Ritvik N.
Yelp
Last visited: Dec' 23, two days after X-Mas.
The River Walk is like a waking dream, it is well architected and designed I will have to say.
Especially if you visit around Christmas time. The lights and backlighting around the overhanging trees is simply a sight to behold. Well done.
The sheer amount of choice of restaurants and venues around the Rivercenter, is simply unbelievable.
I did not walk the whole of the board walk to see all the shops as I ran out of time, but what impressed me is how many shops they have here, of so many different types of food, ice cream, and other stuff for sale.
However. There are a few points that prohibit this from being a five-star experience.
- The people and rather passerby here are unkind to me and to others in general. They are too wrapped up in their world to care about anyone else. Also, they will not look directly at some people (me), which is rather infuriating to be frank.
- At the time we came, around 9pm, most shops were closing and quoted a wait time of over an hour, sometimes an hour and half of wait. We had to choose one restaurant which had a reasonable wait time, but it is unfortunate that we were limited in selection of place to eat dinner at, so am rating down for the minus in experience.
All in all, there are a remarkable amount of selection in shops at the river center or rather river walk area in San Antonio (SA/TX), however oft times shops are busy and the selection will actually be severely limited.
Also, the people here are unkind to others and need to loosen up.
I'm actually rating this spot down, as the passerby and other folk annoyed me sufficiently with their blatant disrespect and averted gazes. Like I said, loosen up, it's not the end of the world as we know it, at least not yet.
In short, the San Antonio (SA) river walk is a sublime experience but it's marred almost entirely by the indifference and uncaring attitude of folks and passerby here.
Fix the general attitude, and the solution is easily within reach. Good day.