Disney cancels plans for a resort near DC

I also got what Jeff was saying. The place isn't hurting by any means. The place gets busy, especially during the warmer months. However, I see GoBucks point to an extent as well: the businesses there are generally more upscale, and therefore would likely deter the less desirable demographic were a Metro stop nearby.

Seems to me that the DC Metro system is in a league of its own at least in terms of public transportation systems in this country.

That doesn't really matter, from a tourism standpoint. Let's be honest, if Disney was going to do any kind of serious resort and/or park there, they're going to get you parking on-property, and bus you into the touristy stuff themselves.

That would be their ideal visitor. Doubt it would be all of them though. And I suspect that based on the nature of the area and all of the different things that folks can do in the area that there would be a lot of folks who aren't interested in a Disney only trip to DC.

Disneyland Paris has metro access and combo tickets for the train and park tickets!

That's the city of love, not DC. :)

I'm also not sure I buy "Metro is bad". It can be, but it doesn't have to be. Wyndham has two timeshares in the area---one in National Harbor, the other in the Old Town section of Alexandria. OTA is right next to the King's Street metro station. NH, as a planned development, is more upscale. But OTA is a perfectly nice section of town as well.

Personally, I'd rather stay at the OTA location for convenience.

wahoo skipper said:
I love all the holier than thou people of Virginia/Maryland/DC who are so thoughful of protecting the sacred ground in that area. You need only to go about a block or two off the National Mall to see what a real cess pool our nation's capitol is.

Maybe that's why they're fighting, to keep those areas from turning into the cesspool two blocks off of the National Mall. It wasn't just Disney they were worried about. It was the 70 other hotel chains, 500 fast food joints, and thousands of stores who would feel to need to be represented there once Disney moved in. Not to mention the multiple 12-lane highways that would have to be constructed to connect them all.

Re: the Metro, there were some incidents publicized a few years ago where some inner city thugs took the Metro out to suburban stops where they'd break into parked cars or hold up people in the parking lots. Of course, the what-shall-we-make-people-afraid-of-next media made it sound like that was a regular occurrence.

RatherGoodBear said:
Of course, the what-shall-we-make-people-afraid-of-next media made it sound like that was a regular occurrence.

They probably also made the subway out to be the only way an inner city youth could possibly make it to their precious suburbs to break into their cars that they don't lock.

What good is a news story if you can't use it to scare people? I suppose you also don't like it when the news media makes a 2" snow forecast sound like the coming of the next ice age. :)

Of the over sixty parks I've visited, DL Paris is by far the easiest one to get to by public transit. Changing trains at Capulet (sp?) was like changing at Times Square in NYC: just follow the lights.

I loved the Metro when I lived in DC. Clean, safe and efficient. Didn't miss my car as much as I thought I would.