What do you expect from a billion dollar corporation? “Happiest place on earth” is a corporate slogan. All their children’s programming is designed to sell product. You want to be happy? Get off this manufactured BS and go hiking, camping, beach, in a National Park. Develop your own imaginations, reading/writing/painting/music skills.
Be your own entertainment. Real memories, not manufactured happiness. Its just lazy consumerism to fill the void of being a corporation loving zombie.
Chadimus: if you think Disney is so awful, why are you wasting your time reading about it? Do you somehow think it is your mission in life to persuade people to not enjoy Disneyland? Let people enjoy it if they want to.
Whine, whine, whine. While it may be disappointing not to have the view, that wall isn’t some ugly random sheets of used plywood. If the ride is closed for refurbishment, logic suggests that at some point it will have a wall of some kind blocking guests’ view of the ongoing work. I choose where I eat based on the food, so if there is some change like this I still got what I came for, dinner.
This doesn’t surprise me. Disney World was a big disappointment to our family six years ago. Long lines , outrageous food prices. The only thing we enjoyed were the events we paid extra for, like Cinderella’s Royal Table and Bippity-Boppity Botique. We have other grandchildren but won’t be taking them there. We’d never go again!
Progress and improvement takes time and can be painful to watch. If we don’t have progress, then you will complain about how it needs to be improved! Don’t you look at walls in most other expensive restaurants? Why must people complain SO much?
Sounds like a bunch of self-entitled BRATS! The walls are NOT ugly as someone mentioned, and hopefully the food is the same. IF you only go so you can see random people going by on boats, then you are your own problem, go sit at It’s a Small World and eat a sandwich. SMDH
To be honest, I’d cancel my reservation as well. Not because of the screen, but because the fantasy of being part of a Disney ride would be ruined. I have pleasant memories of the times I’ve eaten there, so I hope Blue Bayou will return in the future.
I mean the restaurant is the only place to get good food inside so I wouldn’t cancel my reservation.
On our last trip to Disneyland I was lucky to walk by and was told I could walk in and get a table. I was told usually reservations must be made months in advance. The quality of food is so much better than anything else in the park that I would tolerate seeing a bank toilets instead of the wall to eat there.
It’s a restaurant. You go to it to eat. It’s so dark inside that there really isn’t much of a view anyway. And if the refurb helps to get rid of the swampy smell, all the better.
That “swampy smell” is from the bromine that gets added to the water in the ride to help keep it clean. I can guarantee that smell will still be there after the refurb.
This isn’t the first time the Pirates ride has been blocked off because of refurbishment. Or the restaurant itself being closed for the same reason. I’m looking forward to seeing what is new and what if anything hasn’t changed.
There’s no work being done on the ride itself, they’re removing sick trees, there’s no reason to put the wall up. Let the diners have their view. I’m so sick of construction walls.
Grew up going to WDW several times a year. When the kids were younger we took them several times until Disney stared pushing the guy stuff. Not very kid friendly. Disney needs to have a hard good look at who made them and how they are turning there backs on us. Very small potion of the population is gay or a tranny .
A gay man made them who they are: Howard Ashman is the man largely responsible for starting the Disney Renaissance. He wrote the lyrics to songs like Under the Sea, Be Our Guest, and Friend Like Me. Without a gay man, you wouldn’t have Disney classics as you remember them. Though we tragically lost him very young, he set the tone for many future Disney films to come. Understand what you love before you attempt to comment on it.
We just left Disney. We had dinner at the BB the last night before last. It was my first time there. The food choices seemed minimal. Initially, I ordered the kid’s chicken plate. The chicken came so dried out it was HARD. The broccoli was almost raw. If this plate had been served to my child I would have been pissed. Now, props to them, when I showed the waiter, he had my meal replaced. It was good, no complaints there; other than hubby had almost finished by the time my food arrived. As to “The wall,” it didn’t bother me at all. I would have liked to have had the whole experience, but it was fine. Progress/change happens, Disney has to work around the rides…no big deal. All in all, I enjoyed myself very much.
Comments for Disney Restaurant Left In “Awful” State Before Closure, Guests Cancel Reservations
Chadimus
What do you expect from a billion dollar corporation? “Happiest place on earth” is a corporate slogan. All their children’s programming is designed to sell product. You want to be happy? Get off this manufactured BS and go hiking, camping, beach, in a National Park. Develop your own imaginations, reading/writing/painting/music skills.
