babieemelly said:
Sorry, but again I don't agree. I saw plenty of families in both the parks and at CityWalk, and we saw no fights - and this was in the middle of the summer.
First of all, as I said in my previous post, I'm not addressing the parks at all. I wasn't saying fights happen every night. But they do happen, and that's problemic. I see a lot more young adults at City Walk than any other demographic group when I'm there. You'll see families for the first hour or so after the parks let out, and then they become a significant minority. I'm there on average a couple times a month year round, so I'm getting an picture not skewed by peak tourism seasons. I tend to think that I'm seeing more locals than the average tourist who travels during peak times.
And "urban" dress... what exactly is that?! Wifebeaters and shorts? So? I saw plenty of people wearing the same thing at Disney.
The rapper, hip hop artist style fo dress. A lot of FUBU and similar brands. I am at DTD West Side just as often, and do not see nearly the same percentage of people dressed this way. I'm not saying that this is a bad way to dress. But you must agree that it has negative connotations that go with it in the average persons mind, a "birds of a feather" type of thing. If there was a greater security presence, I think people would have different perceptions.
Have you ever parked at the end of the lot at a Disney park... say, the TTC? A lot of times there were no trams running, or as we were walking up to one it would leave even thought it was only half full, so we couldn't get on
: THAT'S a long walk to the TTC, and then another journey onto the monorail to the front of the park. Yea, the CityWalk parking garage is huge and it's a trek, but it's not the only park that's that way.
In all honesty I've never had to park way out anyplace at WDW where there wasn't a tram. Additionally, just on the basis of going to Hard Rock Live versus House of Blues, it's a mile walk versus a few hundred yards at most.
And we've gone to several Hard Rock Live concerts, and there was no standard look. I'm a HUGE rock fan, and go to a ton of shows both around here in the city and in whichever city we'e traveling to, but I don't wear nothing but black, and I don't have a funky hair cut or color. Sorry. I just think people on here are being very hypocritical and judgemental. If you don't like Universal, fine. But to not like it because of how some people look or dress? Are you kidding me?! That's jus sad.
That's certainly not what I said, if nothing else I didn't say people only wear black. I said they also wear jeans and concert t's. That's a large eprcentage of the crowd. Of course there are exceptions. I've been to more than several concerts there, and if you take out Bo Bice and Scott Stapp, and use KoRn and Drowning Pool, the audiences tend to dress in a similar manner--of course they are often the same people.
My comments were more geared towards the perceptions thet you get when entering Universal. The long walk. The parking deck with security issues. The brawls, tailgating, and racous behaviour of many of the people I've seen at City Walk.
I'm not being hypocritical or judgemental at all. I'm suggesting that Universal has some issues that they should address so they don't alienate more people.
--Better security in their parking decks
--Better trained security guards with better people skills
--Work to ensure walkways and escalators are in better repair
--Cleaner bathrooms (this is something WDW's having issues with lately as well)
--A generally higher security/management presence. I go to DTD and see at least three security people and one management level person between my car and the front door of HoB, not including the HoB security folks. I've yet to see a Universal manager, and there are generally three security people between my car and the entrance to CityWalk. That's jsut not good enought to give a sense of safety.
My comments are contructive critism, not bashing.
Anne
