Disney park confusion

[bcla]

Makes sense. But if you were spending money on tickets to the Super Bowl, would you find out who was playing? Instead of just showing up? If you aren't interested you probably won't go at all.

Spending money? A lot of the people who show up for the Super Bowl do so because it's an event and perhaps they use it to entertain business clients. Many people get them for free. A big thing these days is that with all these new stadiums and arenas, a greater proportion of tickets (especially luxury boxes) are sold to businesses that write them off as entertainment expenses to entertain clients or as employee perks.

I remember once I got a couple of tickets to a Warriors game in a luxury box leased by one of my company's big investors. Half of the people who came didn't even know much about basketball. I've also been to sponsor boxes, and most people didn't know much about the participants. It's kind of getting that way with many of the hot tickets in town, and where the hardcore fan may not be able to afford the higher ticket prices. It's probably going to be that way with the Golden State Warriors moving to San Francisco. The idea of the Raiders moving to Las Vegas seems to be ludicrous on its face. The financial plan was that perhaps half the tickets sold would be going to corporate sales including casinos who might use them as perks for high rollers. So their business plan was to sell a large number of tickets that would be used by people who don't care about the home team.

 

[rastahomie]

Can't tell you how many times I've heard someone talk about taking the monorail to Universal.

See, to me this is like turning up in Atlanta and asking where you get on the El to Wrigley Field. There's failure to do your research, and then there's this. Failing to do your research is forgivable - maybe you'll miss out in Cinderella's Royal Table because you didn't know that you had to reserve your spot 180 days out to have even a snowball's chance; oh well, you'll just eat somewhere else and remember for next time. Showing up at a Disney park asking how to get to a competing theme park in another city is just inexcusable.

 

[rastahomie]

I remember once I got a couple of tickets to a Warriors game in a luxury box leased by one of my company's big investors. Half of the people who came didn't even know much about basketball.

Years ago I worked for a company that got us all seats in the Big Spenders Section at Busch Stadium - free food, discounted drinks, the whole bit. Half the people on the trip had never seen a baseball game in their lives, and just wanted the experience. Meanwhile I'm sitting there with my scorecard, watching each play, cheering on the team (even though I'm not a Cards fan, they were kind-of in playoff contention at the time, so I rooted for them).

 

[bcla]

Years ago I worked for a company that got us all seats in the Big Spenders Section at Busch Stadium - free food, discounted drinks, the whole bit. Half the people on the trip had never seen a baseball game in their lives, and just wanted the experience. Meanwhile I'm sitting there with my scorecard, watching each play, cheering on the team (even though I'm not a Cards fan, they were kind-of in playoff contention at the time, so I rooted for them).

I've been in various boxes before. My did got us into several boxes for event/team sponsors. The food was nice, and being able to close the window was great sometimes. I've been to a Giants game at Candlestick Park, where my company had a box. They mostly had it for 49ers games where they would entertain customers, but for most of the baseball season they would give employees tickets. It was windy and miserable outside, but we were staying in a heated room and could close the door. We also had one of our division's accountants there, and she knew about how to expense stuff like food to the company. I felt a little bit bad about consuming all the ridiculously priced stuff, but she said it was pretty normal. They could deliver canned soft drinks, and I think they ordered a 6-pack of Coke for $18.

At the basketball game we went to, it was actually quite nice. They even had VIP parking passes to hand out. Even if we didn't use them for that day, they were valid for regular parking any other game. Our secretary came, and she ordered a couple of snack trays. She was also telling everyone to please eat the nachos, since they cost maybe $60.