Vekoma would be great to go to for the new coasters, they fit the park perfectly, especially in the area where the Circus tent was (vertigo area). The next greatest concern is dealing with Pirate Adventure, and dealing with Excalibur's tow boat area, and finding the appropriate Dark Ride or indoor roller coaster to replace them. After this, then it's the mismatching themed areas for rides. These IMO are the major tickbox solutions for Drayton.
With the mismatched rides, yes, park rebuild would be the right word for it, which isn't actually that awful given it's a very compact park. Let's just face it, whatever the park has to do realistically to compete in the wider European industry and stand out as a Theme Park overall is going to require mountains of borrowing, investing and potentially going in to debt (worst time to raise this kind of point given the Carillion crisis I know). The park has such potential, but it's got a very tricky journey ahead. It can only go so long with the junior market before it loses appeal from wider audiences, which it already is with some of the guys posting in this thread.Pretty much a park rebuild bar Thomas land then
I am not sure why people are so hard on DMP for concentrating on Thomas Land. Didn’t Paultons Park fund the new area and two good coasters because of Peppa Pig? Maybe Drayton are trying the same thing long term?
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It did fund a hotel too...
Which was a rather strange investment from a park that isn't anywhere near even a full day one...
I'm pretty sure it's managed and catered by the park themselves. I have no need to stay there given I'm only 10 minutes away, but I've heard great stuff about itDo DMP manage and cater the hotel themselves, or is it sourced outwards? To be honest, having had no inclination to visit for many years now, I totally forgot they invested in one, but looking at Trip Advisor, the write-ups seems good. Affordable, too!
Does anyone find it funny that the Drayton Manor season passes cost £20 more than the Alton Towers ones...
Just pointing out.