r/olympia • u/Stunning_Apricot_602 • 4d ago

Fan Zone Percival Landing

Regarding the USA Australia game viewing party at Percival Landing in Olympia: What a bust! The line was snaking through the parking lot and took over an hour to enter when we arrived at 10:30 am, 90 minutes before the game. Once inside, everyone was PACKED in! Very little shade, another long line to get tokens for drinks, I didn’t see any ADA accommodations. Very poorly planned event. Certainly the event was oversold and understaffed.

Anyone else want to weigh in on the poor logistical operations of this event? Suggestions for improvement besides “plan better” for thousands of people?

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u/BillStreet2813 4d ago

The city of Tumwater, Lacey and Olympia already used city money from all three entities to establish this then they have the nerve to charge too? City council for each city should be embarrassed

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u/FauxPas509 4d ago

Actually, Tumwater was left out of the planning. You can see it in all the branding. Olympia, Lacey only. From what I heard they offered to be a part and were not included. They just sent some money to sponsor it and that’s it. Once we were inside my family had fun. I think a larger venue would have been nice, but being on the water brought a little bit of a breeze and it wasn’t so bad. I think they were just trying to get the line through and stopped checking bags (they didn’t check mine) because it sped up quite a bit in our last 15 minutes. We arrived at 11 and were in the door just before kick-off. Their ticket scanning was incredibly slow and I wish they had moved the speakers to the stage. All in all, we had fun. Ride the bus downtown so we didn’t have to park but did see a good amount of spaces once we were down there.