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Went today, medium crowd levels, but still loads of time to get through all the attractions.
Bought tickets at November black Friday sale for £25 each, offering excellent value, I almost think the VIP would be a bit overkill, I feel that once is enough on all 10 attractions.
Twisted Clowns - Was excellent and a good way to start the evening loved the bungee and the varying levels / floors.
The Chop Shop - Meh, Creek Freak wins for me.
Wastlelands - Wins it for me a great maze overall and better than Creek Freak in my opinion, the show was also visually stunning, I wouldn't be surprised to see Glastonbury / Boomtown style festivals copy this style of stage in the near future.
Wreckoning- Ok, pirate theme was cool, but it went on for a long time with little actors to fill the areas.
Coven - Loved the white room, may be getting my mazes muddled up here!
Circus of Horrors- Excellent, Thorpe need something like this back to replace the cinema.
Creepy Cottage - Was a nice attraction.
The Cellar - This just blurs with the other attractions can't remember too much.
Hayride- Queue was about an hour looking at it in the muddy looking queue line, so bought fasttrack for £5, well worth it straight onto the attraction, was very good feel sorry for the actors who must be getting bruised legs from the lack of space onboard, but overall the set design was excellent.
VIXI - Longest queue of the night at 20mins but I enjoyed the experience, yes it may be seen as weak but the isolation factor was quite cool, I am hoping that next year they retheme and rename Vulcan Peak as a troll to Thorpe.
Overall Tulley's seems to be a well oiled shipped, that knows its operations and how to run them smoothly, the ticketing system works well and is something which I would like Thorpe to introduce for RAP on busy nights, whilst overall with the £25 +£5 fasttrack works out to £3 per attraction which seems like excellent value and has left a smile on my face, as well as I would assume the majority of other guests even on a peak night.
Would I recommend? - Yes.
- JoshuaA, Mer, Marhelorpe and 1 other
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5 hours ago, Coaster said:
Adventure Island.
Adventure island is also very different to Thorpe in the fact that it is in a resort style town, with tourists and footfall, who see the park and think oh why don't we spend a few hours there, whereas at TP you don't exactly get that same sort of walk up footfall being in the middle of two not very touristy towns and 40 mins out of London.
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2 hours ago, Platform15fan said:
Good review my ones up above yours did try my best. Even that I put a negative in my review.
Thanks for pointing out your review, I personally nearly missed it! Glad you had a good day despite some hiccups.
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48 minutes ago, Ivsetti said:
It's October half term and it's Fright Nights. And there's barely anyone in the park. Seems after last year shambles many people aren't returning this year and we can safely say if this trend continues this week whatever Merlin tell us visitor numbers at the park genuinely are dwindling. Which is a shame considering this year is much better than last year.
Also its a strange 2 week thing for half term this year @Mattgwise may be able to explain. But I would assume next week to pick up the crowd levels we are usually used too.
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44 minutes ago, Coaster said:
The 8pm closes during summer were changed to 6pm at the last minute "BPB style" if I recall correctly.
Maybe its to do with the demand, at Thorpe demand drops pretty quickly in the evening hours. They would need a proper hotel or resort to prevent this.
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Uncertain times ahead with Brexit perhaps. I wonder if we will see a large price increase?
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Thoughts? I believe the Thorpe cups have the same sort of wait times.
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Tickets for charity night are onsale now. £77 - it's getting expensive but I guess its for charity.
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Blame being put on the introduction of the $99 gold pass. I hope they have it in there T&C's as an event for next year with an add on fee. $99 does also seem very cheap for a park with this many roller-coasters.
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Bad day for this park today, turning prebooks away, hopefully they have a good guest services.
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Ah yes the life of an enthusiast, complains when a ride gets delayed and complains when the ride is not 100% finished.
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2 minutes ago, Benin said:
Why would the HSE send someone? It's the parks responsibility to check rides (and mazes) everyday, you'd hope that would result in noticing such thing...
I even said originally going to GS is the wrong thing, if something happens like this, you tell the staff members there... At least then it can be looked at quickly (stop sending people through, ask actors to have a look for 5 minutes) and hopefully remedied...
I'm not going to Thorpe, I wasn't even the one involved in the initial comment... But I will comment on things when people make daft comments about H&S matters...
Do you not think the park have health and safety teams?
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19 minutes ago, Benin said:
Everywhere that's remotely dangerous goes on about how safety is number 1 priority, and yet due to various reasons people still get hurt... Given recent history, Merlin should be ensuring a fine tooth comb over everything, even the odd loose nail could cause a massive public headache in the future... To say that this is why we "can't have fun" anymore shows a complete disconnect to the role of company (and persons) involved in ensuring safety...
And they do, but do you really think its sustainable to have a health and safety executive sit by the tunnel after every run through and deem it safe or unsafe.
This argument getting stupid.
If its annoyed you that much, go to Thorpe and get them to sort it.
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But every day at every park someone somewhere is highly likely to get injured and need a trip to first aid, hence why the parks have medical teams.
I would suggest if the unreported nail was such a big problem for your day, that you go to Guest services and report it they may even give you as a gift as a thankyou.
Rest assured Merlin's number 1 priority is the health and safety of guests. If you don't think a Merlin themepark is a safe environment and would rather moan about it online than going to report it I would recommend not going.
Perhaps next year we won't be able to go in a maze without first putting on a suit of cushions.
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Looking forward to this!
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I think the idea was to have a small skit every 20mins
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6 minutes ago, StevenVig said:
That will never happen at Chessington, lets be realistic here
Is the drop tower not a real investment. Looks heavily themed to me and perfect for Chessington bar capacity issues.
Just because Chessington isn't getting an RMC anytime soon doesn't mean that they arn't going for a REAL investment.
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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7578819/Waitress-21-flung-15-feet-fairground-ride.html
A jaw break and a lost tooth guess the ride will be back open next week.
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People just always love o complain. Perhaps tie your shoelace next time with a double knot.
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https://blooloop.com/features/roland-mack-70th-birthday-europa-park/
A great article on the Mack family, containing some interesting points as well:
- Themeparks are moving evermore into resorts with the opening of second gate attractions, if Rulantica works well expect more theme parks to follow
- Liseberg is going to build a hotel and a second park within the next few years. I assume a waterpark?
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“One ride I think would be a really perfect fit for us is the Time Traveler [Xtreme Spinning Coaster], which we sold to Silver Dollar City. It’s a fast ride, but I think it’s still a family ride. It has wonderful cars and a perfect track layout. In general, I would really like to have a ride like this in our park, but the waterpark was a big investment.” - Next rollercoaster for Europe perhaps or an update to Blue fire? Depending on the success of Rulantica which I'm sure will be fine.
A direct train to the park at some point in the future.
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Was good on Thursday night. Never done so many intense flips.
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Will pop down in the afternoon
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Just now, MattyMoo said:
Where did that comment from @Jack go?
Care to elaborate and what you saw on the Island Like No Other last night? (perhaps with a careful choice of words regarding the clientele)
Myself and @Marc were on park last night. We didn't have any complaints of clientele. Was much busier for a Thursday with 1 train ops.
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Going on Thursday, to have my Tulley's virginity taken, I hear there's some nurses who will be able too do that for me.
Few questions:
Will I be able to do all the mazes in the one night?
Is there a best order for doing the mazes?
Last year there were mentions of bounce back passes, how much are these?
Is there a guest services so that I can get some compensation which I am entitled too if the ending for the new maze is not ready on my visit?
I look forward to it.
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