Sounds very nice...Can't wait to hit the Lottohobie16 wrote:A review from the LA Times.
Water slides and lazy lazy rivers and Dumpsters and menehune elevators and $21 burgers oh my.
Guava BBQ ribs sounds like something I'll want to try soon! :)
Sounds very nice...Can't wait to hit the Lottohobie16 wrote:A review from the LA Times.
Water slides and lazy lazy rivers and Dumpsters and menehune elevators and $21 burgers oh my.
I don't think Disney does a very good job managing hotels or TS facilities. IMHO, they get away with charging such outrageous prices around the parks -- high enough to cover their ineptitude and still get a profit -- because of their location and because they're part of the whole park experience. They're like places at the beach -- expensive and the units are small, but people pay more for the location. But without the parks, they're just a nicely themed, ridiculously expensive hotel/TS with small rooms. I'm guessing they didn't realize that.hobie16 wrote:The concept just hasn't taken off with consumers, and the back of house operation is a real mess according to some of the Disneylanders they've shipped over there recently to clean up things.
Yeah, lot of that (i.e., financial miscalculations) going around. People love it when the government messes with the money supply and they get "good times," but no one considers that doing that sends the totally wrong message to developers and entrepreneurs. People who know how to work the system can dodge the consequences, but that takes resources, too, and sometimes a hard heart, so most people end up paying pretty highly for those governmental manipulations. I don't know why it's so hard to understand that money only represents wealth (i.e., useful or wanted goods), meaning you can only inflate the money supply so far before the whole ponzi scheme collapses. But no one ever mentioned it in school, even though it was shown to be the case before I was even born, so that's pretty clearly a reality that we as a culture want to ignore. If only we could figure out a way to make reality stop stomping on our dreams! :D:hobie16 wrote: A major problem arose before the project was completed. Lehman Bros., the money source went poof and Marriott, the builder, had to cough up $35 mil to complete construction. By the time it was completed the economy had tanked and the monied elite had better things to do with three to six mil for a part time condo. In fact, that amount of money would buy a humgo home with two acres of land a mile away that you didn't have to share with anyone.