My last trip was October 2019.I am a DVC owner sitting in my room at the Boardwalk, my home resort. I came on Friday by Sunday I wanted to go home. Our check out is this Friday. I have been coming to disney since 1986. Its now Monday and we are going home in the morning. I have not written on The Dis for so many years that I had to re-register but seeing this post just makes me sad and I’m so sad. I always say I drop my troubles off at the gate with Mickey and Minnie and pick them up on the way out. Not this time….i Just got sadder and sadder.
I know some of this might sound picky and trust me!!!!!!!! In years past I vehemently defended disney to the people that complained about a chip in the paint or a grumpy CM…..but like the OP said…..you come to expect a certain standard. So first clue was a pile of cigarette butts in the corner of the villa deck. I really thought not to much of it at the time but then things just started…..the food…..a prime example….one of our favorite F&W festival treats….the meat and potatoes at France…usually nice cut pieces of beef with a nicely shaped dollop of mashed potatoes. Please try it…..it’s sloppy Joe at best, but reminds me more of toddler food. The eggs at Fresh I swear were powdered. Olivia’s 14oz prime rib, which I thought large was slopped on top of some cheese with a few potatoes in it…a few pieces of thick broccoli on the plate.
We used to get mousekeeping every 4 days, they said it’s every other day now….it’s now day 4 and it’s the first day we got clean towels….we did forget the tip the other day and remembered once we were in the park….strangely today we did leave a tip….do you only get clean towels now days if you remember your tip????
Then sitting on our deck I did notice the chips of paint…mainly because I missed seeing the painters that were always working somewhere. There’s a hole in one of the drapes and I also get the feeling that the extra mile is not being made….
we always go on the bike path, we bring our own bikes. Got to WL and he said you can’t get to the path from there as normal because of construction, we had to go to the campground to get to it….so we went to the campground…the guy at the gate said and I quote, “Well, that’s not going to happen. You can only get in here with a reservation, we’re full.” The big parking lot on the side was not full At all. Sorry to vent, but I’m sad….I miss PFTS and the chef luncheons and honestly don’t think they will bring them back….it was a highlight for us. So we are leaving an unheard of 3 days early. There’s just no pride in anything here anymore from food to magic.