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Chessington World of Adventures Resort

Seems Chessington has been busy over winter. With a repainted front entrance, Returning Waterwheel and painted up buildings in Adventure Point and Paw Patrol area still being constructed
 
Having seen various updates from the usual faces it seems that not a lot has changed, bit of paint and a tidy up - standard really. Probably a lot of infrastructure stuff
 
Hid said:
Standard yes but still does not mean isn't hard work
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Doing what is expected isn't really "hard work". They aren't particularly going above and beyond, compared to Paultons adding new dinosaur figures to an existing area which is adding something not expected, Chessington painting stuff is routine maintenance.
 
Regardless of how good the winter work is for Chessington, it honestly is a damn sight better than the state Towers is in. Low bar set mind you but that sums up this wretched company.
 
QTXAdsy said:
Regardless of how good the winter work is for Chessington, it honestly is a damn sight better than the state Towers is in. Low bar set mind you but that sums up this wretched company.
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Hard to say really until the park opens in March? We don’t know what level of cleaning and painting is happening, but it does take place in February & March most years.
 
I get that. But I find it baffling that people on this thread currently seem to be criticising Merlin because they are doing maintenance work at Chessington during closed season.

Just because they haven’t done so in previous seasons doesn’t mean they should be criticised now. I’m no Merlin fan, but can’t we just move on from the past and be positive about what they’re doing now?
 
Merlin parks have always done maintenance work during the winter, it’s never enough in my view, and their parks are not kept to the standards they should be - but all the same - they do jet wash/repaint/repair/replace. Some of it is noticeable (or gets noticed), some goes under the radar because it is mundane.

It makes it even stranger that folks often act surprised when a picture of a repainted building or ride pops up - people must have short memories, because it happens every year.

It doesn’t appear to me that winter improvements / maintenance has got worse or better lately - it’s just the same level it has always been.
 
At the end of the day does the end result of a repaint it looks better. Which in my opinion the entrance looks much better in the new colours and the new Water Wheel look great
 
Hid said:
At the end of the day does the end result of a repaint it looks better. Which in my opinion the entrance looks much better in the new colours and the new Water Wheel look great
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I don’t want to seem rude…. But every time I read your posts I have to read them three or four times. Admittedly I am dyslexic and that does not help. But please try and make your posts more legible.

I’m sure you have valid points but they just don’t come across.
 
AT86 said:
Merlin parks have always done maintenance work during the winter, it’s never enough in my view, and their parks are not kept to the standards they should be - but all the same - they do jet wash/repaint/repair/replace. Some of it is noticeable (or gets noticed), some goes under the radar because it is mundane.

It makes it even stranger that folks often act surprised when a picture of a repainted building or ride pops up - people must have short memories, because it happens every year.

It doesn’t appear to me that winter improvements / maintenance has got worse or better lately - it’s just the same level it has always been.
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Exactly. At times some management realised more work is needed leading to things like TLC at Alton Towers but they were jet washing and similar anyway. I’d celebrate a little more replacing theming like TLC did to Mutiny Bay and similar but just adding more paint is routine.
 
shawnoc said:
I don’t want to seem rude…. But every time I read your posts I have to read them three or four times. Admittedly I am dyslexic and that does not help. But please try and make your posts more legible.

I’m sure you have valid points but they just don’t come across.
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Wow that’s a bit harsh. Hid was saying that the entrance repaint and refurbished water wheel look good.

In terms of Chessington’s current winter maintenance, the big difference between this at Alton’s TLC/ Thorpe’s Sparkle Project, is that I don’t think that Chessington are making such a big deal of it. As far as I can see, they’ve never said it’s anything other than standard winter maintenance, so I’m not sure why people are getting so critical of it. Yes, it’s just standard maintenance, but that’s fine, it is what it is. Why people are making an issue of it just seems needlessly negative.
 
I was thinking "Paw Patrol World" would flow better...but then that would acronymise to PPW.... the same as Peppa Pig World.
 
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