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Just as an update, I've just purchased my Halloween attraction tickets for Walibi Holland. The absolute cheapest way of buying tickets for all the Halloween attractions (which consists of 4 mazes, 3 experiences and 2 outdoor walkthrough) costs 116.50euros (just shy over £100). That includes a "before dark" ticket where you have to do 3 mazes and 1 walkthrough before 7pm, which is very tight to do since most open at 5pm. It is experience, but genuinely I think is worth it.

Does anyone know why the third boat is missing?

Walibi Holland (when I last went in 2019) was by far the best Halloween event outright I've done. Their standard mazes are good quality. They excel with their 'experiences' (of which they have 3), which are more intense, smaller groups / alone. Their scare zones, which they have several of, are brilliant, along with whole park atmosphere. It gets CRAZY busy though. I'm returning there this year for the event. I've had to budget to include ride and maze Fastrack - whilst it's possible to do all the Halloween stuff without extras, you will be rushed off your feet, and will almost definitely not get a chance to do any rides in the dark without it. I did Traumatica at Europa Park last year. Given it's Europa, the operations leave a lot to be desired (their Fastpass is necessary), and the quality of the mazes is very mixed. Atmosphere is very good though. You need to book in early September to have a chance of getting Fastpass / doing the alone experience. Linnanmaki have a fun event, but nothing to write home about. I haven't done any more, but some notable ones... -Walibi Belgium rebranded their event last year into Ibilaw. The best years of their Halloween event are arguably behind them, but they still do well (the Zombie Bar hasn't been around for a while) -Spanish parks tend to do great Halloween events, if you can deal with the queues / atmosphere. There's also a very well received scream park, Horrorland -Liseberg is pretty consistent

Fire effect update please anyone xox

Since I don’t do mazes I rely on the resident expert at home for those. Liseberg's was good. Walibi Holland mazes were a bit meh. Toverland was ok. Best part of Walibi Belgium was the Zombie Bar on the lake but no idea if they do that anymore. General atmospheres are good though. Probably would need a fastpass equivalent though if available since you know, QUEUES.

Has anyone done any Halloween events in Europe, and if so any recommendations? I did Asterix last year which was great so I’m keen to try some others this year, looking at potentially doing Walabi Holland and Belgium but any thoughts would be appreciated If anyones done either of the Walibi parks at Halloween what did you think of them?

Hopefully it's nothing to do with the ride itself, just the weather.

Potentially weather related; been storms about in the local area.

Been closed all day today, anyone know what's happening?

This sounds like most of Thorpe's flat ride line up 🫠

Just bin it already and put a proper dark ride in. The staff intensive ride phase of Merlin really scuppered them.

Fairly certain it was brand new but it was 20 years ago.

Did it have a previous life before it opened at Drayton Manor? I always assumed it was brand new when it opened there in 2003.

Anyone know anything about what's happening with Zodiac? It's been closed since early June, with not a lot seemingly happening with it... Could Zodiac be going the same way as Enterprise? She's incredibly old now and frankly has had a very long life! There hasn't really been any news on it at all. If they do fix Zodiac, I hope they peel off the old branding off the top of each gondola.

Samurai is being reported as closed at present on the app & online, along with Zodiac which I'm surprised as lasted as long as it has to be honest...

The fact it's every Tuesday & Wednesday for three weeks says to me that it's a cost cutting exercise in terms of power and staff. They may well coincide those days with FN rehearsals too, that would make sense. Cal is right though, I'm pretty sure there's never been these set in stone closed days for Ghost Train up until now. These September days are historically the quietest time to visit the park - even more so now there's no Oktoberfest as a draw, it's just the lull between Summer Holidays finishing at Fright Night's starting.

Certainly seems to be an operational cost-cutting measure. I wonder whether those dates coincide with Fright Nights rehearsals too? Not to say that Ghost Train will be closed over the event (cos I don't think it will be), but if some actors are moving over to working in mazes, it's possible that they're still being used and paid. That makes the cost-cutting sound a little less severe (even if it's not ideal to close any ride). Agree with Cal too that I'd rather see less popular closed than hours cut though.

Interesting. With Rumba closing earlier than before and now cuts to Ghost train (which I don't think we've ever seen?) it definitely seems like theres been cuts made to operational budgets. Shame if thats the case - but would rather them close Rumba and this than cuts to opening hours.

We're visiting on 23rd and 24th. Thorpe have obviously decided it's not worth the staff or electricity bill on these off peak days. Monday's can be busier as people have a long weekend, evidently.

They certainly have looked into restoring, but the fact they haven't been successful in doing so so far is pretty telling. I would say there's still a chance of it returning, but if it's not back early next season, then it's probably gone.

Some parts of it seemed to be removed earlier in the season and put back so I assume there was some sort of work being done on it to fix it but for what ever reason it’s not been working yet this season

I assume they decided not to keep the splashdown this year?

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there may be some x citing news to come, but my dear fellow, it is everyone's concern

Doesn't help that majority of the guests are MAP holders. One bit of income for the entire season. And most of us are tight when we get to the park(s) or rarely go much because the experiences aren't great.