Amelia Island Concours D’Elegance - 2022

Doubtful, the only other venue in the area that could host an event on this scale is the Omni.

 

A location other than Amelia Island.

 

Moving this out of Amelia may be the best idea yet. Hotel rooms that are $100 at the end of March are raised to $350-$500 for the one week. A couple years ago, the mayor was looking into unfair pricing for hotel rooms. Moving this to a major city in Florida (Orlando, Tampa, Miami, etc.) would improve things a great deal IMO. Mr. Haggerty, are you listening???

 

The Masters venue (Augusta, GA) has nothing going on the other 51 weeks of the year. If the Masters pulled out the down would die like a coal mining town in West Virginia. At least Amelia Island has the resort lifestyle going on 24/7.

 

the concours is the second biggest tourist event in Fernandina/Nassau County (behind, I kid you not, the Shrimp Festival). they will fight to keep it.

 

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Marcel Massini

 

Rather than move the venue perhaps they should consider controlling the size….entries, auctions, vendors and spectators. Of course, growth is the Holy Grail to every publicly owned American corporation. Bigger is always better, or so we’ve been told. We really don’t need another Monterey week.

Would anybody suggest that Villa d’Este be moved to a different venue? The venue is part of the event.

 

Just catching up on reading threads. I'm going to avoid the urge to delve into matters of pedigree and provenance - I'm far less qualified than most on this board - but I can echo the sentiments about the character of the event itself. The overarching cloud of officiousness reached every aspect from scanning and entry, to parking, to a denial of entry into the hotel TO MEET a GUEST for dinner, to the stupid and inane discussion on the PA of fashion (the apparel kind), and the kid-centric focus on slot car racing, some kind of a treasure hunt, and the Kids' Choice award. I never DID find the silent memorabilia auction and I was given conflicting information about the number of automobile auctions by the event organizer - still made it to three (no thanks to Hagerty.) The merchandise shop kept odd hours and had minimal offerings and inventory and pretty much everyone with a Hagerty badge was full of themselves. The line troops (i.e. the shuttle drivers, ticket takers, etc.) however were fantastic - seemed to understand and did their best to make the arbitrary and absurd at least bearable. One pet non-Hagerty peeve - after patiently waiting for an opportunity to take pics, at what point does it become acceptable for people to brazenly and knowingly walk into the frame and hang there? Time and time again.