January when the parks do the same thing and still go to the parks in the evening. We are night owls; we are out as late as possible. We also don't do a ton of resort dining other than breakfast. Most evenings, we are in Epcot, and that always closes at 9.

As for the complaining, if you don't get in line and buses just keep filling up, that's one thing. But if a bus just plain doesn't come for an hour, we say something. It's rare, but it has happened. The wait should be approx. 20 minutes, more than 40 is ridiculous. All of the resorts could take a lesson from Pop. Their bus service was excellent. We definitely did not need a rental car (not that either of us was old enough to rent one). Usually we found the buses out there waiting for us, and we requested a room near transportation, so the walk was quick. It was always quick.

I can see the benefits, but we find WDW transportation (and walking) just as easy, if not easier for us. And one of the reasons why our home resorts are Epcot and MK area resorts are so we can walk or use the monorail, so it sometimes is days in between bus trips for us. Like I said, it would be convenient, but not worth $200+.

Disney has put a CM the last few years at the main bus stop in every resort during the busy morning early afternoon hours. They log in every bus and know when the next on is due. We were leaving from the Contemporary and heading to AK and the bus was late and filling at the Poly. CM had another bus routed straight to the Contemporary so we didn't have to do the Monorail loop and left directly for Blizzard/AK.

The worst bus services I've experienced and I know it differs with every tweak is CS, it was because of the bus stop design, unlike POR & FQ they can only load one park bus at a time unless they fix it since 2012. All the Carts messed that up. Outside rental carts were not a thing until recent years. AK buses were fine until the DVC was added. That is a lot of guests on one bus and by the time it gets to the lodge that only has one stop, lots of people it was often crowded or full. That resort is far with a car or on a bus for most parks and DTD. Great hotel but it is a ding set so far off.

 

[donaldtoo]

Alrighty gang, I'm a goner...
Sweet Magicals to each and every one of y'all...!
Laterrrrrrr...!!!

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Once you have babies, you'll understand.
Women are genetically programmed to be able to get back to sleep.
Historically, it wasn't necessary for men to get up two, three, four times for night-time feedings.

I don't think it happens after you have kids.

I had an 8 am seminar my first semester. It was 50 minutes, once a week, and my next class was at noon. There's a couch in the library. I used to go there as soon as class was over and nap there for about two hours. Then I would get up, eat lunch, and go to class. When we have to get up early for travelling, I will get into the car or onto the plane and go right to sleep.

It's just most of the time I don't have to get up early...or when I do have to get up, I don't have the time to go back to sleep.

 

[JenniferS]

Maybe not historically, but, I darn sure did.
As I've related before, I used to sleep like a stone. Once we had kiddos, I awoke at every sound. Baby would make known they were ready for feeding. I would go check diaper and change as necessary, then bring baby to mommy for feeding. Then, I would take baby back to crib and do same diaper drill.
I figured it was the least I could do.

You, like Hubby, are a prince!
He would offer every single time, to fetch the baby. 9 times out of 10, I would turn down his kind offer.
But that one time out of 10, oh baby, I would have married him again, on the spot.

Once the boys got to be toddlers though, he went back to sleeping like a stone.
Me, not so much.

 

[Gabe1]

carp!, I'm going to stay there this february lol
as for hotels, I really loved Riverside. I love big open spaces full of green!

February might just be fine. It is a lovely resort and worth doing at least once. I did take a few taxi cabs once from the MK and once back from DTD the last time I stayed there. $40 well spent at the time. Don't count on lots of green at AKL. There is lots of dirt out by the animals. Concrete by bus stop and aside from some well placed lanscaping around the pool, it is nothing like POR for green. It is pretty though inside and around the pool, just very different that the PO resorts. I'd hold out hope that buses are good in February, fingers crossed.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

AK buses were fine until the DVC was added. That is a lot of guests on one bus and by the time it gets to the lodge that only has one stop, lots of people it was often crowded or full. That resort is far with a car or on a bus for most parks and DTD. Great hotel but it is a ding set so far off.

Bus service at AKL was always terrible. We only ever stayed there for a few days and would then go to a different resort. My dad was considering buying there, but it was a toss up between there and BLT. He went with BLT in no small part because of how far from everything AKL is.

 

[Gabe1]

The thing about AKL is sometimes there is 4 MK buses before the one you want which is the same everywhere else. Our worst bus experience was Old Key West. An hour late plus Old Key West has a weird layout.

Yeah, they made their mistakes on that time share but those rooms are so nice. CBR was the boo boo maker for the moderates. There was not even a table service there when it opened and they had to rework the food court. FQ has reworked there food court multiple times, it still can't seat enough during high seasons or serve them. When FQ closed their TS restaurant breakfast became difficult during crowed times. DD and I ate most breakfasts elsewhere.

 

[Gabe1]

I enjoyed my graduation button in DL. A few free desserts was well worth it.

Except for that CM who wanted to know if I was graduating from middle school. My face:

Decades ago I had that problem too and my DD does now. One woman said to her at job #2 this weekend she looked 12, she is 23.

Today a transfer in employ said she had a real girl face. Here manager was walking past at that moment and said to my DD well I think you could take that as a compliment, maybe. Kudos to him.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Sympathy "like".
I hated group projects. JenniferS is a bit of a control freak.

So am I. Which is generally why I was the last one to see the project before it got turned in.

Last semester was just a bit of a nightmare as far as group projects went. But I did get straight As. So...not 100% horrible.

 

[Gabe1]

You sound like my mom. She gets up with my brother at 6 am. Then she waits for my dad to leave and goes back to bed, where she remains until 10 or 11 am.

