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Meal vouchers... a great way to 'maximise' your budget. You're telling me!

AstroDan

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Alton Towers claim to be offering "great savings" and allowing guests to "maximise your budget" with their meal vouchers, detailed here.

For the sum of £20.00 per adult you get:

- A morning drink
- A meal
- A refill cup
- A sweet treat

So, to check out the "great savings" offered by this product:

- Morning Drink, worth around £2.50
- A meal (remember, no drink needed as you have a refill cup) - value around £7.00
- A refill cup, priced £6.00
- A sweet treat, average around £3.00

Now, I make this £18.50.

Are Alton Towers having a laugh?
 
It gets better!

Alton Towers said:
Main Meal

Here at the Alton Towers Theme Park we have an incredibly wide range of restaurants with food from different origins. Whether you feel like tasty noodles, a mexican or even traditional fish and chips, we’ve got it and they are all included within your Food and Drink Package!
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Apart from the fact you can't have "tasty noodles" as Spinball Noodles has been closed for over a year now!

:)
 
And I wouldn't recommend the fish and chips as last time I had it, it tasted like bleach and had the consistency of bogies.

Good mathematics there though AT!
 
That's terrible!
The only time i can see that working if you went to woodcutters? and had an expensive meal other wise its a rip off!

Food and Drink voucher includes purchases at Woodcutters Bar and Grill and Explorers Pizza Pasta with the exception of sharing platters.
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So tbh it does work if you go to woodcutters but not massive savings, it would be better priced at around £15 i would say.
 
There is a chance they have missed something off the list (breakfast maybe), even then you would be saving about £1
 
AstroDan said:
Alton Towers claim to be offering "great savings" and allowing guests to "maximise your budget" with their meal vouchers, detailed here.

For the sum of £20.00 per adult you get:

- A morning drink
- A meal
- A refill cup
- A sweet treat

So, to check out the "great savings" offered by this product:

- Morning Drink, worth around £2.50
- A meal (remember, no drink needed as you have a refill cup) - value around £7.00
- A refill cup, priced £6.00
- A sweet treat, average around £3.00

Now, I make this £18.50.

Are Alton Towers having a laugh?
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£18.50 and that's before the A5 leaflet with discount vouchers on or annual pass discounts! I never spent more than £4 last year at towers on food including drinks.
 
The kids deal seems like OK value at £10, but you're very unlikely to make any sort of saving using the adult voucher.
 
I expect they were hoping nobody would notice that you're actually spending more money than you would without the voucher...it is Merlin after all :p
 
I must admit, I'd question whether a large percentage would actually consume a hot drink, even more so during the hotter months. Again undervaluing the price.
 
This... Just... What? This cows face sums up my confusion:

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Just going some investigating and you can make a saving. You just have to avoid certain outlets.

Most hot drinks are around £2.80
Cheapest meal on park is £6.50 but most expensive is £14
Desserts are about £4
And quencher.

These are not new either, been around for a few seasons, they used to have a cheaper version but that's been scrapped (cheaper option excluded Pizza Pasta and Woodcutters).
 
Dave said:
Just going some investigating and you can make a saving. You just have to avoid certain outlets.

Most hot drinks are around £2.80
Cheapest meal on park is £6.50 but most expensive is £14
Desserts are about £4
And quencher.

These are not new either, been around for a few seasons, they used to have a cheaper version but that's been scrapped (cheaper option excluded Pizza Pasta and Woodcutters).
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Which meal is £14? It excludes Platters at Woodcutters...
 
AstroDan said:
Dave said:
Just going some investigating and you can make a saving. You just have to avoid certain outlets.

Most hot drinks are around £2.80
Cheapest meal on park is £6.50 but most expensive is £14
Desserts are about £4
And quencher.

These are not new either, been around for a few seasons, they used to have a cheaper version but that's been scrapped (cheaper option excluded Pizza Pasta and Woodcutters).
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Which meal is £14? It excludes Platters at Woodcutters...
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Good point, not certain a single meal costs £14 to be fair if platters are out.
 
I do wonder if anyone buys these kind of things? It's certainly not something I would even think about before I visit, or even on the day.

I can understand the all day dining, and you probably could make plenty of money on that (if you eat all day and didn't do any rides :p), but why buy a voucher for a meal.

Also if a family did this you would end up with 2 or 3 quenchers, when you could just buy one and share, the same if not all of you like hot drinks or want a dessert.
 
I would like to be in these decisions at towers, I bet it's amazing
 
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