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Pleasurewood Hills

Themeparksandy1981 said:
Can I ask how busy is the park during the school holidays?
What replaced there indoor/outdoor boat ride? As that was a great ride back in the 90’s
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Moderately its the trade they rely on yet again though loopings slashed the operating hours across the season few years back and never changed them back.

Nothing specific replaced the alladins cave. Infact parts of it are still visible ! A waveswinger sits close to where the ride use to be

Most Locals don't visit anymore after the neglect it's been given then the car park fiasco last year, that was the final straw for the very few locals that did visit and have season passes.
 
pjanvil said:
Marble Madness is open now and since Easter holidays
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That’s a positive step, at least!

For me, my personal favourite ride there was actually Jolly Roger. As someone who likes a good drop tower, I have to admit that it is a very good one!

If I’m being honest, I didn’t massively rate any of their coasters. Cannonball Express was rough and didn’t really have much to it layout-wise, Wipeout was also pretty rough, and even though I’m normally a fan of a Zierer Tivoli, Egg-Spress was also weirdly rough compared to Treetops at Oakwood and Cat-O-Pillar at Paultons.

I don’t know if I’m being overly harsh, but as someone who lives 260 miles, and a 4.5 hour drive on a flawless run, away from Pleasurewood Hills, it’s not a particularly compelling proposition for me to return there in the absence of substantial new investment. I only spent around 3 hours in there and was quite content with leaving after that time.
 
Matt N said:
I’m afraid it would not overly shock me if the park did close at this point. It lost money last season and the season before, if I’m not mistaken… so if this season doesn’t recover things, I wouldn’t be that stunned if it did go the way of Oakwood. I know they have the backing of Looping Group, but will Looping Group really want to keep a consistently loss-making park on board? From my visit last year, the park has some pretty considerable swathes of dereliction, and as a visitor who lives over 250 miles away, it is not a park I have any plans to return to any time soon unless they build something pretty substantial.
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I'm genuinely interested if Looping Group will close a park outright or if they will try and sell it off first

I've seen somewhere that Pleasurewood Hills has one of the least attendance out of the group beating Cobac Parc.

I've quoted the post underneath. I think that park might also be of concern for the future too if Looping are looking at disposing of parks in the near future.

James Watkins said:
According to this video from last year, Drayton Manor receives 920,000 yearly visitors which has now likely risen to 1 million, whilst Pleasurewood Hills receives only 180,000. Huge difference which explains the different investment levels!

Pleasurewood is Loopings second least visited park, only in front of 'Cobac Parc' with 100,000.
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Hid said:
The Carousel and Marble Madness to
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They also did smaller projects like the elephants and looking at recent blogs it looks like the jolly roger is getting a queue line to help when it's busy and make the ride feel less fairgroundy.
 
Tom11 said:
They also did smaller projects like the elephants and looking at recent blogs it looks like the jolly roger is getting a queue line to help when it's busy and make the ride feel less fairgroundy.
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It has its current tacky fair style que line yes yet it rarely if ever gets a que , maybe this will help it become more popular that's IF it reopens this season
 
Mattie boy said:
Marble madness was sbno for most of 2024 and still didnt open with season start for 2025. Carousel was or still isn't even finished either, not 100% sure on that
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Doesn't matter if it was the start or end or 2025 it still reopened in 2025 refreshed.

Pleasurewood Hills probably more marketing and more rides a coaster would draw in new people.

It's also in a decent location being next to Great Yarmouth my only advice get people to support local parks if you want them to survive
 
Hid said:
Doesn't matter if it was the start or end or 2025 it still reopened in 2025 refreshed.

Pleasurewood Hills probably more marketing and more rides a coaster would draw in new people.

It's also in a decent location being next to Great Yarmouth my only advice get people to support local parks if you want them to survive
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If they get NEW stuff in which for over a decade they haven't then people will return... they need a lorry load of stuff to ever win back the local community .

Most just go to GYPB as it offers better value
 
Mattie boy said:
If they get NEW stuff in which for over a decade they haven't then people will return... they need a lorry load of stuff to ever win back the local community .

Most just go to GYPB as it offers better value
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Exactly build up slowly don't do it all at once though. The have a theatre right there prime for use.
 
I went here last year and was surprised how much I enjoyed it. Safari was excellent, as was the retheme of the Pony Trek. Woodland Express is a superb miniature railway, and they still have one of the best Pirate Ships. But it goes without saying that it does need some new investment. Personally, I think taking out the boat ride was a huge detriment to the park, and I'd love for them to get a new one with sparkling-clean water like Grampy Rabbit's Sailing Club at Paultons.

It looks like Wipeout and Marble Madness are here to stay, but Egg-Spress and Cannonball Express are showing their age (a shame, as they're both great, in my opinion). Personally, I think they really need a new family or family-thrill coaster. Something decently big that most people would want to ride:

  • Vekoma Horus to replace Egg-Spress.
  • Vekoma Family Suspended Coaster in the north-east of the park.
  • Gerstlauer Bobsled to replace Cannonball Express.
  • Gerstlauer Airtime Coaster (like Mecalodon) in the south of the park.

It's fundamentally a good park, but I think if they don't invest soon, it's going to seem more and more unviable (unfairly, in my opinion).
 
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