Food & Beverage: The Aramark Era begins

[Hid]

Can confirm £7.50 is not a good price for a pint in general, and certainly not for the drinks they serve in the Courtyard!

I'd also be stretched to call £4.50 good value for the pasty pictured. It looks pretty small for that price. And you can see them in the heat box in the background, confirming they are actually small.

Also, they continue to be... not a pie.

The pasty while £4.50 is reasonable you can always find a Greggs before entering the park at a much cheaper rate. In the parks your paying for convivence

 

[AT86]

£7.50 average price of a beer now in the UK

According to who?

 

[D4n]

£7.50 average price of a beer now in the UK, as for the pasty while £4.50 is reasonable you can always find a Greggs before entering the park at a much cheaper rate. In the parks your paying for convivence

What pubs are you visiting ???

 

[GooseOnTheLoose]

£7.50 average price of a beer now in the UK

No, it's not. The average price of a pint in the UK is £5.17 (according to the Morning Advertiser).

EXCLUSIVE: Average UK draught pint price rises to £5.17

A pint of draught beer has risen by 9p since January, according to exclusive new research from The Morning Advertiser.

www.morningadvertiser.co.uk

According to the Office for National Statistics, it was £4.83 in January 2025.

RPI: Ave price - Draught lager, per pint - Office for National Statistics

Please stop posting what you believe to be true as verifiable fact, without quoting an appropriate source. This is the third time today that I've had to fact check your posts on different threads.

 

[spotweld]

I don't pay more than £2.50 a pint. Is this not normal?

 

[rob666]

£7.50 average price of a beer now in the UK, as for the pasty while £4.50 is reasonable you can always find a Greggs before entering the park at a much cheaper rate. In the parks your paying for convivence

Will you please stop spouting rubbish.
I have not yet paid £7:50 for a pint outside a theme park.
The average price of a pint round here is a fiver, purchased several times in the last few weeks. A decent, fresh pint of Ruddles in spoons is still £1:79.
Quality local "artisanal" pasties are three pounds each, and huge.

 

[Dave]

The pasty while £4.50 is reasonable you can always find a Greggs before entering the park at a much cheaper rate. In the parks your paying for convivence

So your suggestion is a 40min round trip to Uttoxeter for a pasty?

We all know there is a theme park price bump for F&B at all parks but at the moment Towers (and most of the rest of Merlin) are just being extremely silly under Aramark.

 

[Hid]

So your suggestion is a 40min round trip to Uttoxeter for a pasty?

We all know there is a theme park price bump for F&B at all parks but at the moment Towers (and most of the rest of Merlin) are just being extremely silly under Aramark.

Depends which way you come from like I know there is a service station on my route to Towers there is one

 

[Jb85]

According to who?

It is round my area to be fair. £13 large glass of house vino. Worlds gone mad

 

[Matt N]

Depends which way you come from like I know there is a service station on my route to Towers there is one

That could be the case if you’re only going for a day. That doesn’t work if you’re having a multi-day stay, though.

On the second day, no one is going to head from the hotel, drive all the way out to Uttoxeter or a motorway services and then drive back again (well, I guess someone might, but the number would be very small, I’d imagine).

If the park was in a more urban location like, say, Thorpe Park, that might be feasible on a second day, but Alton is just too remote.

 

[Dave]

Depends which way you come from like I know there is a service station on my route to Towers there is one

Because everyone wants to pick up Lunch at breakfast time on the way to the park. If that was your intent you would bring a packed lunch.

This is about people who want a warm lunch at the time they want to eat it, I think you know that you are just trying to defend an indefensible position.