Originally Posted By 8 ilovemickey 8 My family planned a family vacation to Hawaii so I can't go on my birthday! So Disneyland please send me some money! Amazedncal2...I am finishing up my finals at 11:30 in Davis today and heading straight to Disneyland! Bummer about her having finals on her birthday!!!
Originally Posted By Dalia3001 I've been lurking through this thread, and though I think it's a bit odd for someone who's a travel expert to be offended by Disney enforcing their published rules, I can sympathize with the woman being upset. I got my first AP soon after completing a huge round of chemo including a bone marrow transplant, and was pretty much bald at the time I had my photo taken. My face was still sort of puffy from all the steroids and I didn't feel at all attractive. I was really looking forward to my trip to Disneyland. When I entered through the turnstiles I was wearing a hat and the poor lady checking my pass asked me if I would take it off. Saying that she "needed to check ..." and here I cut her off extremely rudely and most likely with tears in my eyes and said "if I'm really bald?" She looked really embarrassed, and I was humiliated and surprised that I had become so upset. It was an obvious thing that she needed to do to make sure that I matched my photo, and she was only following the rules, but it really got to me at the moment. I think being there and being excited to get in and have a lovely time is sort of a bit of pressure. You've gone through the trouble of arriving, getting whoever is in your group there with you, there's a lot of anticipation built up, and if something goes wrong I think it can be more upsetting than one would expect. I am a "grown woman," and generally am polite and handle myself pretty well. I try to treat everyone with respect and politeness and understand that those working at Disneyland have to put up with a lot. This is the only time throughout my treatment while walking around looking somewhat bizarre that I lost my cool, and I just think there's a bit more pressure in a situation like this than I was aware of somehow, so I think at least I for one should give the guy's wife the benefit of the doubt.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains From the other thread on this subject Darkbeer posted... >>Brady says: We specifically purchase the Deluxe passes in order to avoid the park on the busiest blackout days. We went to the park on Nancy’s birthday only to pick up the gift card. I never checked the blackout dates because we had no plans to go into the park. That was my mistake.<< So they went with no intentions of going into the parks - like it said in the article - they only went for free loot! She only went for a gift card. Had she gone wanting to actually go to Disneyland on her b-day would this article even be written? The gift card was only meant to be given out if you already had a valid way into the park on your birthday. Nancy did not and didn't intend on going in at all.
Originally Posted By mele Exactly. The promotion wasn't just set up so that the Disney Co could give people free money. It was intended to bring people inside of the park. The wife didn't get all excited for a fun day of celebrating in the park. She just wanted to twist the rules to get some free stuff and felt sorry for herself when she wasn't allowed to do it.
Originally Posted By cstephens TP2000 wrote: > And judging by the list of blockout dates Brady MacDonald posted in his blog, his wife has the cheapest AP available; the $134 SoCal Select Pass. He posted in a comment that they have Deluxe passports. Are there Saturdays blocked for that pass? Maybe over a holiday? Unless someone knows when his wife's birthday is. Dalia3001 wrote: > I can sympathize with the woman being upset. In your situation, even though the request from the CM was fairly innocuous in most situations, I completely understand why you were upset. And there was absolutely nothing that you did wrong. I don't think the blogger's wife's situation was anywhere close to that. They had no intention of going into the park. They went there for the sole purpose of getting her freebie gift card, a card she wasn't entitled to because neither of them bothered to actually pay attention to the terms of the promotion. In some situations, I could maybe understand where a $69 gift card could be a huge deal, a make-or-break, we get to do things with that money that we'd never be able to do otherwise. Going out on a limb, I'm going to assume that the $69 wasn't a make-or-break, life-changing amount of money for that couple. Dalia3001 - On a separate note, I'm sorry the CM ended up upsetting you, but I hope you had a good rest of the day. I've got one friend who has finished her chemo and is now doing radiation, and another friend who finished his chemo and will be doing his bone marrow transplant in the coming weeks, so I can imagine all that you've had to go through. /cs
Originally Posted By MomluvsDisney Dalia3001-I think your experience though is a bit different then the one written here. The um gentlemans wife was expecting a freebie for nothing..she had no intention of going to the park. She just wanted the freebie card. It sounded like she was upset at not getting her way...
