News Blizzard Beach Hosts Month-Long 30th Anniversary Celebration Before Typhoon Lagoon Reopens

[Sirwalterraleigh]

Unpopular opinion: close Typhoon Lagoon, invest into a better Blizzard Beach, build a hotel next to Blizzard Beach in theme with Winter Summer Land or whatever it is, then use the land of TL to build something people want to go to. Most visitors to WDW have a water park near their home. While it may not be to the same theme as BB or TL, water slides are water slides. Build something different people will want to go to.

Two things:

They don’t build themed hotels anymore…only timeshares without theming

They don’t spend capital to entice people to come anymore…which was fundamental to their business model from 1970-2004

Now it’s “here’s what we got…come if you want to pay what we say it’s worth in the market”

In a world of over reaching cynicism…that might be one on the top of my list

 

[stuart]

In some ways they haven't helped themselves with the water parks for hotel guests either in recent years.

Having to transfer buses means it more of a hassle than need be to get to / from them.

Also a few years ago, the water parks had extra magic hours every day, which given we went in the summer, meant we would pick a cloudier morning to go, when it was likely to be quieter. Later openings at 10 eats into the day a bit more too.

It's mainly why we haven't gone to BB or TL in a number of years now.