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2025: General Discussion

havaska said:
JCB Golf Course has accommodation too. I appreciate it’s a different market, but still.

Speaking of JCB, I still think they’d be a good group to take AT off Merlin’s hands.
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They do, and they obviously host LIV golf. I spoke to a few of the people who work for them when it was on in the local pub, they organise all the travel etc for those playing. JCB have their sights on the Ryder cup so that’d be interesting. Not a golf fan myself but apparently it’s one of the best golf courses in the country, only by invite though so corporate stuff.

There’s so many nice places to stay locally within loads of different budgets. The Tawny hotel a few miles down the road hosts celebrities, heard Jack Grealish was there a few weeks ago. Then there’s local B&Bs, chain hotels. It might be in the sticks but they’re competing with a wide variety of operators.
 
Not putting the mini golf indoors was an awful decision longer term. One they seem to recognise and fix at Legoland Windsor.

It seems glaringly obvious a building/tent could or should be built over the mini golf to allow it to become far more usable.

This should be accompanied by a center parcs style leisure facility with bowling, sports, arcade, restaurants/coffee, retail facilities in the front etc with finally a multi use auditorium (Stage/cinema) in the back onto the bottom car park near the monorail station.
 
Ash said:
Not putting the mini golf indoors was an awful decision longer term. One they seem to recognise and fix at Legoland Windsor.

It seems glaringly obvious a building/tent could or should be built over the mini golf to allow it to become far more usable.

This should be accompanied by a center parcs style leisure facility with bowling, sports, arcade, restaurants/coffee, retail facilities in the front etc with finally a multi use auditorium (Stage/cinema) in the back onto the bottom car park near the monorail station.
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Well they’re certainly getting close to centre parcs prices at times so there’s no reason why they shouldn’t be offering certain facilities for guests.

Also where the park and the hotels are located it’s surrounded by loads of walks, ridiculously close to the Peak District also. So many people head this way just to walk, I think winter time they’re missing out on a bit of a market there personally. It’s easy money.

They could open up walking access routes round the back of the woodland lodges if they wanted too that would talk people down to the railway track through to dimmingsdale etc.
 
Poisson said:
The route from behind Cbeebies to the railway track is treacherous and would need a hell of a lot spending to make it even remotely advertisable.
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It can be yeah, but the lodge site down the road that’s just been approved they’re advertising walking routes going from their site to a multitude of directions, many of which are out of their remit and aren’t maintained very well.

With a bit of forward thinking I don’t see why Towers themselves couldn’t do the same thing in conjunction with staffs moorland council, if anything that would surely be something they’d support as they’re all about getting people here to walk and explore.
 
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havaska said:
JCB Golf Course has accommodation too. I appreciate it’s a different market, but still.

Speaking of JCB, I still think they’d be a good group to take AT off Merlin’s hands.
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Knowing people who work there and the internal lack of care for most the staff I would disagree
 
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AltonLover123 said:
Wasn’t Reborn fitted with lower temperature equipment?
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I’m mostly curious if it CAN operate.

Everything open at Efteling, Europa and Phantasialand this morning (except Joris) with snow and temperatures between -1C and 2C.

Been nervous about doing a Xmas trip but it’s amazing what these parks can do.

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Bowser said:
I’m mostly curious if it CAN operate.

Everything open at Efteling, Europa and Phantasialand this morning (except Joris) with snow and temperatures between -1C and 2C.

Been nervous about doing a Xmas trip but it’s amazing what these parks can do.

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Believe these parks use winter wheels and wheel heaters in the stations. I suppose they could run coasters over here, but would need to make adjustments to run them
 
MattBTP said:
Believe these parks use winter wheels and wheel heaters in the stations. I suppose they could run coasters over here, but would need to make adjustments to run them
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I'm almost certainly wrong, but the only time I've ever noticed wheel heaters in the UK is on Colossus. And it needs those to run in normal weather.
 
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