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains <<He posted in a comment that they have Deluxe passports. Are there Saturdays blocked for that pass? Maybe over a holiday? Unless someone knows when his wife's birthday is.> Yes the Deluxe has 50 blockout dates... It's mostly saturdays through mid Aug and then some other days in fall including 3 days for Thanksgiving and the week from Christmas eve - NYE. https://secure-disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/en_US/ap/index?name=AnnualPassholderGatewayPage&appRedirect=<a href="http://disneyland.disney.go.com/disneyland/en_US/ap/gated/landing?name=AnnualPassholderLandingPage" target="_blank">http://disneyland.disney.go.co...dingPage</a>
Originally Posted By Dalia3001 Thanks for your kind words everyone, and yes, I did end up having a wonderful trip! Planning Disneyland trips did wonders for me throughout all my treatment, and that trip to celebrate it's completion was fantastic and I will always remember how much fun we have, even though I was too vain to take any photos other than that unlucky AP one, ha ha. The food and wine festival was going on at the time, and we really enjoyed ourselves. cs - I'm thinking good thoughts for your friends going through treatment. The bone marrow transplant was tough, but thankfully it seems to have worked, so it was well worth it! I just celebrated my second year of clean scans, only three more years to go until they call me completely cured and I don't even have to be scanned anymore. : )
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains Yes Mele - saturdays are currently blocked if you have Deluxe or below. I don't remember too many saturdays before March being blocked - probably more to do with the beginning of spring breaks and such.
Originally Posted By mele I think it's kind of funny that they went down there on a Saturday and expected everything to go smoothly.
Originally Posted By marypoppins3 This authors wife did not pay for a premium pass yet feels she is entitled to the same perks that a person who paid the extra money gets. Drop the sense of entitlement and realize you get what you pay for!! If someone offers you a "gift" don't ask for more. Some SO CAL and DELUXE passholders also whine when they don't get the 10 per cent discount in stores that PREMIUM passholders get. I was very happy to see a promotion that rewarded all Disney annual passholders in some way. As to no one wishing her a happy birthday.. that tells me that they were really not playing nicely. I wore a birthday button on my birthday and received enough "Happy Birthdays" to last a lifetime! LOL!
Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82 I have a Deluxe and the last Saturday I wasn't blocked out was March 7th. I'm blocked on Saturdays for the rest of the year. Once time we came on a Friday when we had SoCal passes. Got to the parking lot, handed them my pass since it has the parking stamp on it, only to be told we were blocked out. Yes, at first I argued and said "No we're not!" But the CM at the booth showed me a calendar and sure enough...we were! Did I cry and say it wasn't fair? No, we pulled around and left and felt stupid for not checking a calendar to see if we were blocked that day (turns out it was Grad Night in June). I didn't act like a big baby, I just made sure I checked the dates before I went from then on. In fact, we make a joke of it now. That lady needs to grow up.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros So if you have parking on a pass that doesn't include admission every day, you don't get to park on those days? In a way that makes sense, but it also kind of sucks that you would have to pay for parking and a blackout ticket, which would almost ammount to the price of a normal ticket.
Originally Posted By Liberty Belle What an incredibly whiny, self-obsessed couple! Hilarious story, though.
Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82 I never thought about that, Ferret (I've never gone on a block out day) but no, I cannot use my pass to park on a day I'm blocked from the park. However, it all depends on whether or not the CM at the parking booth scans your pass and is paying attention to the type of pass it is. I have friends who have gotten away with parking in there a time or two when they were blocked just so they could go to Downtown Disney. I never bothered trying.
Originally Posted By gottaluvdavillains I am sorry, but if you pay for a parking upgrade on your pass - it should be good everyday... you shouldn't have to pay for parking and a blockout ticket - or like you said, if you want to go into DTD...
Originally Posted By SleepingBeauty82 I kinda feel the same way but I guess it's their way of not overcrowding the lot. I personally don't mind all that much since parking is free for three hours at DTD and then you can get it validated. Plus we usually don't have a need for the structure unless we're going to the park. I was annoyed when I bought the parking at first but I pick my battles.
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Originally Posted By Stichy626 Funny-even the list for blackout dates at the end of the article is wrong.
