I wonder if any of the rides will need additional inspections or maintenance caused by the flooding?
Serious Flooding at Drayton Manor
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Elise
Administrator
I understand the complaints of the public but they have to understand that it is not safe for them to be in the park.
If they opened the park in this state i'm sure they would be less impressed and start complaining about safety.
It's better for the park to wait until the environment is safe before guests return to the park.
I know i'm definitely going to try and make an effort to visit a few times this year.
I think they will spend all there efforts in getting Thomas land up and running again
Elise
Administrator
Thomasland will need a lot of attention to get back up and running; especially as that was meant to be their main thing this half term for guests to use.
Ciaran
Administrator
Well at least one ride at Drayton is fine!
The Zoo looks like it’s got the most work to be done to it. Happy all the animals are safe.
Yep that's good news. Well now they need to do the arcade
I would rather see the arcade go and replaced with a big Drayton Manor shop, Bigger guest services and a bigger area to handle season/annual pass sales for the 1st month of the pass as 2 tills ain’t enough at the start of the season.
I was disgusted about how negative some members of the public were being towards the park, the rainfall and water levels are completely beyond their control - I'm sure they didn't want to close if they didn't have to. I would rather them take the time to recover properly, and ensure safety rather than think of the money and open, well done to Drayton on that.
I imagine, as you say, the arcade is completely ruined, looking at the pictures above it doesn't look good (a shame again as it was relatively newly refurbished if I remember right), and those machines won't be cheap to replace. I imagine it earns the park a fair amount of money though, so I think it will return.
I imagine, as you say, the arcade is completely ruined, looking at the pictures above it doesn't look good (a shame again as it was relatively newly refurbished if I remember right), and those machines won't be cheap to replace. I imagine it earns the park a fair amount of money though, so I think it will return.
I know the arcade is run by hub lesiure do they own the machines as well?
Looks like a lot more rain and wind forecast next couple of days. Fingers crossed there isnt any further issues.
The park more likely lease the machines as they have new machines in there every year. I would like to see the penny arcade go into the stormforce 10 arcade building as its wasted at the farm end.
True. That development would work better!!!
I think the only problem with moving it into the main park is you may get the idiotic teenagers who visit in the summer wrecking the machines, being slightly out of the way in the zoo means only really families use them.
Edit: Not implying all teenagers are vandals. Just some of the not so pleasant visitors that damage and graffiti things and jump queues.
Fair enough but there at least should be warning signs!
The park may have to start planning in terms of the park's architecture and infrastructure for the possibility of this becoming the norm with more floods similar to this and the frequency to which they may happen in the next few years. Agree with the above posts about the negativity of the some people towards closing the park, Drayton are damned if they do or damned if they don't on anything they do at the moment!
I wonder if the castle of dreams building was flooded also? The park should just cancel the Thomas and friends weekenders and make sure the park ready for its main season.