Morey's plans to build $10 million hotel

Agent Johnson said:
Actually in the real world hotels are demolished and re built many times until they get it right. Check out the Vegas Strip for changes and get back to me. The name the Morey's chose is a working name only.

I know that. I think you missed the joke. ;)

Agent Johnson said:
Actually in the real world hotels are demolished and re built many times until they get it right.

Hmmm.

Check out the Vegas Strip for changes and get back to me.

Oh. If your measure for the 'real world' is Vegas, then that explains a lot, I guess.

The cool kids are mean, mom. I'm not going back to school.

When I went to Wildwood last year, I was surprised at the lack of "regular" hotels. I guess I'm used to beaches like Virginia, Ocean City, Lauderdale, etc. where the shore is lined with large big-name hotels.

It adds some quaintness (charm?) to the boardwalk there, but also makes it a pain in the ass to find somewhere to stay.

Interesting point. And now that you mention it, we've never satayed in Wildwood. We've always stayed up the shore somewhere and driven down for the day.

Semi-OT, but there was an article the Post recently about Yelp's impact on mom-and-pop restaurants vs. chains. The essential point: the value of a chain is that you know what to expect in terms of price and quality up front. They sell *consistency*. Mom-and-pops might be great, or they might be awful, and you won't know until you get there---so why risk it?

But, with Yelp et. al., you have reviews from many others right at your fingertips and can filter good vs. bad. We've had pretty good luck with Yelp in finding "local" places over the last few years---both food and lodging.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/ezra-klein/post/how-yelp-is-kil..._blog.html

Edited to add: the WP blog doesn't say much more, but does link to a Harvard Business School case that goes into more detail:
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-016.pdf

Lord Gonchar said:
we've never satayed

Joyfully looking up the word satayed....
Between Coasterbuzz and Judge Judy (it's a phase), I've never looked up so many words in the past month.

I wonder if there has been a big effect (positive or negative?!) on business at the Jersey Shore parks since the show, Jersey Shore.

Heh, too great of a typo to change. :)

CoasterDemon said:

I wonder if there has been a big effect (positive or negative?!) on business at the Jersey Shore parks since the show, Jersey Shore.

From what I've read, the influence of the show has been a financial positive for the Jersey Shore amusement areas. Image-wise? Not so much.

Mike Gallagher said:

From what I've read, the influence of the show has been a financial positive for the Jersey Shore amusement areas. Image-wise? Not so much.

Good lord, I wish Judge Judy could get a hold of some of those Jersey shore-ites.

I'm not embarrassed to say that I absolutely love Judge Judy. Her show is one of the most entertaining half-hours on daytime TV. Just putting that out there for the world to see.

I don't have premium channels, but from what I have seen of Jersey Shore, I would not want my State to be represented by that show.

I love chicken satay!

Chicken satay is not part of the conversation. :p

The Jersey Shore stays in Ocean County, NJ at Seaside Heights and Seaside Park. They are not 'welcome' nor allowed to 'shoot footage' in Cape May County, which includes Cape May, the Wildwoods, Sea Isle, Avalon, Stone Harbor, and Ocean City. OC is a dry town, so they win by default. You will never see the oompa loompa Snooki yarfing over a trash can there.

They tried to set up shop 2 years ago in Sea Isle and never made it past the first contact. When they show up, as a business owner, you have to sign waivers and such that give them 'creative control' over all events, etc. No one really wants that group wrecking their bar, pier, waterpark, whatever and not having 'edit before telecast' rights. Seaside, they need the business more than Wildwood.

However, the MTV Beach House, shot circa late 1990's in Seaside Heights was good for business, giving backdrop coverage to Casino Pier. If you see the house now, you can't believe thats where MTV rocked the summer.

Jeff said:
If they could, it would already be there. Figured I'd get that out of the way now.

If you bothered reading the article you would see that there are 4 THOUSAND fewer hotel rooms in Wildwood than there were before they started tearing down the old 50's motels for the land. This venture barely puts a dent into that. You also fail to mention there is a friggin CONVENTION CENTER 2 blocks away necessitating a nice hotel nearby.

You're not even comparing apples to oranges, more like apples to elephants.

Is that a 747 flying millimeters past the top of billb's head?

The fact that you don't know a joke when you see it, Bill, particularly at your expense, really takes the fun out of it.