Atlanta Taco Fest a disaster (eat, tickets, money)

[samiwas1]

Originally Posted by ashpelham

I personally detest Atlanta. Unrelenting traffic for nowhere near the draw that Los Angeles is. Cost of living and for rent through the roof, but only in the places you'd actually want to live. If living in Carroll County is your idea of Atlanta, then yeah, homes are cheap. Of course, then you are basically in my lovely state, Alabammy....Take a pass on it, and stay in California.

Then I guess we're even. Because I detest Los Angeles, except for some of the northern areas.

Cost of living in most of Atlanta is perfectly affordable, unless you want to live in the north half inside the perimeter, or directly in Midtown.

Originally Posted by flyonpa

Refund info:

Atlanta Taco Festival responds after angry attendees slam 'disastrous' event | WSB-TV

At least they are offering refunds. My wife signed up for a race last year. They canceled the race and said "Sorry, no refunds, but you can join us in Florida or Missouri". So essentially, they just stole the money and moved on.

[Bobdreamz]

Originally Posted by primaltech

I went, or tried to- man it was a total, complete disaster. Almost felt like a scam, huge waste of money. We stood in line for hours just to get one small quesadilla, and it wasn't that good.Rain and mud made it even worse. Just a total disaster.

Luckily, after that we Uber'd into Midtown and had a nice evening, and were able to at least get a laugh about it. Ironically we ate dinner at Escorpion and the food was way better than the stupid taco fest we spent all day waiting for.

If they have this next year, they should get rid of the armband system which was just slowing things up. Just use cash. Also they should have made admission free, and just have every food truck charge normal price. The lines just to get into the park were ridiculous.

Also they need about 10 times more food trucks. Only had a few. It was a total joke.

Sounds familiar

Nightmare at TomorrowWorld: Guests stranded overnight with no shelter

[green_mariner]

I went to Atlanta Taco Festival with the anticipation of running into some people. Some people on facebook said they would be there. They never showed. The lines were long everywhere. There were people who stood in line for an hour for beer. It was messy everywhere because of the rain. Mud all over. What I never got was why alot of people weren't more disturbed about the chaos. I couldn't even tell where some of the lines started.

[0nyxStation]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Anyone go to this disaster? It seems these types of events are always oversold and crowded; eg: BeltLine Beer Crawl, Lobster Fest, Atlanta Food Truck Fest.
I will say the comments on the Facebook page and event where awesome, but now the pages have been deleted.
Atlanta Taco Festival gets angry reaction from many attendees - Decaturish

yea heard it was a giant vacuum cleaner with rainbow colors bad. They may need a better location.

[0nyxStation]

Originally Posted by cqholt

Wait, the $40 did include some money loaded onto the wristband.

you got pimped man I guess everything ITP ain't all peaches and cream?

[0nyxStation]

Originally Posted by Larry X

I made a decision years ago never attend another event that involves a ton of people, standing for long periods of time, hot weather, and expensive food.

top man. Some of these fests and gatherings are whack. It's good to get out and such, but I can't remember the last I enjoyed here in a while. Maybe Carnival 2014 in downtown.

[0nyxStation]

Originally Posted by Sualpine

When you have a city with no culture, and you have to manufacture festivals as a commercial product, what else did you expect?

maybe you have a point. What is Atlanta culture? And why all these fake festivals?

[AnsleyPark]

Were the tacos good?

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by AnsleyPark

Were the tacos good?

The food was good. It just wasn't worth the long waits and struggle. Muddy everywhere, disorganized.

[cqholt]

Originally Posted by 0nyxStation

you got pimped man I guess everything ITP ain't all peaches and cream?

Bro, first I am not dumb enough to pay $40 to go to this event, when I can just walk to elmyriachi. Second, yes intown is peaches and cream with whip cream on top.