If Kings Dominion can have a pass member parking lot with a gate that scans your card, then why not BGW have a dedicated gate to scan your Platinum card at the 2nd lane of the cast member entrance. NO employee needed. Problem solved.
Park Surveys
- Thread starter tursiops
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Why even bother scanning? Just put up a gate like they have at car washes and gated communities, issue one or two RFID stickers for each platinum pass member, and call it a day.
because BGW cant even issue a plastic card for members much less hand out RFID tags. They charge for a hard plastic card which should be included with the $200 plus Membership price.
Assuming the money actually goes to conservation efforts, I am actually happy to pay for the plastic pass.
The two-lane employee entrance is exactly what I was thinking. Heck, even if it only had one person manning both sides, and the employee line got priority. I’ve never had to wait more than a minute or two, I can’t imagine that would change significantly.
I'm all for the money going to conservation efforts. I think busch should make all of them hard plastic cards and add a surcharge that goes to conservation each year.
I don’t think people should be forced to pay extra for something they may not wish to support financially.
I just want a laser-etched Titanium pass like my Apple Card.
In all seriousness though, couldn't someone just recreate the pass barcodes on a custom metal card pretty easily? Maybe with their own, fancy, laser-printed, BGW-inspired card design?
If only I knew someone with the manufacturing capabilities, BGWFans could offer it as a service with our own custom-made art.
The contrast would be hard to pull off on metal, so then you're talking about a metal card with a foil backed adhesive layer, the art layer, and finally a protective layer to prevent loss of the barcode from wear. Not exactly trivial but such a thing exists. If you're not worried about replacing it twice a year you could maybe attempt a single layer solution.In all seriousness though, couldn't someone just recreate the pass barcodes on a custom metal card pretty easily? Maybe with their own, fancy, laser-printed, BGW-inspired card design?
If only I knew someone with the manufacturing capabilities, BGWFans could offer it as a service with our own custom-made art.
There was a time when BGW issued plastic card passes with a photo. I still have mine. I would have to look to see what years they did it. They even issued new passes every year. They would go into local malls and shopping centers and setup for a few days.
I have our passes from 1982 until now. From 82 to 94 the pass was a printed card that was then laminated by BG. From 95 to 2000 it was a plastic card that had a poor resolution picture added to the back side and the BG logo on the front side. After 2000 they started the heavy card stock type pass.
So, I guess the point is....they had the technology and equipment to make permanent plastic card passes 20 years ago.
I have our passes from 1982 until now. From 82 to 94 the pass was a printed card that was then laminated by BG. From 95 to 2000 it was a plastic card that had a poor resolution picture added to the back side and the BG logo on the front side. After 2000 they started the heavy card stock type pass.
So, I guess the point is....they had the technology and equipment to make permanent plastic card passes 20 years ago.
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I have made barcodes on laser cutters before using wood. Pretty easy to create the contrast necessary by just burning the hell out of it. And it looks just about as classy as can be. Never thought to do it with a membership or something for like a little wallet insert or necklace pendant.
It sounds like they may be trying a different form of this now.. still just the one lane. I was at BG on Tuesday (when they were parking Scotland), and got VIP Parking. They were having VIP Parking people turn around and get on 60 and go through the employee entrance to get to England. I asked, and apparently it’s because when they park across in Scotland, all parking, regardless of status, is turned around before England (in that little cut through). So, to fix that, on days they’re parking across the street, they seem to be doing that.
Just completed my most recent park survey from last weekend's visit. They really emphasized Land of the Dragons and our awareness/use of the area, 6 or 8 questions.
Really seemed out of the blue considering there were only 1 or 2 questions about Food & Wine and DarKoaster.
I wonder if they're kicking around new ideas for the area?
Really seemed out of the blue considering there were only 1 or 2 questions about Food & Wine and DarKoaster.
I wonder if they're kicking around new ideas for the area?
I completed one yesterday, as well, and my survey had two whole pages of questions about Sesame Street and my awareness and weight of the area on my decision to visit. Also had one page for Darkoaster, and three pages for culinary with only one page about Food and Wine.
So they're just all over the place then. I can put my tinfoil hat away.
I think some commonality can be drawn between sampling LotD and FoF, we have two kids areas in this park and there have long been conversations about splitting to a whole other gate for Sesame Place. Getting numbers on how many people care about the kids areas presently AND how opinions differ between LotD & FoF to me seems like basic metrics to start seeing where investments should go and if pursuing further expansion makes sense.
We typically only go to the park every 6-8 weeks, but normally for 2 or 3 days each time. I always get a survey, but only get the request after the first day, typically while I'm there the second day.
I'm not wishing it upon myself, but there could be a lot more valuable information gained from surveying after each visit, since the answers would vary so much from day to day (at least in our experience).
I'm not wishing it upon myself, but there could be a lot more valuable information gained from surveying after each visit, since the answers would vary so much from day to day (at least in our experience).