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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2024 Discussion

Has anyone used the app before? Is it useful for accurate live queue times? Looks like you can create a group ticket too which seems like a good idea for scanning for rides
 
Thameslink Rail said:
I'm not too familiar with BPB's capacity but 4000 guests sounds quite low for school trip season.
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Not too many years ago I think 6,000 to 9,000 wasn’t too uncommon for a school trip day. But the park doesn’t cope well with crowds, so not sure I’d even want to be there on a 4,000 day.

I like the story of when @rob666 was told at the gate “There’s 9,000 here today, I wouldn’t bother”, so he turned round and didn’t even go in. What a guy!
 
idleross said:
Has anyone used the app before? Is it useful for accurate live queue times? Looks like you can create a group ticket too which seems like a good idea for scanning for rides
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I tried the group ticket feature once a week or so ago, and while the scanner accepted it, it only let one person through. My partner had to be manually let through. I didn't bother doing it again.
 
Dipper_Dave said:
Not too many years ago I think 6,000 to 9,000 wasn’t too uncommon for a school trip day. But the park doesn’t cope well with crowds, so not sure I’d even want to be there on a 4,000 day.

I like the story of when @rob666 was told at the gate “There’s 9,000 here today, I wouldn’t bother”, so he turned round and didn’t even go in. What a guy!
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If there really was 4000 on park today, I certainly would not bother going with 9000 on park with the current setup regarding slow dispatch times, running lower volumes of ride vehicles on some rides and the scanning system.

I would be expecting 1-2+ hour queues on everything at that capacity under current operations, not to say more ride vehicles wouldn't go on at that capacity but still, given limited ride hours like 11-5 with most rides not even running until 1pm that would be poor to get in 2 big rides maximum.
 
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Feels like the park are throwing out different offers every week, there was one last week for a half price stay in the Hotel on a Sunday night with two park tickets included, and before that the Dads Go Free when buying a ticket for Father's Day. Whilst I'm sure we can all appreciate and welcome a good promo offer this really is starting to look like a sign of desperation by the park isn't it.
 
Relife said:
The sea air has done a number on Revolutions steel frame. The coaster is over 40 years old it cannot last forever. Avalanche may last a bit longer but it's really rough.
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Again citation needed.
Any evidence whatsoever to back this up?
Repeated painting, with specialised paints for coastal environments, has been reapplied every few years.
I personally have seen little deterioration of the steel frames of either coaster.
 
rob666 said:
Again citation needed.
Any evidence whatsoever to back this up?
Repeated painting, with specialised paints for coastal environments, has been reapplied every few years.
I personally have seen little deterioration of the steel frames of either coaster.
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Why do people think the steel coasters are Pleasurebeech will last forever and will never need replacing. It's over 40 years old and . looked pretty rusty last time I went on it not to mention the increasing unreliability. This is exactly why Pleasurebeech is in this mess.
 
Shaggy_Dog_ said:
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Feels like the park are throwing out different offers every week, there was one last week for a half price stay in the Hotel on a Sunday night with two park tickets included, and before that the Dads Go Free when buying a ticket for Father's Day. Whilst I'm sure we can all appreciate and welcome a good promo offer this really is starting to look like a sign of desperation by the park isn't it.
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Bit frustrating seeing this the day after paying £42 per ticket with this offer not advertised online. I get it's probably an email campaign retargeting existing customers, but it's annoying when there could be more people entering the park if they were aware of it as new customers and advertised on the gate and outside the park.

Woke up this morning and ive got marks on each shoulder from the Infusion restraints 😬
 
Drayton have 4 tickets for £99 until end of June too so maybe they realised they needed to compete with that? Seems a shame we are saying seems a "sign of desparation" when at the same time people are saying they need to look at their pricing which they are doing. So if its £35 for 2 tickets, £17.50 each thats very reasonable, even if say you just wanted to do Pleasure Beach for a few hours in the afternoon instead of all day. With that offer, I can't think of a major UK theme park that is cheaper.
 
pjanvil said:
Drayton have 4 tickets for £99 until end of June too so maybe they realised they needed to compete with that? Seems a shame we are saying seems a "sign of desparation" when at the same time people are saying they need to look at their pricing which they are doing. So if its £35 for 2 tickets, £17.50 each thats very reasonable, even if say you just wanted to do Pleasure Beach for a few hours in the afternoon instead of all day. With that offer, I can't think of a major UK theme park that is cheaper.
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It's a good offer but they need to make the general public aware of it. Drayton has ads all over Facebook and social media, offers are great but they need to advertise it better. Offers are definitely the right approach though
 
pjanvil said:
Drayton have 4 tickets for £99 until end of June too so maybe they realised they needed to compete with that? Seems a shame we are saying seems a "sign of desparation" when at the same time people are saying they need to look at their pricing which they are doing. So if its £35 for 2 tickets, £17.50 each thats very reasonable, even if say you just wanted to do Pleasure Beach for a few hours in the afternoon instead of all day. With that offer, I can't think of a major UK theme park that is cheaper.
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It is two for one off the gate price. So £25 each .

Still a good offer, but I don't understand the logic behind it. Why put the offer on but then don't advertise it? Nothing on the website about it.

Why not just make the entry price cheaper ? And plaster it all over their website .

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Ares said:
Woke up this morning and ive got marks on each shoulder from the Infusion restraints 😬
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I'm still yet to find a way to ride Infusion without any mark afterwards! :tearsofjoy: Last year me and my cousins (crazily) lapped it at the end of the day as it was the only ride without a queue, and with the help of the ride attendant, we experimented with different ways to reduce the banging; to be honest it was good fun but needless to say the headache the next day was absolutely unbearable.

I hope BPB start to pull their finger out and get on with at least some simple advertising of these offers as an example (and in the long term some worthwhile investments and maintenance) because it has so much potential to be a great park but at the moment it's still got a long way to go which is a shame.
 
pjanvil said:
Drayton have 4 tickets for £99 until end of June too so maybe they realised they needed to compete with that? Seems a shame we are saying seems a "sign of desparation" when at the same time people are saying they need to look at their pricing which they are doing.
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The reason it feels to me a little desperate is that it seems like they are throwing out random last minute offers that seem like a reaction to low park visitor numbers this year.

There is a difference between what can be seen as a long term pricing strategy shift, such as we’ve seen Merlin do with their dynamic pricing and phasing out of BOGOF on cereal packets and the like, and what looks like Pleasure Beach desperately chucking out offers to try and get people in to a park that feels run down and at times empty. One feels coordinated and planned and the other feels last-minute reactionary and very random.
 
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Relife said:
Why do people think the steel coasters are Pleasurebeech will last forever and will never need replacing. It's over 40 years old and . looked pretty rusty last time I went on it not to mention the increasing unreliability. This is exactly why Pleasurebeech is in this mess.
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Parts are replaced, new steel cut in when required, inspections during the season, major inspections every winter.
Routine.
Hmm...Matterhorn Bobs...how are they doing I wonder.
Old.
Pension age...
Scrap em.

And the latest offer, meant to post when I got the email, but I didn't want another double post whipping.
They do offers every June.
Always have.
Often weekends only, as they have the schools for a month.
 
Dipper_Dave said:
Not too many years ago I think 6,000 to 9,000 wasn’t too uncommon for a school trip day. But the park doesn’t cope well with crowds, so not sure I’d even want to be there on a 4,000 day.

I like the story of when @rob666 was told at the gate “There’s 9,000 here today, I wouldn’t bother”, so he turned round and didn’t even go in. What a guy!
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When I emailed to ask why certain dates are not available in July, I was told school groups so imagine that 9000 is then
 
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