Brazilian Tour groups

[xo0ally]

I know the answer will probably already be yes....but does anyone know if in July all the Brazilian tour groups will be there like usual?

Thanks!

[Strmchsr]

Yep. In fact it's supposedly going to be a record year for South American visitors coming to WDW.

[CajunDisneyDad]

Thats just great.... Look I know they have just as much right to be there as anyone...but most of the interactions I have had with them has been bad... oh well. Its a vacation lol, and its Disney World, not Disney USA lol. Maybe this will be the year I wont almost get run over by the tour groups, or get nasty looks from them because I wont let them cut in front of me for soarin...

[UCJen]

Is there a time of year these tour groups typically visit?

We have been going the 3rd week of August for the past 6 years and we never see any tour groups, except for local schools/day care facilities doing day trips.

I keep reading horror stories about these tour groups and I'm a bit worried.

[Dyanna]

We vacationed from Jan 8 -15th this year & the Brazilian tour groups were out in full force. Was not aware they had a 2nd round during the summer.

[Melanie]

Yes, they are typically there January and July.

[DisneyDINK]

We vacationed from Jan 8 -15th this year & the Brazilian tour groups were out in full force. Was not aware they had a 2nd round during the summer.

Same here. I was there the following week in January. I really noticed the big groups the first two or 3 days and then they were virtually gone.

Does anyone know where they stay? On property? Off? Values? Deluxes?

[LovinWDW]

that's about all I can say.

[jenperich]

DH and I went to WDW last October and one particular Brazilian group was EVERYWHERE!! It must've been a music group because certain kids always had a tamborine! While standing in line for BTMR they played it constantly while other kids jumped in and out of line. Where are the castmembers when we need them?

[Aurora]

They don't bother me. I just steer clear. And the chanting doesn't bother me either. They're just excited to be there. (Actually, sometimes I think we Americans are so buttoned-down, cluck-cluck-ish that we could stand a little ruckus now and then.)

As far as line-jumping, hopefully if the CMs are preparing themselves, they can take care of the situation when it happens.

Alissantos, as others have said, I think you would see the same complaints about any large, vocal teen groups that come to WDW at the same time. People don't mean to be disrespectful to Brazilians in particular. If chanting Genovian teens traveled in large groups with a flag leader, believe me, there would be posts about Genovian teens.

[K8screen]

I think the responsibility lies with the adults in charge of the party. If the kids are made to understand how annoying queue jumpimg and chanting are to others, and if the group leaders made some attempt to stop them, instead of ignoring it or even joining in, I think the kids would be more cooperative.
I have taken parties of teens to DL Paris, they understood the need to behave themselves, and we had no problems. We didnt make them travel about as a large group, I think it must be awful to have to go on rides you are scared of or into stores you are not interested in, most of our pupils toured with 2 or 3 like minded friends, some staying with me by choice for all or part of the day, because they said I was a Fastpass and WDW expert. They mostly loved discovering things on their own, then meeting up with others to swap stories and advice on the best rides.
Our pupils spoke no more French than the Brazilians speak English, but they manged fine, and anyway, as others have said, the problems with tour groups are not confined to none US parties.

[Dragongirlx]

I live and work in Edinburgh and used to work in the Museums and the Scottish Parliament. We used to have really big problems with tour groups but it was never just confined to groups from one country. No matter what country they are from when bigs groups get together they can cause problems (even when they don't mean too).
What helps is staff in the places they are visiting and the people in charge of the group working together to make sure that everyone knows the rules and what kind of behaviour is not acceptable. This works for the majority of groups.
Of course there are always those who will misbehave no matter what. When I worked in the parliament we had one group of Italian students try to steal the bolted down seats in the debate chamber. Turns out they had been banned from the airline they flew in on for stealing the life jackets under the seats. The group leaders just couldn't handle them all.

[MickeysEars]

we just got back from a 2 week trip and there were A LOT of tour groups. We saw all 20 kids get on the single rider line for Test Track and made the wait go from 10 to 30 min. All we did was when we saw a large group of brightly colored shirts go one way we went the other. No problems though, not really a big deal.