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| - The parking situation at Westworld is just unacceptable and put my family in danger last weekend. Here's the problem: The only public parking is acres and acres of raw desert that's merely had its vegetation removed. It's acres of dirt, and dirt with deep suspension damaging ruts all over the place.
Here's where it became dangerous for us: Folks just park anywhere in the open dirt and boxed us and several other cars in so we couldn't get out (see the pic I posted). Westworld hires a parking company that tries to direct parkers, but it's just not possible to manage that much acerage - especially when they can't see through all the dust the cars kick up. In 90 degree heat, the parking supervisor gave us cold water and though she was sympathetic, told us there was nothing she could do to help and we would just have to wait at our car until the other cars' owners unblocked our way. If we were dogs, we would have had all kinds of help to get us out of our hot car, but being people we just had to suck it up. For an hour and a half before we could get out. Sunburns and heat exhaustion all around. It's ok, we're natives and used to it (sarcasm).
We also now have little pits all over the car's paint and windshield where someone's car kicked up dirt and debris on it.
Collector car events like Barrett-Jackson or Good Guys have no business using Westworld as a venue. It's bad enough we can't bring our fun cars to the event because the dirt lot is so damaging. As it is, our daily driver now needs to be buffed and get a new windshield.
Putting my family in danger was just the last straw. I will not be returning to any event at Westworld until they get paved, marked parking. As much as people may think Scottsdale is a Wild West town (it's never been one), it really is 2017 and we are one of the largest U.S. cities with all the modern technology that makes Westworld's parking situation ridiculously unnecessary.
If you have to go, take an Uber.
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