Festivus is Dec 23rd..
Time to Air out Our Grievances with the Theme Parks then
have a wrestling match.
My Grievances will always be with the Parking Fee increase every damn year..
When we first started to go to Orlando in 2007 it was $12
Now it is up to $30...
So I wonder, did the Cement and Tar - go all Union on us?
(It's not like they get a lot of Snow and have to Plow.)
My main grievance is against parks that are not honest and transparent with their customers. We all know stuff happens, and it's not always possible to predict the future precisely, but between projects getting announced and never getting built (EPCOT's Play Pavilion and MK's Main Street Theater), announced for opening in the next season and then not breaking ground until the spring (SFGAdv's Flash coaster, SFOT's Aquaman, and many others), and ride closures not announced until after the park has closed for the year or merely a week or 2 before closing forever (Kingda Ka, Scorpion, and more).
It's drives me crazy that parks treat customers and guests with such disrespect and then beg them to buy their products in the same breath. No other profitable business operates this way.
Someone sent me a text today of the parking price sign at SWO and general parking was $38 and their highest tier "VIP" was $82. I think that may be dynamically priced for Christmas/New Years weeks though as parking is normally $30.
Anyway my biggest grievance is just the overall culture in which parks are ran, and its more of a big corporation grievance than an independent parks. They put these execs in charge of parks, but the execs know they're only going to be there a few years max before being shipped off to their next job, and they are all trying to maximize profits to make themselves look good to try and get promoted. So what ends up happening is they cut operatons/maintenance to maximize profits for that year/season and then their bosses at corporate go "good job making more profit than the year before" and they get promoted...creating a race to the bottom situation. This happens at all corporate parks including Disney, and TBH this is [sort of] how Bob Chapek got promoted to CEO.