The ultimate resolution to relieving conjestion in the Magic Kingdom after Wishes!!!!

[hcswingfield]

Here here, good point.

I am now at a point in my life that I have somebody to push around in a stroller, and it is a lot different then running around a park on your own. I love to move fast, and I don't like people slowing me up because they have to move slowly. I am just naturally a faster moving person, but at the same time I am courteous to those around me. I don't shove into people or knock them out of the way. I take extra wide turns, and avoid slower people as much as possible now that I have a stroller.

In my opinion these anti-stroller comments are ridiculous. Sure you are going to get bumped or heel-smashed (I have), but it happens. Should we all complain about people who bump into you with their bodies? Should they not be allowed in the parks? I mean I have had my two year old walking around in a area of the park that was quiet for a second and then all of a sudden in come a bunch of running kids knocking him down.

In my experience half of the people that get bumped by a stroller are the same people who try to cut ahead of a stroller because they see it as a weaker vestige....or they are the people holding hands ten people across pulling themselves in peoples ways.......or they are the people walking in front of you that just stop all of a sudden in the middle of a walkway. I mean think about it if you are on a freeway and you stop all of a sudden what happens? You get rear-ended, sure it hurts, but guess what, it is going to happen.

It is hard to manuever a stroller, and a lot of rude people and kids understand this, so they try to take advantage of this fact, and more than likely they get smashed. Other people are just unlucky in this matter, but if there weren't strollers there would be something else to complain about.

Things happen......deal with it.....

When I've been hit by strollers it has been either because someone aimed the stroller at me to play "chicken" so that I would clear out of the path they wanted to take, or because they were not looking where they were going, and didn't seem to care if the stroller carrying their infant hit someone or not. Most people with strollers are polite and sensitive and follow the basic rules of etiquette. I have no beef with strollers in general. I do have a beef with people who try to use their children's vehicle as a battering ram or a weapon. I don't run, I don't stop suddenly, I don't walk 10 across and I don't cut in front of anyone.

 

[wannab@dis]

I sugest leaving the park earlier and taking the kids to bed, pushing round all night in a stroller is no fun for kids. If they are sleepy then they are worn out even me with no kids knows that.

Get back to us when you have kids...

My little one can sleep through most noises and will take a nap in the stroller. Waking her up a couple of times to transfer to / from busses/car on the trip back to the resort is worse than just letting her get a nap in the park.

 

[rentNdisney]

*ahem*

*cough, cough, i'm only 14, cough, cough*

I'm with you Connor! I'm 17, and totally understand the need for strollers. Not all of us teenagers are insensitve hooligans!!

 

[DisneyMom63]

You'll really hate me, then, I bring a stroller in just to carry my stuff. My daughter has long outgrow the stroller. I comes in handy to intimidate those idiots who block entrances and walkways and to break up the gangs who insist on taking up a whole walkway walking only one direction and blocking those want to go the other way.

 

[Woody13]

:lookaroun Who's with me.
Thank you and regards,
LaughingGravy

Well, our you with me or not! :lol:

 

[wannab@dis]

Well, our you with me or not! :lol:

:lol:

touche!

 

[HunnyPot]

I think strollers are a must have for parents with kids. I don't think a 10 year old should be riding around in one, but young kids for sure. It's kinda of an inconvience for you, but when we go, we normally just find a spot somewhere and sit down and people watch for a while after the show. Many people get up right away from their seats and it's not too hard to find a place to sit down for a few mintues. It will not help with crowds at the bus stops though, but you won't be stuck in the crowd on main street either.

 

[mrtoad]

How about when people walk right in front of your stroller and then just STOP and then give you a dirty look because you bumped into them?

I am totally with you on that one...

 

[mrtoad]

Every year I go to Disney it is tradition to go to the Magic Kingdom on the last night and watch the fireworks (Fantasy in the Sky and Wishes), then we take the ceremonial walk through the castle and into the jam-packed Main Street USA. It normally takes about 20 minutes to walk down the street in the crowd because of one thing....the outstanding number of strollers. I believe Disney should either remove the rental of strollers for good or at least cut down on the number of them in circulation. They conjest everything and sometimes you look into one and you see a kid that has to be at least 10 years old!! Does anyone agree that the stroller situation needs to be taken into consideration?(Tip:You can avoid some of the crowd if you take the secret way through park gates!!)

Also, try not to judge about the age thing you never know.

My daughter is 4 and really is tall so she looks older. She has issues with her legs and they hurt her badly after too much activity so for us a stroller is a must.

