Trade you. In Sept my City has Frontier Days. It has a carnival that starts set-up on Monday and tears down Saturday night after closing down. The "big" rides are set up in the parking lot across from my front porch. The kiddie rides are set up in the parking lot across the alley from my side yard. The Skee Ball Game trailer is set up tires against the curb of my sidewalk. I can almost reach out and touch it from my porch. What do I get out of it? I charge the Skee Ball guy $25 to plug into my electric for the week.
The first year I had guests booked - 2 rooms - and told them the carnival would be across the street. No problem. THEN I watched them setting up! I called the guests and told them I had a Skee Ball Trailer in front. CANCEL!!! Now that I know the setup, I do not even try for guests that week..
gillumhouse said:
Trade you. In Sept my City has Frontier Days. It has a carnival that starts set-up on Monday and tears down Saturday night after closing down. The "big" rides are set up in the parking lot across from my front porch. The kiddie rides are set up in the parking lot across the alley from my side yard. The Skee Ball Game trailer is set up tires against the curb of my sidewalk. I can almost reach out and touch it from my porch. What do I get out of it? I charge the Skee Ball guy $25 to plug into my electric for the week.
The first year I had guests booked - 2 rooms - and told them the carnival would be across the street. No problem. THEN I watched them setting up! I called the guests and told them I had a Skee Ball Trailer in front. CANCEL!!! Now that I know the setup, I do not even try for guests that week.
Kathleen, you should find out who at the city coordinates this thing and impress on them how this impacts your business. They may be able to arrange a different distribution for the attractions. You have rights!
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Kind of hard to do since I am part of the planning now. The first year I was not involved. City Hall reserves parking places for me - 1 for my car and spaces for guests (year #2 I gave a room to Miss WV who was in the parade and my brother stopped in so they were freebies) if I have any brave enough to book by putting up orange cones across the spaces.
The business next door to me had a fit, I looked at it as it was good for my City - and it is. There is no other place for the carnival. They left a route in for the physical therapy place next door (and they have parking behind their building) but they were torked off because their patients could not park across the street or directly in front. I prefer to work with the City for the common good. That goes a long way to making life good when you are an alien (meaning my family has not been here for at least 3 or 4 generations so they don't know "who's your Daddy?").
I do thank you for thinking of me though.
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