MickeyWaffles
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Mar 28, 2010
Just had a great trip from Saturday until today (despite the rain!)
Some thoughts ...
-CMs: Our interactions with CMs were awesome this trip. One example: My 3yo DD has wanted to go on HM since our last visit in Sept. but completely freaked today in the FP line. The CM in the stretching room talked to her and really made her feel better. She settled down, went on, and loved it. I was ready to take her out of the line and this CM worked her magic.
-The only CM thing that was a little weird is that DD was never measured by a CM for SDMT on the day she rode it. She is about 38.5 inches. Head clearly hits the bar (we measured her with a CM at the ride the day before our FP to be sure she was tall enough - she was.) But the day we had the FP no one checked her! The CM at the front let her through and the loading CM didn’t pull her aside either. I was going to get a ceremonial photo I was very surprised she wasn’t pulled aside since they are usually pretty aggressive about it.
-Rain: Obviously the forecast for this week was pretty grim. Once I saw the words tropical depression thrown around I got a little nervous - this wasn’t going to be typical WDW summer afternoon rain. We prepared for the worst. We ended up experiencing much less rain than expected which was a nice surprise - saw way more sun than we expected. One note: someone stole our rain cover for our double stroller at Epcot one day. We moved on and tying ponchos over it worked just fine. Lesson learned - no more stroller rain cover! Too easy for an opportunist to take.
Crowds: The parks did not feel crowded on walkways/in open areas/etc. Lines were manageable. Rain did cause indoor attractions to be overloaded as you would expect but also cleared out the parks at certain times.
Overall a great trip ... can’t wait to go back!
Some thoughts ...
-CMs: Our interactions with CMs were awesome this trip. One example: My 3yo DD has wanted to go on HM since our last visit in Sept. but completely freaked today in the FP line. The CM in the stretching room talked to her and really made her feel better. She settled down, went on, and loved it. I was ready to take her out of the line and this CM worked her magic.
-The only CM thing that was a little weird is that DD was never measured by a CM for SDMT on the day she rode it. She is about 38.5 inches. Head clearly hits the bar (we measured her with a CM at the ride the day before our FP to be sure she was tall enough - she was.) But the day we had the FP no one checked her! The CM at the front let her through and the loading CM didn’t pull her aside either. I was going to get a ceremonial photo I was very surprised she wasn’t pulled aside since they are usually pretty aggressive about it.
-Rain: Obviously the forecast for this week was pretty grim. Once I saw the words tropical depression thrown around I got a little nervous - this wasn’t going to be typical WDW summer afternoon rain. We prepared for the worst. We ended up experiencing much less rain than expected which was a nice surprise - saw way more sun than we expected. One note: someone stole our rain cover for our double stroller at Epcot one day. We moved on and tying ponchos over it worked just fine. Lesson learned - no more stroller rain cover! Too easy for an opportunist to take.
Crowds: The parks did not feel crowded on walkways/in open areas/etc. Lines were manageable. Rain did cause indoor attractions to be overloaded as you would expect but also cleared out the parks at certain times.
Overall a great trip ... can’t wait to go back!