Smoking at Hong Kong Disneyland

[mouseketeer_2]

As we all know that the Chinese like their tobacco, is it safe to assume that Hong Kong Disneyland will have a smoker-friendly smoking policy like Disneyland Paris?

[Jspider]

why not

everything else is sub par

don't they sell oxygen in some of those country's? (probably not China I'm thinking of though)

[TDLFAN]

I assume HKDL will probably have a similar smoking policy to those at TDR, WDW, and DLR. DLP as we know..is hopeless since their guests disregard policies and are not keen to be told (nor respect) to smoke or behave properly while in the park. It's an euro thing I guess..

[Speedway]

It goes without saying. All Magic Kingdom parks have designated smoking spots.

[dramaqueen]

http://www.micechat.com/showthread.php?t=3745

Check this thread out- might answer your questions

[Speedway]

http://www.micechat.com/showthread.php?t=3745

Check this thread out- might answer your questions

Eurgh. I would never spit anywhere, let alone a Disney park. A NEW Disney park! Well I think they are doing the right thing. I would do exactly the same - but maybe implementing fines and then encouraging guests to spit may help out with funding Phase 2 :lol:

[Cousin Orville]

I heard even the characters will smoke at HKDL. Just to be culturally relevant. Snow White will nervously drag on a Virgina Slim, Simba on a Kent.

[riding_big_thunder]

don't they sell oxygen in some of those country's? (probably not China I'm thinking of though)

Yes, this is true, in Beijing there is so much air pollution you can go to "oxygen bars" to breathe fresh air!

[CaliforniaAdventurer]

Well you know Paris, France and Tokyo, Japan are both democratic free countries.

Hong Kong, now that it's part of China again, even though it is semi autonomous is under the thumb of the Beijing government and I would expect anyone who gets arrested in the park will never be heard from again.

So I wouldn't break any rules, people ! ! ! No spitting out the window on the monorail if you dont want to disappear in to a gulag. :confused: :lol:

[Alchimedes]

I heard even the characters will smoke at HKDL. Just to be culturally relevant. Snow White will nervously drag on a Virgina Slim, Simba on a Kent.

Yea and Iago will smoke Camels... :lol:

[Witches of Morva]

ORWEN: Like as if the management at Disney Theme parks even ENFORCES these no smoking rules. Just last week--while eating that Pinocchio Village Hauss at Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom--we saw this man light up a cigarette there--even as a cast member was cleaning up tables nearby--only to be ignored. I guess the cast members don't like confrontation any better than the next witch does. Still, you'd think the cast member would have said something to make the guest put out his fag...

[pussnboots]

DLP as we know..is hopeless since their guests disregard policies and are not keen to be told (nor respect) to smoke or behave properly while in the park. It's an euro thing I guess..

Oh for crying out loud, it's not all THAT bad. Sure, a system of designated smoking areas wouldn't kill them and the chance of getting smoke blown in your face while in queue is there, but it's not like we're a continent of rude anarchists going around intoxicated with sigars permanently planted between our fingers. It is not a "euro thing".

[TDLFAN]

...and you probably have never been to DLP, otherwise you'd know what I am talking about, and that the problem does go beyond the smoking situation but also into other areas of guest behavior in the parks. ..And yes: it IS an 'euro thing', because for example..the japanese smoke like there is no tomorrow but respect "no smoking" rules. The euros do not like to be told NOT to do something, and still disregard without cares. That is my constant experience when I am in Europe, and I do go there often enough, thank you.

[DisneyMickey]

What's the Disneyland Paris policy?

[pussnboots]

I've been to Disneyland Paris countless times and I live quite nearby, actually... I just think you're exaggerating. Sure, during parades people climb onto the grass and people do smoke in queues once in a blue moon... But don't generalise an entire continent as being rude anarchists.

I'm sure I am, but then I'm no poster child for Europe, haha.

And the DLRP policy... Is there one? They don't have designated smoking areas outside, that's for sure.

[TDLFAN]

What's the Disneyland Paris policy?

That is the problem. There is no policy.

[TDLFAN]

I just think you're exaggerating. Sure, during parades people climb onto the grass and people do smoke in queues once in a blue moon... But don't generalise an entire continent as being rude anarchists.

I don't think I am exaggerating at all. I have no reason to put down an entire continent just because. That is not my style. Plus, you just vindicated my position on this with your post admitting you are no poster child and that such bevior as trampling gardens and such (one of my major petpeeves of any: people not respecting the fact that a fence is there to tell them they can't go pass that point, and euro patrons at DLP are good at not respecting the property). And, define what you mean by "people do smoke in queues once in a blue moon". What is a "blue moon" to you? Because I am assaulted with cigarrete stink in all queues at almost every other minute of the time I spend there, which is a reason why avoid visiting DLP during high season because I return to my hotel SICK with allergies. I have witnessed the same behavior in Italy, Amsterdam, Germany and the UK...so yes: I make no apologies of my generalizing European way of living. I have witnessed it. I gain nothing by posting things like this since there is bound to be someone offended by these comments. But that is what I have learned about Euros in my many travels there.

[PATMAGIC]

Yes there is some people who get offended I am one of them, no I don't smoke but I have never known it to be too bad in DLRP the smoking situation. I have to say that only once have I seen anyone not respecting property, that was once and I can say I don't think it is a thing that happens a lot.

[TDLFAN]

Yes there is some people who get offended I am one of them, no I don't smoke but I have never known it to be too bad in DLRP the smoking situation. I have to say that only once have I seen anyone not respecting property, that was once and I can say I don't think it is a thing that happens a lot.

I would think that living in Europe, you would get used to those problems on a daily basis, to the point of not even seeing them anymore, regardless of whether you are a smoker or not. As for garden trampling at DLP....one of DLP's most problem areas for their gardening dept is the constant attention they have to give to the gardens around the Hub, simply because they are trampled in a daily constant basis. Maybe next time I visit, I will make a point of photographing what I am talking about, including unruly guests. Sorry that it offends you but the fact that you are offended and not willing to see my point of view further compounds the problem I am having with european attitudes in regards to health and safety.

[pussnboots]

Well, then apparently that works for Europeans. But I must be blinded by my being European as I really don't recall standing in a lot of smoke-polluted queues. And I've been there quite a few times. And people do step on things they shouldn't, but well, I guess this sort of thing doesn't bother me as much as it bothers you... But we're all entitled to our pet peeves.

And I do agree that there should be designated smoking areas. But try to look at it this way, diversity is nice. And what Europe lacks in proper smoking behaviour, it makes up in a general feeling of freedom and the kind of down-to-earth rationality that comes with age. Every continent has its perks.