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I'd be a bit peeved about Sea-Life, but I live within decent driving of 2 and they're good attractions for little one currently. Plus planning on London based nonsense later this year so always good to have some additional freebies.

The rate of expansion they were doing at the time was never going to be sustainable. Legolands and Midways everywhere. But was all short term mindset at the end of the day. The issue with the removal of attractions is then devaluing the Annual Pass. Which is basically their entire business these days. So those would likely also have to go down in price as well.

Quite bad that I genuinely wasn't sure if people meant the fake or real gift shop in this discussion.

Quick example of one of my lunches at Efteling (from the cafeteria by Vogel Rok) over my Christmas visit. Can't recall the price unfortunately but it's a definite stark difference in quality to what's on offer at Towers in particular. Woodcutters would never. The entry cost is so dependent on BOGOFs, MAPs and booking online finding value in it, however if you charge north of £50 for a standard day ticket people expect that quality regardless. Fortunately as my visits to Towers mainly center around CBeebies these days I've avoided much of the poor availability overall, but it's incredibly telling on the faces of other visitors that it's leaving sour tastes in the mouths. Especially when on a number of times both X-Sector and Dark Forest end up with nothing to actually do. The years of poor investment are coming back to roost. On top of people tightening purse strings because we're still in a cost of living crisis that seems to only be on the way of getting worse.

Hydro/Drenched was a millstone around the neck of the park for years, it probably should've been removed far earlier post incident.

As long as we get a complete layout for the next coaster.

Mornington Crescent. I win.

If it comes in without a min height restriction (obviously accompanied) then it'll fill a niche. Min 0.9m restriction and it doesn't really add anything. At least not in that area. If they were throwing it up by Dark Forest/Walliams World or Forbidden Valley then it could be an useful addition.

Could've ended the post there. It feels very pointless currently.

RIP in peace UK Disneyland.

Towers x3 Thorpe x2 Legoland x1 Efteling x1 (3 days) Plopsaland x1 Getting better. Next year Gullivers parks will be on the horizon with little one likely to hit the magical 0.9m mark. Thorpe only twice because Hyperia died. Which was a burdenous addition since had to take little one. Though she enjoyed watching the rides. Efteling at Christmas was lovely. Decent value stay especially compared to what Towers was charging. Europa already booked for next year.

F&B quality can't be worse than Merlin or PA. There's at least a Pizza Hut.

Visited yesterday (apparently no one else has since Creek?), wasn't a particularly great day unfortunately as RtH was closed (min 6 degrees needed to run, and was testing all day due to an issue with that train), the park was busy as hell (special shout to Circus Bumba being hell on earth), and understaffed with a number of eateries closed it was like being at a Merlin park. The stringent ride op didn't help as wouldn't let us (RAP user and carer) ride on the same train in different rows with the RAP, suggesting the lil one could ride with a complete stranger. Even more frustrating since we'd literally just ridden the Roller Skater moments before with no problem. Common sense required sometimes. Just a stark contrast from 3 days at Efteling really. Maybe next time.

Danse Macabre is so good. Faffy as all hell even with LEGIONS of staff and possibly could do with an indicator of the internal wait beyond the batching point. However, the ride system is wonderful. And the experience incredibly theatrical, which shows a lot of reverence to the original Spookslot whilst making something that is generally a better attraction (if going against the everyone can ride it thing that Efteling tends to have within reason). If it wasn't for the fact it has the longest queue on park (consistent 45 mins yesterday, and our added parent swap faffage as a result) I'd be riding it a lot more. Park looking gorgeous as ever for Christmas. And it's hilarious to me that my now 2 year old can pretty much do every ride there apart from creds and Macabre. Probably won't try the Rapids though since raining all day yesterday.

"Exciting" isn’t probably what an adult would be terming these plans.