grinningghost
<font color=green>Has a thing for the Swiss Family
- Joined
- Apr 6, 2002
Had an excellent trip to the World! Here are some quick theme parks thoughts:
All parks except AK need some maintenance attention. Generally it's peeling paint, but there are some serious mildew issues in the Splash Mountain logs and on the monorails. Otherwise the parks were pretty clean and kept up.
Saw my first horribly dirty restroom at MK. In the restrooms in Tomorrowland, kind of across from the Speedway. Walked in and walked right out. They were filthy. Never saw that before. All the rest were pretty clean.
Crowds were heavy on the weekend, moderate during the week.
Early closing of MK is truly a bummer. Just when you're starting to have fun, it's time to pack up and go.
Fantasmic! really does fill up quick. We got there an hour and a half early and it's a good thing. The place was standing room only a full half hour before the show started.
Watching MK fireworks from the observation deck of the Contemporary was the best advice I got from these boards. They really do it right. They have the music piped in right on the deck, so you can really follow right along with the whole show.
Disney Quest is still sort of discombobulated. The lines are long and slow and it's so darned crowded with their "stacked" floor plan. I was much more impressed with the cheesecake.
Security bag checks are pretty quick, but really inconsistent. One guy would be really thorough, another guy would barely even look. Makes you wonder how safe you really are there.
ASMo was a great resort. Dalmation building was an ideal location.
Most CM's really still have the magic. Very friendly. But there are a few bad apples that have the potential of spoiling the whole bunch. I wish there was a way to make them disappear.
Buses were good overall, but there were a couple times where we waited a long, long time for a bus.
Smoking areas in the parks were kind of disgusting. Being a non-smoker, I guess I'm not being fair. But nothing was more tacky looking than walking along the path around the Castle and suddenly seeing a cloud of smoke and 30 people puffing away.
Chester and Hester's at AK is awful. Imagineering really dropped the ball on this one.
And finally, Mission Space left a strange impression on me. It was really thrilling and a bit frightening the first few seconds, then it kind of went the way of Star Tours - just another simulator. I guess I expected a bit more.
As I think of more, I'll post them.
All parks except AK need some maintenance attention. Generally it's peeling paint, but there are some serious mildew issues in the Splash Mountain logs and on the monorails. Otherwise the parks were pretty clean and kept up.
Saw my first horribly dirty restroom at MK. In the restrooms in Tomorrowland, kind of across from the Speedway. Walked in and walked right out. They were filthy. Never saw that before. All the rest were pretty clean.
Crowds were heavy on the weekend, moderate during the week.
Early closing of MK is truly a bummer. Just when you're starting to have fun, it's time to pack up and go.
Fantasmic! really does fill up quick. We got there an hour and a half early and it's a good thing. The place was standing room only a full half hour before the show started.
Watching MK fireworks from the observation deck of the Contemporary was the best advice I got from these boards. They really do it right. They have the music piped in right on the deck, so you can really follow right along with the whole show.
Disney Quest is still sort of discombobulated. The lines are long and slow and it's so darned crowded with their "stacked" floor plan. I was much more impressed with the cheesecake.
Security bag checks are pretty quick, but really inconsistent. One guy would be really thorough, another guy would barely even look. Makes you wonder how safe you really are there.
ASMo was a great resort. Dalmation building was an ideal location.
Most CM's really still have the magic. Very friendly. But there are a few bad apples that have the potential of spoiling the whole bunch. I wish there was a way to make them disappear.
Buses were good overall, but there were a couple times where we waited a long, long time for a bus.
Smoking areas in the parks were kind of disgusting. Being a non-smoker, I guess I'm not being fair. But nothing was more tacky looking than walking along the path around the Castle and suddenly seeing a cloud of smoke and 30 people puffing away.
Chester and Hester's at AK is awful. Imagineering really dropped the ball on this one.
And finally, Mission Space left a strange impression on me. It was really thrilling and a bit frightening the first few seconds, then it kind of went the way of Star Tours - just another simulator. I guess I expected a bit more.
As I think of more, I'll post them.
