There was definitely a lot more people out today. There was no FanFest today and there wasn't a big game happening but the streets, especially along the whole streetcar route, were still busy with so many Argentina fans. At the Argentina parade there was also a bunch of international media there and the vibes were high. Anyway, I am eager to see how the ConnectKC transportation system works out tomorrow. Hopefully it performs well, but we'll see. This is why public transportation is important! Love the streetcar, but the Metro Link is better transportation wise.jshank83 wrote: ↑3:44 PM - Jun 13Kansas City also hasn’t hosted a game yet. So some of it might be no one has come to town yet since it’s still a few days away.Chris Stritzel wrote: ↑3:11 PM - Jun 13Downtown KC businesses allowed their employees to work from home in anticipation of large amounts of crowds and traffic. But it just feels like standard business here, no big surge of people. It’s a very local-heavy party and crowd. Few to no visitors from out of town from what I can see. Big hotels aren’t very lit up at night, which I expect is because of the prices they wanted to charge. It’s so far going the way I thought it would though - local issues magnified to a more global audience and a party for the locals and their friends. Being in the middle of the country with no increases in flights and no international connections makes it difficult for most foreigners to get to.
And to be honest, the area’s in worse shape than the preparations made for the NFL Draft. Highways aren’t as clean, the cracked out homeless people are more numerous this event and the number of homeless is higher. There’s still a month to go with events and all that so we’ll see if more show up, but it’s a big party for the locals.
Isn’t the Fan Fest this afternoon and evening? My family said they were going. Do you have any trio recommendations? Getting excited for my trip.Dev7 wrote:There was definitely a lot more people out today. There was no FanFest today and there wasn't a big game happening but the streets, especially along the whole streetcar route, were still busy with so many Argentina fans. At the Argentina parade there was also a bunch of international media there and the vibes were high. Anyway, I am eager to see how the ConnectKC transportation system works out tomorrow. Hopefully it performs well, but we'll see. This is why public transportation is important! Love the streetcar, but the Metro Link is better transportation wise.jshank83 wrote: ↑3:44 PM - Jun 13Kansas City also hasn’t hosted a game yet. So some of it might be no one has come to town yet since it’s still a few days away.Chris Stritzel wrote: ↑3:11 PM - Jun 13Downtown KC businesses allowed their employees to work from home in anticipation of large amounts of crowds and traffic. But it just feels like standard business here, no big surge of people. It’s a very local-heavy party and crowd. Few to no visitors from out of town from what I can see. Big hotels aren’t very lit up at night, which I expect is because of the prices they wanted to charge. It’s so far going the way I thought it would though - local issues magnified to a more global audience and a party for the locals and their friends. Being in the middle of the country with no increases in flights and no international connections makes it difficult for most foreigners to get to.
And to be honest, the area’s in worse shape than the preparations made for the NFL Draft. Highways aren’t as clean, the cracked out homeless people are more numerous this event and the number of homeless is higher. There’s still a month to go with events and all that so we’ll see if more show up, but it’s a big party for the locals.
Tuesday marked the first World Cup game in Kansas City, Argentina vs. Algeria, and for Monday and Tuesday of match week, hotel bookings in the Kansas City metro show about an 111% increase over this time a year ago. For all six matches, the night before the game and night of the game, reservations are up 32% for those 12 nights.
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This is a real story in the World Cup thread related directly to the World Cup. You’ll just have to cope
seconded on both counts. Stick to downtown STL, DB. *Greatly* appreciate that content from you. Your KC sh*t is lame AF.ldai_phs wrote: ↑7:39 PM - Jun 17DB I find your posts about downtown St Louis to be very insightful but your fanatic obsession with finding negative or even fake stories about KC and other cities becomes boring after a while.
I understand it perfectly and have experienced it first hand for decades. Throughout my life, KC folks have often seemed jealous of STL. Still are in many ways.Debaliviere91 wrote: ↑8:42 PM - Jun 17When KC unfairly rags on St Louis, it comes across as jealousy. Just understand that works both ways.
The point is KC, like STL, had/has no business hosting the World Cup. FIFA chose KC over a city like Denver or Nashville, and it's just a crazy choice on every level, as we are seeing in real time.PlatinumBlues wrote:I don’t get the discourse about KC hosting the WC it’s not like STL had a real shot at hosting it in the first place & we’ve likely saved ourselves a lot of embarrassment on how downtown looks specially with the big sinkhole underneath the highway
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