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Nocturnal Wonderland is coming up this Friday and Saturday at Glen Helen. There's also some championship racing going on at the Glen Helen Raceway. The races are off of Palm so that shouldn't affect the ampitheater, but may affect the freeway traffic.

Anyone planning on driving for Wonderland? Haven't driven for Wonderland, but drove for Hard Summer back in August and actually made some good money (no great, but for sure worth the time/effort). Learned some tricks that I'm sure I'll apply to this event. Just curious on other's thoughts and opinions about Wonderland.
 
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WorshipGuy17 said:
Nocturnal Wonderland is coming up this Friday and Saturday at Glen Helen. There's also some championship racing going on at the Glen Helen Raceway. The races are off of Palm so that shouldn't affect the ampitheater, but may affect the freeway traffic.

Anyone planning on driving for Wonderland? Haven't driven for Wonderland, but drove for Hard Summer back in August and actually made some good money (no great, but for sure worth the time/effort). Learned some tricks that I'm sure I'll apply to this event. Just curious on other's thoughts and opinions about Wonderland.
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It was good but be ready for them to suppress the surge as usual, or try implementing boost again. If they do run boost again, remember that 1.5x is roughly equal to XL base. So if you have an XL vehicle and see 2.0 boost, it's better to take X than XL. I won't be surprised to see them at the same pickup location as hard summer
 
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It was good but be ready for them to suppress the surge as usual, or try implementing boost again. If they do run boost again, remember that 1.5x is roughly equal to XL base. So if you have an XL vehicle and see 2.0 boost, it's better to take X than XL. I won't be surprised to see them at the same pickup location as hard summer
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Yeah they did the boost for Hard Summer... they can't use the same lot as Hard because the raceway will be having the races that weekend and that's part of their parking lot and such
 
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Yeah, the TOOL concert was a nice surge, got a ride to Rancho at 6.5x and ended up making $114 due to wait time, traffic, e.t.c. But doubtful that they will allow a surge that high, but you never know. I think there are a lot of attendees that will be camping. Earlier today I searched for hotels in Ontario and San Bernardino both had hotels still available, where as HARD Summer (for example) hotel rooms were next to impossible to find just a day before the festival.

Also received an email from Uber earlier stating that rides from between Friday at 10:30 p.m. and Saturday at 4 a.m. and Saturday at 10:30 p.m. and Sunday at 4 a.m. would be a minimum guaranteed $25 earned. They haven't mentioned anything about a boost, which they did for HARD Summer.

The big concern (for me anyways) is where the Uber lot is located, right in the middle of all the parking. Hopefully (but not likely) they will have a way for Uber drivers to get in and out more easily then usual. HAHA No banking on that though.
 
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Yeah, the TOOL concert was a nice surge, got a ride to Rancho at 6.5x and ended up making $114 due to wait time, traffic, e.t.c. But doubtful that they will allow a surge that high, but you never know. I think there are a lot of attendees that will be camping. Earlier today I searched for hotels in Ontario and San Bernardino both had hotels still available, where as HARD Summer (for example) hotel rooms were next to impossible to find just a day before the festival.

Also received an email from Uber earlier stating that rides from between Friday at 10:30 p.m. and Saturday at 4 a.m. and Saturday at 10:30 p.m. and Sunday at 4 a.m. would be a minimum guaranteed $25 earned. They haven't mentioned anything about a boost, which they did for HARD Summer.

The big concern (for me anyways) is where the Uber lot is located, right in the middle of all the parking. Hopefully (but not likely) they will have a way for Uber drivers to get in and out more easily then usual. HAHA No banking on that though.
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They only allowed a surge that high because it wasn't an overpublicized event. HARD had lot more demand and surge did not go as high for as long because more ants were drawn in and it was a bigger event on Uber's radar. When smaller lesser known events surge harder than bigger well known events, it is a failure in Uber's eyes since they didn't get enough ants there to cover it. I hope I'm wrong about this one. Last years version was not that great and only a $300 cash ride salvaged it.
 
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Can anyone tell me what promo they're offering IE drivers for this event? They're running large minimum fares for pax...&20 for UberX and &25 for XL. See screenshot for fare to Dennys. An UberX to Ontario is only $5 more and &10 more for XL. I guess Uber decided they need a large minimum fare to be profitable. Just curious if they are passing on the increase through the promotion.
 

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Biggest Fubering job since I've been driving. Not a spec of surge the entire time: Apparently there's a $25 guaranteed minimum that drew all the ants in. It's great if you get a short ride. Problem is most rides are going to downtown SB, Ontario, rancho, etc long rides that already pay $25 or close to it on base. Anything longer is just a base fare. So fares stay low all night, Uber minimizes their losses, and drivers get fubered. I didn't get this promo since I'm registered in LA
 
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It was minimum $20 for X $25 for XL on short trips. Drivers reported getting a promotion of $25 minimum payout per ride, so Uber was losing money on those. Long trips to Ontario were quoted at $25/$35. Uber breaks even on X and gets a small profit on XL.

A trip to Ontario Convention Center nets about $14-$15 on UberX and about $26 or so on XL. So if Uber was making up the difference, X drivers were averaging almost double the base payout on long trips in the area and more on short trips. XL drivers were making their regular pay or a small boost on shorter trips.

I didn't read the email, so I don't know all the details. But this explains why no surge. Biggest reason is that even short rides were profitable for those who got the promotion so there were likely way fewer cancellations. Oh yeah, and Lyft had 125% zone so no PT there either.
 
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