HerrAwesomevonbraun
Jul 2024
Unless you are really a major of fan of Sesame Street, do not visit Sesame Place. We visited Sesame Place on Friday, the 26th of July 2024. This business (United Parks and Resorts) defines the term "price gauging" as they seek to minimize operating costs via limited capital and labor while charging exorbitant prices. It was not a crowded day and eleven slides were closed throughout the park: multiple spaghetti slides, the Ernie tunnel, the Cookie Monster Mixer, the Grouch slide, all four slides within the Count's castle, and the speed slides. This resulted in unnecessarily long wait times (we were at the park for all seven operating hours, and we were only able to ride 4 slides). One pays full price for a fraction of the available services.
The metal railings leading up the stairs to the Snuffi Spaghetti slides were teeming with an infestation of ants. Unfortunately, most people did not realize this until they noticed ants crawling all over their bodies. My daughter, my wife and I had them all over our bodies and faces. Once at the top, the ants were all over the wooden stairs and the platform. Children screamed and parents slapped at their bodies to help while also trying to remove the ants from their own bodies. Nothing was done to help guests. Nothing. Parents were washing off ants from their kids' bodies in the water at the top of the slides while "lifeguards" tried to prevent them from doing so. We had bites all over our bodies, including our faces.
This was also the case leading up to the Bert tunnels. However, a ramp leads to these slides, thus, fewer people make use of the hand rails and most were spared the experience of ants crawling all over them at this particular slide. I was not one of them. Other businesses providing entertainment services would have taken steps to prevent this situation, however, again, Sesame Place takes every measure to cut operating costs.
Lastly, a quick search clearly demonstrates the high prices. As such, I will share one more example: 2 slices of Pizza, 1 kid pizza, 1 juice box, and 2 sodas cost $68. Disgusting.