Originally Posted By spacejockey >>Why in the World would Disney bother to theme a resort, including all of the landscaping involved, only to put another theme within a stone's throw?>> Disney does it at the Disneyland Resort in Anaheim and also in Tokyo. In WDW the Epcot and DDD hotels are very close together. It would be like building a small village around each monorail station. The monorail stations would be in the center with shopping, entertainment and restaurant districtsitcs around them. The hotels could be built around the circumference of the village district. Each "Hub" of hotels could have themes which complement each other. Landscaping, parks, and canals in between the hotels could serve as a visual buffer. . Think the "Hub Design" at the Magic Kingdom. I'm not saying every hotel in WDW should have been built this way. However, it would have reduced a lot of traffic from the bus system and streamline the monorail stops. In Walt's early renderings of WDW he had this "Hub" design thought WDW. .
Originally Posted By juicer Is'nt there a rumor that the TTC will be utilized more if attendance slows to a certain point? Meaning that for the Disney Co. to save money on gas for the busses they would drop off guests from the Disney hotels to the TTC instead of the parks directly they guests would transfer to the theme park Busses/Monorail/Ferry Boats?
Originally Posted By spacejockey >>First off what are DDD hotels? I don't know that acronym>> Sorry, I meant DTD Downtown Disney.
Originally Posted By davewasbaloo >>Why in the World would Disney bother to theme a resort, including all of the landscaping involved, only to put another theme within a stone's throw?<< It works really well at DLP!
Originally Posted By danyoung I haven't seen it at DLP, but I have seen it at DL. And I like it MUCH better at WDW, where things are properly spread out. So it means 10 minutes on a bus - boo hoo!
Originally Posted By barboy How about the Vegas strip baloo and dany? Does the proximity from Aladdin to Paris to Venice resorts work well( it's been a few years and I forget the sequence of resorts). From what I remember I think even though all those on the strip pretty much border each other with almost no buffer it seems to work out just fine.
Originally Posted By danyoung I don't think I ever said that it can't work - I just said why would you want to bunch 'em all up together when you could spread them out over beautifully landscaped grounds?
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 I'm totally with danyoung on this. Isn't DL the way it is because there wasn't any room to work with? City dwellers vs country folk? I enjoy the spread, but maybe that's just me.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Whenever you ride those nasty buses, you're on them a lot longer than 10 minutes. But if that's what some ducklings prefer that's fine with me because while they're riding around on buses I'll be in parks and in line for an attraction!
Originally Posted By dshyates But Witches, as a local, you have the luxury of driving down at your leisure and having a car on-prop. So you get to see the TTC often. I assume you are still in Maitland? I was in Altamonte Springs and Casselberry last week. The place sure has changed a lot since I left the area in 1995. The Bombay Bicycle Club is gone. The reason I was in town is that I was interviewing at CFN13. I think I may have gotten the job. They will let me know next week. I still have all the HR hoops to jump through (Background Check, Driving Record, Drug Screen, and Credit History. I have a forclosure and a 1 speeding ticket that could shoot me down. Fingers crossed) If I do get the job, they want me in the Volusia County bureau. So I won't actually be in Otown, but a hell of a lot closer than West Virginia. I haven't mentioned it too much since I don't want to jinx it. I really want this job. (trying to type with fingers still crossed)
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey <<I still have all the HR hoops to jump through (Background Check, Driving Record, Drug Screen, and Credit History.>> Maybe I'm an idiot, but why do employers do a credit check? If you deal with cash, I could understand it, but what's the point in any other case?
Originally Posted By dshyates I don't really know, especially since I'm a news photographer. But I had to fill out a disclosure form that said they were going to do a credit check. I have pretty bad credit after the foreclosure, so I hope it doesn't carry much weight in the decision making process. Driving record I understand since I will be driving a station vehicle. I have one speeding ticket for 59 in a 55, 4 mph over. I got it on my birthday in a station vehicle 2.5 years ago. The birthday gift that keeps on giving.
Originally Posted By Mr X Just more big brother BS if you ask me (same with the drug screening, the driving recored, and all the rest). It's all a load of garbage if you ask me. Sure, they drug test all the truck drivers. Great. But does that mean they can prove all of them don't drink? Or don't drink "much"? So there you have it. Idiocy personified. Honestly I'd rather have a stoned truck driver next to me on the highway vs. a drunk one ANY DAY. But the stoners can't get the job. The drunks get a pass. Great system. (I have NO clue what your credit report has to do with your job other than some vague reference to "good citizenship" or whathaveyou...same reason why some jobs require "a college degree" (in what subject? doesn't matter. any will do...just so long as you spent a lot of money and wasted 4 years partying on your parents' dime...YOU'RE hired). Brilliant.
Originally Posted By mstaft My favorite T&TC memory: April 1983 going to WDW for our 1 year wedding anniversary. Arrived about 9pm into Orlando. Went to the T&TC just to ride the monorial around to EPCOT Center. The views of Future World and World Showcase all lit up. I could barely slepp that night as I was so thrilled for my first visit to the park the next day- and it didn't disappoint!
Originally Posted By bobbelee9 Why should there be a choice of drunk or stoned? I don't want either of them driving anywhere near me. My husband always feel jinxed if someone wishes him luck. So I ain't saying nothing for now.
Originally Posted By NikkiLOVESMickey The after school program at my school was being funded by an outside entity, and anyone who worked the program had to fill out an application and agree to a background check, etc., including a credit check. I told them that I absolutely refused to allow them to do a check because it had nothing to do with my ability to work with children, and many of my fellow teachers, including my assistant principal, did the same thing. It's totally ridiculous. What is a credit check going to tell you about my performance that a call to one of my references won't tell you? Good luck dshyates - I hope you get the job.
Originally Posted By dshyates Thanks, I have a pretty good feeling about this one. But I still have my fingers crossed.
Originally Posted By Witches of Morva ORWEN: Now, really, dshyates, duckling! Whatever gave you the idea us Cauldron girls own one of those fiendish metal contraptions you call a 'car'?! And what makes you think we live so close to Disney World? Haven't you been paying attention all this time? We live in Morva and have to fly BROOMS ev'ry time we wanna' visit the Second Happiest Place on Earth! Don't tell me you've forgoten that! ORGOCH: Must have, poor thing. Anyways, with gas prices as high as they is, even if we DIDN'T have brooms ta fly, we'd git where we wanted ta go some other way--like maybe on a flyin' rug er on one a them vacuum cleaner things. Then we'd be able ta suck up ta ANYbody!!
Originally Posted By vbdad55 <Maybe I'm an idiot, but why do employers do a credit check? If you deal with cash, I could understand it, but what's the point in any other case?< credit checks potentially show a lot of things no indicator gives 100% proof of anything - but an employer sometimes feels those who neglect their credit / payments also may tend to be that way about other aspects of their life. People who pay all their bills late may not necessarily be 'detail' oriented people ( again depending onjob applyingfor may be relevant ). most jobs/positions require some sense of judgement - some much more than others - so while sometimes people fall into bad credit through a tough break, having a repeated history of this may indicate poor decision making vs. just a bad break. Just an opinion as someone who has interviewed people for 25 + years. p.s. also have had people 'open up' in interviews about their credit even though it is not a question one wouldusually ask about. People have said things like, " well my credit is bad in case that showed up, but really I paid the important bills, just that I never paid my student loan because I was young when i agreed to that and I didn't understand what I was getting into " People have also actually said, " well I knew I really couldn't afford the car when I bought it, but they repossessed it so no one got hurt in the deal" I could likely write a book on things people say in interviews that leave you just stunned.
