I don’t know if anyone knew this but with Drayton Manor debt been around £150 million if the family decided to sell up the site, Rides and Hotel and facilities must be worth around £500 million so they could make a profit but depends on who would buy them. When Merlin was taken over by Blackstone for 7.5 billion last year which included 3 billion of debt. So unless your a big company like Disney or Universal every theme park will have big debts. That’s the problem American Adventure they invested big in the late 80s and to the mid 90s but then just didn’t invest in the parks including maintenance so they were forced to close there log flume,
missile roller coaster and there rapids ride. They sold the missile coaster to Pleasurewood hills and used the money to get the rapids ride reopen, pay off debts and hired some kids rides u see in Thomasland with no theming and pay attentions on the lake. I last went 3 years before it closed in summer 2003 and there was hardly anyone there.
View attachment 1646This was the map from that year so this was the end of The America adventure so I hope with the amount of attractions Drayton removed and not replaced and the flood and now the virus Drayton can recover.