It's Brazilian Tour Group time again...

[darph nader]

Were these 'ladies' asked to leave?

[ktulu]

Well, as the penguins were leaving, 2 girls from a tour group flat out tackled one. Now I don't know if they were overexcited, or if they did it on purpose. In any case, they seriously hurt the performer.

Probably Private, he never see's it coming...

[turkeyham]

That's not good. To attack the characters is a no-no! Especially the ones that my sister collects.

I would hope that the gals got kicked out. Shame on them.

[ectomstr]

I've been a "guest" for the last few days at IOA and Epcot and yes. the brazilians are....annoying and in the way. got to listen to them chant and scream while trying to talk to my friends at IOA and totally enjoyed watching them plug up spaceship earth's exit to take pictures as well as sunshine seasons food court. I was sitting at a table against a pillar outside of soarin' waiting for my friends to finish riding when a group of young brazilan girls sat at the table next to me. it took one of them a long time to realize that by practically sitting at MY table, she was blocking whatever small walkway there was to begin with, with her chair.

[joanna71985]

Were these 'ladies' asked to leave?

I didn't stick around, so I don't know. I did see the 2 guys working with the penguin hurrying him off, so I'm pretty sure they didn't

[felinefan]

And here I thought cheerleaders were supposed to cheer only at games? Okay, I can understand being excited to be at DLR/WDW, but don't they tell those girls to shut up and enjoy their trip without making so much noise? Somebody needs to find those girls' cheer button and completely disable it. Or have them under escort at all times, with a strict no cheering, no horn-blowing, no being an SG warning. In my day, the cheerleaders I knew were upstanding citizens who would never think if doing their cheer thing in a theme park, or anywhere other than at a game.

[goofyjoe]

Wow, how long are those rooms going to be out of service? And are you going to allow them back?

I've heard through the grapevine that several of the Brazilian tour group operators have actually been totally banned from Disney Property. Any truth to the reports?

I'm not sure how the bans do / do not stop these groups from coming back with different leaders or under different tour company names, but one hopes that Disney's actions are somewhat of a deterrent.

I've heard the exchanges between the leaders and Guest Relations often go something like this.

SG: "We want 27 First Visit buttons, 9 Happy Anniversary buttons, and 14 Happy Birthday buttons."
GR: "I'm sorry, we can't give that many out to you."
SG: "But the people at the other park gave them to us!"
GR: "Great! Then you already have them!"

[February]

hey guys

just landed last night and i'm absolutely trashed- can barely type for the swelling in my hands but do i have a tour group story to tell you later.

thankfully not a vuvuzela in sight (or i should say earshot) the entire six days i was there and good thing or I might not have been able to control myself. I can only imagine they must have stopped allowing them into the parks. I don't think these teenagers suddenly just got polite.

I should say that for the most part- as inconvenient as it was to try to navigate around these folks (and I'm only one person not a whole family trying to) I personally saw only two or three groups that were really badly behaved- and there were dozens. They were excitable, some chanted a bit- the biggest thing that was annoying was the groups of boys running the wrong way through crowds, I narrowly escaped being knocked to the ground more than once (and those of you who have met me know i'm hard to miss- 5'10 with a crutch- it's hard to claim you didn't see me).

Aside from the one really bad experience I had (which thankfully a hero cast member made right for me- that's the story i'll tell you guys later) I think the worst part was the bus situation. I talked with one guest who said he nearly came to blows with a tour group leader because the man held up that flag on a stick thing and said that the family couldn't board the bus because the man's entire tour group hadn't boarded yet. They were actually parking busses side by side the other night outside one of the parks (I forget which, it's all a blur) to take groups because it was so bad.

I had to turn around and get off busses four times this week because there were no empty seats (they were packed like sardines most of the time) and if I tried to hold on I'd only fall on somebody and injure myself and others.

I had a wonderful- wonderful trip thanks to the cms but as far as visiting this time of year another time?

Two words. Never. Again.

~bru

PS: I do not know how you guys do this all day every day all year around. Again, I salute you. You must be something more than just human.

[turkeyham]

I wonder what the Orange County Fair does with these groups?

Bru, I am sorry you had to deal with them. I saw a few groups today, but they did not reach my cart.

I wonder how bad these groups are if they visit Las Vegas? That would be bad.

[elfuddo]

BTRR and Pirates went 101. I was on a break, felt the quake and did see both attractions evacuate. Pirates did come up first. When I left, BTRR was still down. 18:30 pm.

I went to South Coast Plaza and there were plenty of the groups shopping.

As a non-CM,I am curious about what a 101 is.