Not sure when this was done but they removed the covered area on the way from the car park
2026: General Discussion
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Looks better in my opinion more open, noticed it earlier this season
Maybe cause they moved the lights from the light trail in the Zoo and plan on installing them here.
So when exactly did the management change? Haven't been here for a few months, so learning new stuff.
Did the new cashconverters payment plan have anything to do with it?
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The shop by the main entrance has gone
The photo op in Adventure Cove is currently blocked off
The photo op in Adventure Cove is currently blocked off
It needa a big investment across the board.
It’s like the looping group has totally cut funding.
With the Vikings, Frontier falls and Adventure Cove all closed from the 2nd November to Easter 2027 they got a lot of time for maintenance and up keep of the park.
With the Vikings, Frontier falls and Adventure Cove all closed from the 2nd November to Easter 2027 they got a lot of time for maintenance and up keep of the park.
Other than lodges, no investment into wmsp either. No new animals, drive through sparse, rides need a major tidy up
Someone considered lodges at DM.
Six months later and she was no longer the MD of DM lol
Strikes me the previous park leadership had a policy of "fake it till you make it."
However it turned into "fake it even if we break it"
The park has painted itself into a corner and I am not sure there is the vision or the monies required to turn it around
The issue with Family Thrill is that families get older and there isn't enough to encourage travel to DMP over other parks. So you require strong local support and there just hasn't been enough. Reducing hours, reducing days, reducing operations whilst increasing prices?
We've had annual passes for the last ten years. May have visited over 50 times in some seasons. Less than ten this year. Not going to renew. The Grotto Photos which have seen one of us grow taller, and one of us go greyer year on year won't be added to. Ah well.
However it turned into "fake it even if we break it"
The park has painted itself into a corner and I am not sure there is the vision or the monies required to turn it around
The issue with Family Thrill is that families get older and there isn't enough to encourage travel to DMP over other parks. So you require strong local support and there just hasn't been enough. Reducing hours, reducing days, reducing operations whilst increasing prices?
We've had annual passes for the last ten years. May have visited over 50 times in some seasons. Less than ten this year. Not going to renew. The Grotto Photos which have seen one of us grow taller, and one of us go greyer year on year won't be added to. Ah well.
We're exactly the same. Got a 9 and 7 year old who loved going on the Wave which was great, but now they've done that they would much rather go Towers or Chessington at the moment who have a better variety of bigger rides. I'm still not really sure what family thrill means, but the only thrilling rides are Wave and Maelstrom at the moment. 10 years of passes but going Merlin now.
They know they can’t complete with the Merlin parks and most kids over 1.4 would go there. My daughter is at the Thorpe park age where the park is more aimed for teenagers. My son on the other hand is stuck as his now over 1.2 and he did enjoy Alton Towers 4 weeks ago for the 1st time but I won’t take him again to his 1.4 as his too old for CBeebies but there not enough else for him to do but at Drayton he can go on everything except Maelstrom and Stormforce 10 and Chessington to far to travel just to go for a day.
I do wonder if it was Looping Group choice to go full family, or whether it was solely Victoria.
Thrill Rides are require in a family park to, Drayton should be aiming for a mixture don't expect anything more thrilling than Wave but maybe equal
I think that Looping took a bit of a gamble with a focus on family thrill (some people may say family) rather than thrill by the fact that the more thrilling rides are older or close to the end of their life, in the case of shockwave, pandemonium and apolcolypse. There was work done in keeping with the Bryans in Viking and these may or may not meet the family thril definition. It will be difficult to build ne thrill rides with the Looping group budget which I understand was £5 million pound per year. Most thrill rides would be well in excess of that.
Looping group in my opinion had the option of family thrill, which they could install more rides or thrill rides which could have meant the ride budget for say three years for one ride, and I think that the £5 million was for a few short years and may not be correct.
I think the park has had a lot of negativity given the issues this year. Lets hope they can pull it back next year, hopefully with a new ride, looking doubtful or at least announce a major ride for 2028 and build up to it next year. Some of its competitors have big investments in the next couple of years (Paultons, Chessington and Legoland). Personally I think they are aiming for a different market to the towers and Thorpe park.
Heres to a good end of year (haloween) and possibly magical christmas (we are doing the panto only this year after not going last year)!