ChristmasPud
TS Member
This is all pre 2020 I mean for Thorpe and Chessington, their attendances started to drop since they started to do random low investments and let the parks themselves decline in the last 10 years. There's always a lag, if Alton are letting problems creep in now then it will show up in the general public's attitude a few years down the line and not sustain attendances, as shown by Chessington and Thorpe.I'd say it's too early regarding post Wicker Man years, as two of those years have been covid years where obviously attendance is going to be down.
So it's not an instantaneous response from the public, who've been coming back to Alton in large numbers since the crash. But what I mean is, if the park let things slip now with the likes of Dungeon and World of David Walliams, it will only drop again instead of keep increasing back to where the park should be.
And had the park kept up the great approach it had in the mid 90s, it might be on a more solid foundation today.