Worst travel partner/group

[FanofDinsey1981]

:brick: :lookaroun my mom....


I love my mom, but if it isn't her idea, she doesn't want to do it.

On our last vacation (just my parents, my sister and I), my mom was upset that she had to get up early, and by noon was ready to be done for the day. My dad, sister, and I finally gave up trying to make her happy and did our own thing for 2 days.

Of course, two vacations ago, we went with some cousins (my cousin, her husband, and their two boys). When Mom has some of her great-nephews (or great-nieces) around, she is happy. I love my cousins, but that vacation sucked becuase we didn't get to do everything, since the boys are young. Mom planned EVERYTHING, with no regard for anyone else in the group but the two kids. My dad finally told us that we could go off on our own for a day, only to meet up with them on accident at MK later that day. I will travel with my own kids some day, but I don't really want to travel with young kids there anymore.

 

[that_L_do_pig]

my mother - 'nuff said (thumper defense)

which allows me to use this space to give kudos to my **mother-in-law** for doing her best to keep up, being open to new ideas, being accommodating on WHO the trip was for (my daughters), being resilient, having a thick skin, etc etc all in her 65 years of age on two trips so far. 'what a trooper' is the best way to put it. oh and for putting up with a disney fanatic the whole time (me).

 

[abe_bb]

I am hoping (and truly beleive) that we are going to have a wonderful time with my mother in law... if nothing else, free babysitting service for our five year old

but, to the topic at hand. The worst person to travel to DW with (and I am almost ashamed to say this) was... ME!

When I was a Jr. in high school, my parents decided we were going to Florida.

Unfortunately... a week before we left, I came down with Pnemonia. Not just the stay in bed for 2 days and call the doctor kind, the "OMG he can't eat drink or move" kind.

I was out of school for a week with it, and the day before we left, my parents decided that "the heat and humidity would be good for me" or some rubbish and took me anyway. So the doctor gave me morphine/codine pills (can't remember which, but used extensively), and we went.

I don't remember much of our trip. But I know I kind of dragged everyone else down. But then again, all I wanted to do was sleep. Fortunately, Innoventions was in it's huge video game kick. I do remember that for at least two days of our trip, they would just dump me in there, where I stood like a zombie playing video games for hours while they explored the parks.

All in all, it just makes me look forward to our next trip more. Just me, my wife, my daughter, and my mother in law.... although it means I will be the only guy this time

But we are going to have a blast... 43 days left!

 

[FanofDinsey1981]

my mother - 'nuff said (thumper defense)

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whew. glad to see I am not the only one who feels that way about my mother!

 

[DisneySam]

I have friends who I travel with alot. I had not gone to Disney with them, and I never will. They look at all Vacations as Relaxing. There is nothing wrong with that. But they many a times stay in the hotel room until noon and then that just screws up my day. I love to sleep in and often do on the weekends but when I am on vacation i am up at 8 so i can enjoy a full day no matter where i am.

I can TOTALLY RELATE! I am a fairly earlybird and I want to be at the parks when they open. Sadly enough the worst was with my mom and dad. We drove in from ST. Pete and it was only like 45 mins away so we planned to be there early at the MK for the Good Morning Song and I could not get them awake! I was very close to spraying cold water on them to get them awake. LOL, we had a great time anyway.

 

[FanofDinsey1981]

I can TOTALLY RELATE! I am a fairly earlybird and I want to be at the parks when they open. Sadly enough the worst was with my mom and dad. We drove in from ST. Pete and it was only like 45 mins away so we planned to be there early at the MK for the Good Morning Song and I could not get them awake! I was very close to spraying cold water on them to get them awake. LOL, we had a great time anyway.

In 1999-2000, my college roommate and I traveled to WDW with her parents. (we went to the micronpc.com bowl in Miami for the Illini game that year!). Our plans were to meet up on New Year's eve with a good friend of ours,who was down there for her birhtday with her family, and the new year, to celebrate the new century at EPCOT, which was holding the big celebration that year.

The night before was the game, and we got back to our hotel about 2 AM. My roommate's mom INSISTED on setting her watch/alarm to wake us up the next morning, instead of asking for a call to the room (we stayed off of I-4 for this trip). We were going to get up VERY early and get our parking pass from our friend, so we could park at their hotel and go in EPCOT at the INternational Gateway. I was satisfied with that answer, and was so tired I passed out right away.

The next morning, we woke up at 8 AM! her alarm went off, but her arm was UNDER THE PILLOW. UGH. so we made it in time to get into MK, which was not full yet. Then her parents decided to split before we even got in the park, and they left a very angry roommate with me. Luckily, the thrill of being in disney for the new century overtook her, and she eventually had a blast.

