Well I used to bring lots of people to jai-alai. We would usually
have dinner at the clubhouse, move down to box seats, bet a few
hundred each game, etc.
Last time I brought people to jai-alai we had to stop and eat
somewhere else on the way because a few were hungry....and jai-alai
doesn't offer ANY decent food. There's a couple hundred bucks
the fronton could have made but didn't.
Then we got there and more than one commented how the place
looked dirty and dingy. It is embarrassing now to bring people
to the frontons.
After the games we wanted to play some poker. They had 3 tables
going, the rest empty....but put us on a wait list. After 10 minutes
one of them said "let's go play at the Hard Rock" so
we drove there.
And of course once there everyone had a great time, tons of
places to eat, drink, gamble, shop, etc.
Nobody from that group has been back to jai-alai. They go to
Hard Rock every month.
Maybe if the frontons weren't complete dumps then people like
me would bring more people there.
