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Although the weather is predictably unpredictable, they have had large amounts of snow and other cold temperatures several times before. I think this is why they stopped trying to open Runaway Mine Train and concentrated on the pirate theme, they had a couple of Feb half term weeks and even...

Maybe an indoor fun house like Phantasialand.

That then goes back to debate on the type of event AT want to run and the price charged, is it a smaller scale family focused event for those with small children or a bigger event with multiple rides for those over 1.2m and who are happy doing scary dark rides. This in turn potentially pushes...

Yes I get there is the need to salt/grit more paths if the weather is bad but getting Fountain Square and Walliams World open would be better than Katanga Canyon. Having the Carousel, Frog Hopper and Gangsta Granny open would be perfect for the family half term event.

I made one post that mentioned "I do wonder if it would be better for AT to block passholders.." and then multiple further posts which refeerence blocking tiers of passes or utilising blockout dates. I would argue that the Pirate Takeover is a premium event, with additional live entertainment...

Do you see all blackout dates as arbitrary bans? Is the fact gold & essential passes can't go to the fireworks arbitrary? Or that essential passes can't visit in October half term? most of the current blackout dates seem pretty considered and I don't see why you find the idea of adding February...

Yep Paulton's might charge £46 for entry but Alton Towers its £30+ for entry and then you will likely want to spend £35+ on Fasttrack due to the queues.

Battle Galleons should have a live actor on each boat this week as Sea dog Starkey's Sailing School. Don’t think the guns are on (but I’ve not watched any vlogs, just looked at the AT website)

This is effectively what Alton Towers offered at Christmas and half-term for many years. No passholders and not always day tickets, Christmas and Feb half term was a boutique low volume event for hotel guests only to fill hotel rooms in the Winter. They then expanded the half term event and...

OK yes in the first post I suggested banning all passholders, but in later posts I also suggested utilising blockout dates, as Merlin did in the past, to restrict it to the higher tier passholders, to ensure they are getting higher income. But the revenue per admission from an annual passholder...

Paultons barrier to annual pass ownership is the overall fee for the pass coupled with restrictions on entry, their cheapest pass is £172, so £43 more than Merlin but for a single park and you won't get entry this week for that price, need the £290 premium pass for entry at half term. They are...

If "90% of the attractions are closed" then charging half the normal day ticket price seems reasonable, or are you also arguing that £27 (with a 25% off code) to £39 for a day ticket in main season is also too cheap? I'd probably say that anything under £35 is too cheap for main season, but £18...

Which is why it should have been done proactively not retrospectively? The previous tiers of passes had a lot more blockout days, it would have been quite possible to keep the silver pass and discovery pass with a block on half term and only allow platinum passholders in on these days with...

Given passholders can now come in they don't really cap the numbers like they used to when it was hotel guests only. Yes they could cap passholders being able to book, but do they actually check and enforce those bookings anyway? I do wonder if it would be better for AT to block passholders...

Spinball is two rows of two seats in a continuiosly moving station, its much each for them to shout over to get someone into a seat. Nemesis has bays with airgates for batching so really needs single rider on the load side so they can batch into the rows before the train gets into the station.

Thats assuming they have the letter, otherwise got to wait for Leek Signs to order/make a new one.

There is of course a lot of controversy and boycotts around the song contest this year, but the UK have just announced our entry. https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2026/feb/17/look-mum-no-computer-uk-entry-eurovision-2026 I'm not much of a YouTube viewer so not familiar with Look Mum No...

Also today is probably the only dry weather day this week, its likely to rain most of the rest of the week. This is likely making it busier today than it will be later in the week?

A good chunk of our historic rides are still operating or in situ. Blackpool Pleasure Beach almost is a museum, although I do think they could of had a display of old ride cars there, but maybe seeing the Mouse would be too emotional.

Don't forget its not really Battle Galleons right now, its got a different plot without the water guns, so many people will be doing it because its a "new" attraction to them.