Excuse me while I unload here. The Coral Reef.
One night, we're hanging around waiting for Reflections and think, we've never been here, looks pricey but good, lets give it a try. There's an older gentleman working a kiosk out front, we ask how long a wait. 'Ten minutes, ten minutes tops, here give them this.' and he hands up a slip of paper. We think 'cool' and head in.
We give the paper to the young woman working the front counter and explain the gentleman told us to give it to her.
"Oh, is HE still working out there?" she said with enough venom that we should have taken that as a clue and run."What hotel are you staying at?" We say "All Star Sport." "Have a seat and we'll call you."
For the next 45 minutes. One person after another walks in the door, tells them they're from the Contemporary, or Animal Kingdom Lodge or any other of the upper scale hotels and ZOOM in they go. All of us saying All Star, Pop Century and the like are left cooling our heels. And NO I'm not missing the whole Priority Seating bit, those I would expect to be shown in right away. These were people who, like us, just walked in.
Finally allowed into the restaurant and, even though the place is fairly empty, we're given the closet table to the door. I mean seriously, door - three steps - table. We look down and there MANY empty tables closer to the wall of glass windows looking into the Living Seas. But we get the crummy seats way in back.
So we said something. Could we get closer? Could we have one of those empty tables? Not demanding, just asking. But if we thought we had been treated like trash before, it was nothing compared to what we got for the rest of the meal. Ignored by the server, half our order never brought out.
Learned our lesson. People staying at the economy hotels better know their place, and that place is standing in line waiting to buy chicken strips, not paying four times as much for half the food and heap of snotty attitude.
One night, we're hanging around waiting for Reflections and think, we've never been here, looks pricey but good, lets give it a try. There's an older gentleman working a kiosk out front, we ask how long a wait. 'Ten minutes, ten minutes tops, here give them this.' and he hands up a slip of paper. We think 'cool' and head in.
We give the paper to the young woman working the front counter and explain the gentleman told us to give it to her.
"Oh, is HE still working out there?" she said with enough venom that we should have taken that as a clue and run."What hotel are you staying at?" We say "All Star Sport." "Have a seat and we'll call you."
For the next 45 minutes. One person after another walks in the door, tells them they're from the Contemporary, or Animal Kingdom Lodge or any other of the upper scale hotels and ZOOM in they go. All of us saying All Star, Pop Century and the like are left cooling our heels. And NO I'm not missing the whole Priority Seating bit, those I would expect to be shown in right away. These were people who, like us, just walked in.
Finally allowed into the restaurant and, even though the place is fairly empty, we're given the closet table to the door. I mean seriously, door - three steps - table. We look down and there MANY empty tables closer to the wall of glass windows looking into the Living Seas. But we get the crummy seats way in back.
So we said something. Could we get closer? Could we have one of those empty tables? Not demanding, just asking. But if we thought we had been treated like trash before, it was nothing compared to what we got for the rest of the meal. Ignored by the server, half our order never brought out.
Learned our lesson. People staying at the economy hotels better know their place, and that place is standing in line waiting to buy chicken strips, not paying four times as much for half the food and heap of snotty attitude.
Sorry for not having an exact quote - but it was in 1998 and I've kind of shut it out of my memory - traumatizing event you know...
