| # | Author | Message |
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| MPierce
Sat 11/29/2008 3:19p | Anyone who doesn't like a drive through the South just isn't going on the right roads. Next time try getting off the Interstates. |
42
| A Happy Haunt
Sat 11/29/2008 3:26p | I went to that place "South of The Border" one time!! I think they sell fireworks & a lot of crap like that!! |
43
| MPierce
Sat 11/29/2008 3:32p | That's in Georgia isn't it? |
44
| bobbelee9
Sat 11/29/2008 3:42p | Driving on 95 through North & South Carolina, those middle strips are beautiful, full of flowers. |
45
| A Happy Haunt
Sat 11/29/2008 3:43p | Maybe?? I was driving to FLA on 95S..could've been SC.. |
46
| A Happy Haunt
Sat 11/29/2008 3:43p | 45 was for 43.. |
47
| danyoung
Sat 11/29/2008 5:52p | >Does anyone in the discusion forum really believe that Disney was doing itself any good by lending it's name to a complex of stores restaurants, and motels that weren't actually Disney?<
I didn't have any problem with it. As long as Disney established quality control within the properties and made sure they were up to spec, no problem. I'd much rather stay at a decent road motel for $50/night or so than spend over $100 a night at the Disney value resorts. If it was "on property" and had the same benefits as the official Disney hotels, bring it on!
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| fkurucz
Sat 11/29/2008 6:29p | <<Back to the original topic. Does anyone in the discusion forum really believe that Disney was doing itself any good by lending it's name to a complex of stores restaurants, and motels that weren't actually Disney?>>
They believed that there was money to be made. Does anything else matter to them? |
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| SuperDry
Sat 11/29/2008 7:12p | <<< >Does anyone in the discusion forum really believe that Disney was doing itself any good by lending it's name to a complex of stores restaurants, and motels that weren't actually Disney?< >>>
I think you're missing a key aspect of the proposed Flamingo Crossing - it wasn't really going to be Disney branded. Rather, it seemed to me that it was going to appear to guests to be an off-property location to compete with the likes of I-drive and whatever that urban blight highway to the east of WDW is, but with Disney providing the silent guiding hand as landlord and city planner. That is, everything would be non-Disney branded, but the area would actually be developed in an orderly fashion and not look like a trainwreck. |
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| leobloom
Sat 11/29/2008 7:25p | South of the Border is on I-95 in SC on the SC/NC border. Drove past it a couple of times when I travelled from DC to Orlando. Interstate driving in the South is the pits (especially I-95). Backroads and highways are much more picturesque than the interstates (as seems to be the case in most parts of America). |
