momof2n2
DIS Veteran
- Joined
- Aug 12, 2007
I will give you weather. Weather out here was perfect, and I will happily warn the WDW weather can be a trip killer.
We did see Fantasmic, from some great seating at Liberty Tree Tavern. The show was much better than when we saw it at Hollywood Studios.
Would you suppose that Roger Ebert likes movies, even though he spends his days sorting the good from the bad and the good and bad points present in each? Both resorts are expressions of one man's vision. To the extent that most of the DL rides and many of the DCA rides have a WDW counterpart. I think that pointing out areas where one side excels while the other falls short is fair. I can recall at least one recent thread on the WDW side where a lifetime DL veteran was unsure what to expect on their trip to WDW.
Think about it from the other side of the coin. In the hundred or so days I have spent in the WDW parks over the last 10 years the reliability of certain expectations solidified them into constants. Within the first few days at WDW you realize that you have never seen a trashed bathroom or a pile of trash along a ride queue railing or gum stuck to the underside of said railing; it's actually a little shocking. So you start to pay attention to those things and sure you find an occasional wad of gum or bit of trash but then you think just how incredibly rare those digressions are and it shocks you again. Even during the busiest day of the year I can walk into any bathroom in the WDW parks knowing there is a seat clean enough to sit on behind the first stall door I open. If I have to shop for a stall in WDW I'm shocked, I let someone know, and 10 minutes later it's fixed.
I never said Disneyland wasn't magical. Only that if a comparison should be made, it is less so than WDW. And I know it sounds very 'first world problems' to critique the 'magicalness' of one park over another. I choose that adjective only because it is the common positive descriptor used within Disney properties.
Just to give a visual on what I'm describing here. This is the waste basket in the Carthay Circle Restaurant in DCA. Really one of the nicest restaurants on any Disney property. Better than Hollywood Brown Derby all around and the food was as good as the Yachtsman or California Grill even if the menu was less ambitious. We had their first reservation of the day, an 11:30 AM lunch. We bought a seating package for the Frozen show but the menu prices for our lunch came to $64 per person. Just to be clear, the place had just opened...
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My wife said the bin in the ladies room was just as bad. Worse, I mentioned the problem to someone on the floor there and it was still like this 20 minutes later.
Now... all I'm saying is that from the perspective of someone who frequents Orlando Disney a lot, this is shocking.
Before I went to WDW 5/2016 I had been reading posts about how dirty Walt Disney World was becoming. Before we enter the park on our first day I saw that first hand in the bathrooms outside animal kingdom. I saw more and more every day and I took some pictures of my own. These are in Tom Sawyer‘s Island and outside Splash
Mountain.
Let’s just agree they both have room to improve.