This has very little to do with anything, but I just read an interesting article in the Miami Herald (what, you don’t read the Herald every day?) Planet Hollywood, the once ubiquitous themed restaurant chain, is fighting with Jimmy Buffett’s Margaritaville, the up-and-coming themed restaurant chain, over a sliver of Hollywood, Florida: “Stars’ proposals for Hollywood beach to be aired.”
I don’t care a lick about Miami-Fort Lauderdale, but this “Margaritaville Hollywood Beach” versus “Planet Hollywood whatever” is somthing. I love it when chains fight, especially themed chains.
Plus PH wants to build a water park.
I love water parks.
The Planet Hollywood proposal includes a 250-foot tower to rise next to the hotel, marking the top of a winding water slide that will shoot guests into a water park that includes a lazy river and a simulated surfing pool.
At the end of the day I think PH will win, as they also want to build a casino, were casinos to be made legal in outside Indian reservations and racetracks. And county boards and commissioners … especially of cheesy boardwalk towns … love casinos.
