With the start of the 2023 season just around the corner, we’ve assembled the ultimate guide to help you plan your theme park season. From park opening dates to everything we know about this year’s new attractions; we cover everything happening in this year at the UK’s largest theme parks. [...]
Following the always spectacular Alton Towers Fireworks, we can now safely say that closed season has arrived in the world of UK Theme Parks. Whilst the closed season is often a time used by parks across the UK to do maintenance, run routine checks and to spend time working on [...]
Unless you have been living under a rock for the past six months to a year, you’ll be aware that the theme parks of the United Kingdom are undergoing a period of massive change, growth and development. It's certainly a positive revelation to see such exciting and new work happening [...]
Merlin Entertainments have recently published their financial results for 2021, providing an insight into the business' recovery from the significant impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. With the group operating within the leisure and hospitality industry, one of the industries most significantly impacted by COVID in 2020, [...]
Merlin Entertainments announced today that it has named Aramark, a global leader in food, facilities management, and uniforms, as its food and beverage partner for five locations in the UK and two in the US. The locations for the multi-year contract include Alton Towers Resort, Chessington World of Adventures Resort, [...]
Merlin Entertainments have today recommenced sales of new annual passes, following the suspension of new pass sales while they evaluated their pass offering and attraction capacity restrictions were in place throughout the coronavirus pandemic. In December 2020, Merlin announced that the previous Standard and Premium Passes would not be returning [...]
Merlin Entertainments have recently published their financial results for 2020, revealing the significant impact that the COVID-19 pandemic had on the business. With the group operating within the leisure and hospitality industry, one of the most significantly impacted industries by COVID, the results set out in the 2020 [...]
The winners of the 2021 ScareCON SCAR Awards were unveiled last night, seeing a range of theme parks and scare attractions recognised for their 2020 offerings. Amongst the winners were Thorpe Park Resort in the category of 'Best original concept & design' for its scare zones, and Chessington [...]
ScareTOUR, a site dedicated to providing independent reviews of scare attractions all over the world, last night announced nominations for the 2021 ScareCON SCAR awards, the annual awards which recognise and champion all aspects of the scare industry – from Halloween events to year-round scare attractions. The nominations [...]
Merlin Entertainments have today launched two brand new Annual Passes with the introduction of the Merlin Gold Pass and Merlin Platinum Pass. These new products are being introduced after it was revealed on 23rd November that the Standard and Premium passes would not be returning to sale, following the suspension [...]
Merlin Annual Pass have today confirmed the full changes to their Annual Pass packages for new Standard and Premium Passes for 2017/18. One of the largest changes being made is the introduction of additional restrictions to the validity of the Standard Annual Pass. Passes purchased from 28th November onwards will [...]
Following approval from EU Competition Authorities, the deal announced in March between Merlin Entertainments and The Tussauds Group has now been completed. This acquisition creates the world’s second largest visitor attractions operator after Disney. Merlin’s portfolio now includes brands such as Legoland Parks, Madame Tussauds, London Eye, Sea Life Centres, [...]
