Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2023 Discussion

[rob666]

Feel free to check out the ride maintenance page on the Beach website...

 

[siralgenon]

Pleasure Beach really need to sack their marketing department because I've never seen so many flops in my life.

 

[AstroDan]

Enso doing well then.

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[rob666]

Not just Enso...the whole park has been dead this year.

 

[IDB]

Visited yesterday. Big One had a queue down the ramp on one train. Most of the the rides you got on within a couple of cycles.

Saw only six people riding Enso, all from the same family, riding in twos and not spinning much.

 

[Thameslink Rail]

If Enso take-up is that low on weekdays, do you think they might lower the price on weekdays?

 

[shakey]

Visited yesterday. Big One had a queue down the ramp on one train. Most of the the rides you got on within a couple of cycles.

Saw only six people riding Enso, all from the same family, riding in twos and not spinning much.

Yesterday as in Saturday ?

That's very quiet for a Saturday although weekends in May / June (half term aside), are not usually rammed.



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[Matt N]

If Enso’s uptake is low, might it become free?

 

[Skyscraper]

If Enso’s uptake is low, might it become free?

I wouldn't say "free", because everyone would want to ride it and swamp its dire throughput, but I would expect the price to be substantially reduced.

 

[rob666]

It is unlikely to be discounted, the traditional true season is about to start, "Whitsun" to the end of October.

 

[IDB]

Yep, yesterday. Still not parted with my £15 yet although I am intrigued to ride it, but not at that price.

 

[JAperson]

I mean they might just decide to run ENSO on weekdays, that would probably remove the problem of nobody riding it.

 

[Rob]

Got to admit I am quite pleased that Enso has completely flopped. Always looked like a silly and desperate decision by the park.

 

[Coaster]

Big One running one train on Saturdays is what's put me off going up for a weekend in May. Why force people to wait in a slow/tedious half hour queue when you could provide better service and have happy customers re-riding it?

It's frustrating, the park is quiet, yet it's actually worse to queue for The Big One than when the park is busier.

 

[djtruefitt]

It’s now been confirmed by the park that Portaventura is also included in the PB annual pass, for one free visit.

 

[venny]

Big One running one train on Saturdays is what's put me off going up for a weekend in May. Why force people to wait in a slow/tedious half hour queue when you could provide better service and have happy customers re-riding it?

It's frustrating, the park is quiet, yet it's actually worse to queue for The Big One than when the park is busier.

It’s not a great look to charge people a premium price and then deliver a poor experience like this. Seemingly though they’re not really bothered - single train operations persist across many of the rides and yet it’s still around £45 to get in.

 

[AstroDan]

The ticket price is simply too high.

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[Coaster]

It’s not a great look to charge people a premium price and then deliver a poor experience like this. Seemingly though they’re not really bothered - single train operations persist across many of the rides and yet it’s still around £45 to get in.

Yeah that's a great point. If you charge a premium price you have to deliver a premium product, and one train with a queue down the ramp is not a premium product.

 

[Benjsh]

Not just Enso...the whole park has been dead this year.

Because it's dated, overpriced and out of touch with GP's expectations of a theme / amusement park.

It needs new owners as badly as Newcastle United needed rid of Mike Ashley.

 

[Matt.GC]

Enso is the new VR on Galactica. It'll be gone soon and no one will ever mention it again (apart from us of course).