But never again will I allow anyone else but myself to set up the alarm, and I will make sure that everyone is up in time. :brick:

 

[wdwishes2005]

But never again will I allow anyone else but myself to set up the alarm, and I will make sure that everyone is up in time. :brick:

i am a very heavy sleeper, i get a wake-up call, a cellphone alert, and the alarm and sometimes it still does not wake me up. usuallyy my wake up is from one of my realatives waking me up because i slept through the alarm.....

 

[MiRi]

I have gone to WDW with my best friend and her sister a few times and had a good time. But I think I won't go with them again... at least not for a while. Last time we went, I was a bit miserable.

1. I had met up with a friend of mine that I met on another popular Disney message board. I have known this guy for awhile now. I trusted him fully. I mean, I was 21 years old at the time. I am mature enough to take care of myself, right? Well, when my best friend's sister saw that I met up with my friend, she was giving him these weird looks, as if he was from outer space. Yea, he's a different kind of guy, but he's a great friend and a wonderful person to hang around with. I really felt bad for him because I felt like if he was feeling uncomfortable.

Later on that day, my best friend told me that her sister was saying that never to do that again and bla bla bla.

2. I was annoyed at MGM. I love One Man's Dream. I am such a hardcore Disney fan like we all are here. I have to go in there when I am at MGM. We all know it doesn't take long to walk through the exhibit and you can always skip the video if you want to. Well, it was hot and I said, "Let's go to OMD." They were all complaining that it was boring and whatnot. I am like, "Well, it doesn't take a long time. Just a few minutes. If you want, you can wait outside or do something else." They went in... but they were complaining the entire way through. Not that I was being selfish, but I would do things with them that they wanted to do that I didn't really care much for.

3. We were planning on going again this year. I had planned for my bf to go with us. My best friend then tells me that her sister wasn't sure if it was okay if my bf could go with us. I was like, "I am 23 years old. Does she think she has to look out for me as if she was my mother?" I mean, my parents let me go to WDW with my bf alone. I ended up not going and just planning a trip with my parents and my bf instead.

I am not going to let this chic tell me what not to do. I am an adult and she's no one to boss me around.

 

[FanofDinsey1981]

2. I was annoyed at MGM. I love One Man's Dream. I am such a hardcore Disney fan like we all are here. I have to go in there when I am at MGM. We all know it doesn't take long to walk through the exhibit and you can always skip the video if you want to. Well, it was hot and I said, "Let's go to OMD." They were all complaining that it was boring and whatnot. I am like, "Well, it doesn't take a long time. Just a few minutes. If you want, you can wait outside or do something else." They went in... but they were complaining the entire way through. Not that I was being selfish, but I would do things with them that they wanted to do that I didn't really care much for.

oh come on, that exhibit is NOT that boring. It is A/Ced, and you can at least be amazed by the models and pictures of the old parks. I am with you, I would have been annoyed too!

 

[polarboi]

I planned a trip with my girlfriend of 2 1/2 years, then we split up about a month before the date of travel. With an amazing lack of intelligence, we still went. Then I found out about an hour after arriving at the hotel that she was seeing somebody else and had to listen to her talk about how wonderful he was and listen to her sloppy telephone conversations for two weeks while we shared a room.

Oh my gosh... this exact thing happened to me, too! Only it was a guy and I found out just before our trip.

So I'm laying there in bed every night, trying to get to sleep early so we can be up before the crowds, and he's in the other bed on the phone going, "No I love you more... no, I love you more!" :hammer:

It was his first trip to WDW and yet he never seemed to get excited about it, even on the way there. And to top it all off, he got sick the day we arrived!

I did my best to enjoy everything in spite of it all, and I did. He didn't seem particularly interested in any of it.

His other relationship was short-lived. They broke up shortly after the return. Now he talks about how much fun WDW was and how he wants to go back someday. So I guess it's not all bad... but he's not going back with me!

-p.b.

 

[MiRi]

oh come on, that exhibit is NOT that boring. It is A/Ced, and you can at least be amazed by the models and pictures of the old parks. I am with you, I would have been annoyed too!

I know. I was so annoyed. They pretty much dragged me to RnRC. I am not a roller coaster lover. I felt sick when I got off the ride and didn't complain to them. Why couldn't they have spared me a few (peaceful) minutes? When they'd complain, I'd walk a bit farther up so I wouldn't have to hear them whine.

