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Save the Adventurers Club
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CaptainAmerica
Premium Member
We all did.
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
Which is why the place needed a cover charge with say a 2 drink minimum, Disney sometimes was/is beyond stupid Go in pay your cover charge and drink fee and get 2 drink coupons (Kungaloosh!!!). It was a GREAT show that I would have been happy even then to pay admission to. Something like this would have kept the water drinking Lifestylers at bay. Yes there would have STILL been a few Lifestylers there but at least they would be PAYING customers instead of leeches taking up slots at the 'free' show.
Mad Stitch
Well-Known Member
I'd say that was the case after they announced the closure. Before the announcement anyone could easily get into the club. Every time I went, there were very few people in the place. Once it was slated for closure all of a sudden it became the popular place to be and the lines went out the door.
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Kungaloosh Adventurers,
As is my tradition on this day each year, I give to you one of the most secret, and often overlooked Club tradition that occurred only at Midnight of Christmas Eve 1937, the annual Adventurers retelling of "T'was the Night Before Christmas". For full effect, press play at the stroke of midnight tonight, accompanied by your favorite Yuletide beverage: eggnog, wassail, Yakoose Mousse, or a Kungaloosh.
As is my tradition on this day each year, I give to you one of the most secret, and often overlooked Club tradition that occurred only at Midnight of Christmas Eve 1937, the annual Adventurers retelling of "T'was the Night Before Christmas". For full effect, press play at the stroke of midnight tonight, accompanied by your favorite Yuletide beverage: eggnog, wassail, Yakoose Mousse, or a Kungaloosh.
DavidS1234
Active Member
DavidS1234
Active Member
I miss The Club so much these days! Thank you for keeping it's spirit(s) alive.
We should all get together and crash the Abracadabra Bar! hehe
Dear Master Gracy - given the current WDW management attitudes - the ghosts of the Adventurers Club have been forced to relocate to Roth Hall at Thiel because there was no future ($$$) in their IP.
Disney-Trains
Well-Known Member
Umm... It did have a cover charge. It was called admission to pleasure island or an annual pass.
ford91exploder
Resident Curmudgeon
PI admission was cheap and the Lifestylers all have AP's I meant a REAL cover charge which would cover a couple of mixed drinks
Disney-Trains
Well-Known Member
I'm trying to remember what it was... $30 wasn't it toward the end? Maybe $25? That seems about right for a cover charge for that style of club.
Did you want people to pay the $30 and then pay an additional cover charge for AC?
The AP thing is a whole different debate... The premium AP's were not cheap, but Disney always had the option of taking PI away if they felt it was a bad business decision to include it with premium ap.
Did you want people to pay the $30 and then pay an additional cover charge for AC?
The AP thing is a whole different debate... The premium AP's were not cheap, but Disney always had the option of taking PI away if they felt it was a bad business decision to include it with premium ap.
A PI AP was around $50 the year it closed. A single night admission at the time was about $20 and was included wit the water park an more option.
Disney-Trains
Well-Known Member
I do remember that you couldn't buy a one club ticket and go to comedy or adventurers so the "cover charge" was about double the price of the dance clubs. (Had to but the multi club pass... This was at the end after the Island had been opened up to connect west side with market).
Again, the AP thing is different... I don't really fault people for using something they bought. (Buying a PI pass and then using it as much as they wanted). Maybe they should have raised the price, but disney isn't usually shy about doing that!
Again, the AP thing is different... I don't really fault people for using something they bought. (Buying a PI pass and then using it as much as they wanted). Maybe they should have raised the price, but disney isn't usually shy about doing that!
We maintained a PI AP for about 3 years that we almost solely used for AC. Like you stated, we did so because it was the least expensive option for going the half a dozen or more times a year we went.
Had they mandated a 2 drink minimum or excluded AC from the AP and made it hard ticket only we most likely would have paid whatever they asked within reason for an evening at the club.
I can't however say that for everyone. There always seemed to be quite a few regulars there that took up real estate and never bought the first drink.
DavidS1234
Active Member
That's exactly how Mannequins and the Jazz Club got. People would come in and listen/dance (or make out on the 3rd floor, if it was Mannequins) for hours, with no intention of buying drinks. To be fair though, it was easier and cheaper to buy drinks out on the street than in the clubs...so maybe that was one area that PI screwed themselves in...
jakeman
Well-Known Member
I only went into the AC twice. The second time was about a month before it was announced it was closing. Easy to get a drink because there was no one ordering them and the performers had to repeatedly ask the audience not to say their lines before them.
I won't venture to ascribe my experience to the totality of it. It wasn't not fun, but there was a weird vibe in there. I still don't know if it was the place overall or the playful/tense interaction between the cast and performers.
It would be interesting to see the concept repeated but somehow mitigate the cult following.
Ultimately, I think Disney just wanted out of the nightclub business. At the time, razzing the place and renting it to third parties was a sure fire way to make a fortune for being nothing more than a landlord.
Then that whole 2008 thing happened....