Aquashella Orlando 2021

Tuffyyyyy · Jun 13, 2021

Not sure where to post this but want to get my thoughts out. I enjoyed it overall, spent 2 hours doing several laps and buying tons of coral. I would have loved to stay longer but I had a 10 hour drive back home. So many gorgeous corals out there. And the shrimp contest was so cool!

I do have a few of negatives that got to me though:

1) Barrier to entry was pretty high. $30 for a ticket, and then $14 for parking, just for the privilege of buying coral.

2) The colorful display is beautiful, and I loved walking through it, but don’t force me to do it right off the bat. I paid for the early entry and didn’t get in until like 11:30 because they pause the line every so often for people to walk through. Set this aside and let people do it as they please. Also on this note - I missed almost all of Bahama Llamas presentation because of the display line (And that’s a really poor time for him too).

3) Vendors should be required to have prices. If you didn’t have prices, I didn’t purchase anything from you. We’ve all been locked in our houses for over a year, I don’t know about you but I’m not at all socially conditioned again to ask the price of every coral.

DiveLife · Jul 7, 2021

Tuffyyyyy said:
Not sure where to post this but want to get my thoughts out. I enjoyed it overall, spent 2 hours doing several laps and buying tons of coral. I would have loved to stay longer but I had a 10 hour drive back home. So many gorgeous corals out there. And the shrimp contest was so cool!

I do have a few of negatives that got to me though:

1) Barrier to entry was pretty high. $30 for a ticket, and then $14 for parking, just for the privilege of buying coral.

2) The colorful display is beautiful, and I loved walking through it, but don’t force me to do it right off the bat. I paid for the early entry and didn’t get in until like 11:30 because they pause the line every so often for people to walk through. Set this aside and let people do it as they please. Also on this note - I missed almost all of Bahama Llamas presentation because of the display line (And that’s a really poor time for him too).

3) Vendors should be required to have prices. If you didn’t have prices, I didn’t purchase anything from you. We’ve all been locked in our houses for over a year, I don’t know about you but I’m not at all socially conditioned again to ask the price of every coral.

I was there for the entire weekend all day and thought it was cool. (First time at a show like this) wish I would've seen you. Bahama lamas presentation was pretty cool. Wish you would've seen it all. I got there at about 930 and got in line early. I agree the pricing to park was ridiculous. But we stayed at the resort so I had to pay the entire weekend regardless. I didn't see too many without pricing on their corals. I must've missed some then. But I do agree there were a few things that need to be tweaked for next year. I personally thought there would be more equipment and other things for sale as well.