 

[Laura]

I sugest leaving the park earlier and taking the kids to bed, pushing round all night in a stroller is no fun for kids. If they are sleepy then they are worn out even me with no kids knows that.

I really dislike people like you with no kids who thinks they know everything about kids!

Saying that guests who need to use strollers shouldn't be allowed inside Disney parks after a certain hour is equivalent to kicking out all the guests who use a wheelchair just before the fireworks. It's just an ignorant thing to say.

It seems to be a general consensus that people who do not have kids wish that there were no kids in WDW. I think you are all forgetting that the whole reason Disney exists is because Walt wanted a place where families could vacation together.

 

[PlaneJane]

The thing I did when I went alone to the MK was to run screaming through the shops saying "You gots some candy? I wants some candy! " People will get out of your way.

 

[mrtoad]

Another thing that was touched on is that people are always blaming the stroller pushers for whacking your ankles when a lot of times it is the person being hit that causes it.

Well we were waiting for Wishes a few nights ago in the street in front of the train station and some guy (guessing late teens, early twenties) tried to jump over the front of my daughters stroller and timed it incorrectly and hit the front so hard he broke the wheel right off the axel. He got up and kept on running and never looked back because he just did not care. Luckily my daughter was not in the stroller or for sure she would have a broken leg or worse.

So it is not always the strollers, it can be the people around them who just don't pay attention enough.

 

[mrtoad]

Just forgot part. A huge thumbs up to the resort engineering department, Jennifer in particular. She came to our room and tried to see if she could fix it. She did not have anything in her truck to help so she took a photo of a good wheel to see how it was connected with her camera phone (said it was the first time she used it on the job) and went back to "the shop" to show the others to see if they could do something. She came back a little later and took the stroller and had it fixed for us and brought it back to us later that night.

We are writing a letter to her manager as she really went beyond to help us.

Another thing that was touched on is that people are always blaming the stroller pushers for whacking your ankles when a lot of times it is the person being hit that causes it.

Well we were waiting for Wishes a few nights ago in the street in front of the train station and some guy (guessing late teens, early twenties) tried to jump over the front of my daughters stroller and timed it incorrectly and hit the front so hard he broke the wheel right off the axel. He got up and kept on running and never looked back because he just did not care. Luckily my daughter was not in the stroller or for sure she would have a broken leg or worse.

So it is not always the strollers, it can be the people around them who just don't pay attention enough.

 

[Woody13]

Just forgot part. A huge thumbs up to the resort engineering department, Jennifer in particular. She came to our room and tried to see if she could fix it. She did not have anything in her truck to help so she took a photo of a good wheel to see how it was connected with her camera phone (said it was the first time she used it on the job) and went back to "the shop" to show the others to see if they could do something. She came back a little later and took the stroller and had it fixed for us and brought it back to us later that night.

We are writing a letter to her manager as she really went beyond to help us.

That is too cool! I really like to hear that a CM went out of their way to help you. She didn't have to do that, but she did it anyway! That is certainly above and beyond the call of duty. Excellence at work! Thank you for passing that story along to us. :wave:

 

[Connor002]

i just rembered somthing, it didn't happen at disney, but here it goes



a few weeks ago, two of my friends and i went over to the Ocean City, NJ to the boardwalk. we were in line for the log flume, when one of my friends feel a bump from the people behind us. we think its just an accident. it was just a bunch of typical loud talkitive pre-teen girls excited and thinking they're "all that" because they're going around without their parents. so then then a fem minutes later they start bumping into us on purpose. now i would have lost it by then but then we were next in line to get on, so we went on. but once we got off i tried to get my friends to stay behind untill they got off, and just "scare" them a bit, i mean why not, we were twice their size and 2 years older. unfortunatly they convinced me had to respect the fact that they were young girls, and, being the gentlmen we are, we walked away without incendent. now when i think about it, i wish we would have confronted them, because now they're out there with a false sense of security, and one day they may just do that to somone who won't excercise restrain on them for being young women.

so thats my story, not much compared to what you have, but thats my story and i'm stickin' to it.

 

[mrtoad]

That is too cool! I really like to hear that a CM went out of their way to help you. She didn't have to do that, but she did it anyway! That is certainly above and beyond the call of duty. Excellence at work! Thank you for passing that story along to us. :wave:

I agree it was way beyond. I asked if I could tip her and shee said it was up to me and then told be she was giving it to the others who actually fixed it. But she was the one who made 3 trips out to see us in the middle of the night. Last time was about 11:45 PM. The letter I hope will help her.