Others say...

"Please stop the stink"
I would avoid this diaper pail unless you want a rancid blast of air in your face everytime you dare to swing the handle from one side of the pail to the other. Another nice feature of the diaper pail is the fact that wipes get lodged in the pail which prevents one from completely swinging the handle over. This results in a continuous struggle of having to jiggle and tug on the handle to get the wipe dislodged which causes even more blasts of fresh, i mean rancid, air to be released directly in your face. Buyer beware! seriously . . .

"Disappointed and desperate"
We lucked out - we didn't use any special diaper pail for the first year of our daughter's life. Every now and again a diaper needed to be thrown into a small plastic bag before thrown away, but all of this "diaper pail nonsense" (or so we thought) didn't seem to affect us.

As our daughter turned 12 months and started to walk, her ability to get into the trash can in her room increased and we decided something self-contained would be the best option. So we read our reviews and did our research and opted for the Champ.

What we did not anticipate was within a couple of weeks of our purchase, our entire house beginning to smell like dirty diapers (when only weeks earlier there was no smell).

And we do change the pail a few times a week and I do spray *very* liberally with Lysol between each use - but we are knocked out by the odor of the pail as soon as we walk into our house. I've even started taking it out of our daughter's room at night because the thought of her sleeping in that odor is more than I can bear.

With normal daily use, the odor is especially prominent when you add a new diaper - it seems as though the chamber piece sort of holds onto the odor that has risen up inside it and when you flip the handle to add a new diaper, you are shot in the face with the most foul odor you could imagine!

As best I can imagine, everyone's suspician is true - this version of the Champ has cheap, thin plastic that absorbs the diaper odors and can never truly be cleaned between use.

So now we're back to square one. The Diaper Champ has knocked us out for the last time. Must we swallow our pride and buy a Genie?!? :(

"stick comes through"
We've had this for over a year...stick still fills the room...seal is not good enough to prevent a room full of odor.



"horrible, makes a room smell worse"
After reading reviews we bought this thinking it would be more economical, since you don't need the special bags. It's so not worth it. Everytime you flip the lid it pushes this horrible smell into the room. I've tried baking soda, bleach, dryer sheets, vinegar-you name it, we tried it. And the residual smell of past diapers is still in there, nothing makes it go away. It still stinks. And now that my daughter is walking she flips the drum back and forth, you have to leave the room. We're switching to the diaper dekor, it actually works.

"Bad design meets bad construction"
The basic idea may be good but after 4 days I am ready to hurl this piece of junk out a window. Even when it worked "right" it was a pain because it is so cheaply made that it is very top-heavy. When you try to swing the lever to drop the diaper you have to stand firmly on the tiny foot braces with both feet, or the whole thing just falls over. That's mainly because the door thing doesn't work smoothly at the best of times, and now 4 days into it the seal ring is coming off and getting in the way making it nearly impossible to work. Add to that the fact that wipes, etc. are getting stuck and coming back out.
The only good thing about this product is that unlike most of the others it uses standard garbage bags. I wish it cost twice as much and was twice as well constructed -- if it worked right it would be well worth it -- but as it is it's a waste of money.
Especially if you're a new parent with your first child please believe the negative reviews and avoid this thing. The last thing you need with a new baby is to be stressed and angry over a stupid diaper pail.