Latest brain-blast from the folks at the Charlotte Regional Visitors Authority, spend $220,000 trying to market Charlotte as a “mancation” destination location. Small problem, the idea is both old and no one at the CRVA seems to know what actual men like.
YouTube is chock-full of various “mancation” adventures, all of them much more interesting than Charlotte’s pitch for some golf, a steak, a $200 log flume ride, and some NASCAR — and some hell raisin’ at Ballantyne Resort. Regular Visigoth stuff, there.
You might rate a junior rampage if the NASCAR reference meant infield NASCAR, but the CRVA does not intend for mancationeers to go to a twice-a-year race in Concord, let alone mix with hourly help in the infield. Oh no. Mancationeers can just stay in Uptown any weekend and visit the Convention Center Annex featuring France family approved artifacts and souvenirs — don’t forget the souvenirs, please we got a budget to make — after a round of golf and before heading to an over-priced, chain steakhouse. Yep, real howl at the moon stuff.
Where’s the paintball, the beer bongs, the gunplay, the bonfires — like these guys on mancation in Wisconsin (rated PG-13).
The CRVA doesn’t realize it, but it sounds like we’re going for a different niche market.
The Wimpcation. At least we’re first.
Bonus Observation: I still say we roll with this Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte thing. Talk about something that never goes out of style. Besides, other cities market their strip clubs in their mancation packages.
