SeventyOne
Platinum Member
It was pretty clearly designed to mimic Pleasure Island while avoiding actual turnstiles, thus being more welcoming. (With being easy to close off for conventions a fringe benefit). When most everything up there was designed to be a nightclub that happened to serve some food, it made a lot more sense.
Early on the design flaws started to show. They used to do a parade/circus show that would try to draw people up the Margaritaville ramp in the early evening (this would be early 2000s). As the nightclub complex aspect started to fade -- it's hard to keep any place "hip" for more than 5 years as Church St Station and Pleasure Island found out -- and Latin Quarter and Cowfish became straight-up restaurants, it became the current awkward situation.
Early on the design flaws started to show. They used to do a parade/circus show that would try to draw people up the Margaritaville ramp in the early evening (this would be early 2000s). As the nightclub complex aspect started to fade -- it's hard to keep any place "hip" for more than 5 years as Church St Station and Pleasure Island found out -- and Latin Quarter and Cowfish became straight-up restaurants, it became the current awkward situation.