Please let the "wonderful children" gods shine on us.....

[mom2val]

The only time we have ever dealt with kid noise was at AKL. Kids running up and down the halls and talking really loudly early in the morning and late at night.

 

[maxiesmom]

Ask for a room on the top floor. Those seem to be quieter for a couple of reasons. First, the stroller brigade usually wants to be on the ground level if at all possible. Second, you won't have any kids jumping up and down on your head!

I agree with the posters who stated POR is a quiet resort. I have found it to be too! All the chaos seems to be contained to the main feature pool area and the main buildings. The rest is peaceful and beautiful.

 

[eliza61]

Add me to the "no flames crowd". As much as I love and adore my kids, I equally enjoy "adult" only time. my dh & I try to eat one meal at Shulas as they generally don't encourage children (no kids menu).

I find that most people don't have a problem with kids, most people have a problem with adults who refuse to discipline out of control kids. remember any time you see a kid running around like a tazmanian devil, there is usually an adult allowing them to do so.

 

[jedizim]

Stay in the Cabins at the campground...then you have NO hallways, NO connecting doors, NO one sharing a wall with you.

 

[SharonZ]

Here's what I don't understand - if kids annoy you so easily why in the world would you put Disney World - probably the vacation site with the most children ever, during a cheerleading competition, at a value resort, for your vacation? Aren't you just setting yourself up for disappointment?

Because as a single adult, I love Disney World too. Maybe the OP's work schedule dictates when she can go on vacation and she doesn't have much choice in the matter. I don't think she is setting herself up for disappointment, many people have stayed at the value resorts during POP Warner and haven't experienced any problems.

 

[DisneyMomx7]

Because as a single adult, I love Disney World too. Maybe the OP's work schedule dictates when she can go on vacation and she doesn't have much choice in the matter. I don't think she is setting herself up for disappointment, many people have stayed at the value resorts during POP Warner and haven't experienced any problems.

The reason I question it is her statement that she is EASILY annoyed by kids. Picking a hotel where cheerleaders are going to be there, when so many people have posted that they can be a problem practicing cheers and getting louds, seems to me to be a poor choice.

Not flaming anyone who enjoys a more adult vacation at Disney but be realistic. Disney World is filled with kids. Pick a resort more "adult" such as CSR. I think if someone is so easily annoyed they are setting themselves up for disappointment for pick a hotel that is usually overrun with kids.

 

[ChristaDeVil]

No flames here.. but I am strangely compelled to tell you how wonderful my kids are Seriously, they are really nice, well behaved considerate people. I wouldn't want my vacation ruined by someone elses screaming or rude kids, so I don't let mine do it to someone else. Simple as that.

My thoughts exactly. We've always had this approach with our son, and he's a pretty well-behaved 9 year old, if I do say so myself. Absolutely no flames here!

 

[LSchrow]

Here's what I don't understand - if kids annoy you so easily why in the world would you put Disney World - probably the vacation site with the most children ever, during a cheerleading competition, at a value resort, for your vacation? Aren't you just setting yourself up for disappointment?

my impression is that OP is like us, and many other adults, that simply enjoy all WDW has to offer (not everything there is focused on children only).

in the EPCOT area, we found the BWV/BWI and YC pretty quiet. however, our stays at BC/BCV included being awakened at from 5-6AM by loud noise in the hallways (kids yelling at one another and to their parents, parents yelling to their kids at the other end of the corridor, etc). forget a quick nap, or going to bed before 11PM either.... add in the high noise level in the lobby and at the pool (while at the YC, we use the beautiful, serene quiet pool) and we won't be back there.

other less noisy resorts include the GF, CSR, FW, AKL, OKW, SSR.

 

[kaligal]

If you want an adults only vacation, you have selected the least likely place to have it. Why go to kiddie heaven and complain about kids?

I'd love an adults only hotel (or floor, too.) I hate being awakened by children whose parents allow them to bump and yell and scream down the halls.

