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Urgent EP advice

Actually there are no Merlin parks in the UK with a suspended family coaster!

EDIT: I forgot about Vampire. But really comparing that with ARTHUR is laughable.

Now now, Vampire is arguably the most legendary rollercoaster in the UK after Nemesis, a Wardley masterpiece and most importantly Bowser Jrs favourite ride.

For now…
 
To play Devil's Advocate here, if you went to a Merlin park and did 1 indoor coaster, two dark rides, a flying theatre, an indoor boat ride, a suspended family coaster and a mine train coaster, that's not a bad ride count. Likely you would have queued 40-60 minutes for each of those anyway and then it would be five o' clock and time to go home.

EP and Merlin might have different policies relating to refunds/free returns, but it's clear to me which park I'd rather be in on a weather-affected day.
Fair point. Money plays a factor here though. I paid 60 euros to get into Europa Park which is around £50. Thorpe and Alton I believe are like £30-35? For £50 sadly the expectation is a lot higher and If you break down how much I paid per ride, it's pretty bad.
 
I am sure there were other shows as well, perhaps only the smaller ones. I don't about the Globe theater and the Arena at the moment.
The Christmas show in The Globe started last Wednesday. We went to the first show and only afterwards realised the main performers Ross Antony and Paul Reeves were from England!
 
It's a shame I was a day before the Globe Theatre show started, would be of been to see that. Honestly I think I missed the shows too as I usually enjoy those too.
 
So here was my perspective, I arrived at 11:10. I did CanCan, Maudame, Ghost Castle, Voletarium, Pirates in Batavia, Arthur, and Alpen Express. I got the monorail and realized.. what the hell do I do? There is more dark rides but the quality is variable, maybe Bench?

It was around 2:30-3 when I hit this wall. I would walk around and enjoy the theming but we're in a mini storm and an awful time for atmosphere or pictures. A lot of the food places were shut (don't blame them lol), the park seemed dead which usually is a positive but going on the bumper cars with all the others cars being empty is dull lol.

I didn't even go to the Scandinavia area of the park [...]

Well, in my opinion, there's your problem. One ride on Snorri Touren would have saved your entire day ;)
 
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