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Originally posted by JosephM
Disney can (and is) expanding to hold more teams. Pop Century. This hotel would have been the FIRST HQ. .
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Pop Century was never completed due to lack of funds <edit> (Not because they don't have the money to, its just that the money would benifit going somewhere else instead) </edit>, also Disney really doesn't ever have hotel avalibility problems, so many hotels open on a daily basis, people can find a cheaper hotel if they open their eyes and look. The other 360 days of the year, Disney wouldn't make anywhere near what they would during the championship.
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Originally posted by JosephM
Huston
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Houston
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Originally posted by JosephM
Transportation
The capactiy for approx. each Disney bus is around 35 people. Each bus runs at intervals of 5 mins on most days durring closing and such. 60 mins/ 5 min intervals= 16 buses and hour. Times 35 and 16 you get 560 people per hour on buses to each hotel. FIRST had around 5 hotels they used. 5 X 560= 2800 people per hour out of the FIRST stadium. Around 20,000 people were there last year, leaving at varaying hours. Each hotel was less than 20 miles from Epcot. This allows for people to easily get to and get out of FNC (FIRST Nationals Center, my little name for the competition location) and get to their hotels FAST.
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Thats for people staying on Disney property, but for the people that weren't, they got their busses at 4 or 5 time periods a day from outside charter buses hired by FIRST or supplied by the hotel. Also, even on the disney hotels, they had outside charter buses come in and transport people to the competition in the morning.
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Originally posted by JosephM
Lodgeing
There were around 5 on and off site hotels that held FIRST kids. I don't want to look up nor find the occupancy of each room and how many rooms were reserved by FIRST teams. But with two cheep places to stay (All Stars and the new Pop Century), many teams won't spend more than $60 per nite in a good room.
Lets not get into entertainment. Each park can hold anywhere from 50,000-90,000 each.
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Where did you get 5 on and offsite hotels?
I can think of at least 8 or 9 offsite alone, not even counting the Disney hotels. Thats just off the top of my head.
Also, you have no idea what kind of rates Houston is giving us, but im sure that it will be a lot lower for better quality than the disney inflated themed hotels.
Also, who cares about park size?
Remember, we are here for the competition, not the park.
<edit> One last thing </edit>
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Originally posted by jk2005
The only problem is the fact that how do we get to these places???? Yah know it is reall great that they are there but with no way to get to them you are kinda screwed.
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If you would read the hotel info, most of the hotels give free transportation to places within a few miles of the hotel.
Any other questions??