A_Titanic_Mess

Calling me names (Bitter party of one) does not change the fact that this over-hyped event was underwhelming. Just trying to save folks from wasting a lot of money on a sub-par event. PKI needs to stick to what they do best, which is running a summer theme park (even though that is debatable also). Winterfest, Fearfest....all ploys to get more people through the gate and more money into the bank. I will give them an "A" for effort on Winterest, but a "D" for execution. Even Siebert knows when to bail from a sinking ship....

Now that the park has invested the money in refrigeration for the ice rink at Winterfest, they could bring an ice show back to the Festhaus. The park used the old Winterfest refrigeration for the staged ice shows. They sold the equipment once the ice show in the Paramount Theater went dark.

Went to the big Winterfest opening night, as was less than impressed. I worked for PKI for over 12 years. I was part of the original Winterfest crew. The new Winterfest is a sad knock-off of the original. Very disappointing. The show in the Paramount Theater used the Elf number from "Home for the Holidays" when the show used to be in the Festhaus at the original Winterfest. Pretty much the same music and set. The original Festhaus show was so much better. The train ride was just awful....everyone around us was commenting "where are the lights and decorations???". It was just horrible. The light show on Swan Lake did not work. It would start, and then stop about 2 minutes into the show. This happened about 4 times in row. It was finally fixed. The show was ok at best. The lights on International Street were nice, but none of the trees on the street had lights in them. Where are the 3 million lights??? The old Winterfest had 1 million lights, and all the trees on International Street had lights. The biggest noticable problem was the lack of attendance....very sparse for the opening night of an event of this size. PKI was saying that you should buy "date-specific" tickets because most nights would be sold out. Please.....they will be lucky to get one sell-out. Any one of us that worked the original Winterfest's could have told you that this would be a flop. I give this event maybe 1 or 2 seasons max. The original did not last, and neither will this one.