It's not often you hear 'out with the new' and 'in with the old' but that's the case for food and drink tickets at the King William Fair next weekend.
SAN ANTONIO - It's not often you hear 'out with the new' and 'in with the old' but that's the case for food and drink tickets at the"We're going back to what's worked since 1968, and we're really proud about that," Jen Huss, the events director for the King William Association said.This is a change from 2023, when the Association"Last year was we had some challenges with technology," Huss said.
Several viewers came to News 4 and Fox SA after the fair saying their wristbands didn't work correctly, and the money they put on wasn't accessible."When we paid for it, the vendor was like no balance, no balance," Kathleen Sanchez told us about trying to buy things at the fair back in 2023. "We're like, 'but I'm showing you my phone I have $52 on there.
After last year's fair, the King William Association told us that because of a massive storm, there was extensive damage to power cables going to booths scattered throughout the Fair Zone. It knocked out electricity in several booths, including the main WiFi hub. "We had an electrical storm come through the night before, that knocked out several of the boxes throughout the neighborhood that really made it challenging," Hess said Friday. "It's not a great Wi Fi/cellular neighborhood on a regular day, and then when you add in 35,000 additional people, which is how many people we expect for the fair...that really made it challenging."We've seen other events like NIOSA make the same call.
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