Be your own entertainment. Real memories, not manufactured happiness. Its just lazy consumerism to fill the void of being a corporation loving zombie.
YvonneNC
Chadimus: if you think Disney is so awful, why are you wasting your time reading about it? Do you somehow think it is your mission in life to persuade people to not enjoy Disneyland? Let people enjoy it if they want to.
Jack
Yvonne exactly good point
Jack
Chadimus Then don’t go to Disney every person that works in the parks is highly trained it’s not manufactured
Sandra G
Whine, whine, whine. While it may be disappointing not to have the view, that wall isn’t some ugly random sheets of used plywood. If the ride is closed for refurbishment, logic suggests that at some point it will have a wall of some kind blocking guests’ view of the ongoing work. I choose where I eat based on the food, so if there is some change like this I still got what I came for, dinner.
Sheeba
This doesn’t surprise me. Disney World was a big disappointment to our family six years ago. Long lines , outrageous food prices. The only thing we enjoyed were the events we paid extra for, like Cinderella’s Royal Table and Bippity-Boppity Botique. We have other grandchildren but won’t be taking them there. We’d never go again!
Joem
Then why follow a Disney Parks page?
G
Very solid point
Melissa
There is no such thing as “Bippity-Boppity Botique.”
YvonneNC
Progress and improvement takes time and can be painful to watch. If we don’t have progress, then you will complain about how it needs to be improved! Don’t you look at walls in most other expensive restaurants? Why must people complain SO much?
Christine
Sounds like a bunch of self-entitled BRATS! The walls are NOT ugly as someone mentioned, and hopefully the food is the same. IF you only go so you can see random people going by on boats, then you are your own problem, go sit at It’s a Small World and eat a sandwich. SMDH
CJA
To be honest, I’d cancel my reservation as well. Not because of the screen, but because the fantasy of being part of a Disney ride would be ruined. I have pleasant memories of the times I’ve eaten there, so I hope Blue Bayou will return in the future.
Andy
I mean the restaurant is the only place to get good food inside so I wouldn’t cancel my reservation.
On our last trip to Disneyland I was lucky to walk by and was told I could walk in and get a table. I was told usually reservations must be made months in advance. The quality of food is so much better than anything else in the park that I would tolerate seeing a bank toilets instead of the wall to eat there.
Dawn
It’s a restaurant. You go to it to eat. It’s so dark inside that there really isn’t much of a view anyway. And if the refurb helps to get rid of the swampy smell, all the better.
franklin
That “swampy smell” is from the bromine that gets added to the water in the ride to help keep it clean. I can guarantee that smell will still be there after the refurb.
Melissa
I love that smell! It really adds to the rude experience.
Melissa
“Ride” experience, that is!
Cathy
This isn’t the first time the Pirates ride has been blocked off because of refurbishment. Or the restaurant itself being closed for the same reason. I’m looking forward to seeing what is new and what if anything hasn’t changed.
Leeann Jacket
There’s no work being done on the ride itself, they’re removing sick trees, there’s no reason to put the wall up. Let the diners have their view. I’m so sick of construction walls.
David
Grew up going to WDW several times a year. When the kids were younger we took them several times until Disney stared pushing the guy stuff. Not very kid friendly. Disney needs to have a hard good look at who made them and how they are turning there backs on us. Very small potion of the population is gay or a tranny .
Kat
A gay man made them who they are: Howard Ashman is the man largely responsible for starting the Disney Renaissance. He wrote the lyrics to songs like Under the Sea, Be Our Guest, and Friend Like Me. Without a gay man, you wouldn’t have Disney classics as you remember them. Though we tragically lost him very young, he set the tone for many future Disney films to come. Understand what you love before you attempt to comment on it.
Peggy van steen
There’s a lot of people and alot of supporters of the LGBTQ community
Deanna Dawson-Jesus
We just left Disney. We had dinner at the BB the last night before last. It was my first time there. The food choices seemed minimal. Initially, I ordered the kid’s chicken plate. The chicken came so dried out it was HARD. The broccoli was almost raw. If this plate had been served to my child I would have been pissed. Now, props to them, when I showed the waiter, he had my meal replaced. It was good, no complaints there; other than hubby had almost finished by the time my food arrived. As to “The wall,” it didn’t bother me at all. I would have liked to have had the whole experience, but it was fine. Progress/change happens, Disney has to work around the rides…no big deal. All in all, I enjoyed myself very much.
Melissa
Maybe it looks worse in person? From the description I was picturing bare plywood or something, but I thought it looked OK in the pictures.
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