Goodbye Sassagoula River Cruise rental boats?

[Polydweller]

Nothing happens without TDO's approval, If TDO wanted them the contractor would have been told to "embrace the suck" if you want the Bay Lake business.

Not necessarily true. Disney is as bound by the terms of the contract (and contract law) as much as the vendor is. If the terms allow the vendor to adjust the business operations for contracted reasons then they can adjust within the contract language.

Most third party contracts I've been involved with (and there are many in the hotel business) have escape clauses so that a vendor will not be trapped in non-profitable and non-viable operations. It doesn't help a business if their vendors go broke. There are of course escape clauses for the company that hires the vendor. In this case, from what's being reported, the low usage of the boats and resultant low profitability was an acceptable reason contractually.

 

[ford91exploder]

Not necessarily true. Disney is as bound by the terms of the contract (and contract law) as much as the vendor is. If the terms allow the vendor to adjust the business operations for contracted reasons then they can adjust within the contract language.

Most third party contracts I've been involved with (and there are many in the hotel business) have escape clauses so that a vendor will not be trapped in non-profitable and non-viable operations. It doesn't help a business if their vendors go broke. There are of course escape clauses for the company that hires the vendor. In this case, from what's being reported, the low usage of the boats and resultant low profitability was an acceptable reason contractually.

My experience in contracts is on the government and manufacturing side where performance bonds etc are required from the vendor ie the vendor WILL perform come hell or high water if they don't we have money to hire someone else,

I have no experience in hospitality so your explanation appears to fit the facts as disclosed by disney,

Still yet another cut in the year of a thousand cuts

 

[Polydweller]

My experience in contracts is on the government and manufacturing side where performance bonds etc are required from the vendor ie the vendor WILL perform come hell or high water if they don't we have money to hire someone else,

I have no experience in hospitality so your explanation appears to fit the facts as disclosed by disney,

Still yet another cut in the year of a thousand cuts

Actually, I have experience with both. I was a govt IT manager while also a hotel owner until a few years ago when the IT manager side went away. There are differences especially when when vendors operate a business within your hotel. It's a much more symbiotic relationship than anything in govt. The hotel owner and the vendor are both using the service to make money while the vendor takes all the risks for the operation of the service. Nothing quite like it in govt in my experience. Close in some instances but not quite.

 

[steamboatjosh]

So will you still be able to get to Downtown Disney via the boat transportation or is that gone until Disney Springs is completed?

 

[tahqa]

So will you still be able to get to Downtown Disney via the boat transportation or is that gone until Disney Springs is completed?

For now the boat transportation to DTD is still running. The dock by Rainforest is shut down while bridge work is going on, but the other docks are still open.

 

[steamboatjosh]

For now the boat transportation to DTD is still running. The dock by Rainforest is shut down while bridge work is going on, but the other docks are still open.

Phew. Thanks! I got nervous there. I'm booking one of the carriage rides at Port Orleans-Riverside and we need to take the boat to DTD from there.

 

[jt04]

Phew. Thanks! I got nervous there. I'm booking one of the carriage rides at Port Orleans-Riverside and we need to take the boat to DTD from there.

I have no doubt that not having rentals around will enhance the experience.

 

[Unplugged]

Too bad...

That video clip is exactly my point. One doesn't have to even be on that boat to enjoy watching the boats pass and others enjoy the rides. Being on the golf course or strolling about Port Orleans, the river traffic in it's normal moderation adds an air of "relaxed business" that helps distract you from the worries and stress that brought you to WDW. Unless of course, you're a stressed out tug boat captain or "Deadliest Catch" fisherman and boats freak you out. But the tranquil sounds of the water splashing to small craft is always welcome to me at WDW on a nice day.

...Oh well. Tis' what it tis'.