Those would've been handy... Had it not been chucking it down with rain.Well thanks to the pandemic there is now a lawn full of tables in front of the stage!
Those would've been handy... Had it not been chucking it down with rain.
Towers have a covered picnic area in Muitiny Bay (which I referenced a couple of posts back) which I've used on quite a few of my visits. An additional one in another area of the park would be good though.Do any UK theme parks provide indoor picnic facilities?
I can't think of many places at all that do really, generally indoor or covered areas are for those who bought food at the venue. I think some places do offer indoor or covered picnic spaces for school groups to have packed lunches, but I don't think they are always open generally.
Towers have a covered picnic area in Muitiny Bay (which I referenced a couple of posts back) which I've used on quite a few of my visits. An additional one in another area of the park would be good though.
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Do any UK theme parks provide indoor picnic facilities?
I can't think of many places at all that do really, generally indoor or covered areas are for those who bought food at the venue. I think some places do offer indoor or covered picnic spaces for school groups to have packed lunches, but I don't think they are always open generally.
There is a large covered area with tables and chairs at Thorpe. Right at the back (or is it the front) past the flat rides and near the path that goes the back way to SAW.
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The park isn't built to deal with crowds like the fireworks bring in. It was barely able to cope with the Covid-limited capacities.I visited yesterday and the biggest disappointment was the complete lack of capacity of indoor seated F&B. All seated restaurants had massive queues - some pushing 45 minutes and on a peak day where you’re going to be spending most of your day queuing, it’s just not fair to then make people wait for a seated meal. We ended up paying £25 for a hog roast baguette, a hog roast bap and a portion of fries and ate them (after waiting a while for a seat) in the Welcom-Inn courtyard on a pretty filthy table. Queues for the bar were horrendous as well. More high capacity indoor seated eating places and more covered seating areas are urgently needed.
They could always close the additional restaurants during off peak times and only open them on peak days. We tried the approach of waiting until late afternoon but queues for the restaurants were relentless all dayThe park isn't built to deal with crowds like the fireworks bring in. It was barely able to cope with the Covid-limited capacities.
The issue with creating seated capacity is that the payback for that would only come on days like fireworks. My only advice for anyone attending on fireworks nights would be to opt out of catering altogether, or have a big breakfast before you arrive and a big meal late afternoon while its quiet.
Towers did offer Burger King and KFC, but now those restaurants are Burger Kitchen and Just Chicken respectively.That’s 1 thing I’m surprised that they still offer KFC and Burger King at Thorpe Park and not at Alton Towers as I thought back in the day they were better priced and tasted as good as the high street shops.
The park isn't built to deal with crowds like the fireworks bring in. It was barely able to cope with the Covid-limited capacities.
But they won’t need to build anything. All of the infrastructure is there, and there was clearly a demand for them all otherwise they wouldn’t have been built in the first place.On ridiculously busy days just take your own food or expect to wait to get what you want. It's pretty simple. They're not going to build an extra couple of restaurants just for a couple of weeks worth of busy days then have them lay empty for 98% of the season. This is the real world. Accept it for what it is and decide how you're going to deal with the situation.