Food and Wine Festival 2021
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That is this season's version of Bel Concertino. It should be around all summer.
Just saw the same thing. Have to get my horchata fix elsewhere. There’s a great spot in town at least.
?? Jamaica ?? stand now open. ????
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Walked the entirety of the park 3 times. Overall, an excellent event. I would say it felt the park was more complete than prior events (there was something going on throughout the park).
Entertainment was pretty good. I hate to say not “family oriented,” but besides being talented and enjoyable to listen to while passing by, was difficult to pause and enjoy with a young family.
Misses — Mexico stand did not open at all. Weather is out of BGW’s control. Operations overall were smooth and announcements were welcome as rides opened. Griffon needs some serious something going on to keep it from going down all the time; I roll my eyes when I see it open at this point. A guest told me he waited a total of 2 hours on it throughout the day and still hadn’t ridden. Staffing seemed to improve as the day went on, but had a person tell me they were short this morning at their stand. Only lengthy line was South Korea. Saw the Pantheon camera crowd out there. ? Not sure who all that was. Finnegan’s was running only one side & had a 60 minute wait listed. Skipped it.
I tried food from all stands except Virginia (and Mexico). Standouts were Chicken & Andouille from French Quarter, Beef Bulgogi from South Korea, and the Jerk Chicken Slider from Jamaica.
Crowd levels were just fine. Apollo was maybe a 30 minute wait. I’ve learned Verbolten is either a first stop or an hour plus wait, so missed out on that. Everyone on rides seemed to having a lot of fun; overall positive experience it seemed all around. Will return!
Entertainment was pretty good. I hate to say not “family oriented,” but besides being talented and enjoyable to listen to while passing by, was difficult to pause and enjoy with a young family.
Misses — Mexico stand did not open at all. Weather is out of BGW’s control. Operations overall were smooth and announcements were welcome as rides opened. Griffon needs some serious something going on to keep it from going down all the time; I roll my eyes when I see it open at this point. A guest told me he waited a total of 2 hours on it throughout the day and still hadn’t ridden. Staffing seemed to improve as the day went on, but had a person tell me they were short this morning at their stand. Only lengthy line was South Korea. Saw the Pantheon camera crowd out there. ? Not sure who all that was. Finnegan’s was running only one side & had a 60 minute wait listed. Skipped it.
I tried food from all stands except Virginia (and Mexico). Standouts were Chicken & Andouille from French Quarter, Beef Bulgogi from South Korea, and the Jerk Chicken Slider from Jamaica.
Crowd levels were just fine. Apollo was maybe a 30 minute wait. I’ve learned Verbolten is either a first stop or an hour plus wait, so missed out on that. Everyone on rides seemed to having a lot of fun; overall positive experience it seemed all around. Will return!
I was glad to get my favorites despite all the crowds
Brazil: Churrasco and Frozen Lemonade
Jamaica: Gamba Fritters
Mediterranean: Spanakopita and Dolomades .
Brazil: Churrasco and Frozen Lemonade
Jamaica: Gamba Fritters
Mediterranean: Spanakopita and Dolomades .
Only lengthy line was South Korea um HELL NO!!! This was Pretzel shop at around 1. I could have gone on and about lines but didn't want to spend another day taking pictures of crowds standing around. I didn't want to wait in line to use my free item ticket and only happened to get lucky enough to hit Hawaii with a short line. I honestly have no Idea how you could possibly have been in the same park as me and have your opinion.
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Sheer luck? ? Though I did forget I did not stand in line for Jamaica. I took the kids on the carousel while my wife waited in line. That one was pretty long. All others I was maybe 1-2 back when I arrived.
Here’s similar area when I went through the…3rd time? There were people, but wasn’t as busy when I went through that time.
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That fine if you want to say that especially later. in the day as it did thin out but there is no reasonable way to suggest that lines were anything but Longford most of the day and it's kinda misleading to people who are looking for honest feedback to use to make decisions about future trip to take an isolated chance period and display it as if it was the norm.
Thanks for these photos! Yikes on the portion sizes of the Churrasco and the Fritters though—notable reduction in both vs 2019.
A close family member and a friend were in the park today, and both had a great time. Neither rode a single ride, notably. They were just there to go 'round the world and have some fun kicking off F&W.
The only food line they found prohibitive all day was (I think) Jamaica at one point. No complaints the rest of the way. And while the park seemed to be hosting a considerably larger crowd than 1-2 of the earlier days this week, they reported mask compliance as being MUCH better than earlier in the week -- to the point where they felt it was a safer environment in the larger crowd of mask wearers than in the smaller crowd of mouth-breathers and chin-strappers visiting the place just a couple of days earlier.
While I didn't see the park today, I did see it earlier this week, and mask compliance frankly was just terrible among one populous subset of guests. But that's a different story. Regarding today, it seems the opinion that lines generally weren't too bad is shared among at least 3 people.
The only food line they found prohibitive all day was (I think) Jamaica at one point. No complaints the rest of the way. And while the park seemed to be hosting a considerably larger crowd than 1-2 of the earlier days this week, they reported mask compliance as being MUCH better than earlier in the week -- to the point where they felt it was a safer environment in the larger crowd of mask wearers than in the smaller crowd of mouth-breathers and chin-strappers visiting the place just a couple of days earlier.
While I didn't see the park today, I did see it earlier this week, and mask compliance frankly was just terrible among one populous subset of guests. But that's a different story. Regarding today, it seems the opinion that lines generally weren't too bad is shared among at least 3 people.
The park is advertising a Virtual Hiring Event. We also heard they are looking for Summer performers specifying drummers, flautists, violins, brass, woodwinds, saxophone, guitarist and a Country Duo.
Just one final thing if you have a membership you have to print your free item voucher from the machines in zone A by the tram drop off as the ones by England and the ones in side the park were still down.
He said what his experience was. Just because it wasn’t as bad as yours doesn’t make it inaccurate.
My issue was that the lines were so evident that there was no way that you could have missed them. At one point both Pretzel shop and Verbolten were HALF way across the October Fest San Marco Bridge. The Jamaica both line was down past the upgrade center and headed toward Dark Kastle. Griffon was out the over flow Queu and over the bridge by the drop. Again you could not have missed these things if you were there.
This is what we saw as well. The only area that didn't have lines was Sesame Street where everything was pretty much a walk on.