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| - What a mess! We drove an hour from Ahwatukee after getting an email ad from Dillon's showing a nice restaurant on the lake. We enjoyed Dillon's on Central before it closed, and also enjoy the one at the zoo, so we thought it would be a great way to spend a Sunday afternoon. But, the marina has made it next to impossible to even get close to Dillon's.
We were surprised to find a gate, where we had to pay $6 for parking and were then directed to a shuttle lot. We played along, figuring it must be a system that works, but boy were we wrong. We parked, unloaded the kids, and went to wait under the blue canopy as instructed. Instead of a shuttle, a big golf cart pulls up and is rushed by the people who have accumulated in no order under the blue canopy. There are no instructions for how or where to line up, and the shuttle driver takes people based on the room in the golf cart. The golf cart comes once ever 15 minutes or so, and there are large groups parking and waiting under the canopy. After a half hour standing in the parking lot with three kids and having people arrive after us and board before us, we gave up and left.
Absolutely ridiculous. This system cannot make sense to any rational human being. Instead of random seating in the form of picnic tables and benches, give people a clue that they should line up. It should have made sense to anyone arriving that all the people under the canopy were waiting for the shuttle, but apparently not. It was a free for all.
Is it not more practical to have one person in each vehicle drop their group off at Dillon's and then park in the parking lot and take the shuttle back to the restaurant?! Then, you only have one person from each vehicle trying to board the golf cart instead of five and six people from each vehicle. Really, there just doesn't seem to be any thought given to this at all.
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