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Pamy

Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 07:27 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Goddess...did the cust serv rep really say 'sucks to be you'???? I would have slapped her!!
I think you should write the manager of the hotel and send them this rant, tell them it is all over the internet and you are hoping to be able to post an acceptable reply letter from the managemnt!!

I went to Disneyworld and had a great time but I went with someone that WORKS at Disneyland, so we got to see and do everything(even behind the scenes stuff that only employees get to see)for next to nothing.

I KNOW Disney trains their people to bend over backwards for their guests, I hope the substandard people you dealt with will be fired.
Let us know if you receive a response(also I can probably get you the address to write to if you need it, my disney worker friend is going there next week)

Egbok

Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 09:58 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Did I say I wanted to go to DisneyWorld in Orlando?....if so, SLAP ME!!

Juju2bigdog

Tuesday, August 12, 2003 - 10:43 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Uhhhhh, GAL? I was in Orlando in April. I got a room at the Marriott on Priceline for $22. It was REALLY nice. I think you better let me and your cuz Schoolmarm plan your vacations from now on.

Verrry nice rant, by the way.

Twinkie

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 12:03 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Great rant, GAL! Its too bad you got such a bad deal. I've had tons of relatives who've stayed at WDW resorts and had nothing but good things to say. I personally have only stayed at the Polynesian and it was fabulous. And Disney goes out of their way to make people happy. I think you must have gotten a bum deal from your tour agency and I'm sure if Disney hears about it they will be dropped like a hot potato. In the 25 years I lived with Disney I never had a bad experience. Since you had booked a room at a Marriot and when you got there it wasn't a Marriot why didn't you start screaming right then and there with the tour company?

Whoami

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 12:13 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Hey GAL, I found a website for Disney's Port Orleans Resort.

About halfway down, it has what looks like a message board, so you can post your experience.

Looks like they are all positive, so if you post your negative one, who knows if it will stay there. But, just thought you'd like to see it.

Disney's Port Orleans Resort

Juju2bigdog

Wednesday, August 13, 2003 - 11:15 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Excellent work, Whoami!

Reader234

Friday, August 15, 2003 - 02:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Good golly Ms GAL!! I wanted to rant about phones, but there's no way I can compete with that!! YIKES!! (and I stayed in a Marriot, very pricey, in the midwest but for a hockey tourney, and I got the same type of reply "sucks to be you", oh how frustrating, since we were with a "team" we couldnt pick up and leave!! We had broken everything, I made the manage come to the room with pad and paper to RECORD EVERYTHING!! Broken lights, toilet seats, clock radios, and that was before we got in.. did we get acknowledged NEVER!! Did I write? Yep, and I thought I knew how to complain, but it fell on deaf ears (and I apologize to all my hoh friends!!)

My disney experience went much better, we booked thru American Express travel, I told them it was our first experience, I had a family of 4 stay on the orignal hotels, the one the tram goes thru... eeesh... anyway when we got there, we were booked in one of the outer buildings, and like you said its a maze to find it, well it may have helped i was very PG at the time, they kept sending stuff to our room - baskets of fruit, flowers, gift certificates etc, they were very kind!!! They even complained to AMerican Express for not sharing some info, and AmEX sent us disney dollars!!! 7 years ago tho, things seemed to have changed!!

Twiggyish

Friday, August 15, 2003 - 06:38 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Rant one: My daughter's friend broke her arm (in two places) and foot in summer camp yesterday. The poor little girl is in a lot of pain. =( The child is in a wheelchair for a while and will be in it when school starts.

Rant two: Newspaper put the wrong announcement in the paper today about an upcoming event, and our phones rang off the hook. I had to field the calls. Needless to say, the switchboard operators were not pleased.

Twiggyish

Friday, August 15, 2003 - 06:51 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Rant three: Our new neighbor's Rottweiler barks all night.

That's it for now.

Squaredsc

Friday, August 15, 2003 - 06:59 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
awww twiggy. do they let the dog inside at nite? im sorry bout your daughter's friend and that she witnessed it.

Twiggyish

Friday, August 15, 2003 - 07:10 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
No, they keep the dog out on a chain in front of their house with the garage door partially open. They have acreage so why don't they build a nice big fenced in yard or bring the dog in at night..but NOOO..they keep it chained out front. (My thought)

I know it's hard. My daughter has a tender heart. She did talk to her friend tonight and I think that helped.

Alegria

Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 03:33 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Did the little girl fall out of a tree? Poor kid. As far as the newspaper event thing, could you temporarily change your phone message to briefly explain the newspaper's mistake and redirect (your calls will leave messages and you can screen). The third thing is quite disturbing as well. I wouldn't feel safe living next to such a large and potentially irritable breed. I am not a dog expert by any stretch but think that dogs who are tied up are more excitable. That puts neighborhood kids at risk. Twigs, since bad things run in 3s, you are probably going to sail through the rest of the year
:)

Twiggyish

Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 06:45 am EditMoveDeleteIP
Alegria, the girl (a good friend of my daughter's) at summer camp fell while playing volleyball. All the kids (including my daughter) saw her fall. She didn't look like she fell very hard, so it was a surprise to find out she broke both her arm and foot!

The dog in the neighbor's yard is harmless. He's not frightning, just annoying. I think he's bored being chained all day. I might suggest something to them.

The newspaper announcement was at work (a large place) so they can't change their number. But, that's a good idea.

Reader234

Saturday, August 16, 2003 - 06:52 am EditMoveDeleteIP
(wish I had gal's power with words!)

