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Dezerland Orlando, Pinball Palace -Not a good place to work

By Jhurs002

3 years ago


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    #73 1 year ago

    I was at dezerland this week. It does appear that the number of games in the “palace” has been reduced since my previous visit (about a year ago). I didn’t go into the “palace” as when I did last year, the games were in bad shape.

    They moved a dozen or so pins out by the arcade area. Those machines have card swipers on them, same as the arcade games. However, on the three games I tried, the card swipers didn’t work. One did nothing, and the other two took my money but never added credits to the game.

    Game maintenance is a bit of a joke at dezerland. That holds true for the arcade games too. We got ripped off multiple times during our visit. Same applies to their bathrooms, yuck.

    And the staff, half of them look and act like they did bong hits in the back of the place.

    On a positive note, there were a lot more food venues this time, and I believe the car museum has expanded. There’s a carousel too, although nobody was working at it when we were there.

    #75 1 year ago
    Quoted from ezeltmann:

    forget about dezerland pinball and go over to District Eat and play . Problem solved.

    I had my two boys with me (6 and 8 years old) and we were burning off time before a flight home. Dezerland, to them, is awesome. Lots to do there for younger kids. They don’t notice the downsides like I do, of course. I’d say they had an excellent time between games, bowling and the trampoline park. Just wish that dezerland would take better care of the place. Maybe sell one of the high end cars and invest back in the business? But what do I know, the owner is no rookie when it comes to running a business…

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    #90 1 year ago

    I intentionally didn’t bring up a conversation I had with a tech there a long time ago so I wasn’t throwing the person under the bus. I’ll leave it at “long time ago” to protect the innocent.

    The tech was clearly overwhelmed. I was the only person there so he and I could speak freely. He basically said they were understaffed and there was no way one person could keep up with maintaining all of the machines. I believe it, I can’t keep up with my home collection. I can’t imagine trying to keep up with all of those machines, even as a full time job.

    Shame, it was a decent collection. But most games had problems or were non-functional.

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    #94 11 months ago

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