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[2025 Event] Big Blue Birthday Bash - February Half Term
- Thread starter Elise
- Start date
Themeparksandy1981
Member
It wasn’t open last Feb Half term
Stevie
Member
So. Went today.. ill try to be fair but what a shambles.
Weather was atrocious/ not a lot the park can do. But upon opening at 10:30 it took until 11:15 to scan in maybe 200 people.
Get the birthday bag thing - turns out you need to attend different shows to get the sweets for the bag.
Chaos after each show - it’s raining hard, cold. Kids crying everywhere.
One of the “events”‘is at the 4d cinema - there’s a sign outside saying show every 15 mins.
Nothing else.
About 35 of us wait 40 mins in the indoor area - nothing.
Eventually a staff member comes past and says we need to use the exit
Sigh.
We go to the exit, there’s a member of staff inside who tells us the show is only twice a day and it’s 2.5hrs for the next one. They just didn’t do the signage yet.
Onto the castle for “cupcake” making.
The room is freezing. It’s dark (only a dark blue light) - you can’t see a thing.
The cupcakes are pre-Iced. The decorations are just regular sweets -wrapped still.
My girl just ate the cake as it came.
Soft play was supposed to be closed 12:45-13:30 but at 13:30 we’re told it’s going to re open at 2:30 as the staff went late for their lunch.
Sigh again.
Off to Sodor cafe to warm up.
We order a jacket potato. There’s 3 left.
After 15 mins we’re like - where is the potato?!
They gave our order to the wrong person. Who despite not ordering a potato accepted and started eating it anyway.
No potato’s are left.
We were told they couldn’t refund , as we paid on Apple Pay (this is false) and we could have a substitute to the same value - but all other hot options were more expensive. And we had to pay the difference.
We just left at this point.
Weather was atrocious/ not a lot the park can do. But upon opening at 10:30 it took until 11:15 to scan in maybe 200 people.
Get the birthday bag thing - turns out you need to attend different shows to get the sweets for the bag.
Chaos after each show - it’s raining hard, cold. Kids crying everywhere.
One of the “events”‘is at the 4d cinema - there’s a sign outside saying show every 15 mins.
Nothing else.
About 35 of us wait 40 mins in the indoor area - nothing.
Eventually a staff member comes past and says we need to use the exit
Sigh.
We go to the exit, there’s a member of staff inside who tells us the show is only twice a day and it’s 2.5hrs for the next one. They just didn’t do the signage yet.
Onto the castle for “cupcake” making.
The room is freezing. It’s dark (only a dark blue light) - you can’t see a thing.
The cupcakes are pre-Iced. The decorations are just regular sweets -wrapped still.
My girl just ate the cake as it came.
Soft play was supposed to be closed 12:45-13:30 but at 13:30 we’re told it’s going to re open at 2:30 as the staff went late for their lunch.
Sigh again.
Off to Sodor cafe to warm up.
We order a jacket potato. There’s 3 left.
After 15 mins we’re like - where is the potato?!
They gave our order to the wrong person. Who despite not ordering a potato accepted and started eating it anyway.
No potato’s are left.
We were told they couldn’t refund , as we paid on Apple Pay (this is false) and we could have a substitute to the same value - but all other hot options were more expensive. And we had to pay the difference.
We just left at this point.
deathvalleydemon
Member
sounds awful. glad we're.giving this a miss.
To be fair we are only going for Rory I think we have the biggest fan going. Am I right in thinking the event is only a few hours at most? How does the birthday bag work and where do you pick it up from ?
Stevie
Member
Bag is collected from the main Thomas land shop
Thank you !
Themeparksandy1981
Member
Gutted was gonna take my son today but it won’t let you book on the day now.
DraytonEnthusiast
Member
What do you mean?
Themeparksandy1981
Member
If u go on the tap app today’s date is blanked out. My son had a crying fit so took him anyway and it’s sold out. The main car park is nearly full
manwithstick
Member
Saw the same thing - was going to just turn up but glad I didn’t. It shows how poor the park are at Social Media as normally they post when they are Sold Out.
Themeparksandy1981
Member
The event looked like it took 5 mins to put together.
James no5
Member
Just same as last April then just a different name
I'm assuming you're an annual pass holder? There are no rules to when you can pre-book, unless they've changed the policy this year. We've booked on the day many times before!
We are booked in for tomorrow, not so optimistic now as I was for a nice day
Stevie
Member
Unfortunately I’m inclined to agree. Would’ve been better just to have a standard Thomas land open with no frills. The additional “event “ can’t be driving any extra traffic and just looks so embarrassing
Themeparksandy1981
Member
I was informed that with the amount of rides available they couldn’t let any more guests into the park but as I didn’t get there to 2pm they let me in as some guests had left. If it was this morning they wouldn’t have let me in but I booked for next Sunday as I got 2 gold tickets which my sister is gonna use.
The event is awful was gonna check out the cupcake bit but was told I had to buy a £3 bag to go in.
I think they scrapped using the falls theatre as both Lory and Rory times were listed to be on the main stage with the same Thomas land show been shown 4 times a day.
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