Top 10 WDW Guest Failures

[Chef Mickey]

What is your list of failures for guests, including the themes people complain about on this board?

This is all in good fun, please. No flaming or getting bent out of shape. I just think we are so hard on WDW, what could we do better and do we recognize our own failures?

My Top 10:

10) Slow walkers that walk in the middle of the street and stop suddenly to look at something. Stopping to talk in line and not keeping it moving.

9) People that think their kids are the only people there or their kid matters more than another person. This includes letting kids cut in front of you, parents raising them on their shoulders to block your view, parents letting their kids run wild and run into other guests, stopping rides to take pictures (see this a lot on Snow White and Pooh), etc.

8) Fast Pass hogs (getting 20 for the entire Brazilian group at one time)

7) Complainers - Too hot, too cold, too boring.

6) Walking 5+ people across and blocking the pathway with your enormous party. Really?

5) People that leave fireworks early to "beat the crowds" and end up missing the best part.

4) People that can't appreciate non-thrill seeking rides or enjoy an attraction for what it's supposed to be. I can't tell you how many times i've heard Spaceship Earth is "boring" or that there aren't enough rollercoasters.

3) The Phd in all subjects Disney. Disney can't do anything right for these people. The lines are configured incorrectly. The buses don't run often enough. The food is bad. The rides are subpar. The seating areas are not big enough. The lines move too slowly. This person could optimize everything to make it better.

2) Flash pictures on dark rides (Pirates, HM, Small World, etc).

1) The people that talk as though they could run an $80b company better.

 

[captainkidd]

10. People that stop in the middle of where others are walking.

9. Pool hoppers.

8. People who hold their kids on their shoulders during the fireworks so the people behind them can't see.

7. People who talk during rides.

6. People who don't know how to use the finger scan system.

5. People who get the dining plan, but have no idea how to use it, thus creating longer waiting times for everyone else in line.

4. Any tour group that can't shut the hell up in the parks, resorts or buses.

3. People who start running when it rains like it's battery acid falling from the sky.

2. People who get fastpasses for 50 people at once.

1. People who take flash photos on dark rides.

 

[zurgandfriend]

10) Brazilian Tours Groups

9) Pop Warner football players

8) People that use acronyms on this website - Guilty as charged

7) Parents pushing their tween-age children in souvenir laden strollers

6) People that make multiple ADRs

5) People that talk through the attraction - I don’t need a narrator

4) Flash photography on a dark attraction, reminds me of muzzle flashes

3) Line cutters or parade spot infringers

2) Rogue seniors driving EVCs

1) People that call The Magic Kingdom “Disney World"

 

[pixiesteno]

10. (again) people dead stopping in front of you without using their "break lights"

9. People who force their child onto a ride that the child is screaming they don't want to go on.

8. People who order those in their party "to have a good time because we paid good money to be here."

7. If you don't want your child to bounce off the walls, don't feed them candy for breakfast!

6. People who yell at CM for something they perceive as wrong but when the CM asks them what they would like different they can't tell them. Guess they just want to yell at someone who can't yell back without losing their job.

5. Line jumping of 1, 2, -- 25 people with little flags

4. People who engage in loud and/or rude conversations during Wishes.

3. Trying to circumvent the DDP and get a bunch of snack items for CS meal.

2. Guest who think that WDW can control the FL weather

1. the flash photography thing - sorry, sorry, sorry I thought it was off :lookaroun

 

[DisneyJoe]

8) Fast Pass hogs (getting 20 for the entire Brazilian group at one time)

2. People who get fastpasses for 50 people at once.

Would you not complain if the entire group of people all walked up to the fastpass machines and proceeded to take over all of the machines while they all got their fastpasses? I don't see a solution to this either way.

 

[captainkidd]

Would you not complain if the entire group of people all walked up to the fastpass machines and proceeded to take over all of the machines while they all got their fastpasses? I don't see a solution to this either way.

Don't allow tour groups to get fastpasses. Better yet, don't let them in the parks at all.:drevil:

 

[captainkidd]

1) People that call The Magic Kingdom “Disney World"

Those are the same people that say they're going to Florida, and are going to Disney World, Universal and Epcot. Or that call Disney World "The Happiest Place on Earth."

 

[DisneyJoe]

Don't allow tour groups to get fastpasses. Better yet, don't let them in the parks at all.:drevil:

:ROFLOL:

There can be a fine line between some tour groups and some large family Magical Gatherings - I guess we should keep them out too?

 

[NewfieFan]

9. People who force their child onto a ride that the child is screaming they don't want to go on.

Let me add...

People who force their screaming child next to a character so they can take a picture and remember that moment for the rest of their lives!?! :hammer:

People who are rude to CMs!

People who litter... and throw their cigarette butts in a planter after smoking in a non-smoking area (I seriously saw this)!

