2025 Season

[Parm Pap]

sparkle might not be afforded, so names are new and cheap, and what is old is new again, half of 10 is fresh, half of 10 is hello, delivering the food, one day

 

 

bombombombombombombombombombombombombombom where's the bom bom?

[MattyMoo]

Going once, twice, 10 times and SOLD, auction has finished and there's money in the (paint) pot.

That track is a right bobby dazzler. Orange? No, just rust.

[Cal]

Passholder day has been announced for Sunday 16th March.

 

Park is open 11am - 7pm which is nice, interesting as don’t think I’ve ever seen them open after 10am.
 

Would love to see some more of this, opening later and staying open later. 11am - 10pm would be great for fright nights. 

[JoshC.]

21 minutes ago, Cal said:

Passholder day has been announced for Sunday 16th March.

 

Park is open 11am - 7pm which is nice, interesting as don’t think I’ve ever seen them open after 10am.
 

Would love to see some more of this, opening later and staying open later. 11am - 10pm would be great for fright nights. 

 

The last time I can recall the park opening after 10am was for Fright Nites 2003, when they did 11am-11pm. Still, a long time ago!

 

In any case, it's been a long time since the park did a passholder day, so it's lovely to see them do one again. The thing with these sort of days (ie ones at the start of season) is that the money they don't earn from standard entrance tickets is sort of recouped by the fact passholders tend to spend more than average on their first visit of the year due to new merchandise. Plus, it helps bring value to the annual pass (despite it already being great value) and added satisfaction. So it is win win.

 

A 7pm close giving the opportunity for a dusk ride or two is a lovely bonus too, and it's good to see the park continuing their experiment of offering later closing times. Hopefully that can continue. 

 

I also agree about Fright Nights: it would be interesting to see the park explore 11am-10pm at the very least. I don't know how realistic it is to happen, since one of the things that ties the park's hands is the number of under 18s working at the park. Equally, the park simply seem to have veered away from running rides till 10pm: they don't even do it for buy outs or their VIP/Press events. But it would be interesting to see.

[Benin]

Haven't the Passholder Days historically been terrible though?

 

For all the parks.

[Mark9]

On 2/25/2025 at 8:45 AM, Benin said:

Haven't the Passholder Days historically been terrible though?

 

For all the parks.

 

 

Yep, parks normally pretty quiet as they restrict numbers but the RAP queues are about there hours long now. 

[JoshC.]

Yeah tbf Thorpe have historically had mediocre Passholder days at the start of the season. Their Fright Nights Passholder events in the past were usually well run, but the start of season ones were a cocktail of some or all of the following: first day teething issues, being too busy, having too many RAPs, not everything being ready, expectations being too high.

 

Hopefully the park are aware of past mistakes and have better luck this time round.

[Cal]

I’ve had some good days at the Thorpe ones back in the day, and the Fright Nights passholder events I did were good too. 
 

Seen some terrible reviews from Chessington ones but Chessington is always terrible. 
 

I’ll probably go to this one with it being a 7pm close, depending on the ride availability they post nearer the time.