I despise listening to parents who have no control over the kids constantly trying to get it. "Ryan...Ryan...come here, Ryan. Stop that. I mean it. I'm going to count to three...1...2...3...Ryan! Come here!"

Much rather listen to Ryan banging his toy on the ground than Ryan banging and his dopey mom counting.

But this is what you get at Disney World. You know it is going to be that way. Kids will yell. Kids will bang. Some parents will stop them. Some won't. Some can't, but will keep trying.

You can avoid it in the hotel by renting a vacation home (which will be nicer and cheaper!), but you can't avoid it in the parks. A friend and I made a game of counting how many parents we heard demonstrating their ability to count to three. In line at Test Track we heard one and I said, "Is that seven?" No, it was not. "Eight," she said. It was fun. We joked about getting t-shirts with numbers on them and handing them out to people.

You can joke about it. You can whine about it. But you can't avoid it.

If you know all this in advance and still go, just find a way to deal. Don't go and complain like it was something you totally could not foresee. That's nuts.

 

[Pakey]

We are adults only too and the only time I'm bothered at WDW is the running down the hotel hallways with loud voices so early in the morning. I've only stayed deluxe with interior hallways and that noise really comes into the rooms. I always request (and get) an upper floor and I don't think it makes a difference--they are just so excited to get to the parks.

 

[patclairesmom]

Annoying kids annoy everyone..they annoy my kids also. I've been known to call the front desk if there is any noise at all after 10pm. My experiences at Disney are adults with thier kids in the quiet pools @11pm and at POFQ, adults in the hot tub partying it up.

 

[drew64]

Why pick on kids!

Noisy adults are just as bad and usually louder and more obnoxious than any kid.

Sorry, I totally agree DW is for anyone and everyone, but if I am looking for a quiet vacation, thne DW is not the right destination.

 

[LuvLuvLuv]

you should try the yacht club.... so quiet, not many kids at all.

 

[princessmom29]

No flames here. I have a 7 year old DD and I DO NOT allow her to run wild. It really bothers me when others do. I am coaching my DD's cheer squad this year and it is really bringnig home to mme that everyone's definiton of "acceptable behavior" is different. Things I refuse to put up with don't even seem to phase the other coach or soem of the parents. Others seem to really be bothered by the rowdy behavior, not paying attention to the coaches, and just generally running wild that goes on. I frequently have to tell my DD "but YOU know better."

 

[MikeandReneePlus5]

At the risk of getting slammed and banned I will say that DH and are off again for yet another try at the perfect adult vacation to DisneyWorld. Still wishing I could book into an adult only hotel or wing, still going to bring my earplugs so the little darlings don't wake me up at 6AM raring to go see "Meehee Mouse", etc. We will be at Wilderness Lodge for the 3rd year in a row, have asked again for a room facing the quiet pool on the main floor, and after last year asked to please not have a connecting door! lol

I have had 2 days off since last Christmas and I am so soo soooooo hoping to come back and tell you all it was perfect!

Now please, lets not start the flaming and slamming that got what was for the most part an excellent discussion thread shut down in July. Its okay to disagree, even passionately disagree, but be polite...okay?

Just make sure that if you have a good spot for a parade, you let children who show up at the last minute stand in front of you...it is so nice to do.



Joke! It's a joke people! Calm down....

 

[lklasing]

Stay in the Cabins at the campground...then you have NO hallways, NO connecting doors, NO one sharing a wall with you.

That's exactly what I was going to say. The cabins are the quietest place to stay on property, in my opinion.

 

[Snape]

Everyone knows that Disney should give priority to the kids so adults even bothering to go there is a bit of a condundrum.

 

[Coconuts]

Wouldn't that be heaven...a quiet adult Disney trip! Don't those darn kids realize that some of us adults love WDW even more than them? Now back to reality.

