Denver, CO - June 03

carfreekc · Post by **carfreekc** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 12:16 am

KC wrote:they went up there and did those things that small towns have....antique/trift stores and casinos.....plus seeing the mountians.

Yes denver has things to do, but for instance the mint isn't open on weekends we didn't think (we might have been wrong).

For example, look at this list of KC attractions that you could get done without having to get in a car (you'd have to take a bus mind you):

-Union Station (Science City, theatres, smaller U.S. museum)
-Liberty memorial
-Hallmark Visitor's Center
-Kaliedescope
-City Market
-Plaza
-Nelson
-Kemper (both museums very well known, unlike the MOMA in denver)
-Negro League Museum
-Jazz museum
-Steamboat Arabia
-Boulvard Brewery tour

then expand to a car
-Worlds of Fun
-Oceans of Fun
-Truman Sports Complex
-Zoo
-Powell Gardens
-Casinos

It just didn't seem like there was as much...we could be wrong...everything we picked up about Denver was like, 16th Street mall, lodo, & Cherry Creek...then pretty much it would send you to the mountains to do stuff........I'm more than willing to go back and try some new things though

If your friends just wanted to go see the mountains, that's cool. Just please say that instead of saying that Denver lacks attractions and your friends "had to drive to a mountain town to find something to do." I'm hardly a big Denver booster, but we're all sitting in front of something with Internet access right now and it takes only a very brief time to Google "Denver attractions" and come up with a list similar to the one you gave for KC (and it's at least as easy to reach many of them on transit there as it is here). Now if you just didn't bother to do that before going there or while you were there, well, that's your money on your trip. But it's a little disingenuous to come back then and claim that there's nothing else to do in Denver.

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 8:45 am

well their travel books in the hotel and the conceriege suck then because that was all they gave them.....they did want to go to the mountains but only when faced with no other possibilities....don't kill the messenger here, I research my trips and know what's going on...I talk to Denver people all the time.....my wife called 2 denver friends and they gave her nothing either. I was going to baseball games, so my trip was covered.

What should they have done instead?

QueSi2Opie · Post by **QueSi2Opie** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 4:58 pm

KC wrote:well their travel books in the hotel and the conceriege suck then because that was all they gave them.....they did want to go to the mountains but only when faced with no other possibilities....don't kill the messenger here, I research my trips and know what's going on...I talk to Denver people all the time.....my wife called 2 denver friends and they gave her nothing either. I was going to baseball games, so my trip was covered.

What should they have done instead?

Where do they live in Denver? I was ashamed because some Sprint techs from Las Vegas were stayin' on the Plaza and asked the clerk at the desk what attractions they should visit while in KC. He jus' gave them a verbal list of restaurants and casinos.

KCPowercat · Post by **KCPowercat** » Mon Jun 23, 2003 5:04 pm

yeah it's amazing....hotel workers are the front door to most cities and most don't care to know what's going on in the city...unless you are a conceirge and get tips for it.....I know KC's cvb is making a huge push to educate hotel workers.