Originally Posted By HongKongDisneyLand It's just sad to hear something like "It's a beautiful park but it is boring!!!" It is supposed to be the most happiest place on earth!
Originally Posted By WorldDisney Hey HongKongDisneyland welcome back!! Where you been? Dont worry dude, I assume you go to the park enough to help keep it running on your own ;D.
Originally Posted By HongKongDisneyLand Lots of large-scale Infrastructure projects will be kicked off in Hong Kong. The construction of HongKong-Zhuhai-Macau Mega-Bridge (over HK$70 billion) will start before the end of 2009 plus GuangZhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong Express Line (the China Version of bullet train) and Hong Kong-Shenzhen Airport Rail-Link, West-Kowloon Cultural District, Kai-Tak Cruise Terminal etc to be completed around 2015. This will bring lots of tourists from Mainland China. Therefore, it is the right time to agree upon HKDL's Expansion.
Originally Posted By Spirit of 74 <<It's just sad to hear something like "It's a beautiful park but it is boring!!!">> It's not boring ... to me ... at all. It's a wonderful little park that still has plenty to do see, just not nearly what it should. I was never bored in a full day there and still didn't see everything (came close though ... and did leave for 90 minutes to see the HKDL Hotel though). <<It is supposed to be the most happiest place on earth!>> No. That will always and forever reside in Anaheim. The one and only. The Happiest Place in the HK SAR of The People's Republic of China, perhaps ~I hate pissing contests!~
Originally Posted By Anatole69 In terms of negotiations, the HK government has one significant trump card that it can use as leverage at the bargining table... that is expansion into the area of land adjacent of HKDL. If worst comes to worst, the HK government can always lease it to another theme park company and not lease it to Disney... and even if it doesn't, it can always use the threat of doing so. Personally if I were Disney, and the real issue is getting the money from the government, then it seems to me this is partly a PR issue. If the people of Hong Kong were really sold on the idea of expansion like the were sold on the idea of first building the park, then that would put more pressure on the government to provide the funds Since there is bitter feelings on both the part of the government and the taxpayers of HK, and a perception that the park is sub-standard... then you can see there is a real problem of perception for the product Disney is offering. - Anatole
Originally Posted By Mr X ***If worst comes to worst, the HK government can always lease it to another theme park company and not lease it to Disney... and even if it doesn't, it can always use the threat of doing so.*** Now THAT sounds great to me. How cool would it be to have Hong Kong Disneyland and Hong Kong Universal Studios right next to each other. The ultimate park hopping experience. AND, I would imagine each would be busily trying to outdo the other all the time, and also offering substantial discounts and incentives to spend more time in "their" neck of the woods. For the consumer...a HUGE win-win!
