Cheerleaders in December??? About This Page:

[Dopey007]

I am hearing bits and pieces about bunches of cheerleaders being at the All Star Resorts the first week of December! Has anyone experienced this and it is ok? I wonder if I should change hotels!!!

Janet

[Tinkerbelly]

I have heard that too. But I can't say that it's true.

[sakana]

Sounds noisy to me!!

[Luv4My4]

Ok I should just type this response out and just cut and paste it everytime someone asks this question.

I stayed at POFQ in December 2002 when the Pop Warner football players and cheerleaders were there. They usually stay at the value resorts with some runover at at least one moderate. The ones who were at POFQ were loud!!! They were in the pool screaming until 3:00 a.m. most nights (we paid extra for a poolside view ) Unfortunately I did not notice a whole lot of supervision either, they really were running wild, I actually had to push one cheerleader out of the way while she was running looking back over her shoulder (as gently as I could) so she would not barrel over Katie who was 2 at the time. The cheerleaders also cheered EVERYWHERE even while they were walking through the resorts (and the parks). I noticed them most at the pool and when they were all gathering to get the buses to go to the parks or to their games. If you can I would change resorts, it wasn't the most pleasant Disney resort experience I ever had. Calling Guest Services wasn't much help because they said they couldn't really do anything about it.

[Crystal]

Yup, that would be the Pop Warner group that goes every year for their competitions. I've been at both PO-R and PO-FQ at the same time as them on different years. At PO-R, the only time I noticed them was in the food court at breakfast. Otherwise not at all. Last year, though, they were pretty visible at FQ, practicing cheers and the boys playing football on the opsn grassy space. There weren't all that bad, not something that's going to have a huge impact on my stay, but I like to plan around them when I can.

[TravelingTots]

Here's a post I started several months ago about the Pop Warner crowds and their impact on the parks and hotels...
Pop Warner Impact On Crowds

[lindawdw]

I'm going December 1-4 of this year. Will they be there during that time?

[Tinker-Tosh]

Someone posted on Disboards that PopWarner will be going on from 12/4 to 12/9. Looks like you won't see much of them.

[Lilyian]

We were there last year at that time. We were a few days at ASM and then at Pop Century for longer. We saw cheerleaders all over the place, but they were very well behaved and we did not hear noise from them.

There will also be cheerleaders there at the beginning of March. My daughter just joined a competition cheer squad, and the national competition is held at Disney 3/9-3/14. So, I guess we will experience firsthand how the cheerleaders behave...although I would certainly hope that our little girls act exemplary! I think a lot depends upon parental supervision. The kids should have the manners to not be loud at night, but the real fault is the parents who don't make sure their kids behave properly.

I know that when we were there last winter (as a family, not as a cheer squad), a lot of guests were discussing their dismay at checking in and finding it full of cheerleaders and football players. Everyone was saying, though, that they were pleasantly surprised at how quiet and well behaved they were.

[Luv4My4]

I just have to add that most people say that the cheerleaders and football players were well-behaved. I must have had a rowdy bunch at my hotel that year.

[KandJluvdisney]

good luck in whatever descicion you make.

[Eeyore Tattoo]

Lucky us! We check out on the 3ed!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Deb

[graygables]

We were at WDW during the Pop Warner thing in 2003, but we were at GF/AKL, so never encountered them at the resort. We did, however, have a few unpleasant encounters in the parks, but it was the MOTHERS and not so much the girls. One mother/chaperone had her daughter in tears b/c she wanted fries with her lunch. It was a horrible thing to watch and I really wanted to just the woman. The girls tended to be typical giggly cheerleaders, but some (NOT ALL) of those moms, man...they served as a horrible warning what NOT to be like.

[daemonguy]

Thank goodness we'll be at BW this trip -- we should be able to avoid them entirely.

[mac]

We ran into them in December 2000 at POR. They were no problem, but definitly noticeable as they seemed to travel in packs. My cousin who met us down there was actually on a plane full of Pop Warner cheerleaders which he said was not the most pleasant experience !