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2020: General Discussion

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GaryH said:
I think restraints would be a minor problem. If its true the virus is airborne then just sitting in a monorail carriage where someone has sat earlier with the virus will put you at risk. Apparently it also lives on surfaces for 9 days so touching anything (toilet seats, doors etc) will put you at risk. I believe they are pinning their hopes on warmer weather in April killing this thing off but i'm not so sure. Places like theme parks where a mass crowd of people from all areas gather is going to be a concern.
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China closed cinemas to try and prevent spread of nCoV from mass gatherings so could see the UK parks getting the same treatment if there was a serious outbreak in the UK
 
I suspect there may be some balancing between those avoiding theme parks and those not going abroad this year looking for something to do in the UK. As others have said there's very little to suggest that this will be bad news for Merlin (and the UK).

Of course it is a great excuse already being etched into the Merlin 2020 Annual Report.
 
Rojo said:
I suspect there may be some balancing between those avoiding theme parks and those not going abroad this year looking for something to do in the UK. As others have said there's very little to suggest that this will be bad news for Merlin (and the UK).

Of course it is a great excuse already being etched into the Merlin 2020 Annual Report.
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Yep if this turns out to be nothing Merlin have a very convenient execute for their annual report though they don't have public investors to grovel to now
 
Will Merlin still need to do an annual report now it's in private ownership?
 
On another point, when is the first operational day of the season to anyone? No I'm not asking about the general season I mean services and john lewis events
 
Ethan said:
On another point, when is the first operational day of the season to anyone? No I'm not asking about the general season I mean services and john lewis events
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Pretty certain services day is the weekend before opening, ie 14/15 March. If John Lewis are doing a day it will be the weekend before that (ie 7 March)
 
Currently, coronavirus cases in the UK are still quite limited (the stats might have changed since I last checked, but the last I heard was that there were 11 cases in this country mostly caused by one man, who has now recovered.), so I wouldn't envisage much impact on the parks (if there is even a noticeable impact at all), personally.
 
I just thought of another thing; did similar outbreaks such as SARS and swine flu have any noticeable impact on theme parks in the UK? There might be bits of park history I don't know, but the only outbreak I can think of that's ever impacted UK theme parks in any way is the foot & mouth outbreak in the early 2000s, and that was purely because it meant that Alton Towers had to cull all of its farm animals.
 
If the virus spreads unchecked in this country, and it is doing so already, then theme parks will close for the duration of the epidemic, as has already happened in the far east.
For all the joking, this could put the UK industry on its knees.
 
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