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« 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.