A few notes from our August trip:
1. 7-year old's shooter wasn't working well on TSMM. Ride workers were very understanding and let him have another ride after a few minutes of waiting. Much appreciated since he was a little upset about the whole thing.
2. Got stuck twice in the waiting area (once post-design and once pre-design) for Test Track after the ride went down. Communication was not great either time. It happens, but still was disappointing (especially with once being just after the park opened).
3. Booked a Boardwalk garden/pool room and was given a room with a big tree blocking the view. I hit the front desk button on the phone and had a very not helpful lady tell me that it's a garden/pool view if that's the room they gave me. I asked to be routed to the actual room assignment person at the hotel and she was extremely helpful and found me a new room (she had room-by-room notes on views, and very clearly the room I was given originally was shown as "blocked" view). They should do better about calling those standard rooms if they know the view is blocked, but other than the short inconvenience I was happy with how it was resolved.
4. 'Ohana was good as always, but they were even stingier than I remember. Only had 4 wings (for 3 people) on the noodle course and never offered to bring more. Then for main course they brought out the hot towels after one serving of each meat...I asked for more and was given more, but I think it's a little sketchy to try to push people along without offering more first (certainly it's not as easy/generous as a place like Fogo de Chao). Not a big deal and still very much enjoyed it, but not a fan of the clear rush job they tried to pull and don't remember it being quite that way in the past.
5. As noted on a standalone post I did, FOP was a motion sickness disaster for me. Similar to Mission Space: Orange. Cool ride though, and my 9-year old loved it a lot.
6. Rode Everest in a rainstorm and loved it. So fun.
7. I see what people mean now about the side seats on Soarin'. Now I know what a bendy Eiffel Tower looks like! And curvy pyramids!
8. Other hits: Frontera Cocina, new family raft ride at Typhoon Lagoon, Boma, HEA fireworks, Disney technology (app worked great, magic bands worked great, self check-in worked great), the entertainers out on the Boardwalk and the lifeguards at the Boardwalk pool (extremely pleasant during a short-term shutdown to clean the pool...apparently someone had an accident). Also worth noting that everyone at the parks/pools seemed in good spirits...no notable issues of people cutting lines or acting like jerks...everyone just trying to have a good time and generally being respectful of others (lots of people leave towels on more pool chairs than they really need, but we were always able to find one for our stuff).
9. Other misses: Boat horns from the room at Poly, new Mission Space: Green (boring for us), long wait at AK for bus service, parking at Boardwalk (entire front lot was designated for valet even though only maybe 20% of it was being used when we were there), express monorail was either down or delayed when we tried to use it (twice).
1. 7-year old's shooter wasn't working well on TSMM. Ride workers were very understanding and let him have another ride after a few minutes of waiting. Much appreciated since he was a little upset about the whole thing.
2. Got stuck twice in the waiting area (once post-design and once pre-design) for Test Track after the ride went down. Communication was not great either time. It happens, but still was disappointing (especially with once being just after the park opened).
3. Booked a Boardwalk garden/pool room and was given a room with a big tree blocking the view. I hit the front desk button on the phone and had a very not helpful lady tell me that it's a garden/pool view if that's the room they gave me. I asked to be routed to the actual room assignment person at the hotel and she was extremely helpful and found me a new room (she had room-by-room notes on views, and very clearly the room I was given originally was shown as "blocked" view). They should do better about calling those standard rooms if they know the view is blocked, but other than the short inconvenience I was happy with how it was resolved.
4. 'Ohana was good as always, but they were even stingier than I remember. Only had 4 wings (for 3 people) on the noodle course and never offered to bring more. Then for main course they brought out the hot towels after one serving of each meat...I asked for more and was given more, but I think it's a little sketchy to try to push people along without offering more first (certainly it's not as easy/generous as a place like Fogo de Chao). Not a big deal and still very much enjoyed it, but not a fan of the clear rush job they tried to pull and don't remember it being quite that way in the past.
5. As noted on a standalone post I did, FOP was a motion sickness disaster for me. Similar to Mission Space: Orange. Cool ride though, and my 9-year old loved it a lot.
6. Rode Everest in a rainstorm and loved it. So fun.
7. I see what people mean now about the side seats on Soarin'. Now I know what a bendy Eiffel Tower looks like! And curvy pyramids!
8. Other hits: Frontera Cocina, new family raft ride at Typhoon Lagoon, Boma, HEA fireworks, Disney technology (app worked great, magic bands worked great, self check-in worked great), the entertainers out on the Boardwalk and the lifeguards at the Boardwalk pool (extremely pleasant during a short-term shutdown to clean the pool...apparently someone had an accident). Also worth noting that everyone at the parks/pools seemed in good spirits...no notable issues of people cutting lines or acting like jerks...everyone just trying to have a good time and generally being respectful of others (lots of people leave towels on more pool chairs than they really need, but we were always able to find one for our stuff).
9. Other misses: Boat horns from the room at Poly, new Mission Space: Green (boring for us), long wait at AK for bus service, parking at Boardwalk (entire front lot was designated for valet even though only maybe 20% of it was being used when we were there), express monorail was either down or delayed when we tried to use it (twice).
