Comments on: Epcot

By: Erica

Erica — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 20:29:17 +0000

Epcot is my favorite of all the parks! I think I could go daily for 3 weeks and still not have seen it all there. Sorry you had a bummer time. Hopefully, you’ll get back some (dry) day and have a great time!

By: KEZ

KEZ — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 18:30:58 +0000

As a native Floridian (though not from Orlando), I concur that it wasn’t a hurricane. My rule of thumb for Florida weather is that a) It usually rains really hard for 20minutes-1hour and then stops abruptly every day in the summer and b) Florida weather doesn’t like to follow rules-of-thumb and will do whatever the heck it wants to.

Soarin’ is by far my favorite Epcot ride! I could go on it a million times if the line wasn’t so dang long! The Nemo thing is awful, it replaced a really awesome under-water (10 thousand leagues, perhaps….can’t remember) ride/attraction that I used to love as a kid. Or maybe I just grew up and it really wasn’t wonderful either.

The countries are neat! It’s the best food Disney offers (which still isn’t terribly authentic, sadly) but some countries tend to be randomly closed. There is no rhyme or reason to it, it just is.

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 15:45:34 +0000

As a resident of Orlando, I can promise you what you experienced was not a spontaneous hurricane lol. It was our typical summer showers. We get that monsoon pretty much daily from about…. April/May until Sept/Oct. If we don’t get it.. the weather ppl start to get frantic and talks of ‘droughts’ and limited sprinkler use is all you hear. Florida summers consist of horrible humidity and tons of rain. You’d think the rain would help, but nope.. it’s even more humid AFTER it rains. It sucks and this is just 1 reason why I can’t stand living in Florida.

Personally, I can’t stand Disney or anything Disney related. Though, that could be because I’ve lived 20 min away from Disney for the past 26 years and when I was young, my parents tortured us with Disney every. single. weekend. for 2 yrs. As a 7 yr old, you would think I loved it. And I did.. for the 1st 6 months. After that, my brother and I would beg NOT to go.

To me, Epcot is kinda cool. It’s more educational than anything really. Oh and Universal.. yea.. they aren’t as ‘chipper’ as Disney employees. I think 1 reason is b/c Universal doesn’t stress it as much as Disney. I had a friend get fired from Disney because he didn’t ‘smile’ enough. They seriously are like the Smile Nazi’s. No matter WHAT happens, you smile and make the guests feel like they’re having a magical time.. even if there is a serial killer running around killing everyone. YOU. MUST. SMILE. It’s pretty crazy…

I still haven’t made it over to Harry Potter though. I hear it’s pretty cool… maybe 1 day.. before I die.. I’ll go. lol

By: Courtney

Courtney — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 13:10:24 +0000

It rained really hard when we went to Disney when I was a kid. We ended up riding this boring tram over and and over and over again all afternoon… I think it was called the Segway People Mover or something like that. It was a mini-monsoon. I guess that happens in Florida?

By: Southern Gal

Southern Gal — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:00:33 +0000

It was a crazy day yesterday so I missed the post. Besides, I think you might just roll your eyes and think, “Wow. Here she is again,” when you see my name on your comments.

One day if ever I visit Disney ever, ever again, I’d like to know these things.