Dave
TS Founding Member
1) Dont do personal attacks, i dont.
2) I did not mention the dungeons.
3) my previous point mentions that Thorpe, etc are ok to charge for parking. Their are good public transport options. They never promiced to help the local community. This is not about theme park fans but the community around it
4) Alton offers very little escapism.
5) other enviroment and transport options could be trialed or used.
No you just personally attack people within the resort who are not allowed to reply on a forum to defend themselves.
Thorpe have no greater right to charging for parking than any other theme park. And Towers do support the local community, their first responders cover the village, they helped fund a defib at the village hall and they sponsor various things in the community. Does that justify the parking charge.... No. but that’s not really the debate.
And name one thing other than a relief road towers could do to help the traffic situation. The roads in that area are dictated by the historic landscape.
As for escapism that’s mostly perspective. Some parts of the park do, others do not. There are a lot of “theme parks” out there that don’t even try.
The park has plenty of bad to be talking about without the need to over exaggerate.