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Guest Services is simply there to "Re-instate the magic that has been lost in peoples visit" alot of the time it does manage to do so, alot of the time (more so) it unfortunately gets abused by people. Sometimes, ride enthusiasts do this.I used to work in Guest Services (Not at Thorpe Park) and it genuinly dissapointed me when people would try to gain Exit Passes / Disabled Passes infront of those who geniuinly needed and deserved to have these benefits. The park, is not at all obliged to give any compensation / exit passes / disabled passes and guest services does not HAVE to be there. The department is there for the benefits of the guests.

Been saying this for years, and years , and years. It did get a bit of stuff done to it in 2007 ish. New music, lights, paint, videos... it was good. Lasted all of 2 months before it was vandalised. I think X's time is up, it will be replaced soon. Have room for a couple of things there.

Never been so wouldn't like to comment

Thorpe park is Aimed at Teeneager, Chessington is aimed at young families and Alton is aimed at the whole family. Which is why there is one out-right winner from the three.

No problem, sorry to hear about what happened mate! Hope everything is sorted soon.

You said it.he was a red but now he's blue Torres, Torres,he left the Kop, he loves the shed, Torres, Torres.He used to go out on the rob, but now he's got a proper job.Fernando Torres, chelsea's number 9Liverpool are ridiculous, £35m for Carrol.Anyways, I'm off to the bridge to meet torres and have a beer now! lol

Come on man! This is a disgrace, everybody knows that I was the best Admin of this site.I maintained it to perfection and never broke anything. Yeah I know, I was compared to having extremely communist views, but hey ho!Oh well, guess I'll have to wait until next time.(Btw outfit, if you need any help deleting databases from the server, I'm really good at that)

Okay, well in that case, anyone that wants to meet up somewhere for a pint on Saturday let me know!

Whens that infamous tower 2 being built

Right, I'm going to the bar, on the saturday. Will play bowling or whatever but no skating. Haven't seen some of you in a while so it'd be good to catch up. Peter , Outfit and whoever else is up for just being boring alcoholics, please let me know.Lots of love

Yeah, and it's still a good 45 minute drive without traffic.

Fed up of working far from home. boo.

Saturday, all day bar? Sounds plan.

I absolutely hate the police. Never there when you need them, always there when they should be doing something better.Last week recieved a £55 fine in a 'police operation' stopping people throwing cigarette ends on the floor.... this was in CLAPHAM JUNCTION stopped by the MET POLICE. Now, I know alot of people say 'have they got anything better to do' and it's normally a poor arguement. They must have better things to do than stand outside the train station waiting for people to drop fag ends. Stupid country

Have also rode this what seems like years ago, remember it having an absolutely quality steep drop! Sends you flying. These things are absolutely Lethal! Have blacked out on these a few times before now.

Theres something about this women that makes me want to smash her round the face with a bottle.Harsh? YesFair? Deffinately

I wasn't too suprised when I visited last season to see once again that nothing has changed in the last 5 years.

http://www.youtube.com/KwIe_sjKeAY Don't know how to embedd.. yay

Option 4... All day bowling on Saturday. Lol

That makes two of us for option 3 then lol

I think my opinions are so different to what they used to be. I go to the park with a few mates, get on most of the rides and have a bit of a laugh and a few beers. That for me is what makes a good day, but of course this differs between most people. I completely agree there are absolutely tonnes of small things that could improve the park, the lack of shading and the lack of greenery are very important. The lack of themeing is something of which is a great shame but unfortunately not something of which the park would care for. They are a business and unfortunately they wouldn't spend extra loads of money for themeing aslong as the crowds resume to flood in every week. I'm sure I could visit the park when it opens and write pages of smaller things of which I'd like to see improved (which is what I more or less used to do on trip reports, then the following week I would see if anything had changed) I go to Football for the Atmnosphere and to support my team week in week out, I have spent £2,400 since August following my football team. My football team then move the fixtures in order to show the games on television, they move the games up north to mid-week so most of the fans who spend alot of their money are unable to go. The reason they do this is because they want the money from Sky Sports, they don't care about the fans.Unfortunately this is similar to the whole way of which theme parks deal with things, the general public spend more money than the enthusiasts.. so it's obvious which one they care more about.

Thought I'd post my results here to make every else feel a bit better about themselves. These are my AS Level results from a few years back.Information Technology - UBusiness Studies - UMedia Studies - U

Not alot really matey, just alot of work. My life pretty much revolves around work and football now. Which is probs even sadder than theme parks (alot more expensive)

Right, let me make a constructive post that some may find interesting.I used to be an enthusiast and visit the park religiously every other week, until I sarted working within Merlin and I found myself slagging off the park too much like alot of the people do on here. It came to a point where I thought "If I'm slagging it off so much, why do I still go and why do I still give them my money"... So fairly simply, I stopped going. The place didn't interest me anymore for some reason and I started to do other things. Id been going to Thorpe 20 odd times a year since 2004 and it was brilliant, but as soon as it came to 2009 I just did not visit anymore. So, after two years of not going to the park I can now give my point of view from an outsider perspective (and unfortunately, this is all that the park care about as a good 99% of their audience are not enthusiasts) I visited the park last year with a group of friends for the first time in a year or more. We purchased fastrack tickets and planned our day as maybe I would of before being an enthusiast. I must say, I had a quality day at the park (even though I ended up staying in the bar from 3pm). You all seem to slag off the park way too much about very minor things of which are of no issue to the general public and these small things may be something you notice more as you visit alot more than the average visitor. Also, nothing is perfect and I reckon that alot of people actually look out for any issues that they can feedback on the forums for and in a way, thats what may bring people back week in / week out.Pretty bollocks post I know, but I just wanted to say that for th average visitor Thorpe Park is a fun place to visit with mates and you can have a good day. And I'm sure you'll find that the percentage of the general public who complain compared to the daily gate figure is normally a pretty low proportion.