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A Big Dipper that goes up and down and up again is the classic wooden coaster format, Blackpool has plenty of them. If any park is adding a wooden coaster that is what I would want, its a type of coaster the UK doesn't have enough of outside of Blackpool, Thorpe is full of twisty inverting...

Alton Towers generally though it is longer queues because there are more people visiting, they are still running rides at moderately high throughput (main issues of rides running much lower than they should are Get Set Go and the monorail). Whereas Drayton Manor could run more Haunting cycles...

Disneyworld has a whole hall of president animatronics, I don’t see the issue with them having one of their founder at his original park.

Goose is working on it.

Again, what is BPB transitioning from and to? Paultons is not in a similar situation, they are building on good development with more good development. Chessington is removing older attractions and yes moving to something newer (and potentially transitioning away from being a zoo if the...

I don't think the old ticket booths and queues were that much better really, other than being permanent, they were also falling apart I think.

Or another company offered a different job with more pay.

All that was really known is a large building would be built that may or may not have a rollercoaster inside.

WDW monorail is much higher capacity. AT needs more frequent trains to manage the capacity required so don’t think manual gates would work.

Are you sure Merlin pay better? Pretty sure Aramark don’t which is a good chunk of the staff at the parks.

$17 USD is about £12.50 GBP which isn't far off UK minimum wage anyway. Also wages in the USA aren't always comparable due to the way their taxes, benefits and healthcare work. Additionally there is a lot of competition for workers in the Orlando parks, Disney, Universal, Seaworld, Legoland...

The old ticket sheets at BPB were comparable in price to most other theme parks, you would get so many of each ride tier for about £25 I think, plus a free admission to one of the three shows. It didn't feel much any more expensive that Alton Towers did back in 2001.

The American tickets can be confusing, but remember they don't have access to the 14 day passes offered in the UK. Because in the US they don't get as much annual leave and take shorter trips that is why there are more varieties of tickets for 1-4 days with and without park-to-park admission...

For every £1 you earn above £100,000 you lose 50 pence of your tax-free personal allowance, this leads to some people having a marginal tax rate of 60% on earnings of £100k to £120k. This article seems to discuss it OK https://barnesroffe.com/insights/are-you-paying-the-62-tax-rate/ Basically...

Then those are the UK tickets. Undercover Tourist only offer the USA tickets.

Do you mean the Universal USA site, or the UK one? If you can see the USA site then you could just buy there instead of using Undercover Tourist anyway. But often the USA Universal site won't load from the UK.

Nope, I selected Setember 2026, click on the link in my previous post and check for yourself. Undercover Tourist don't appear to currently offer tickets with more than one day at Epic Universe. Maybe that is a UK only thing right now?

Volcano Bay is closing from October 2026 which is likely why you can't see the four park ticket. If you want other options you will need to buy the US tickets from a reseller such as https://www.undercovertourist.com/orlando/universal-orlando-resort/, but its not always significantly cheaper...

I’ve got zero memory of ever noticing it! But overall it just didn’t feel like a place I would go as a local, a small number of overpriced restaurants, a Disney store and not much else. At least Disney Springs has a full mall too and CityWalk feels like a better selection of restaurants.

We don’t know what CityWalk is going to offer yet. It might not be designed to attract that many extra people and could just be a few restaurants for on-site guests. Think about places like Europa Park and Disneyland Paris, there isn’t anything really for locals, Disneyland Paris just really...