COMCAST!! (and me!*g) I lost my phone # I had for 14 years!! WHY? Well, we have comcast internet/cable and comcast phone, I paid the bill (discovered late in the game I paid cable TWICE!! same amount mind you!) THen had the audacity to go out of town!! The phone bill was due July 28, I called, they said if I paid in cash at a location 1 HOUR away, it would be ok, well can I go Aug 5? Yes... SO I did, even gave them extra thinking it would soften the blow (well, actually they arent allowed to give CHANGE, could they have said that? Oh and they gave me hours that WERE WRONG!) Sigh, still no service, so I call, 20 minutes in the loop of press this number for that, I'd get a service rep and asked about reinstalling my service.. sorry cant do that WE GAVE YOUR NUMBER AWAY!!! WHAT??

And there's nothing I can do, because the number is gone, and they were wrong, but they HAVE to make a house call to give me service, NOW why??? THEY didnt make a house call to DISCONNECT! GRRRRR! double GRRRRRRRRRRRRR

AT&T wireless service... dh and DS's are on a trek in New Mexico, I've been carrying around the cell phone - trust me, its been 2 weeks, I'm lonely!! I GET A BEEPING telling me I have a message!! WHY DIDNT IT RING??? Blast it, and dh's message is, so wrong, he knows I've got the phone, he knows he was just routed to my answering message, but he says for some reason the pay phone took 100 MINUTES from his calling card!!

This is SO not good!! Now he's scheduled to get on a train, and I wont hear from him again, (4+ hours on a train, with a bunch of teenage boys!!)I'm heading over to AT&T... I hope tHEY can be of "help"!!

Bonnyswan

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 07:20 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I got home yesterday afternoon to find that my mouse no longer works....so the first thing I do is call Gateway for help. The woman on the other end tells me my warranty is up and gives me 2 options of alternate help....the first being a 1-900 number that charges 2dollars a min that goes on my phone bill...the second charges to a credit card. I try the 1-900...IT IS NO LONGER A VALID #!!!!! So I proceed to try the second number...give my card # and wait 45 mins for anyone to come on the line. Finally someone does and walks me through 20 mins worth of things "to try"...while Im waiting for Windows XP to reinstall he tells me to call back "if that doesnt work"....It didnt! ...So I call back (waiting only 30 mins on hold this time around) I get the same guy who has me try even more stuff sometimes even doing the same thing twice. He keeps me on for another 30 mins and then we get disconnected. At this point Ive spent over $120.00 and have gotten ZERO satisfaction. At this point I rely on my own common sense and send my hubby out for a new one. After playing around with it a little I get the new one working fine. Why would the guy not recommend this from the start? Or at least after his ideas werent working....I am SO disgusted with the lack of service I got, I fully intend to complain to the powers that be and request I be responsible for only half the charges...I consider this to be half my fault for not realizing this guy was clueless and half theirs for taking advantage of my blind faith in him and them as a company.Grrrrrr

Twiggyish

Sunday, August 17, 2003 - 11:06 am EditMoveDeleteIP
I don't understand why they charge the customer for CUSTOMER SERVICE!

Midlifer

Tuesday, August 19, 2003 - 09:51 am EditMoveDeleteIP
HOW ABOUT HMO's??????? My hubby's RX for acid reflux is no longer covered by our health insurance. They are telling him to just take Tums, even though acid reflux can lead to very serious problems. ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! Why do insurance people think they're doctors????????

Ladytex

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 01:35 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
My #1 son went to register for Community College last Monday. There were advertisements everywhere saying come in and register, blah, blah, blah ...
What they didn't say was that for freshman they had to fill out an application, send an application fee, and wait. So he does that and finally they let him register today because of computer problems, rectal cranial inversion problems, etc. Well when he goes to register, they have no freshman english classes available. You would think that they would realize that many, many freshman take their core classes at CC because it's cheaper and set a schedule accordingly. Obviously these people have not taken that into consideration ... sigh ....

Wargod

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 01:56 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Ah Lady, welcome to CC. The English classes here are the most difficult to get into and usually take a couple semesters trying before you finally get one. Here though freshman are the only ones with an advantage since they have first shot at registering.

They raised the tuition here. Ours went up $7 a unit, which isn't bad at all compared to state and private colleges and universities, but they did it after everyone had registered and paid for classes and now they have 11,000 students having to pay the extra money within 30 days or they'll be dropped from classes. This doesn't effect me this semester since I'm not taking any classes but I know I'm not the only one who is living on a budget and would be struggling to find the extra money.

Hippyt

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 02:48 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
rectal cranial inversion problems????? I have no idea what that means,but it sounds very unpleasant.

Lancecrossfire

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 02:50 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
head up rear.

Twiggyish

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 03:00 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
ROFL!!!

Zachsmom

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 03:04 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
I want to complain about some virus that is trying to infiltrate out system. I keep getting emails that our virus detection system caught and disabled the virus/worm. At last count I was up to 100 emails for this. Add to the fact that my boss is out of the office today and he forwards all his emails to ME I have double the amount of these emails. I feel like turning my email off but I can't :( I would like to pinch the head of whoever thinks this is fun to create a virus/worm to destroy other peoples computers. What type of bonehead thinks costing people time and money believe this is cute/fun? grrrrrrr

Resortgirl

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 03:16 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Zmom, I got at LEAST that many too!! I don't know what the heck is going on! Let me know if you find out how to keep it away!

Twiggyish

Wednesday, August 20, 2003 - 03:25 pm EditMoveDeleteIP
Oh geez.. how annoying!