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Since towels are not included in the sheds they are offering 4 towels you can rent for an extra £10...
£123 to sleep in a shed...
Since towels are not included in the sheds they are offering 4 towels you can rent for an extra £10...
£123 to sleep in a shed...
Well you would if you were not working understaffed for most of the day by splitting your full timers into two halves, if that makes sense and if you had a set amount of rides to run you couldn't run understaffed past a certain point (unlike say in retail or hospitality where you could just have less people on the shop floor). Part timers at theme parks usually work a full day shift even if they're zero hours and get paid the same as full timers anyway (who are often also on zero hours too) so you're not saving anything from using them.Sorry, as always, I could have explained myself better. I used to be responsible for creating 24 hour cover staff rotas in a former life, and in the early stages of local government cutbacks, we had to occasionally double up staff, without increasing payroll...specifically overtime.
We managed it by splitting the usual full time staff into two groups, those who preferred earlies, and the lates group.
The same staff hours in total, just juggled.
The earlies came on..understaffed but tough...cuts.
At break time, the part timer came in to cover, and double up, to cover lunch, then the part timer would go off duty as the later full timers come on.
There was then a couple of golden hours when we were fully staffed with full time permanant staff.
As the early full timers reach eight hours work...and overtime rates about to start, they went and, if needed, another part timer came in to assist.
Longer hours covered, with less overall costs because of a reduction in unplanned overtime.
I know it isn't the same in theme parks, as they are more reliant on casual and zero hour contracts, but you don't need an extra set of full time staff to open for an extra two or three hours.
Read the post at the top of the page.Does anyone know how much those pods/pig stys are costing per night? I'd be interested to know...
Read the post at the top of the page.
Oh and yeah I agree with all points above. It's ludicrous but I expect nothing more from Merlin nowadays.
Yeah, but do you get a towel?Just for contrast, in Biddinghuizen (Walibi Holland) I can rent a shed with an actual kitchen, living- and bedroom for 70 bucks per night at the absolute most (I'd have to be intentionally looking for almost booked out days), usually well below 50, and I can have a direct view onto the Veluwemeer if I want to.
What an awful use of spaceJust seen this walkthrough - they're even more cramped than I could have poossibly dreamt!
An interesting watch for anybody who still believes that vloggers give genuine balanced views, rather than giving mindlessly positive reviews of everything in order to make sure they get invited back (which is clearly what's going on there).