Thorpe Park - Temporary shipping container hotel to be built - The Crashpad

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Slight odd looking, and not sure who would want to stay there, espeically as the only access is across the bridge, which I guess will mean they will need to keep the main entrance to the bridge open all the time for people staying over? But I guess this does mean the dome could become open alot longer including the bar and shops.

Having a quick read at the planning documents it says this is planned to be there for 3 years with 117 rooms (40 shipping containers) to:
- Enhance the offer at thorpe park
- To test the market prior ro the permanent investment in the permanent hotel
- To provide accommodation during the detailed design and construction of the approved permanent hotel.

It will also be raised above the ground to stop flooding.

So by the sounds of things they are doing this to see how popular they will be before the build the hotel (they currently have planning permission for it).

One other thing in the document that I noticed was about the next coaster:

 

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As this is a major project, posts regarding this have been split from the general Thorpe Park topic

 

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Oh
Dear

It looks like Butlins from the future on an extreme budget! The rooms make Etap look spacious!

One thing I don't understand is how this will at all give a fair insight into people wanting to stop. There will be some who'll stop regardless but if I offered you:

- Thorpe Park with its own Alton Towers Hotel style hotel
or
- Thorpe Park with a shipping container hotel

Which would you stop at? They are two completely different types of accommodation. Drayton let you stop in a tent. Sod that! I'd stop there in their hotel though! I would stop over providing there is a nice enough hotel and the facilities to make it enjoyable. I wouldn't be that desperate that I'd stop in anything though. If I wanted to stop that badly I'd drive to a nearby Travelodge.

If you ask me this seems to be nothing short of a cop out. Thorpe will offer this hotel. It'll not meet the expected figures. Merlin will pull the funding and plans for a permanent hotel and save themselves the expense ???

 

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If we ignore the fact that this is very amusing, I don't think it's a bad idea at all. I've had a look through all of the plans and at the Snoozebox website and it seems a sensible way to go about things in the short term. It can be constructed very quickly, in 48 hours. It won't need to be done this quickly but it shows how easy it is to build. For what they are the rooms look decent and you can't think it will cost that much to stay over. And it means that they can have accommodation at the start of the 2013 season.

I do wonder what they would do about dinner/breakfast. Will they have a new restaurant in the dome to cater for this or will people have to make do with what already exists?

I did find this statement in one of the documents very amusing: "The buildings will therefore provide a consistent design which is in keeping with the surrounding 'theming' within the core of Thorpe Park".

 

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They already have the bar, resturant and coffee place in the dome, I imagine these will be open much later at night for evening meals and drinks and earlier in the morning for breakfast for guests to use.

 

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I think you've got it spot on there Rowe! The interiors look rather nice for what they are, and somewhat "cool", I'd definitely stay in one if the price was good. I do also think that it is just a massive coincidence that this will be a hotel made out of shipping containers, for what Thorpe/Merlin want Snoozebox appear to offer the perfect thing and they just so happen to be shipping containers which Merlin do have a slight love for!

 

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I just cannot understand what people will do between 6pm and 10am?

We criticize AT for a lack of options at night... but compared to TP, it's a metropolis!