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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: 2020 Season Passes
« on: November 03, 2019, 09:54:59 PM »
Same as previously mentioned. Too many unfavorable changes for us. After 36 years, we won’t be buying season passes and doubtful we’ll go to the park at all next year. Spending our money elsewhere and looking forward to it.

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Harvest Festival
« on: October 15, 2019, 02:00:45 PM »
I believe someone nailed it. We are on the patron side of SDC becoming a corporation without the ability to roll their sleeves up and truly connect how they used to do. It’s a numbers game, even if they turn it into a mass produced commercialized affair with an old western town hidden underneath, and it delivers the almighty dollar thru attendance numbers and fattens wallets in a corporate office, it’s gotta be great. I truly believe they could bring in the 130+ crafters and do both events but suits see it differently.

I guess our days of SDC may be coming to and end if that’s the case. We’ll take our memories and spend our dollars elsewhere.


Okay, but this is their first year doing the Craft DAYS and Pumpkin NIGHTS, as someone else said. That’s the reason why they pushed you out at 5:45. If you think that they’re going to do 130+ crafters for this during the first year of Pumpkin Nights, then I want whatever drug you have to make you think that. They’re not going to overload the day session if the night session is new and what they’re trying to push. There are things they still need to iron out.

It would be an iced tea and please, help yourself to a glass.  It would be quite easy to host the vendors and have the pumpkin event and that would bring in more dollars.  Either way, hope it gets worked out, we'll sit on the sidelines and see if things change.  If not, like I said, we're glad to go elsewhere and take our 36 years of memories with us to another tradition. 

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Harvest Festival
« on: October 14, 2019, 06:01:48 PM »
I believe someone nailed it. We are on the patron side of SDC becoming a corporation without the ability to roll their sleeves up and truly connect how they used to do. It’s a numbers game, even if they turn it into a mass produced commercialized affair with an old western town hidden underneath, and it delivers the almighty dollar thru attendance numbers and fattens wallets in a corporate office, it’s gotta be great. I truly believe they could bring in the 130+ crafters and do both events but suits see it differently.

I guess our days of SDC may be coming to and end if that’s the case. We’ll take our memories and spend our dollars elsewhere.

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Harvest Festival
« on: October 14, 2019, 09:00:32 AM »
It was an eye opener for me to see so many employees and vendors being public and open about the change. The entire park felt like it was a teenager feast. I said another kids feast earlier but the more I thought about it the more I realized it was more teenagers than young kids.

We will definitely be voicing our frustrations with a letter and a call. This is one trip that I’d honestly prefer to have my money back and forget I even went to the park. My wife is now voicing she’s afraid what it’s done to Christmas with that she’s talking of us not going to that now either. I don’t blame her, I’m thinking we’ll just stay home this year. I feel bad for the employees. They were always so chipper and happy, seemed like so many were exhausted. Anyone else notice this? We watched a interesting terse conversation between the blacksmith and the employee in the shop about package pickup and delivery.

We couldn’t figure out why we didn’t see much demonstrations or interactions yesterday. We’re wondering if it’s exhaustion or something behind the scenes with management. Lye soap was ran by a kid sitting on his cell phone all day looking down at his screen, blacksmith wasn’t working, pork rind guy had no samples and wouldn’t make flavored pork rinds, flour mill pushed a line of 30 away announcing they wouldn’t make any more cinnamon bread, stores pushing us out at 5:45 to close their doors. A cave guy talked with me for a good 20 minutes about how displeased employees are this year. Mentioned this spring how the park decided to open its doors but announced to employees that a handful of the staple shops wouldn’t open until May. He said “now if you’re going to open the park, then have everything open or discount the ticket price”. Good point, greed wouldn’t let that happen though!

A happy medium that would be a success plan in my opinion is having the pumpkin stuff where it’s at, and keeping all the vendors for the harvest festival. Instead of shutting down the place you keep it open and the vendors can be all be there and adults can go to the more open side of the park while all the kids are at the pumpkin walk.

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Harvest Festival
« on: October 13, 2019, 10:41:41 PM »
Did anyone go this year and leave disappointed? We sure did this year. Never in my 36 years of attending the park have I walked out without a wonderful trip. This year my wife and I both were so disappointed in the lack of vendors and what we were told by employees and vendors about how the park management was treating everyone.

