Originally Posted By Mr X Two posters have recently claimed that the Magic Kingdom is now, in fact, filthy. So, a poll seems in order. For fairness, let's only allow voting for folks who've been there fairly recently (say, since Jan 2006). Kindly make the vote a simple yes or no, along with the last date of your visit, and then post any comments in a seperate post so we can easily run a tally. And PLEASE, vote yes or no only, not "almost" or "not quite" or "no, with qualifiers" or any of that. If you can't decide between a simple yes or no, please just abstain from voting (but feel free to comment of course). I'll only tally up those posts which contain a simple yes or no along with date of visit. This should be fun.
Originally Posted By TDR_Fan I'm not going to vote, but simply making a comment. The Magic Kingdom was dirty my last visit, but not to the point that it ruined my vacation. To be honest, I thought Disneyland Paris was much dirtier and ill maintained. I've not visited after the 15th Anniversary though, so I do not know if these problems still exist.
Originally Posted By gmaletic I was last there back in January 2006 and didn't find it dirty in the least; in fact I was quite struck at how beautiful it looked. (Tomorrowland was a little beat-up, but 1) that's not new, and 2) that's the case at every Disney park.) I'm heading back in two weeks so I'll get an updated opinion on the matter.
Originally Posted By Mr X Care to vote now, gmaletic? You are eligible after all, and if you care to change your vote two weeks from now I think that can be arranged.
Originally Posted By bayrr326 Yes, it is filthy. They don't clean the Q lines the way they used to(Buzz Lightyear is one of the worst offenders) or the bathrooms.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 Filthy in itself is a very subjective term. Even when I've had major issues, very rarely would I say most of the park is filthy. Parts? Sure. Sometimes huge parts. I've had instances in the past 18 months where the Hub and Main Street looked like Dolphin Stadium's parking lot after a game with what the tailgaters left behind. I've literally had to jump over cheesburger baskets just left in the middle of Main Street USA. As to queues, Buzz Lightyear and PoC are routinely filthy and unkempt. Peter Pan usually can be counted on to have piles of trash where the moving walkway ends. Splash can be from time to time. Mansion sure was on its last day open in early June. Even bathrooms, while the Main Street ones have been filthy, the T-land ones (under the old Skyway station) are almost universally spotless. So you're really asking an impossible question. I will say that overall, the MK is far dirtier than it was a decade ago. And if it had been like this 25 years ago, everyone would have been fired in custodial and management. Really. But some days ... some lands ... some places ... it just differs. One person may visit in the morning when the chronic understaffing isn't as apparent and the park looks terrific, but when I show up at 7 p.m. the place looks like WWIII. So I guess I didn't help at all ... sorry!
Originally Posted By TDLFAN I think I have mentioned in the past when I have found the MK to be decently clean on any given visit of mine. Or vice-versa. And that is the problem with cleanliness at the MK and WDW in general. IT's NOT CONSISTENT.
Originally Posted By Skellington88 yes its filthy as hell...Why can't Phil Holmes and Inoverherhead meg croftmon do something about this place??? Can't they go to Tokyo Disneyland or even Anahiem and see how much cleaner and well maintained their magic kingdoms are? The florida park is an insult to Disney and seems more like "The Walmart kingdom"
Originally Posted By irishfan Spent 9 days at the World back in March, it was Spring Break, and I visited the MK on numerous occasions. I would never have described it as filthy. I was disappointed with some of the attraction queue lines though. Late in the day Pirates and Splash left a lot to be desired.
Originally Posted By Mr F YES Tomorrowland is covered in bird poo everywhere! Not my idea of the future@
Originally Posted By Inspector 57 Interesting that Spirit, a hugely vocal critic of WDW, can't answer the question as directed, but takes ten paragraphs to fail to do so. And that TDLFAN, one of the two posters who prompted this survey by saying that WDW is filthy, does not repeat that strong statement in this thread.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Yes - Dec 2006 But let me state, it is filthy by Disney standards, not real world. Personally I think it should be measured by Disney standards. I didn't notice it at first. But having travelled to DLP in June 2007 (a park that can be filthy too), it really highlighted it. DLP was sparkly in comparison. That's how I know it's gotten really bad. Odly enough Epcot, Dak and the Studios were clean, as were the resorts. It was the MK that was filthy, especially the floor (when was the last spray down? It used to be daily), the queues at Buzz and in Fantasyland, the tables in the counter service restaurants, and the restrooms. Even my MIL who has questionable hygene at times, and was in awe of the enormity of WDW (1st timer) noticed it.
Originally Posted By TDR_Fan <<I didn't notice it at first. But having travelled to DLP in June 2007 (a park that can be filthy too), it really highlighted it. DLP was sparkly in comparison. That's how I know it's gotten really bad.>> Wow, worse than Disneyland Paris? It *must* be bad then!
Originally Posted By Goofyernmost March 2006...No! I thought it looked very good. You do see an occasional napkin or tourist dropped items but those, I've notice usually have just happened. I have also watched CM's pick it up when they came upon it. The reason why, in the old days, it was found sooner is because they used to have additional staff that was there just to pick up the billions of cigarettes that were dropped on the ground and immediately swept up. Designated areas have eliminated most of the need for that.
Originally Posted By Doobie It's not perfect, but I can't think of any definition of filthy that would describe it unless you're just comparing it to itself years ago (in which case I don't know). So final answer - No, it's not. Doobie.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo Maybe we had bad luck. Perhaps the Pop Warner crowds and Christmas parade filming caught them by surprise.
Originally Posted By brotherdave June 2006 - No. Just about everything that we noticed was clean. The restrooms were all in decent shape when we used them, most of the queue lines seemed clean. The only noticeable areas of neglect seemed to be the TTA and the wall next to Space Mountain for the Railroad. Both needed cleaned up and painted. As for bird 'poo', there's not a whole lot that can be done about that. You could clean it every day and still have bird poo everywhere. I don't think it was that noticable, at least during our visit anyway.
