MattyH
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Last night, I visited Towers for the staff scarefest preview night,which ran from 7-9 along with my housemate, we were both first time visitors to this event.
We arrived at quarter to 7 and after wandering around the park for a little while decided to head to th13teen, where we queued for 15 mins before a message was recieved telling us it had broken down.
We decided to check out the Zombie scarezone first, which was full of jumpy scares, a great little scare zone, which we both enjoyed, even if my housemate did get cornered by a pair of zombies!
Onwards we went to the Scare mazes, we decided to do Terror of the Towers: What lies within first, it was a lot bigger than we were expecting it to be, and and we were in the middle, so we saw everyone at the front getting scared and every one at the back getting scared.
We left the scaremaze and decided to check if th13teen was working, it was not, so we debated about getting food, but we decided since it was twenty past eight, to do the Sanctuary, we queued up and did this, which was another great scaremaze, we both enjoyed it, and being positioned at the back had a few run up to us to make us jump.
I would give it an 8/10, the only problem being the ammount of time, it could use being a three hour event, but I'm not complaining as it was free.
By this time it was 9pm and we hoped there would be an extra bus to get home, so we walked off to Magic HQ and waited an hour till about 10pm, at this point there was no sign of a staff bus, so we phoned City Cabs a taxi company, and we found two girls to share a taxi with, we ordrered the taxi and were told it would be about half an hour's wait, however, after half an hour, a phonecall was made to city cabs who told us the taxi hadn't even been sent yet. So a few taxi companies later, we found Lucky 7 taxi's would pick us up, and again told a 20 mins - half hour wait, we had told the taxi company and the driver when he phoned we were at the bus stop, but he promptly drove in turned around and drove off again, after another phone call to the company, he turned around and picked us up, it was now 23:10 we had been waiting for a way to get home nearly as long as we had been in the theme park. We were told it would be 22 quid for the taxi, however, the taxi driver insited on taking 25 off us and got very agitated, a phone call was placed to base after we had left the taxi!
I got home at about midnight, and I am now up for a days work.
We arrived at quarter to 7 and after wandering around the park for a little while decided to head to th13teen, where we queued for 15 mins before a message was recieved telling us it had broken down.
We decided to check out the Zombie scarezone first, which was full of jumpy scares, a great little scare zone, which we both enjoyed, even if my housemate did get cornered by a pair of zombies!
Onwards we went to the Scare mazes, we decided to do Terror of the Towers: What lies within first, it was a lot bigger than we were expecting it to be, and and we were in the middle, so we saw everyone at the front getting scared and every one at the back getting scared.
We left the scaremaze and decided to check if th13teen was working, it was not, so we debated about getting food, but we decided since it was twenty past eight, to do the Sanctuary, we queued up and did this, which was another great scaremaze, we both enjoyed it, and being positioned at the back had a few run up to us to make us jump.
I would give it an 8/10, the only problem being the ammount of time, it could use being a three hour event, but I'm not complaining as it was free.
By this time it was 9pm and we hoped there would be an extra bus to get home, so we walked off to Magic HQ and waited an hour till about 10pm, at this point there was no sign of a staff bus, so we phoned City Cabs a taxi company, and we found two girls to share a taxi with, we ordrered the taxi and were told it would be about half an hour's wait, however, after half an hour, a phonecall was made to city cabs who told us the taxi hadn't even been sent yet. So a few taxi companies later, we found Lucky 7 taxi's would pick us up, and again told a 20 mins - half hour wait, we had told the taxi company and the driver when he phoned we were at the bus stop, but he promptly drove in turned around and drove off again, after another phone call to the company, he turned around and picked us up, it was now 23:10 we had been waiting for a way to get home nearly as long as we had been in the theme park. We were told it would be 22 quid for the taxi, however, the taxi driver insited on taking 25 off us and got very agitated, a phone call was placed to base after we had left the taxi!
I got home at about midnight, and I am now up for a days work.