 

[Firewolfe51]

Oct. 2002. There for the MNSSHP. Traveled with my entire in law family, including SIL, BIL...and an 18 month old. SLOW, SLOW, SLOW. Can anyone say SLOW? Like a herd of cattle. Standing around and wandering aimlessly. Of course, we knew what we wanted to do and where to go. So it was a hinderance. Didn't matter what time they got up, it still took them hours to get ready. And who did they blame it on? The kid. Ridiculous, seeing as how the grandparents essentially took care of him. After a couple of days, we just said, "we've got our phones on, call when you get to park", and went on our merry way. Might have been rude, but jeeez! All in all, the trip wasn't a total bust, but no traveling with them again. Sorry! :brick:

 

[FanofDinsey1981]

Oct. 2002. There for the MNSSHP. Traveled with my entire in law family, including SIL, BIL...and an 18 month old. SLOW, SLOW, SLOW. Can anyone say SLOW? Like a herd of cattle. Standing around and wandering aimlessly. Of course, we knew what we wanted to do and where to go. So it was a hinderance. Didn't matter what time they got up, it still took them hours to get ready. And who did they blame it on? The kid. Ridiculous, seeing as how the grandparents essentially took care of him. After a couple of days, we just said, "we've got our phones on, call when you get to park", and went on our merry way. Might have been rude, but jeeez! All in all, the trip wasn't a total bust, but no traveling with them again. Sorry! :brick:

When I was a teen, my sister used to take FOREVER to get ready (she is 2 years younger than me). I tried to explain it to her, but no matter how much time she takes blowdrying her hair, hairspray, makeup etc.....her hair will get wet and sweaty, your makeup will run, and no matter how much smelly stuff you put on, you will still walk out smelling like you were out in Florida heat all day! I on the other hand, needed aprox 25 minutes to get ready. That includes eating, showering, and getting dresses/hair/teeth. and that is on a SLOW day for me.

I think my aunt somehow taught my sister. My mom's sister went with us once to WDW, and she is blast.....except for the part where she held up SEVENTEEN of us. Every morning. She took 30 minutes because her red bra didn't match, and she had to find a black bra.....30 MINUTES! That was one morning, there were several other issues too, such as her hair looked 'trampy', she needed 4 layers of sunscreen put on, and my favorite, she needed exactly 8 hours of sleep or she would be crabby. (that costs us an hour, I would have taken a crabby aunt instead of an hour less in the parks..)

 

[jacksnightmare]

Back in May I took my girlfriend and her 'friend' had envited herself and her boyfriend. This girl makes me angry just looking at her and to think that I had to spend an entire week at WDW with her. We took different flights but ended up on the same DME bus. THen she called 18 times within the first 24 hours. We went to World of Disney with them and if for any reason we split to look at something she was calling. I kept my mouth shut though. After day 2 my girlfriend got sick and she suggested that I go to Epcot with them. My response was "sure let me first just go stand on the ramp of test track so that one of the cars hits me." Right after I said that they showed up at the room and tried to get me to go with them, I had to lie a red streak to tell them 'no', and no matter what I would say they did not get the point. Then they were suppoed to go to Universal with us but could not afford it, but still managed to call us 8 more times while we were there. Finally I took the phone, turned it off, and told my girlfriend that if she calls anymore on this trip that the phone is getting chucked out of the ToT and we are changing rooms. I kept my peace for most of the trip and as some of you know I tried to ruin their trip before they even got down there.
A few months pass and we are with them for dinner or something, and my girlfriend let it slip that we are going in October again. The girl makes a comment about going, without thinking of what might come it shoots out of me 'cancel the trip I will never spend another day with you.' Needless to say everyone was taken back and the look of shock on my girlfreinds face was priceless. The girl, being dumber than a brick, just laughed and said something about how she loved traveling with me. By now I didnt care what I said and it came out 'yeah it is fun to travel with you too as long as your mouth is shut and you are not in the same park as me.'
Never go to WDW with someone that you cant stand

 

[joel_maxwell]

I planned a trip with my girlfriend of 2 1/2 years, then we split up about a month before the date of travel. With an amazing lack of intelligence, we still went. Then I found out about an hour after arriving at the hotel that she was seeing somebody else and had to listen to her talk about how wonderful he was and listen to her sloppy telephone conversations for two weeks while we shared a room.

Don't do it - trust me, it's not much fun. Many of those 14 nights were spent alone in PI hiding in the bottom of a bottle.

only on certain occasions does this get used, i mean only once a lifetime...... but i think that a slipage of Exlax in a cookie would have been in order. leaving recent photos out..... that is cruel and heartless to do that infront of you....... well, the exlax thing is as well. just watch out for kharma.

sorry to hear your story

 

[col]

my sister!

my sister! she was and is a complete pain!

my younger sister was going to wdw with a now ex-member of our family but they didnt go (dont ask me to explain) so because she was too young to fly by herself i flew with her as she was heartbroken and didnt stop crying because of what happened-but i was flying out the day after to surprise the family my sister my nan was paying £800 and i was paying £300 which was a cheap deal for a single person staying in a disney hotel, but because i flew with her i lost my money which didnt bother me coz it was my sister and i hate to see her upset by anyone. so anyway we get there and i sorted out our transfers to the hotel and all that. we went to MGM and i was getting the flu and i pulled out of going on rock and rollercoaster coz my head was spinning and pounding, so i tell her that i was going back the hotel and she starts swearing at me - i just ignored her as i didnt have the energy to argue- we get back to the hotel and i go asleep then when i wake up i went to the animal kingdom coz she doesnt like it there even though she has never been there before it just doesnt appeal to her but i love it there. so anyway everytime i saw her she was lying on her bed watching the tv while i was out everyday at the parks and doing stuff.