Once my dad is up, he's up.

Me too, I don't go back to bed. If I do they know I'm real sick. Both DH and DS are great nap dudes. DD never naps, not even in college.

 

[StarWarsGirl]

Decades ago I had that problem too and my DD does now. One woman said to her at job #2 this weekend she looked 12, she is 23.

Today a transfer in employ said she had a real girl face. Here manager was walking past at that moment and said to my DD well I think you could take that as a compliment, maybe. Kudos to him.

I used to not wear any make up. Now, I wear some just to make me look like I'm actually 19. A little lip gloss and some eyeshadow do help. If it weren't for that (and the fact that for some reason my skin has gotten bad now instead of in my early teens; thank goodness one of my mom's friends is an esthetician), I wouldn't wear any, but I would rather just suck it up and wear it and have people realize that I'm actually 19 than not do it and have people think I'm 14

 

[StarWarsGirl]

The Walkman has returned!

http://gizmodo.com/sony-walkman-reb...source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

 

[MinnieM123]

Bus service at AKL was always terrible. We only ever stayed there for a few days and would then go to a different resort. My dad was considering buying there, but it was a toss up between there and BLT. He went with BLT in no small part because of how far from everything AKL is.

I've stayed at AKL maybe 4 times since it opened. The bus service there was very good until they built those DVC buildings. Then, all heck broke loose. I don't think they added enough buses between the two large resorts. Also I didn't like all the additional people that the DVC added to the property. (With the size of the DVC section, I wished they had just created a separate resort on another plot of land, away from AKL, and just gave that resort it's own identity.) And, if I'm not mistaken, I think that the DVC people probably also had pool privileges at AKL. (I think there was a DVC pool as well, over in the DVC section.) It was nearly impossible to get a lounge chair at the zero entry pool at AKL. It just seemed like everything at AKL was so much more crowded once DVC entered the scene. I never travel in high season, either, so that wasn't the reason.

Even though I love animals and enjoyed watching them from my balcony (I used to request Arusha Savannah, but even that over the past few years has a pricey add-on), I'm not sure I'd stay at AKL anymore.

 

[MinnieM123]

Maybe not historically, but, I darn sure did.
As I've related before, I used to sleep like a stone. Once we had kiddos, I awoke at every sound. Baby would make known they were ready for feeding. I would go check diaper and change as necessary, then bring baby to mommy for feeding. Then, I would take baby back to crib and do same diaper drill.
I figured it was the least I could do.

I'm glad you mentioned that, as I felt bad for some fathers not getting the credit they are due. My mother told me that my father was a very big help to her (family of 4 children), and he'd often get up in the middle of the night if the children needed attention.

 

[MinnieM123]

This reminds me of a story I think I've shared before.
There were two guys in my PE class my sophomore year of HS that hated each other vehemently. They were always at each others throats and disrupting activities. Finally, the teacher, who was also a football coach, had had enough when they started up again as we were all dressing out one day. Once he got things under control, he went and grabbed two pairs of boxing gloves from the equipment cage. He was pi$$ed. He told the whole class to follow him. We did. He marched us all out wayyy to the back of school property behind the baseball field, gave each one of 'em a pair of boxing gloves, and told 'em if they didn't go at it and settle this right now he was gonna' kick both their a$$es. NO JOKE.
They saw how pi$$ed he was. They went at it. They were pretty evenly matched and he knew it. He let them kick the carp outta' each other until he felt they had had enough. They were bleeding and pretty wiped out.
The rub is, these two guys finally got it outta' their systems and then actually became good friends.
None of us ever said a word about it outside of class, and the gloves never again (that semester anyway) had to be brought out for that purpose.
Can ya' just imagine if a teacher/coach pulled somethin' like that these days...

Different world back then. It's not so much about whether the coach picked the right or wrong methodology to solve the issue; but just the fact that no one even considered any "opportunistic" after effects, such a lawsuit against the teacher, or the entire school system, that speaks volumes here.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

Once you have babies, you'll understand.
Women are genetically programmed to be able to get back to sleep.
Historically, it wasn't necessary for men to get up two, three, four times for night-time feedings.

Once I'm up, I'm up and can't go back to sleep. When I became a mom I had to reprogram myself to rest when she was sleeping because it was basically just me and her from shortly after she was born. There were plenty of times I wished someone else did that late night bottle but sitting in the rocking chair watching Suite Life On Deck while feeding her at 2 a.m. is one of my favorite memories.

 

[MOXOMUMD]

This reminds me of a story I think I've shared before.
There were two guys in my PE class my sophomore year of HS that hated each other vehemently. They were always at each others throats and disrupting activities. Finally, the teacher, who was also a football coach, had had enough when they started up again as we were all dressing out one day. Once he got things under control, he went and grabbed two pairs of boxing gloves from the equipment cage. He was pi$$ed. He told the whole class to follow him. We did. He marched us all out wayyy to the back of school property behind the baseball field, gave each one of 'em a pair of boxing gloves, and told 'em if they didn't go at it and settle this right now he was gonna' kick both their a$$es. NO JOKE.
They saw how pi$$ed he was. They went at it. They were pretty evenly matched and he knew it. He let them kick the carp outta' each other until he felt they had had enough. They were bleeding and pretty wiped out.
The rub is, these two guys finally got it outta' their systems and then actually became good friends.
None of us ever said a word about it outside of class, and the gloves never again (that semester anyway) had to be brought out for that purpose.
Can ya' just imagine if a teacher/coach pulled somethin' like that these days...

That teacher could kiss his career bye-bye as he sat in prison.