What's in the Water on WDW's Attractions?

[Scott M]

After recently returning from yet another wonderful week at WDW, I realized that I had been favoring the water rides not so much for their sights, sounds and overall experience, but for the smell!

There's something about the smell of a WDW indoor water attraction that keeps me breathing deeply throughout the entire ride.

But what is it? The combination of water and air conditioning? The treatment of the water itself? What could that smell be that keeps me going back for more?

Whether it's Splash Mountain, Pirates of the Caribbean, Maelstrom, Living with the Land, Grand Fiesta Tour or even It's a Small World, I can not get enough of that smell.

Scott

 

[ajk912]

The smell of chlorine? I dunno.

 

[disneymomof2boyz]

Yeah, we have a water fountain outside my apartment complex, and it sooo smells like Disney. I also believe it's the chlorination!

 

[dburg30]

I dont think it's chlorine, maybe bromine or something? It was talked about here before.

 

[kadesha]

I don't know the answer, but I love the smell too! lol!

 

[becalubob]

And here I thought I was the only one..... I love the Disney-ride water smell too!!! DH thinks I'm crazy.

 

[seadd67]

yep you smell it in the air near any water to, I can not say i love the smell but it diffently tells me were at home oh I mean WDW

 

[Baltazar]

I dont think it's chlorine, maybe bromine or something? It was talked about here before.

Disney uses bromine on Splash Mountain because it doesn't bleach your clothes and it kills germs, does nothing to algae though. I believe Pirates of the Caribbean, Jungle Cruise and River Boat use filtered surface water from Ready Creek. Comes in MK, goes through the rides then out to the lagoon.

You can see the water storage pond for Splash Mountain on Google Earth.

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=...898,-81.585454&spn=0.001047,0.001727&t=h&z=19

In the middle of the image

 

[ransom]

I dunno what it is, either (and probably don't want to know), but I love that smell, too.

I also love the smell of the dark rides. It's probably the smell of machinery, grease, sweat, B.O., and a bunch of other stuff I don't want to think about, but after all these years of Disney, it really smells good to me.

 

[Mr. & Mrs. Smith]

That's it!!! I've been trying to figure out what it is that gives me that feeling when I step into the queue for one of these rides and now you have solved the mystery! The smell of the water.

 

[goofyernmost]

Disney uses bromine on Splash Mountain because it doesn't bleach your clothes and it kills germs, does nothing to algae though. I believe Pirates of the Caribbean, Jungle Cruise and River Boat use filtered surface water from Ready Creek. Comes in MK, goes through the rides then out to the lagoon.

There is a dye in the water on most of the boat rides so that the tracks that the boats ride on are not visible. I went of JC once and the water was almost maroon. It was even sudsy. I asked what was wrong with the water and just got blank stares.

The water even though supplied by the same source must be isolated in some way to prevent everything from being that same dark color. I wish I had remembered to ask that question on the Keys to the Kingdom tour.

 

[dburg30]

You can see the water storage pond for Splash Mountain on Google Earth.

you can also see them sometimes on the keys to the kingdom tour

 

[jennilynn510]

I dunno what it is, either (and probably don't want to know), but I love that smell, too.

I also love the smell of the dark rides. It's probably the smell of machinery, grease, sweat, B.O., and a bunch of other stuff I don't want to think about, but after all these years of Disney, it really smells good to me.

ewwwww yuk...but i'm cracking up

 

[Baltazar]

When I took the Keys to the Kingdom Tour she told us that Ready Creek was sand filtered and colored for the Jungle Cruise and the River Boat then goes to the lagoon in front of MK.

Like they divert the creek for those attractions and eventually leads to the lake in front. I think there are more rides on that loop but I'm not sure.
World of Disney
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reedy_Creek_Improvement_District

 

[KCmike]

I don't know what it is but I hope its safe....I've gotten it on my clothes, skin, and everything else,

 

[shelemm]

I would think that dyed water would ruin your clothes, so I doubt that's the case with Splash Mountain.

 

[autumnpalm]

And I thought I was the only one!! I love the smell of Disney's water attractions and will ride them for the scent alone.

Who knows, maybe we should give Disney's marketing department a heads up on the possibility of an Eau de Eau de Disney.

 

[Robo]

Who knows, maybe we should give Disney's marketing department a heads up on the possibility of an Eau de Eau de Disney.

de Eau



de Eau




de light come

and me wan' go home.

 

[addicted2dizney]

I am the same way with the smell of Disney water! I do believe it's the higher chlorination(whatever they are using) combined with the very unique smell of "Florida Water". It has a smell like no other! You could blindfold me and put of glass of florida water in front of me and I could get that smell no question!

 

[HonnyDipp]

That is one of the things I'm looking forward to. That DW water smell! There is nothing like it!