cckelly

Luau on 7/12 - Food was awful, we waited an hour in line for terrible food. We did not get food until 10:30 PM and clearly the planning for this perhaps was in part an underestimation of passholder participation rate, but Kings Island surely has done events before and precedent/experience seems to have been thrown out the window this time around. Did anyone preparing the food taste test the food? It was pretty much awful outside of the (pre-made) chicken nuggets and mini corn dogs. The macaroni salad was especially disgusting (who thought mayonnaise and white pepper was a good recipe for macaroni salad?) Come on Kings Island, that was a waste of time for my family. The shrimp was not good, it smelled like old/rotten shrimp. The chicken sandwich was gross (again, anyone taste this stuff before serving?). Lastly, you could not see what you were trying to put on your plate due to no lighting. The staff were pleasant, but appeared to have no ability to anticipate that once they brought out one bowl of whatever to replace the (completely empty table of 3-4 bowls), they probably would another one right away. They instead waited until the bowl was empty and then went to the kitchen (in Alaska?) for a refill. This seems to have been an entire operation run by children who have no clue. I realize the food was provided "free of charge" and thank goodness cause it was not worth what we paid, and it was a wasted trip driving to Kings Island yesterday for this. We were unable to do anything much else (rides etc) because we waited so long in line.