I've been on both sides of it: my kids have been loud and annoying (as much as I try to control them) and I've been bothered by other kids. Like another pp said, that's just part of Disney.

Hope your trip is fun!

 

[Lillian Gracey]

Here's what I don't understand - if kids annoy you so easily why in the world would you put Disney World - probably the vacation site with the most children ever, during a cheerleading competition, at a value resort, for your vacation? Aren't you just setting yourself up for disappointment?

Because I haven't been to Disney World in almost 11 years and I love Disney. I want to spend my 21st birthday there. I know there are gonna be lots of kids running around being obnoxious, but I'm going to find that anywhere. I'm not setting myself up for disappointment if I try to ignore them. I'll be too busy having fun myself anyways. I'm sorry I can't afford to stay in the more expensive hotels. If I could, I would. I just don't have that kind of money. I'm only 20 years old. Maybe I will see if I can try and get a mod.

The cheerleading competition is only for 1 1/2 of the days I'm going to be there, so I will try to avoid the parks that they will be competing at those days. I will be up early anyways so they aren't going to be really bothering me with their cheering.

I'm gonna have to suck it up and deal with it. I'm going to be around kids my whole life so I have learn to deal with it and what better place to learn than Disney World.

Add me to the "no flames crowd". As much as I love and adore my kids, I equally enjoy "adult" only time. my dh & I try to eat one meal at Shulas as they generally don't encourage children (no kids menu).

I find that most people don't have a problem with kids, most people have a problem with adults who refuse to discipline out of control kids. remember any time you see a kid running around like a tazmanian devil, there is usually an adult allowing them to do so.

This! This is exactly it. I do enjoy kids when they are good, but not when they are running around doing whatever the heck they feel like and the adults who let them do whatever the heck they feel like.

 

[clanmcculloch]

Because I haven't been to Disney World in almost 11 years and I love Disney. I want to spend my 21st birthday there. I know there are gonna be lots of kids running around being obnoxious, but I'm going to find that anywhere. I'm not setting myself up for disappointment if I try to ignore them. I'll be too busy having fun myself anyways. I'm sorry I can't afford to stay in the more expensive hotels. If I could, I would. I just don't have that kind of money. I'm only 20 years old. Maybe I will see if I can try and get a mod.

The cheerleading competition is only for 1 1/2 of the days I'm going to be there, so I will try to avoid the parks that they will be competing at those days. I will be up early anyways so they aren't going to be really bothering me with their cheering.

I'm gonna have to suck it up and deal with it. I'm going to be around kids my whole life so I have learn to deal with it and what better place to learn than Disney World.

The competitions are not in the parks; they're in the ESPN Wild World of Sports complex.

The problems that people encouter with these competitions are not in the parks; they're at the resorts. Specifically Pop Warner is known for lack of supervision from adults, drunk and rowdy adults, late night and early morning cheer practice, fights between football teams and other rowdiness and loud, rude behaviours at all hours. If you can change to a value other than ASSports then I think you'll be much happier.

The only time we've had any problems with other guests at a value resort is 2am loud drunken swimmers (something that can happen at any resort) and people who propped their door with that lock and then let it bang shut as they came in and out of the room around midnight (also something that can happen at any resort). We have been able to hear young children crying through connecting doors but generally we can also then hear parents trying hard to sooth those young children and it simply doesn't last long. The majority do seem to try to keep their children under control and try to be considerate of those around them. It's the minority who we hear about though and it's truely luck of the draw as to who will be near them.

One last thing. You don't need to apologize or explain yourself. People who don't want to be disturbed by unsupervised children have as much right as anybody else to enjoy WDW at any time that works for them. I don't want to be disrupted by unsupervised children either and I do have and like kids. I'm very tollerant of most things; just don't wake me up at night and don't put me in any danger and don't do anything offensive in my presence. I don't think that's a lot to ask and I think you're really just wanting something similar which is totally reasonable IMO.