Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORGOCH: I take it ya been there? That's what they calls it, fer sure!
Originally Posted By Princessjenn5795 Just about any tropical (hot and humid) place that I have been has had a mildew smell, and I always stay in really nice places. Mexico, a couple of Caribbean islands, and Hawaii all have mildew smells in the hotels and other buildings. It is just how it is.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<standor- regardless of what you may read in a few posts - the place has not gone to the dogs. Is the maintenance what it was in the 1980's - no. but then nowhere is>> Beem to TDR lately? I have ... and maintenance there is even better than WDW in the 80s (although only by a few smidges ... Walmarting doesn't have to happen. It's a conscious decision.) There are just basic things that WDW can no longer get right ... from parking lots in desperate need of total repaving (EPCOT, which has had some work, would fall into this category) to the worst SQS of any/every Disney Resort worldwide (should I be happy the angler fish has now worked on two trips over three months?) No, WDW isn't falling apart (well, parts are but most surely isn't). But going to the dogs? If you're comparing it to say 1971-1996 standards, then I'd say it absolutely is.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip I've never noticed any smell in any Disney resort other than the Poly, and that is because of the huge amount of water they have flowing through the waterfall in the lobby. IT IS THE WATER... not the cleanliness of the hotels. Orlando water is horrible, and whenever you are around a significant quantity of it you will notice the smell.
Originally Posted By Bolna <<Many hotels use Scent Air, a company that installs devices to put a particular fragrance in the air. That's why certain hotels might smell better or fresher than others.>> I think the Animal Kingdom Lodge might very well be using something like that. The lobby there has a very special smell of wood fire and spices. And I came across exactly the same smell once in a restaurant in London called Giraffe.
Originally Posted By sjhym333 "There are just basic things that WDW can no longer get right ... from parking lots in desperate need of total repaving (EPCOT, which has had some work, would fall into this category)" You will be happy to know that EPCOT is being repaved as we speak.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom << IT IS THE WATER... not the cleanliness of the hotels.>> Disney has got to be filtering the water they are using for indoor useage, pools, fountains, rides/ attractions. There is no way Disney is using untreated swamp water. That just can't be happening. And it still doesn't explain why you get that smell on attractions like the American Adventure which has no water feature. I'm still not convienced it's not some disenfinctant or something. In terms of the cleanliness of the parks. Yes, Disney isn't steam cleaning the sidewalks of Main Street everynight like they use to. But on the other hand they have more parks, more hotel properties, more DVCs than they ever had in the 90s.
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt It's funny to me that people continuously complain about smells, cleanliness, declining maintenance, Walmarting, blah blah blah, and yet they keep going again and again and again.
Originally Posted By Kevin Flynn I'm still standing firm that WDW does not smell like swamp and mildew. Absurd.
Originally Posted By Kevin Flynn First of all anyone who calls themselves a Disney Parks fan, must visit AT LEAST DL and WDW. I have found that a great deal of misconceptions about DL, come from WDW park goers on the East Coast that have never even been to DL... and definitely the opposite holds true as well. I know very few people who frequent WDW and compulsively complain about the place.
Originally Posted By wahooskipper You can't be a Disney Parks fan if you only visited the Florida Parks? There are four of them, you know.
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom <<It's funny to me that people continuously complain about smells, cleanliness, declining maintenance, Walmarting, blah blah blah, and yet they keep going again and again and again.>> Speaking form myself, I have had a few things to say about WDW. I enjoy going to WDW and because I'm not completely pleased with various things on property doesn't mean I have to stop going. For example, I on a budget and I like queen size beds... so I don't stay at Disney hotels when visiting WDW, I'm not happy about the Disney meal plan ( I never get one), lack of sitdown table availability, price, quality of food on property. SO..... most of my meals are off property. I'm not pleased about the lack of choices, or price of Disney merchandise on property. So, I will check out the discount malls first for Disney tee shirts and stuff. And yeah, I have lots to say when I don't see being fixed, repaired, replaced, repainted, dirty, broken, things that absolutely don't make sense ( pooh playground used by no one, Magic Hat obscuring the view of the Chinese Theater, DHS being half empty or half full, staying at AKL and you still can't get table service at one of the onsite restaurants because people with the meal plan booked resevations a year in advance, dressing monorails up for the latest Disney movie promotion, inflatable Disney characters "looming" over Tomorrowland, Disney character crash scenes complete with Police tape in downtown Disney, "Spitting" Disney characters, christmas trees in Downtown Disney catching fire from the christmas lights, monorail fatalities because of lack of staff, staff exhaustion and just plain irresponcibility on the part of management, all the roads shut down for the Disney property marathon of the month, Fantasmic running only two or three times a week instead of twice a night. And yes I till keep going to WDW, but now my visits are fewer ( I didn't got at all in 2010 ). Why go back more frequently when there are no new attractions or rides? So have my spending habits changed while taking a WDW vacation, absolutely!
Originally Posted By Kennesaw Tom <<First of all anyone who calls themselves a Disney Parks fan, must visit AT LEAST DL and WDW.>> There are plenty of people on each coast that consider themselves Disney fans and have only been either DLR or WDW. For that matter there are plenty of people that go to WDW and seldom go in the parks and instead tend to spend time at a onproperty resort and various golf courses. WDW hosts many sporting events and such at their World of Sports venue so there are some people who never enter a Disney park. How about people shopping in Downtown Disney and don't go in the parks?
Originally Posted By Dr Hans Reinhardt "So have my spending habits changed while taking a WDW vacation, absolutely!" Same here. I haven't been to WDW in almost 10 years and DLR (which is about 400 miles from where I live) in almost 3. My visits are waaaay down, compared to what they were back in the 80s and 90s. It's like some people have made a career of keeping track of the resorts on a regular basis and reporting every little detail that is out of place. It's kind of silly to me that we should be concerned about the state of EPCOT's parking lot pavement.
Originally Posted By RoadTrip <<Disney has got to be filtering the water they are using for indoor useage, pools, fountains, rides/ attractions. There is no way Disney is using untreated swamp water.>> Of course not. But even Orlando treated drinking water tastes and smells terrible.
