after a good decade broken.
Now bring back Abandonship.
Looking fresh! It's been a very long time since I've seen the arcade, It looks like that ticket redemption area takes up a lot of space (Look at that space between the front and the penny pusher, unless the camera makes it look a lot more cramped than it is). Correct me if I wrong but I believe they got rid of the tickets for a certain period, right? If that's the case then I'm more than happy with this change.
thats because they had been sat in the bar all day drinkingTo be fair, TS seemed very positive about the food in both the Secret Garden and the Rollercoaster Restaurant over the weekend!
Always good to hear of positive developments at the hotels.
Yep from what can be seen in those photos it is the bare minimum that should be offered for a £100+ a night room. When we ate at ATH for breakfast in November it was still a bit disappointing, only one type of jam and it was cheap stuff, only watermelon not really other fruit, only basic bread for toast and nothing more interesting like crumpet, nothing like marmite, peanut butter or Nutella.
I also expect they have gone for the individual serving boxes of Kellogg’s as they will keep if unopened, having large bowls of cereal put just leaves more to go soft while the hotel is closed for the next few weeks before the main season.
There is a difference between “thanking” someone and acknowledging an improvement in the offering.
As much as we critique the place we must want it to improve otherwise what’s the point of being here. That’s not to say we don’t go “great you have done this but you should be x much better”
But making things worse (or saying you will) then backing down when lots of people complain is the modus operandi of Merlin / Towers. Just look back at previous seasons. Announcements of cuts to opening hours / Rapids becoming "seasonal" etc. There were lots of social media complaints, so they back down & give a little back of what they had said they would cutback on.
Towers would be 10x better if they took a long & hard look at Europa Park and the standards / quality of product they achieve both in their park & hotels. The Europa Park breakfast buffet in Hotel Colosseo makes the "expanded" Flambos offering look like a plain bacon roll.