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No Adult Groups Allowed

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Is it just me or is the policy which is in place at the three Gullivers theme parks and at Twinlakes a little unfair? These parks say that adults may only enter these parks if they are with a child.

Now whilst I can understand that they want to deter groups of "football lads/ lager louts" (would they even visit the park anyway?) it seems somewhat discriminatory to ban couples, small mixed sex groups and lone adults. It's a bizarre rule which I've never understood. No such rule is in place at parks like Legoland and Paultons Park, yet when you visit these parks it's pretty rare to ever see groups of adults or individual adults without children so it's not like it'd be a big problem that they need to stamp out.

What are people's thoughts on this? Are the park's right to do it? Do responsible adults have a case for discrimination if turned away at the gates?

.... Or the question all fanboys want to ask... Is it fair that there's a wooden coaster credit in Cheshire which we can't bloody ride?!!
 
I've never really understood this either. Maybe instead of a 'no adult groups' policy, there should be a notice at the park entrance to say that misbehaviour will not be tolerated, and guests will be ejected from the park at the first sign of trouble to protect their younger visitors.

If I was a business I'd want to have as many visitors as possible to make the most money, and rejecting adult groups is not the way about it!
 
Are the policies strictly adhered to? I went to a family holiday camp a few years ago where there was a policy that no bookings could be made by all male or all female parties consisting of teens/adults. I went with a few friends (all male, ranging from 18-23), they let us book it and nothing was mentioned of the policy in bright big letters on their website.

Tom.B said:
Maybe instead of a 'no adult groups' policy, there should be a notice at the park entrance to say that misbehaviour will not be tolerated, and guests will be ejected from the park at the first sign of trouble to protect their younger visitors.
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Well that's probably the reason why they have this rule. They simply can't be arsed dealing with trouble they may get from allowing adult groups in. To save them dealing with anything that may or may not happen they make it easy for themselves and do all the banning.

I find it a strange rule however. They're not exactly the types of parks that will draw in younger groups or groups of adults that will cause problems.

But ah well, let them push away custom, they're the ones losing out on customers. Fools.
 
If you email them in advance Gullivers escort you in... Literally in to the creds then out... Might even get them for free if lucky...

Twinlakes has stopped this practice I think as well... Or they don't care much, can't say about Wheelgate...

There's also the park on the South Coast which does this... The alternative is get procreating then rent your child out to desperate goons...
 
I've always wanted to go to Gulliver's Kingdom Matlock (the nearest to my Sheffield home), but can't and may never be able to, because of their unfair policy.
 
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Isn't this arguably against single peoples human rights or something, saying you can't go somewhere because you dared not to get someone up the duff?

I've heard people claim their rights are being infringed for a lot, lot less. LOLZ.
 
DiogoJ42 said:
It's discrimination. No different to a pub saying "no blacks, no Irish".
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I know a lot of people that have children that also go to places/events such as the Warehouse Project etc. and, going by your logic, them not being able to take their children there is just as bad as a pub saying "no blacks"?! Comparing the persecution of a race to you not being allowed in a child's theme park is just nonsense.

I'd find it super creepy and weird if I had taken my children to a CHILDRENS theme park and a bunch of adults turned up. Like, why? Do you need a cred that bad? Just go to Thorpe or Alton man.
 
By that logic, adults should be banned from watching U, 12, or 15 rated films, and only allowed in to the cinema for films rated 18. Because wanting to have fun without going to extremes "creepy"?

Disney parks are aimed squarely at young children. Should they ban childfree adults as well?
 
LiamC said:
I know a lot of people that have children that also go to places/events such as the Warehouse Project etc. and, going by your logic, them not being able to take their children there is just as bad as a pub saying "no blacks"?! Comparing the persecution of a race to you not being allowed in a child's theme park is just nonsense.

I'd find it super creepy and weird if I had taken my children to a CHILDRENS theme park and a bunch of adults turned up. Like, why? Do you need a cred that bad? Just go to Thorpe or Alton man.
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Then why not just ban adults from cebeebiees land or CCL then? What makes it creepy? I'm sure that most teenagers on here (me included) hate when people say "teenagers all cause trouble“. Isn't this the same, but for adults? And I'm sure lots of the staff there are childless, is it creepy that they are there?
 
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No, but clearly the bait was taken.
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Touche, sir.
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LiamC said:
I'd find it super creepy and weird if I had taken my children to a CHILDRENS theme park and a bunch of adults turned up. Like, why? Do you need a cred that bad? Just go to Thorpe or Alton man.
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I do go to Thorpe and Alton "man" but as you're on a theme park enthusiast forum it shouldn't be that big a surprise to expect some people on here to not only want to keep going to the same theme parks over and over again.

Some of us on here like a bit of variety in our lives and therefore make the effort to visit parks in Europe and elsewhere, I also like to experience a variety of UK parks and have visited 30+ including parks such as Paultons and, Legoland and Crealey which are aimed primarily at children. Do you find it creepy that me and my girlfriend or me with a group of friends visit these parks to experience the rides? If so then I'd say that you need to broaden your mind a little.

It's not necessarily about chasing credits, I like the look of a few of Gullivers' rides in particular the Antelope yet I can't experience these rides. The irony of course is that if I went with my girlfriend and we brought some random child this would be allowed but if we turned up minus the child we'd be turned away, how is that fair?

You may be someone who's happy to just repeatedly visit the same parks (Thorpe and Alton) but I would grow very bored of this very quickly. So for me to be told that there are 3 parks in the country where I live but which I'm not allowed to visit for no good reason, I do find this somewhat frustrating, I can't be the only person to think this.
 
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