Re: for rhetorical
Ahhh, i remember Daytona fondly from my college years. Guaranteed to snap a dry streak....hehe.
Spring Break is ever changing. Any place with an 18 year old drinking age instead of 21 is going to draw. And it's still so big in places like South Padre that if you have a big business with a lot of low end labor (call centers, dept stores, etc), you lose as much as 20-30% of your work force for 4-6 weeks while spring breakers are in town. They cast aside their sub-$10 an hour jobs for a few weeks and go soak in some of those dollars pumped in by the college kids.
The kids may pile 8 people into the cheapest hotels in town, but they do spend their money. They just prefer to spend it on booze over accomodations. But the locals HATE it, traffic snarls, no one gets any sleep, infrastructure is stressed to the limits.
Now Atlanta ran off Freaknik, which as essentially THE spot for black college spring break. It was the worst of both worlds. Not only did you have the problems with traffic, noise, etc. But crime went thru the roof to boot....the behavior glorified by the hip hop generation gets ramped to a whole new level when you have tens of thousands of young black men all drinking and trying to get laid in one place.
However, these guys also didn't spend anything. After the first year or so, many restaurants in the party areas would just close down for the week Freaknik was in town. Lots of dine-n-dash without paying. If they did pay it was the cheapest thing on the menu and no tip for the servers.
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