November 23, 20195 yr comment_267631 5 hours ago, Ivsetti said: TP wins an award this year for "best thrills" Because nothing screams "thrilling day out" more than dogsh*te operations, rude staff and total lack of care!! I've had bigger thrills on a broken swing set...
November 23, 20195 yr comment_267632 1 hour ago, Kerfuffle said: Because nothing screams "thrilling day out" more than dogsh*te operations, rude staff and total lack of care!! I've had bigger thrills on a broken swing set... I dunno, the rides are pretty thrilling tbh...
November 24, 20195 yr Author comment_267634 Yes in all fairness Thorpe have a very good line up of thrill rides IMO.
November 24, 20195 yr comment_267635 7 hours ago, Coaster said: Are they? Enthusiasts can be way too critical. Regardless of your opinion on the individual rides, a top 5 coaster line up of Colossus, Inferno, Stealth, Saw and Swarm is a good, varied line up which do offer a lot of thrills. Couple that with some of their flats and support rides, and they do have a very good thrill line up. It's certainly not difficult to justify it as the best UK park for thrills imo
November 24, 20195 yr comment_267636 Probably also helped with the general "thrill park" image, but it's hard to argue that the thrill line up at Thorpe is a problem... It's just everything else that is
November 24, 20195 yr comment_267641 I don't think overall operations have been bad, on the whole quite the opposite with the odd blips here and there. Staff have been nothing but pleasant on all my visits as well.
November 24, 20195 yr comment_267643 16 hours ago, Kerfuffle said: I've had bigger thrills on a broken swing set... They have one of those, too!
November 24, 20195 yr comment_267644 5 hours ago, Ivsetti said: I believe that was the general consensus for the ride staff this year and most staff were quite friendly and nice so I'm not sure where that's coming from. Where it's coming from is my time working there, more specifically my final season in 2018. I'll explain with a true story: Imagine working with people who are expected to be "friendly and nice" towards guests, so they do so on that end...but behind the scenes, some simply don't care about you or your mental health issues...while one in particular thinks it's funny to screw you over and quite honestly just mentally destroy you. And now imagine you're explaining your situation to others in hopes of them understanding how it's making you feel, and they reply with "Oh 'this person'? She's lovely! She's very caring and I'm sure she didn't mean it etc.". And what's more is that even after I left (and seemingly escaped), I was made aware of a bullying incident where a lot of staff from my area were generally being really horrible about others, especially the kind-hearted ones. And surprisingly, these also included people I'd previously thought were really nice! It's not nice when you're the only one who knows the truth about someone through experience and everyone else thinks differently, it's selfish. And that's why I'm writing this post, not to be controversial, but simply to point out that following a lot of trauma I was put through, the last thing I need to hear is of the same select people who made my last season there miserable getting recognised for being something they're not.
November 25, 20195 yr comment_267660 16 hours ago, Kerfuffle said: Where it's coming from is my time working there, more specifically my final season in 2018. I'll explain with a true story: ... And that's why I'm writing this post, not to be controversial, but simply to point out that following a lot of trauma I was put through, the last thing I need to hear is of the same select people who made my last season there miserable getting recognised for being something they're not. Whilst I totally get your point of view, this is a very different thing to staff being rude to guests. The general comment was that staff are quite friendly and nice to guests. How they treat people behind the scenes and in their personal lives is very different, and not something that can really be judged by people who don't work there. Equally, it's not really fair to tar all staff with the same brush because of bad personal experiences you have had.
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