 

[dave&di]

Wow there are so many of the above I agree with, but what annoyed me on my last trip last sept was:

Watching Fantasmic for the 1st time (my trip before, we had problems seeing it) so really excited - got a good seat, was filming it for treasured memories, why why why did most people start standing up and walking out before it finished!!!:fork: it ruined my filming. LET THE SHOW FINISH BEFORE STANDING IN EVERYONES WAY!!! DISRESPECTFUL.

 

[menamechris]

My biggest complaints involve the fireworks - people putting their kids on their shoulders (which has been said, but is worth repeating); and the kids with their blinking-light balloons. Put the balloons down during a show - It is so annoying having it floating back and forth right in my line of vision for a whole show...

 

[AllThatsJoey]

10. Guests who call Splash Mountain Splash Adventure, I've heard that one more than once.

9. Guests who call Test Track Fast Track. I hear this one all the time, it's funny.

8. Guests who think part of the Disney Magic is somehow making your broken wind unnoticeable in line.

7. Guests who don't bathe or wear deodorant. You know who you are. Although it enhances the sensory aspect of Pirates of the Caribbean.

6. Guests who wear offensive T-Shirts.

5. Cursing in the parks.

4. In ride flash photography. It's just rude.

3. The sheer number of people using ECVs that might not HAVE to. I'm not saying they are all just lazy and out of shape but there are more and more each visit and my ankles can only take so much. Walking is good for you.

2. People who worship Walt and his ideals yet get annoyed by the actions of children and their parents having fun in a park that wouldn't exist if Walt didn't feel "that there should be some kind of an amusement enterprise built where the parents and the children could have fun together. "

1. People who think themselves and ten of their closest friends are the only people who should have the privilege of being in a Disney park because they listen to every Disney podcast and post on popular Disney related message boards.

 

[wdwfan4ver]

Here is a couple guest failures not mentioned yet.

Guests that can't control their kids at table service restaurants. Examples of this includes kids throwing food, to kids running around while they are supposed to be seated waiting for their food.

People that don't go all the way back in a bus when the bus driver tells them to.

 

[Chef Mickey]

Great discussion so far!

I would say regarding the fast pass hog...I really think they should get a few and go to the end of the line and get a few more. Honestly, it's not designed for you to stand up there with a stack of passes and get them ALL. I don't want the entire group up there, but be respectful of the person directly behind you. If it were me, I'd say, "oh, go ahead. I have about 10 more to get." Simple.

I will add number 11 to my list:

11) People that stop in the middle at Philar Magic despite it being a full show and the cast members begging them to move down.

 

[Tigger1988]

I would say regarding the fast pass hog...I really think they should get a few and go to the end of the line and get a few more. Honestly, it's not designed for you to stand up there with a stack of passes and get them ALL. I don't want the entire group up there, but be respectful of the person directly behind you. If it were me, I'd say, "oh, go ahead. I have about 10 more to get." Simple.

So half the group will have one return time and the other half another? No.

 

[AllThatsJoey]

Great discussion so far!

I would say regarding the fast pass hog...I really think they should get a few and go to the end of the line and get a few more. Honestly, it's not designed for you to stand up there with a stack of passes and get them ALL. I don't want the entire group up there, but be respectful of the person directly behind you. If it were me, I'd say, "oh, go ahead. I have about 10 more to get." Simple.

As a single person in a cramped fast pass area given the choice of ten people surrounding me vs one person with ten tickets I would choose the latter. Another machine will open up and you will be on your way.

 

[captainkidd]

People who litter... and throw their cigarette butts in a planter after smoking in a non-smoking area (I seriously saw this)!

Good one!

This one could go with the other thread too. CM's who walk right past a guest smoking in a no-smoking area, and do nothing about it.

 

[Tigger#1]

11) People that stop in the middle at Philar Magic despite it being a full show and the cast members begging them to move down.

But thoes are the best seats

 

[Chef Mickey]

So half the group will have one return time and the other half another? No.

Yes. You make it sound as if the return times will be unreasonably different. It will be within a few minutes and they'll still be able to return at the same time. They honor them late anyway. Don't be ridiculous. We all know how Fast Pass works.

Getting 20 at a time is obnoxious, rude, and holds up the line. Not all 20 people need to stay glued at the hip either. That's another complaint and I've said before that big groups can ruin shows/rides. When people get into big groups, they are obnoxious.

 

[Chef Mickey]

Great discussion so far!

I would say regarding the fast pass hog...I really think they should get a few and go to the end of the line and get a few more. Honestly, it's not designed for you to stand up there with a stack of passes and get them ALL. I don't want the entire group up there, but be respectful of the person directly behind you. If it were me, I'd say, "oh, go ahead. I have about 10 more to get." Simple.

As a single person in a cramped fast pass area given the choice of ten people surrounding me vs one person with ten tickets I would choose the latter. Another machine will open up and you will be on your way.

Exactly, and unless it's absolutely crazy, waiting a couple extra times in line will get you a pass within 5-10 minutes of each other.

As I said, we don't need the 20 person Brazilian group taking over 90% of a ride anyway. They are obnoxious and their groups should be split up somehow.