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IDB
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The Sun offer starts this Saturday.
www.thesun.co.uk
How to get two tickets to Alton Towers Resort with Sun Superdays
Alton Towers Resort is bursting with extraordinary memorable moments just waiting to be made, and thanks to Sun Superdays you can get TWO tickets. We have exclusively for Sun readers over 240,000 t…
www.thesun.co.uk
Nice, just signed up for this. Wonder how long before the cereal and milkshake offers appear too, I have no doubt there will be some againThe Sun offer starts this Saturday.
How to get two tickets to Alton Towers Resort with Sun Superdays
Alton Towers Resort is bursting with extraordinary memorable moments just waiting to be made, and thanks to Sun Superdays you can get TWO tickets. We have exclusively for Sun readers over 240,000 t…
The Sun offer starts this Saturday.
How to get two tickets to Alton Towers Resort with Sun Superdays
Alton Towers Resort is bursting with extraordinary memorable moments just waiting to be made, and thanks to Sun Superdays you can get TWO tickets. We have exclusively for Sun readers over 240,000 t…
Am I correct in my understanding that if I pay 1.99 for one months membership of Sun Club I will on monday march 24th be eligible for the discount?
Would this be the easiest and/or cheapest way to get this discount? I don't live in the UK so can't get the physical paper or the app.
SUN CLUB:
1. Simply head to thesun.co.uk/club and sign up to Sun Club.
2. Once you have subscribed, head to the 'Offers Hub' and click 'Book' from 11:00am on Monday, March 24.
3. Click the Book button, and a unique booking code will appear. Copy your unique booking code and click the book button again, this will direct you to the Sun Superdays Alton Towers Resort website where you can book your tickets. You must book your tickets by midnight on Monday, April 21.
In theory that should work but I haven't taken the risk and have just been begrudgingly buying a paper every day. They cost over £1 a time now, last time I bought a Sun before that they were like 20p
I think so, but not 100%sure.
Check out the t&c's, but they are clearly trying to get towers ticket offer users to subscribe to their new "club".
I have done the offer for many years, but the days of cutting coupons are now sadly gone.
I get a paper every day anyway, and I reuse all the papers one way or another, but I always get amused by a ten day Sun subscription.
It makes good firelighters!
IDB
TS Member
I didn’t start collecting at the weekend, and can’t be bothered now. One year not visiting Towers isn’t going to be a great miss.
Yup. I may be wrong, but an educated guess is that people who get free tickets aren't the biggest spenders on-park. Crazy how a theme park ticket is cheaper than a West-end cinema ticket!
jon81uk
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West-end cinema is cheaper than £79?
Some theatre shows are more but they also discount to fill seats in quieter times of the year. I've had £25 tickets in January that should have been £80+
Although the discovery pass is very cheap at £79, it sort of serves a purpose of filling the attractions on quieter weekdays during term time. I think it should remain £99 or £119 though without the discounting to £79.
£79 - where did that come from. I wasn't talking about the theatre - just the cinema, where tickets can easily be £40 (Leicester Square, Waterloo IMAX). It's about value - and money. If I have 10 rides at a theme park, I am happy. If I've spent most of the day queuing, I am not happy.
Are Merlin in the theme park business or the queuing business?? Because they are pretty shitty at nickel'n'diming the queue...
GooseOnTheLoose
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Well I still didn't say it. My point was that people are prepared to pay for an experience/day out. Personally, I don't want to spend all day at a park queuing. That's not a good use of my money or time. YMMVFrom the quote you included in your post...
jon81uk
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The post you replied to was about the Discovery pass sale price of £79, therefore seems reasonable to think that is what you are comparing to?
Also the cinema isn't easily £40, BFI IMAX for the Minecraft movie in a few weeks is £23-27 for adults and £15-19 for children.
Odeon Leicester Square for the same movie is £17.50-25 for adults, £12.50-17.50 for children, or can get adult and child for £25-35.
Alton Towers on the same day is £37 with no discount for children.
So you could get an adult AND a child to the cinema for £40.
All these prices seem fairly in line with each other, £37 for a day at Alton Towers is pretty fair and you can get 25% off that with a box of Kelloggs cereal.
In terms of queuing, its been like that on busy days (weekends and school holidays) for 35 years. All theme parks have queues.
OK, so now when I get a translation for another new social media abbreviation, I then have to look up what it means.
This has nothing to do with mileage, not to this old man.
And back on topic, if you want to do the Stunning Soaraway Sunreader offer, there are still enough days left to do the offer.
Sadly the days I want come under the £25 a ticket bracket. Still a saving vs the AT website price but I’m still shaking my fist at them out of principle
Yeah, if you can't snatch up the freebies it just isn't worth the effort.
The paid club members basically got to jump the queue I think, it took me half an hour before I got the collect button, and the first two freebies I picked had sold out by the time I got to the checkout, but freebies for a July weekday will do, though I would have preferred a low season weekday...all gone for the days that fitted.
The paid club members basically got to jump the queue I think, it took me half an hour before I got the collect button, and the first two freebies I picked had sold out by the time I got to the checkout, but freebies for a July weekday will do, though I would have preferred a low season weekday...all gone for the days that fitted.