I'm a first time poster long time lurker here.
I had no idea where to put this but it is just something that I needed to get off my chest and this seemed like the thread to do so, if mods feel like this should be it's own topic, by all means. I am going to be purposely vague if that bothers you I'm sorry, but because of this situation I feel that I have to be.
I was on a non-TPR amusement park enthusiast forum that is for primarily people of a certain area. I was reading about a local amusement park and this guy (who is a pretty prolific poster around several enthusiast sites) just went on and on about all the things he didn't like about this particular park. Some of it was about the price of parking to the price of additional add ons that the park provided. All of which seem pretty much industry standard IMO. I when I go to places I **expect** to pay for things like lockers and parking. It just comes with going to an amusement park.
I personally have not gone to this particular amusement park before, but I have gone to another that this company runs, and while I could see some similar complaints with my personal experience, none of them were "deal breakers" to me. Sometimes places run out of lockers. Sometimes places charge for parking. Sometimes amusement parks are crowded. This happens everywhere.
I had to tell that story to get to what I was really upset about. Posters in the thread were like "you should bring up your complaints to the management." Which, honestly, is what you should be doing rather than posting on a web forum in the first place, so sound advice. One poster (who is a different, yet just as prolific as the first guy on amusement park enthusiast forums) who responds starts trashing the company's policy claiming it will "go unheard." I recognized this guy as a person who owns a competing amusement park in the area. He then goes to claim in his post "I can't tell you the amount of complaints we hear at super awesome amusement park land daily about our competition's park." Then goes on to basically advertise his amsuement park in the post while claiming he "knows" that his competition won't respond to the OP's concern.
I haven't gone to either of these two parks. So I don't really have an opinion one way or another. But I can't see how it is in good business practice to go trash another's business. While claiming you have free parking and such, the price of an all day ticket at this park is the same as year pass to his competition. I just thought it came across as almost bitter and definitely unprofessional. I understand you kind of have to be a super enthusiast to go out on a limb and build your own park, but you don't need to go trash someone else's business (particularly since you ARE the competition and you made no effort to make a warning about your statement claiming as such.)
Anyways, just something I needed to say.
