Sooooo....
1-Fantasmic....I hear it's a fabulous show, I don't actually know firsthand because we were not able to get in to see it even though we had reserve seats. This was truly the only thing in all of the parks that they dropped the ball on organizational-wise. There are lines and paths and special lines for everything...everything but this apparently. We had booked a special dinner package that gave us reserved seats for the show and all we had to do was get there 30-45 mins early. We did. There was no one there to direct us and after pushing our way through the crowds of people that were blocking the entrance we were told to turn around and go to the palm trees. Now at this point I have to point out that we were in Florida and ummm...there were palm trees EVERYWHERE!!!! We went to the closest ones and looked around for any Disney workers and found none and so we went to more palm trees nearby but found no one anywhere. By this time it was now less than half an hour to go to show time and we had been told earlier that they don't seat you even if you have reservations if you miss that time window. Needless to say I was not happy. We proceeded to customer service and they did give us a token gift card but I would have rather seen the show.
2-Our last night there at about 12:30am we started smelling cigarette smoke in our room. At first we thought that the door to our balcony had perhaps not been completely shut from earlier when the kids were opening it up, but then we discovered that it was coming in through the bathroom exhaust fan and filling the room. Now, Disney is non-smoking except in designated areas and every room had its own balcony or patio and it was nice outside soooo, why the heck did they have to smoke in their bathroom????? It took almost an hour before we could actually get security and the manager to confirm it was a problem and that while they couldn't go banging on doors, they would eventually find the people and fine them. Great...fantastic....we on the other hand only had to stay up until almost 4 trying to get the smell out of our room. Oh...did I not mention that the fan in our bathroom was on a motion sensor so it would only go on when someone walked directly under it and triggered it and that it only stayed on for about 3 minutes at a time....yeah...so we had to stay up continually running in and waving our arms to get it to go back on to get the smoke out.
They did offer us a late checkout....which would have been lovely had we been able to sleep in. Unfortunately when I got up at 7 to go to the bathroom I smelled it again as they were smoking in the bathroom again and this time it was worse and they were then using Lysol to try and cover it up! We immediately threw everything into our bags and demanded another room to go try and sleep some more in and to shower in as there would have been no point to showering in our bathroom after that. They did move us...after an hour and a half...but right next to the ferry which was by then up and running and letting off a VERY loud horn each time it docked or pulled away from the dock, not exactly conducive to sleep.
Yes, technically it was not Disney's fault that those people chose to smoke in their rooms, however....one would think with all the money that Disney makes they could have installed smoke detectors in the bathrooms and rooms that would go off so loudly it would definitely deter people from doing that...especially when they could just step outside -I think that is what burns me up the most...why didn't they just take one step outside of their rooms and smoke?
That's it.
Which, again, all things considered, that is pretty good that those were the only truly "bad" experiences that we had. Of course, you haven't heard the next category which I am still not sure of how to name because it's not "ugly", more of insane or crazy or totally whacko...I guess I have a day to figure it out:)
As for this week and today in particular-there was a Juniors meeting where we celebrated what a wonderful job the girls did with the World Thinking Day Fair and then they talked about an upcoming camping trip and did a craft and then they made me tear up with a very sweet card and a gift card to Target (yay-and I already spent it on a special edition dvd of New Moon and a very pretty Easter Shirt:) ) Tonight we had a nice dinner from our fave Mexican place and then did the shopping and then I helped Bella and her bff and bff's mom and brother and sister put together a marble roller coaster for the competition that is tomorrow.....yeah...that was...
Anyway-that's all folks for now,
So as always,
Blog ya later-
K
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