jon81uk
TS Member
I stick to my comment merlin won’t put any money towards any events if the numbers don’t add up. For a company that’s recovering they won’t throw money towards anything this year they will Not want to spend a penny unless it has to. As I said before scarefest is planned months and months ahead. Most of the planning stages will be missed for this year as most people have not been working. I’d love to see scarefest but unfortunately this year is a no go in my opinion.
Again it depends what the event is. Getting the decorations out of storage and putting some bunting, pumpkins and haybales down TowersStreet costs almost nothing and the evening hours with the ability to ride in the dark will bring some additional people to the park, particularly for half term. If they get the usual decorations out and do the bare minumum shows it will get some extra visitors for half term and they get more ticket sales.
Designing and running a scare maze is more expensive, although dusting off the same plans as the year before will be a lot cheaper and they also charge extra fees for the mazes so some of the additional spend is recouped. But at the moment it is impossible to say whether by October a scare maze could be run due to distancing issues or whether that restriction will be gone.