DizneyMommy
Every Day is Disneyland Day!
- Joined
- Sep 3, 2007
I don’t even have the words for what today has looked like at the park. Disheartened, disgusted, frustrated. The way that the blogger/vloggers and personals shoppers have affected the parks for families is just ugly. I have NEVER seen it this bad or to this extent. First day of Christmas and most of the holiday offerings were gone from the mobile order system in the first 30-60 minutes of park opening. Some locations held back some inventory for standby but the lines were excessive and no guarantee it would still be there by the time you got to the front.
Everywhere we looked were people sitting with a multitude of food dishes photographing them with phones on tripods, recording their vlog, taking up space and supply to make money off the parks at the expense of families there to enjoy their visit. The personal shoppers and eBay sellers carrying huge shopping bags full of popcorn buckets and sippers.
My kids look forward to sampling treats on the first day of Christmas and to not even be able to get anything for this reason is just super disappointing.
Aside from that, it’s like some bizarre dystopian world with all of the people walking around with phones or cameras on gimbals recording themselves talking. Seriously put the dang thing down while you walk! Some of us are really freaking tired of getting bumped into by you or having to watch a parade or fireworks through your camera screen.
While I place a hefty amount of the blame on people greedily reselling items or trying to make money off blogging about the parks, Disney could have mitigated some of the issues.
One item per admission. Period. Scan the ticket, no more for you.
Don’t put a large bulk of the popular treats in one location, spread it out already! Jolly Holiday was ridiculous. People used mobile order prior to the park even opening to order one of everything, thus completely wiping out the days inventory. Too easy for them to clean out the items if it’s all in one place.
Crack down on the dang selfie sticks, tripods, gimbals and extended microphones. It’s pretty obvious what they are doing.
I really hate to let these people alter the way I visit, but honesty this was not the enjoyable start of holiday tradition we’ve had for the past 25 years.
Everywhere we looked were people sitting with a multitude of food dishes photographing them with phones on tripods, recording their vlog, taking up space and supply to make money off the parks at the expense of families there to enjoy their visit. The personal shoppers and eBay sellers carrying huge shopping bags full of popcorn buckets and sippers.
My kids look forward to sampling treats on the first day of Christmas and to not even be able to get anything for this reason is just super disappointing.
Aside from that, it’s like some bizarre dystopian world with all of the people walking around with phones or cameras on gimbals recording themselves talking. Seriously put the dang thing down while you walk! Some of us are really freaking tired of getting bumped into by you or having to watch a parade or fireworks through your camera screen.
While I place a hefty amount of the blame on people greedily reselling items or trying to make money off blogging about the parks, Disney could have mitigated some of the issues.
One item per admission. Period. Scan the ticket, no more for you.
Don’t put a large bulk of the popular treats in one location, spread it out already! Jolly Holiday was ridiculous. People used mobile order prior to the park even opening to order one of everything, thus completely wiping out the days inventory. Too easy for them to clean out the items if it’s all in one place.
Crack down on the dang selfie sticks, tripods, gimbals and extended microphones. It’s pretty obvious what they are doing.
I really hate to let these people alter the way I visit, but honesty this was not the enjoyable start of holiday tradition we’ve had for the past 25 years.
