Fred

Zombies is alright. It's short and sweet, full of actors, and judging on reviews from blair witch, it's far better. Infact, have a youtube video of zombies.

The price is there to bring in a sense of quality - expensive things, with authentic looking branding, make it seem rather quality. Then put in offers, which boosts the PR and the parks name, helps make the park seem good value. Of course, it all goes to pot when you realise the park itself isn't anywhere near quality or value for money.

They don't look after the water effects (or presumably any of them) so they constantly break (Coming from the people who made the water effects!).

Why should every guest get the same experience? They should get the (minimum) experience, but everything above and beyond that will add so much to the attraction, and make every single ride unique. Animals are unique, they'll be in different locations and be doing different things. Pre-recorded announcements do nothing to take advantage of this, and the main thing RE-RIDABILITY. The ride would be so reridable with interaction, you'd want to go again (as I did with disneys). Zufari you just wish to go as far away as possible.

The council is a huge bugbear, which only appeared after they installed the theme park (council obviously had no issues to install a massive coaster, log flume, dark ride, skyway etc at the time). It's only been since then they crashed right down. They don't allow the park to have anything viewable outside the park, they don't allow anything remotely noisy, they don't allow anything which'll increase gate figures as it'll affect the local traffic. If you cannot increase gate figures by giving investment, and the gate remains almost static with no investment, where's the incentive to do ANYTHING?! It all bubbles down to the council, if they weren't so ridiculously tight then they probably would put more effort in and the park would get the investment needed.

Eurgh map.

Looks fantastic. But anything lit up properly at night looks fantastic. Don't understand the avatar thing, whatsoever. Prefer longer standing mythical creatures over some overhyped recent balls which'll become equally uninteresting within the same timeframe.

Lots of things would be fantastic at chessie. It's the local council which are utter tosspots about it. Have always been and probably always will be. Shows how little a theme park does to their local economy doesn't it?

Chessie has always been fantastic with its lighting. Absolutely fantastic. Beats the rest of the parks by miles with it. They've got a really dedicated and enthusiastic ents team as well, so potential for good mazes. I've quite enjoyed the ones I've done at chessie in the past, though granted I've only ever been once or twice and never done the mazes more than once. Just don't see the point in attending though (granted, I'm not target market). The opening hours and the fact the place cannot handle crowds are huge offputters for me.

When I was last there, it was a train not parking properly or something - all trains would stack (as mentioned above), but then they'd send one car round (full of guests) in manual before restarting ride. The exact same thing happened again in the day - is this similar to those experiencing or are they sending all 5 trains around instantly, and it seeming very automated?

It's only for Fright Nights this pricing, so I imagine monday-thurs next week (and week after?) will be £45.60 also.

So you're judging a fanmade video, which clearly states unofficial.. as "RATHER certain"? I like it.

There must be an old X building layout around still. Use that? Unless they've dramatically changed the old queueline area bit?

It's a ridiculous system, but this is how they're doing it anyway. It's £3 per front row ticket, which you have to buy on top of a package (say the £12 scream). They're limited to 20 per day, per ride. Pretty much noone buys them. Infact, I'm surprised someone actually bought one for smiler. Or that they are selling front row smiler when you can just **ask** to do it and the staff allow you. The other rides, you can buy normal fastrack and use front row with barely any additional wait.

Fifty quid would be worth it if you felt you had a quality experience, where loads of money has been chucked at it and everythings just gorgeous. But it's not, so it's not worth it. Luckily, everyone will be entering for £25 instead. Much worth the cost.

Well, they spent a lot of money as it'd "look good". Didn't increase budget to staff the ride. When they eventually decided to use both sides, it broke. The end.

Bit of a weird comparison - a coaster with an event. Could build any coaster in the world, I'd still prefer scarefest. I just love the mazes and storylines with them.

They spent a lot of money, effort and time on it over this winter. It operated with two arms in April I believe, it died within 30mins. It hasn't operated with two arms since.

How on earth you think you'd get away with a camera in a maze where there's people looking at you constantly? Plus, spoils the fun. You fun spoiler.

Preshow must be taken from american parks - they seem to love this way of making people feel like they're not in a queue. Issue is, it doesn't work. And it's poor. Shoestring budget and by god you can tell.

Good. HPH was such a wasted potential, cheap addition. Another subpar late tussauds attraction being redone potentially then. Hopefully it has been redone!

Zufari has obviously been born out of many trips on Kilamanjaro safari from Disney's Animal Kingdom, however for some reason they decided not to bring what is probably the most crucial and successful part of that tour - interaction with the driver. Replace it with a soundtrack with noones interested in, will be the same every single time, and won't adapt to the situation around you.. It makes no sense to me, it's made an attraction which could've been incredibly good, instead incredibly mediocre. Obviously don't have enough trust in their staffing to be able to train them well and ensure they give the right experience. But that's a huge huge shame.

I genuinely couldn't read it, using a mobile or laptop for that matter. Thanks

Can anyone read that? And if you can, can you translate please?

Dunno, it's always a risk. It's always more than likely they'll refuse them (as they need express permission to allow invalid offers before accepting them).