Tour groups

[am061598]

Could someone tell me what months tour groups invade Disneyworld? I was at Disneyworld July 2011 and had a bad experiences and I would prefer to not go through that again if I can.

[BelleLovesTheBeast]

There are always tour groups there. It used to be that they were mainly there in the summer months but I haven't made a trip in the past two years and not seen tour groups. It seems to be that they largest number of tour groups are there in the springs through the fall. I'd say Nov. - March is the least number of them. However, there are competitions that take place bringing in large groups of kids during those months. The first weekend of Feb. this year there was a cheerleading competition taking place in DHS so there were larges crowds of them then.

According to some CMs, Disney has addressed the behavior of some of the Brazilian tour groups with tour companies. If those are the tour groups that you had a bad experience with.

[am061598]

Yes actually I was referring to the Brazilian tour groups. Like I said, bad experience. That was why I was trying to narrow down when they come. I know there summer is our winter. But I was trying to see if May and October was a safe time.

[Uncle Servo]

In all fairness though, any large tour group can be disruptive. I've encountered groups from various nationalities/ethnic groups/organizations that just seemed to have forgotten how to conduct themselves in public. And it's not just teenagers either -- I've seen older groups be just as bad in their own way as the rowdiest of teenagers.

IMO, common sense would tell me that there has to be some sort of behavior policy warnings when it comes to group sales regardless of where the organization comes from. Of course you'd never want to have to kick someone out of the park for being unruly (let alone a bunch of people) but if someone's disturbing everyone around them sometimes that has to happen. Although merely the threat of doing so sometimes does the trick in and of itself.

Having said that, although I know I've seen tour groups at WDW during our trips over the past couple of years I don't recall any of them being overly disruptive. *shrug*