Riviera is the nicest resort I've stayed at so far

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Aren't all of Disney World's themed areas just overly-sanitized versions of the real thing they mean to portray?

I always thought Charleston was the overly sanitized New Orleans.

 

[muppets3d]

I always thought Charleston was the overly sanitized New Orleans.

Parts of it are sure

 

[Brian Noble]

Aren't all of Disney World's themed areas just overly-sanitized versions of the real thing they mean to portray?

Yes, but the point of NOLA is that it is not entirely sanitized, in ways that don't really apply to many of those other settings.