Merlin Annual Pass Changes - November 2017

[AT86]

With a Merlin family pass can they be used individually or do all three members have to be there?

They can be used individually.

 

[Snagglemama]

They can be used individually.

Thank you.

 

[IanSR]

It's just a bulk discount, hence the requests on Facebook for anybody who wants to club together as a "family", the cards are individual ones.

 

[Snagglemama]

It's just a bulk discount, hence the requests on Facebook for anybody who wants to club together as a "family", the cards are individual ones.

Okay cool. The other half spends a lot of time at places like Alton and Warwick castle. And if I had a Merlin pass might have an excuse to go a bit more not been to Thorpe yet.

 

[IanSR]

Consider yourself lucky not to have experienced Thorpe, yet.

 

[Snagglemama]

Consider yourself lucky not to have experienced Thorpe, yet.

I'm intrigued tell me more

 

[IanSR]

I'm intrigued tell me more

The park is fine, the clientele not so much lol.

 

[Snagglemama]

The park is fine, the clientele not so much lol.

Ah I see

 

[Poopoohead]

So the “new” dinosaur golf in the tower, which is just replacing the closed one in the sea life, is not included in the annual pass now! Where the other one was. Not impressed

 

[AT86]

So the “new” dinosaur golf in the tower, which is just replacing the closed one in the sea life, is not included in the annual pass now! Where the other one was. Not impressed

But are you surprised?

 

[Poopoohead]

Not surprised, p****d off though. Replacing an included attraction with an up charge is just disgraceful

 

[MaxPower]

Not surprised, p****d off though. Replacing an included attraction with an up charge is just disgraceful

It’s the new Merlin business model...

 

[Poopoohead]

I tweeted them, apparently as it’s a secondary attraction there is a charge for it. What the hell is a secondary attraction? They’ve not answered me on that yet

 

[RoyJess]

I tweeted them, apparently as it’s a secondary attraction there is a charge for it. What the hell is a secondary attraction? They’ve not answered me on that yet

A secondary attraction is an attraction that is not included in the price of entry (gambling/games arcades, game stalls, scare mazes etc....)

 

[Poopoohead]

So how does that differ from jungle Jim’s or the circus in the tower?

 

[IanSR]

Don't mention that to them, otherwise they'll realise the mistake.

 

[Poopoohead]

Isn’t the summer sale usually on or advertised by now?

 

[Rick]

@Poopoohead i wonder if such sales will become less prevalent as they push the membership model...

 

[ringo]

Isn’t the summer sale usually on or advertised by now?

They’ve only recently finished the spring sale so summer might be a bit longer to wait

 

[Poopoohead]

@Rick I think you could well be correct, I’ve seen very little pushing the annual option in comparison to recent years

@ringo the summer one always seems to offer better value for some reason, my family all got annual digi passes last year as part of it. Perhaps the annual option will be less incentivised now as rick suggests