on the holiday she moaned non-stop about anything she got on my nerves i never saw her go the parks as she got on my nerves all the time i went everwhere by myself. she is a person who likes the sun to get a tan where as i am a person who makes the most of every holiday or any place where i am. but as i said before i hate seeing her upset by anyone but it is nice to have some peace and quiet.:wave:

 

[LouDisney]

Last year I went with 3 of my really close friends, two of them I have been to Disney with before and we always have a great time, but the other one I have never been there with her, actually she is a huge Mickey fan and had not been since she was 7, she was really excited. I thought this will be so awesome for her, NOT! I will never say never, but at this moment, I will not go with her again, if I can help it or have any say so in the matter. She complained the whole time, but in a nice way, get what I am saying? It was too hot and she was so tired and her legs hurt and when we would go into shows like It's Tough To Be A Bug or one of those where water may spray out, she would act annoyed, like she could not stand that and she was going to melt if she got wet. It was just too much for me. I kept my mouth shut, cause she was not going to get to me or ruin my good time or vaction, but there were several occasions that I had to turn my head and slowly count to 10.

 

[Tom]

I'm anticipating bad travel partners - next June. We're (my brother and I) are slated to attend the World with our Aunt, Uncle, Cousin, Cousin's Wife and their 3-yr-old Princess. She's a great little girl and I love her to pieces - but she's 3!!!!! She's smart, and talks well, and walks and runs and plays and uses logic and is very aware, but she's still 3!!!!!!

Plus, they plan on being about 3-mos prego with #2 at the time - WHAT?!?!?! Why in God's name would you plan an expensive trip with a 3-yr-old, while being Pregnant?!?!?!?! I just can't comprehend it. You can't ride half the stuff because you're pregnant, and can't ride the other half because of the 3-yr-old. Then you have to go to bed early, and sit down all the time, and take lots of potty breaks (for 3-yr and mommy). They're going to be the most miserable travel partners ever, which is why I'm trying to arrange a seperate group for bro and I to hang with - two couples we went to college with. MUCH better!

 

[wwwdtoday]

Friends Family

I went with my friend's family several years ago, when I was about 19. We were supposed to get 2 rooms which they were going to pay for at the Wilderness Lodge. All I had to do is buy airfare and park passes for myself. Sounded like a great deal. Well, my friend and I flew down to Florida and they drove. We meet at the hotel and found out that his parents changed there mind and all 5 of us were going to share a room, that meant I would get to sleep on the floor! So we all packed into the room, very wierd! That is not the bad part of the story. They are late sleepers, they would start to get up at 10:00 in the morning while I would get up around 7:00 to get a jump on the day. When they finally did get going they would want to go back to the room and watch preseason football. I love eating in the parks, but of course they did not - they would drive out and get something from a place called Crystals. Gross! I took them out a couple times to dinner (50 Primetime, Germany) just because it was nice of them to at least invite me. I spent most of the time by myself in the parks, at the pool, on the monorail. The best part of the trip was talking to my girlfriend and telling her the stories of what they were doing.

 

[FanofDinsey1981]

I went with my friend's family several years ago, when I was about 19. We were supposed to get 2 rooms which they were going to pay for at the Wilderness Lodge. All I had to do is buy airfare and park passes for myself. Sounded like a great deal. Well, my friend and I flew down to Florida and they drove. We meet at the hotel and found out that his parents changed there mind and all 5 of us were going to share a room, that meant I would get to sleep on the floor! So we all packed into the room, very wierd! That is not the bad part of the story. They are late sleepers, they would start to get up at 10:00 in the morning while I would get up around 7:00 to get a jump on the day. When they finally did get going they would want to go back to the room and watch preseason football. I love eating in the parks, but of course they did not - they would drive out and get something from a place called Crystals. Gross! I took them out a couple times to dinner (50 Primetime, Germany) just because it was nice of them to at least invite me. I spent most of the time by myself in the parks, at the pool, on the monorail. The best part of the trip was talking to my girlfriend and telling her the stories of what they were doing.

The least they could do is switch off who got to sleep in a bed! sleeping on the floor the night before you have to walk miles and miles around theme parks is not good! We had a situation where my cousins from georgia came down, and I somehow got stuck without even the pullout couch (at OKW, 2 bedroom). luckily we brought an inflatable matress, which deflated every single night, so by morning I was basically on the floor. I remember being sore and stiff walking through the parks the 4 days they were there.....not even my sister would switch with me, she got a bed every single night!