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WTF Merlin?

Merlin’s food options are currently continuing to be soured and get worse by Aramark.

Last week Chessington joined Alton Towers with removing the drinks from the meal deals. Although the price has been lowered, you now pay more than you did previously if you want a drink with it.

They are charging £3.25 for a bottle of water, which is now the cheapest adult drink option, soft drinks are now £5 for the regular.

They’ve also done away with free sauces, and you now have to pay 50p for ketchup this includes if you want sauce on a hot dog.
 
I'm sorry, 5£, aka almost 6€ for a single soft drink? Presumably smaller than 0,5l too?

That's worse than airport pricing and completely absurd. My home park is already pretty bad with 4€ for soda but that's so much worse.
 
Very recently went to Alton Towers and Thorpe Park, the availability of the rides was pretty fantastic from when I was there, the only thing that really kept breaking down was Oblivion, Rita and the Smiler with a short pause because someone did their pants riding the thing and Staff had to throughly clean it. Hex was surprisingly open, managed to get all credits and finally got closure to a 6-year old dream and had a fantastic day in Thorpe and Alton.

The food pricing in Alton Towers is absolutely horrendous though, when I was in the park, a 0.5 liter bottle of water cost £5, like, come on? Even Plopsaland De Panne does not have ridiculous pricing like this. As for Thorpe, I don’t remember as distinctly but I think it was fine from what I can remember.

Long queue times we’re also a massive issue too, when I went to Alton, all rides had like a 1+ hour queue except for Toxicator, but that did not matter much for much since I managed to get a RAP booking and knocking out Wicker Man and the Forbidden Valley out very early on, allowing me to do the rest of the park pretty comfortably. As for Thorpe, everything had pretty standard 20-30min queues except on Hyperia.

Other than those, the parks we’re fairly clean. A very noticeable lack/low amount of flat rides in both though.
 
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