[QUOTE=RICHARD;2269113]

Be creative, discount the rooms, figure out how to make the Spring Break shenanigans family friendly and sell, sell, sell.

Lining up all the excuses to worry about now and never looking at the problem and how to make the best of a real hard time.

QUOTE]
************************************************** ************************************************** **************************************************

Discount the rooms - all well and good - but the folks who are looking for that beach vacation just aren't going to come, if there is no accessible beach to go to.

How about that restaurant owner that specializes in all those wonderful seafood dishes from the Gulf waters harvest. No seafood = no customers.

And the fisherman who make their living on their boats. If the waters are polluted then they can't very well take contaminated fish to market to sell, not to mention the eventual cleanup costs of their oil laden vessels.

How do you tell these folks to just deal with it?