Comments on: After Obama’s inauguration, a new appreciation for Disney http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/after-obamas-inauguration-a-new-appreciation-for-disney/ The last honest travel site Sat, 11 Feb 2012 16:58:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: mindy http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/after-obamas-inauguration-a-new-appreciation-for-disney/comment-page-1/#comment-9705 mindy Tue, 27 Jan 2009 19:11:27 +0000 http://www.tripso.com/?p=8953#comment-9705 Next time you're at Disney, try to imagine that every single person in your line and every single person in all the OTHER Disney lines is going to the exact same place in the Disney parks - like EVERYONE is going to the Tree of Life at Animal Kingdom. BTW, I left my Cap. Hill home at 1045am that day and I was on the Mall right by Air & Space by 1150am. Yes, I had "passes" not "tickets" but I had mad absolutely sure of where I needed to be. Years of being in DC post 9/11 and experience with the 4th of July crowds has come in very handy. Next time you’re at Disney, try to imagine that every single person in your line and every single person in all the OTHER Disney lines is going to the exact same place in the Disney parks – like EVERYONE is going to the Tree of Life at Animal Kingdom.

BTW, I left my Cap. Hill home at 1045am that day and I was on the Mall right by Air & Space by 1150am. Yes, I had “passes” not “tickets” but I had mad absolutely sure of where I needed to be. Years of being in DC post 9/11 and experience with the 4th of July crowds has come in very handy.

]]> By: Alan Fiermonte http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/after-obamas-inauguration-a-new-appreciation-for-disney/comment-page-1/#comment-9701 Alan Fiermonte Tue, 27 Jan 2009 18:34:59 +0000 http://www.tripso.com/?p=8953#comment-9701 Janice: what you don't realize was that the Obama campaign (yes, it had a hand in inauguration aspects) sent a commemorative invitation (basically a collector's item, not a functional ticket) to one-million Obama small donors, volunteers and connections that had fine print in a separate cover letter that very few of the hapless million actually read...don't show up in DC because you won't gain entry. Many showed up anyways. Even the printer of the million invites was wondering...why? Not the wisest nuanced approach to thank people for their hard work. And don't even get me started the environmental implications of the Obama campaign printing one million useless but commemorative "inaugural tickets". Janice: what you don’t realize was that the Obama campaign (yes, it had a hand in inauguration aspects) sent a commemorative invitation (basically a collector’s item, not a functional ticket) to one-million Obama small donors, volunteers and connections that had fine print in a separate cover letter that very few of the hapless million actually read…don’t show up in DC because you won’t gain entry. Many showed up anyways. Even the printer of the million invites was wondering…why? Not the wisest nuanced approach to thank people for their hard work.

And don’t even get me started the environmental implications of the Obama campaign printing one million useless but commemorative “inaugural tickets”.

]]> By: Learning from Disney Lines… | Mousekingdom Blog (Disney Storys and Photos) http://www.consumertraveler.com/today/after-obamas-inauguration-a-new-appreciation-for-disney/comment-page-1/#comment-9695 Learning from Disney Lines… | Mousekingdom Blog (Disney Storys and Photos) Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:45:12 +0000 http://www.tripso.com/?p=8953#comment-9695 [...] Next time you’re at Walt Disney World, Disneyland or one of the other Disney Parks around the globe and you are waiting in line for a long time think about the fact that the Disney lines are the best in the world. While nobody likes standing in line, at a Disney park you’ll at least get some sort of entertainment, either in a form of a pre-show experience or because of the beautiful decorations and other stuff to discover while waiting. Some people think that one can learn a lot about Disney, or should even contract them to build lines for other events. So does the writer of the following piece, who says that the lines at Obama’s inauguration where a disaster. Many people have now heard the basic story of last Tuesday morning: Some number of people with tickets showed up hours in advance, and did not get in through the the gates to see President Obama’s inauguration ceremony. That number, of which I was one, is easily in the tens of thousands, and maybe higher. (Tripso) [...] [...] Next time you’re at Walt Disney World, Disneyland or one of the other Disney Parks around the globe and you are waiting in line for a long time think about the fact that the Disney lines are the best in the world. While nobody likes standing in line, at a Disney park you’ll at least get some sort of entertainment, either in a form of a pre-show experience or because of the beautiful decorations and other stuff to discover while waiting. Some people think that one can learn a lot about Disney, or should even contract them to build lines for other events. So does the writer of the following piece, who says that the lines at Obama’s inauguration where a disaster. Many people have now heard the basic story of last Tuesday morning: Some number of people with tickets showed up hours in advance, and did not get in through the the gates to see President Obama’s inauguration ceremony. That number, of which I was one, is easily in the tens of thousands, and maybe higher. (Tripso) [...]

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