Efterling v Disney Land Paris

[MyUserName]

"Nous avons acheté ces bons dans le cadre de notre réservation, nous pouvons les utiliser dans les restaurants sur la route? Nous avons utilisé nos hôtes ceux là, mais ils ont refusé celles midi donc nous sommes un peu confus sur le système"

Sorry, why did you translate that into French? Did you think that my point was that French language could not reproduce this sentence and it was the fault of this particular restaurant cashier?

However having said that you could have that problem at Alton Towers and speak in English and get the same slack jawed look...

Well, I guess that is true.

[original PM]

Sorry, why did you translate that into French? Did you think that my point was that French language could not reproduce this sentence and it was the fault of this particular restaurant cashier?



Well, I guess that is true.

Well you said it was difficult! But no not trying to argue just sometimes the French are just that 'French' and they do have their own take on customer service that is all...

In addition any of the people at EuroDisney will speak some English but as you said it was quite a diffiuclt comment to translate from English to French - thus the cashier might have had trouble understanding what you mean... as she/he was just expecting you to pay/ maybe ask how much...

that is all

[MyUserName]

Well you said it was difficult!

It was ... in the situation described. Obviously I could do it right now very easily. I could have done it very easily at the time if I spoke good French. The fact that something is easy in a different situation does not mean it is not difficult in a different one.

But no not trying to argue just sometimes the French are just that 'French' and they do have their own take on customer service that is all...

At no point have I made that argument. I just said that the customer service in ED is poor in my experience.

In addition any of the people at EuroDisney will speak some English

No, they won't. I have experienced it first hand - see ... well the exact example we are currently discussing.

but as you said it was quite a diffiuclt comment to translate from English to French - thus the cashier might have had trouble understanding what you mean... as she/he was just expecting you to pay/ maybe ask how much...

We did not get as far as seeing whether she could understand the sentence (although you make a fair point that they might have struggled to understand it in their second language had we got that far).

Mrs MUN asked her in French if she spoke any English (we knew she did as we had spoken to her in English previously, we were just being polite) and she replied (in French) "Yes, do you speak French" and when Mrs MUN tried to explain in French that she did not know the French for what she wanted to ask the cashier simply shrugged and stared at her. We then had to try to muddle the sentence together for a few minutes whilst she stared at us and a large queue formed behind. Luckily Mrs MUN just gave up, I would have just stood there trying different words until I got my meaning across or the place shut.

Another cashier in a merchandise shop just shrugged and pointed at a different queue (after I had spent a good ten minutes getting to the front of this queue) when I asked in French whether he spoke any English. After that he simply looked away until I left.

[oracleslave]

TLDR .

If only you looked more like Karl Pilkington, you could've been on the telly!

[MyUserName]

If only you looked more like Karl Pilkington, you could've been on the telly!

Hey, who says I don't!!!!????

[oracleslave]

Hey, who says I don't!!!!????

You're an Idiot Abroad and I claim my butlins loyalty card :-)

[MyUserName]

You're an Idiot Abroad and I claim my butlins loyalty card :-)

I'm not abroad anymore - wait - what?

[NotAllThere]

Europa-Park - way better than Disneyland Paris.

[original PM]

It was ..snip ntil I left.

Maybe they just did not like you!

But yes that does seem like you found the 'Jonny No Stars' of the Eurodisney world

[MyUserName]

Maybe they just did not like you!

Well, it wouldn't be the first time!