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Old 06-21-2008   #28 (permalink)
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Re: Disney Dining Pet Peeves

I was hoping to have at least one post between my last one and this one.
After reading this thread, it seems that none of you really have any pet peeves about Disney dining.
The desire or compulsion to make ADRs 180 in advance is not a peeve, it's more like an obsessive compulsive disorder that makes you "have" to make those reservations as early as you can.

Here is a pet peeve. If I dine at Yachtsman's Steakhouse, but am not staying on Crescent Lake, once Epcot closes, I have no way to get directly back to my own hotel, short of hiring a taxi for $20 or I'm stuck either driving my car to the Yacht or taking a bus to DTD and changing buses there to get "home".
One night I ate at Narcoossee's and finished my meal very close to 11 PM. I was staying at the Contemporary so you'd think I'd have no problem getting home. Well, MK closed at 9 PM and the monorail was shutting down for the night 2 hours after the park closed. There was no launch I could grab back to MK so I could walk the rest of the way and if I hadn't just made it to the monorail platform at the GF, I would have missed the last train of the night and would then have been forced to do the two bus thing and go all the way to DTD even though I could see my own hotel because there isn't even a walkway that extends from the GF to MK.
Another time, we had 9:30 reservations at California Grill and were staying at the Yacht. We weren't seated until 10:20 because so many people refused to leave their tables an hour after they'd finished their meals so they could watch Wishes. There were so many guests with reservations from 9:15-9:45 that guests were sitting on the floor waiting for their tables because the bar was packed and the waiting area was also packed. We didn't finish our meal until 12:30. If we'd been seated anywhere close to our reservation time, we would have finished dinner by midnight and would have been able to get a bus from the MK. We weren't worried about getting home because a Disney Transport CM told us that buses would be running from the MK until 1 AM. MK closed that night at 10 PM.
They weren't and again, we got stuck having to pay $20 for a taxi so we wouldn't have to waste an hour going to DTD to change buses for the Yacht.
THAT IS A PET PEEVE!
IT'S NOT NICE TO STRAND GUESTS AFTER THEY'VE FINISHED AN EXPENSIVE DINNER!
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