I haven't updated in what seems like forever. I turned 29 over the weekend. I didn't want a big hoopla surrounding it, but it just so happened it fell on the weekend I would be in Disney. Now I spend a lot of time in Disney World. I am a fanatic, and not just for the parks, but the hotels as well. I have actually gone for a weekend and not gone to the parks. Every year I buy a seasonal pass which allows you access to all the parks year round with some black out dates. The black out dates only apply to the busiest times of the year, so no beef there. Now I always go and I always get impeccable service. So when I went this weekend, I received disappointment after disappointment.

     First to start with my girlfriend had planned all of our dining for the weekend. She was all excited because we were both going to be dining in a place we had never eaten before. It is called Gulliver's Grille and is based on the story of Gulliver's Travels. So anyhow I will try to make this as short as possible. We sit down in a nearly empty restaurant and I notice most of the tables around us are messy from the previous occupants. Then a waiter came over and took our drink order. A few minutes after another person came to take our drink order. So we told him we already placed it and he left. While we are waiting for our drinks we overhear several tables complaining to the manager about the service and the food. Then we receive our drinks a few minutes later. Then approximately 20 minutes goes by. The tables still haven't been cleaned and our order wasn't taken. Now I must mention that they were not short staffed, there were numerous people wandering around aimlessly. So we bitched to the manager and got our drinks for free. We then left and he offered us a free dinner and we politely declined. So we left and it was about ten and all the restaurants in the hotels were closed. So we were reduced to eating at the food court at our hotel which is the equivalent of eating in the high school cafeteria.

     That was day one and we were upset a bit. Now I have no complaints at all about the first half of our second day. Even the weather was perfect for my taste. It was in the 50's and it was misting out. Not a full rain, but if it wasn't Florida I would have thought it was going to snow. Things went well until dinner again. We got great service, but the food sucked. I mean real bad, and I don't usually complain about food. I am not picky where that is concerned, but it was barely edible.

     So now we move onto the third day, I am trying to move it along for the sake of my readers (if I have any). We get up and go to breakfast at the place we usually go. That was good, but when we go back to our room to make sure everything was out we got a surprise. The air was on full blast and the clock radio was blaring. Neither of which we left on. So we checked the room and noticed a funny smell. The unmistakable smell of smoke, the evidence of two cigarette butts which was in our toilet. So we immediately called housekeeping. Well I say we and I mean my girlfriend. She was livid. We had already encountered a bunch of crap on this trip and were pissed. So she called and bitched to them. Now usually when Disney hears you are upset they are right there with the free stuff to give out. Now I don't know this from experience, because I have never had a bad time there until now. I do know people who have complained about stuff and they gave them free nights in hotels or free tickets to the park. They weren't budging and told us there was nothing they could do.

   So after that we just went to MGM studios. There we encountered several employees whose second language was English. Now that is usually unheard of in Disney unless you are in EPCOT in the countries. I have also never encountered an employee without a smile on their face or not have the answer I needed. I encountered all of them on this trip. I asked an ice cream vendor where the Narnia exhibit was and he shrugged and said, "I don't know." I was flabbergasted. Then when we finally found the Narnia exhibit, there was an announcer there. The man murdered the English language repeatedly. I had trouble hearing him. Now I expect this sort of thing in a mall in Miami. Not in Disney world. It just seems to me that they have cut all the jobs from the  people that were there a while. Simply to cut costs, and hire a bunch of immigrants so save money. People that don't give a shit about their jobs.

     Now maybe if they just spent less money on their endless shitty movies and direct to video sequels they could concentrate on their theme parks. I mean every time I go there, there is at least 30 more Tinkerbell trinkets than the last time I was there. I mean how much of this crap do we need? All I can say if this is what I am going to be getting from Disney in the future then I can just stay in South Florida where nobody has the answers and nobody speaks English. Now don't get me wrong, I have no problem with people speaking another language, but this is America. Learn English or go the fuck home. Don't ask me if I habla espanol. Then when I reply no give me a look of surprise on your face.