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Maybe they just want a fun day out? You don't need to have an activity as a hobby-level to enjoy doing it. Many people enjoy going to the cinema, theatre, ten pin bowling, etc and most of those wouldn't count it as a hobby either. I watch Marvel movies but definitely do not count myself as part...

You don't need to be interested in this as a hobby or interest to go to an amusment park. The main issue is fewer people are holidaying in the UK, due to the cheap flights to Spain etc. So the days of going to a British seaside town for a few days and an amusement park as a day out as part of...

Although if they knew of plans for the building they wouldn’t have even got permission, I know at the time it had the Dungeons open, but I don’t see them ever significantly demolishing a building, rather just expanding or similar as they did when adding the lifts.

Planning permission for the solar panels was granted several years ago

The low capacity is why premier access is so expensive, if it was cheap then everyone would want to use it and the premier queue would be longer than the regular one.

Yes I was thinking more about 2026 prices and inflation will take things up by 2031, but I still think there will be a perception that over £100 is expensive (The Warner Bros tour feels pricey at over £50). I could see first season peak pricing maxing out at £99 to avoid that perception ceiling...

I don't see one day tickets being three figures. They will be more than other UK parks, but I think its going to be more like £80. Universal Hollywood is $109 (£79) to $154 (£112) for a day ticket. Six Flags Magic Mountain is $55-65 (£40-47), so a little more than the UK Merlin parks. I don't...

Not really, lots of coasters start early, Universal Orlando was actively building the new Fast & Furious coaster in late 2025 and that will open summer 2027, so a good 18 months ahead. Also it makes a lot of sense to get the footers in when the whole area is new, rather than having to work...

The Roaring T-Rex at the Natural History Museum is permanent and been there at least 20-30 years, its a similar amount of movement to Paultons new one, but a bit jerky because of its age. Just got to watching the video, as discussed I think many of the other UK parks do jetwash and paint in the...

Yes, this is where it needs to be clear if someone's opinion that it will be "the 2nd best coaster in the UK", which I think is unlikely, or in their own personal rankings it would be second best in the UK out of everything they have personally ridden. For example I personally don't like The...

Out of curiosity i looked up Brean, as I'd sort of heard of Brean Sands but wasn't familiar and wow, looking at aerial images the whole town is just holiday chalet and static caravan villages! No wonder a theme park there is not doing well as those sort of holidays are losing favour.

Do you think Drakon will be the 2nd or 3rd best coaster in the UK? Ahead of (in no particular order) Hyperia, Nemesis, Wickerman, Colossus, Nemesis Inferno, The Smiler, Oblivion, Stealth, Rita, The Big One, Icon, Grand National, Shockwave, Gold Rush, Vampire, etc? Drakon looks pretty good, but...

I don't think it looks like Drakon will be one of the UKs best coasters.

No one is going to be providing anything significant for smokers nowadays, there is a general push against smoking nowadays so no one is going to make a highly themed structure relating to it. Also there already is a covered smoking area at the front of the hotel.

Its really hard to say, Chessington was part of the Tussauds group since 1987 and Alton Towers since 1992. Without the input of Tussauds I don't think either park would be where they are now, things like Vampire, Fifth Dimension (later Terror Tomb), The Haunted House and Nemesis probably...

The offer is until June, so it looks possible to book a stay at May or Easter bank holidays when the pass isn't valid anyway. But overall the essential pass has very few restricted days anyway, they have massively cut the prices of the annual passes, this is basically the old silver pass...

I think smoking is only permitted at the front of the hotel anyway, although not 100% certain (and some people probably ignore the rules and smoke on the patio anyway).

Platinum gets free tickets for friends, other passes its 25% off I think.

Well we don't know yet what will be offered for 2026. I was just speculating that it will be the same as last year. It might be different for 2026.

My guess is that ERT is going to be school holidays only or similar. I think they did summer-only ERT last year?