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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2023 Discussion
Mattie boy
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Do you think people don't research into places before they decide to go and fork out ?
venny
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What was today’s Big One excuse? Too bright?
Enter Valhalla
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BPB’s weird operations never cease to baffle me.
Skyscraper
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Yikes, that's not good! Might be worth contacting the park to report it.Pleasure Beach's website appears to have been hacked and the URL diverted:
Edit: just tried myself, definitely been hacked
Skyscraper
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Shaggy_Dog_
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Well Amanda, that’s an interesting way to look at it..
Enter Valhalla
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For a sunny Saturday that’s absurd. It almost makes me think BPB management has a bottomless pot of money and couldn’t care less if the park fails.
I know that’s not the case, but that’s certainly the impression that tweet gives.
Then again, as I said in another thread, every single theme park in the UK has been dead this season, and I’m sure that Amanda knows this.
I know that’s not the case, but that’s certainly the impression that tweet gives.
Then again, as I said in another thread, every single theme park in the UK has been dead this season, and I’m sure that Amanda knows this.
Shaggy_Dog_
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The interesting thing though is that Blackpool seemed to limit the amount of season passes they were selling this year, I know that when I tried to buy one at the very start of March I was unable to as the website stated that the “Allocation of season passes for 2022” had sold out.
That makes me think that they tried a different strategy this year, to sell far fewer Season Passes by limiting their sales and make more of their money from the sale of individual day tickets but it would appear that it’s backfiring somewhat if the park is constantly dead as has often been reported. You look at that, the way the price structure for Enso was received and that they’ve scaled back it’s availability, and the fact that Valhalla is still unavailable after so long, and there are some very concerning trends there.
That makes me think that they tried a different strategy this year, to sell far fewer Season Passes by limiting their sales and make more of their money from the sale of individual day tickets but it would appear that it’s backfiring somewhat if the park is constantly dead as has often been reported. You look at that, the way the price structure for Enso was received and that they’ve scaled back it’s availability, and the fact that Valhalla is still unavailable after so long, and there are some very concerning trends there.
To me it seems to be idiotic management stuck in a rut over covid measures.
On (a very dead) park at the end of last week, ended up sharing a ride on Icon with a woman who had visited with three mates.
Two weren't into thrill rides, one wouldn't do woodies.
£160 for half a dozen small rides for four people.
Before covid that would have been around £80, for two non riders passes and two entry passes.
Their costs have doubled in three years.
Bring back the cheap entry pass Mandy, your park has been empty for two whole months apart from the very odd busy day.
You are losing millions on the secondary spend of the non riders, the ones who wander the shops when the family are riding!
On (a very dead) park at the end of last week, ended up sharing a ride on Icon with a woman who had visited with three mates.
Two weren't into thrill rides, one wouldn't do woodies.
£160 for half a dozen small rides for four people.
Before covid that would have been around £80, for two non riders passes and two entry passes.
Their costs have doubled in three years.
Bring back the cheap entry pass Mandy, your park has been empty for two whole months apart from the very odd busy day.
You are losing millions on the secondary spend of the non riders, the ones who wander the shops when the family are riding!
And we'll never let them forget it.
DistortAMG
TS Member
Has it though? I have visited Drayton Manor quite a few times this season due to my son wanting to visit. The park has been fairly busy every single time except for two exceptions, one where it was totally rammed and another time mid week, when it was dead.
It seems to me that Mandy and the Pleasure Beach do not want to admit their own failings as the cause of the park being so empty.
Rick
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I am not sure I would would equate the two. Galactica had huge logistical headaches, with a boat load of additional revenue expense every single day, on every single train. Enso is a single pair of seats on one of three trains (that they don't even always run).
Enso doesn't make any real difference to the park, really. If it's got people on it, it's taking money. If it's empty, harnesses down and the seats go out empty. If they bought the hardware (I assume they did), taking it off doesn't seem like a win ?
Minor capacity uplift ... but all chatter of late is how dead the park is.
D4n
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I wouldn't agree that every park is dead this season. Alton Towers and Chessington both seem to me to be doing a good trade, numbers down on last year but that was to be expected. Still good crowd levels for the time of year.
Pleasure Beach has priced itself completely out of the market.
Pleasure Beach has priced itself completely out of the market.