Thousands sign petition claiming Disneyland Paris is falling apart

[VWL Mom]

Also curious why they would send it to Euro Disney? The Walt Disney Co is a minority stockholder, Euro Disney is the owner/operator.

I meant to say why they wouldn't send it to Euro Disney

[Quadstriker]

We were there for three days in August.

I would agree that the place is far behind WDW and DL in terms of quality, cleanliness, and every other metric you could come up with.

Instead of getting into nitpicky details about what was good, what wasn't, what wasn't up to standards, I'll just say this...

If you get a chance to go, spend two days. That's it. You don't need any more time than that. In fact even a day and a half would be fine. Then move on with your vacation. Plenty of way better places to go just a train ride away.

[The Horned King]

Gonna have to put my two cents in.

Having been to Disneyland Paris for a substantial 27 different trips I can say that the park has had it's hihg's and it's lows. Have photo's that I sent in of bin's overflowing in discoveryland, things that were not working or were in disrepair. But as of late they have spent a lot of money repairing and updating things. Went in February last year and then again in November and the improvement and refurbishment's performed during those few months were amazing. Especially Main Street.

The main thing I personally don't like about Disneyland Paris is the cast members. But that is only because of the "culture clash." As a whole, the french, (and the british are as equally guilty), do not get the happy smiley customer focused service that the americans do. Or we shrug it off as been over the top. The service is on par with what is generally expected in france. There are exceptions to that rule, and I have filled out numerous forms at guest relations to ensure exceeding cast memebers are noticed.

I was also there in february when the strike was held. And there was minimal disruption to the park's operations. To the point we hardly noticed. There were signs up appologising and forewarning, but unfortunately the fantasy world meet's the real world, and I felt that Disneyland Paris coped very well with it. Especially having all the managers on the front gate to stop protestors entering property from the metro station. But more importantly greeting the guests. So kudos to them.

I do accept that somewhere as intricate and complicated as disney will have thing's that go wrong and are out of there control. But we nearly always see maintenance out and about painting and or fixing things. And on numerous occasions an effect in a ride that isn't working that day is usually back and working the following.

As for financial? Well, Disneyland Paris has nearly always been in debt. No thanks to the french government who mostly pulled out of there half of the deal. The money disney borrowed to build the opening phase then had to cover the french's contribution, and at a time when inflation and interest skyrocketed. Again, something out of there control.

In short I am going to take it as a slow news day and let the tabloids make a story. And people do like to complain, given half the chance. But credit due where credit is due.