The harvest festival was always our favorite festival and as far as we’re concerned, they’ve ruined it with this pumpkin focus. I had deep respect for so many employees openly venting to me about their equal feelings of frustration and displeasure of the changes. I visited with a handful of vendors who told me that this year the park only gave them small windows of time to be allowed to setup. Some got 1 week, some got 3 weeks, some of the long standing vendors were not invited to come back at all.

We thought this trip was nothing more than another kids feast.

Sad, never did I think I’d ever leave that park displeased and today was complete disappointment. Even my wife said she doesn’t care if we ever return. Never thought I’d hear those words out of her mouth.


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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: 2019 Daily Attendance
« on: October 13, 2019, 10:33:44 PM »
Was told by many employees today that yesterday (Saturday) was 24,000 in the park. Rides were 45 min average for the main rides.

Today was 15-20 min wait.

First time in 36 years I walked out of that park disappointed. They only had 35 vendors at the harvest festival this year compared to 130 previous years. Come 5:45, we were pushed out of shops and pushed into the pumpkin area where it felt like Times Square in NYC of people.

They’ve ruined the harvest festival and will get a lengthy letter from me on this one. Sad that we had many employees tell us who to contact and asked us to voice our concerns because they too didn’t care for the changes this year.

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Branson Talk / Re: Classic Motor Inn 2017 417-334-6991 (talk to Katy, K.D.)
« on: September 05, 2017, 10:16:42 PM »
Another terrific stay at the Classic Motor Inn. Pups loved it as always and we are so blessed to have a place we trust with our beloved and cherished dogs. KD always takes great care of us and cannot imagine ever having to stay anywhere else. We've canceled trips in the past when we couldn't stay at the Classic Motor Inn.

Love the new pillow top mattress by the way!

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: SDC Blacksmith
« on: May 14, 2017, 11:03:36 PM »
What's the latest on Wayne?  Haven't heard anything since the heartbreaking news of his stroke.

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: Disrespect for the park
« on: October 12, 2014, 09:18:49 PM »
Don't take this the wrong way, as I 100% agree that the girls shouldn't be doing this and especially break things. The wording makes it sound like it was a mistake however it wouldn't of happened at all had they been in there!

But my original point....I'd bring it to the parks attention to make corrections if they wish but as for the lamp getting broke...isn't that why we pay $50+ to just walk into the park?  Things like that are going to happen, kids and adults knocking over glass items in the glass makers shop, breaking a chair by leaning back, theft, etc. it stinks but it's going to sadly happen.

I believe I heard a story of a time kids dumped in a bunch of gelling chemicals and messed up a water ride that had to be drained and scrubbed. Stinks but it's unfortunately going to happen.

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Branson Talk / Re: Homestay Inn 2013 417-336-2666
« on: November 07, 2013, 09:35:27 PM »
As usual, we called one place and one place only for our OTC trip to SDC - big surprise it was HomeStay Inn. Our Yorkies love it and we love it!!


Thanks again Paige!  I think this makes 4 extended weekends this year we stayed with your place.

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General Silver Dollar City Talk / Re: First Time to SDC
« on: November 07, 2013, 09:03:00 PM »
I'm super excited to hear about your first trip to SDC. Please update us on how it went when things settle down from the trip.

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Not much to report on the park I'm afraid. It was as decked out for Christmas as the recent previous years. Cinnamon bread came right out of the oven and absolutely no line to get it (double bonus!). Umm, got some great buys on last years christmas decorations and ornaments so by other half was excited about that. The foliage was jaw dropping.

Can you remind us what the other big news was outside if the Outlaw Run?  I am drawing a blank...

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Went to the park today, thanks to all of the responses I am happy to say it was the deadest I've ever been to the park on any occasion. 

However I must agree with the weather, this is the first time when I went during OTC and it didn't put me into the holiday spirit.

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Sorry, I didn't go thru all 5 pages of reading haha

I was really happy to learn the news today in the park.   

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I'm here in the park today and have asked around - the Lye Soap shop is closed for this season, just like every season. There is absolutely no plans of closing it permanently.  They said next along will be a brand new lye soap season just like any other. Went to the booth and it's all there just closed up for the winter season as usual.


The panic is over folks!!

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