Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "The other thing to consider is the water at WDW. Have you ever drunk out of a water fountain in the MK? It tastes like swamp water." I bet it tastes better than the water in Anaheim. Bleeaach.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORGOCH: Come ta Morva an' drink the water here if'n ya really wanna' git sick!
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "I bet it tastes better than the water in Anaheim. Bleeaach." It doesn't. It's pretty awful.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt That's pretty bad then because Southern California water is pretty nasty. I must have had bottled water the times I was in Orlando, because I don't remember it being that bad.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros >>"I bet it tastes better than the water in Anaheim. Bleeaach." It doesn't. It's pretty awful.<< WDW's water tastes like you're in a rural area, drinking from their water supply. DL's water tastes like you're in a factory, drinking the water that they use to cool down the hot machinery. I much prefer WDW's taste to DL's, though neither are particularly great. Also, in general, I don't mind the taste of water in soCal. There are specific areas (like near my grandma) that are always especially bad, but overall it wasn't half bad. It just isn't as chic as fancy water from France, so a lot of people there are scared of it.
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I should also add that WDW has a ton of water fountains with chillers attached, so the water you get is actually cold. In Anaheim, there are only one or two of those in the parks, but they don't appear to help the taste of the water in either location.
Originally Posted By Jim in Merced CA In all the years I've visited Disneyland, I can't picture the location of one drinking fountain.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt The one that I always think of is the one in the Pirates queue.
Originally Posted By Yookeroo I like the one in Toontown. The effects are neat, but what I really like is the really fat stream. That sucker puts put a healthy amount of water.
Originally Posted By standor Disney does anything to make a buck. If they have lousy water then you are forced to buy it by the bottle at exagerated prices.
Originally Posted By dshyates It is interesting that WDW's water is so funky. Daytona Beach, some 60 miles from WDW, was awarded the "best tasting water in the world" at 21st annual Berkley Springs International Water Tasting Festival. <a href="http://www.codb.us/index.aspx?NID=325" target="_blank">http://www.codb.us/index.aspx?NID=325</a>
Originally Posted By Yookeroo "Disney does anything to make a buck. If they have lousy water then you are forced to buy it by the bottle at exagerated prices." They're intentionally making the water taste bad?
Originally Posted By FerretAfros I don't think that they intentionally make the water taste bad, but I also doubt that they go too far out of their way to make it taste good. WDW has its own water treatment plant, so they have total control over the water in the parks. If they really wanted it to taste good, they could make it happen; looks like they're okay with it the way it is.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom I googled WDW and water. It was amazing how many posts on this subject matter are out there on the blogosphere, apparently even among Floridians. Some folks were posting that all you have to do is flush a toilet, turn on a tap in your resort room and you can smell the swamp water. According to sources in Central Florida, the water in Central Florida has high consentrations of sulfer. I'm not sure where WDW is getting their water from, but the ground water in WDWs lakes, so called rivers and drainage canals always looks so murky and smells offensive. The Rivers of America in the Magic Kingdom, and the water canal going around the castle always look so murky.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt Don't they dye the water in the parks in Florida? I know they do in California.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan The water at Disneyland's castle moat tastes much better since the swans were removed. And it's way less chewy now, too.
Originally Posted By Kar2oonMan (I know that's gross, but I'm not paying $3 for a 20 oz. soda, dammit.)
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom While at DL, I will stick with the mint juleps. We don't have those in the MK.
