Nicky Borrill
Strata Poster
It’s not £299 unless you have no pass at all to renew from. (You can renew any pass into a platinum.)@Nicky Borrill the buy-in for the platinum pass is an eye watering £299, so on the basis that nobody pays full price tickets it’s about ~9 discounted park visits with parking for a solo visitor to break even and increasingly worse value if you’re sharing a car and parking costs are reducing (maybe ~10 parks for a duo to break even). Even at the renewal rates, it’s an ask.
I’m definitely nowhere close to that level of attendance, but surely very few are?
It obviously suits some, nice to hear that it works out for yourself
I have used monthly passes since it’s initial launch a few years ago. It’s £19.99 a month, So around £240 per year… Hence 4 or 8 entrance tickets…
Annual passes aren’t designed for the casual visitor, they’re designed for people who visit regularly. And it’s also worth remembering, they don’t ‘really’ want those regular visitors like us as much as the once a year trippers either. Sure the regular income is nice, and certainly helps the business finances in more ways than one, hence why they offer them. But we spend much less on park, usually pay much less per visit for entry, have higher expectations and are more critical.
Consider this, if I visit a theme park 12 times on my pass, and like many other passholders, spend very little on park… Then I contribute £20 per visit. That means if I take up 2 man hours, which seems plausible given the size of ride teams, entrance staff, security, etc etc, then they’re already out of pocket on me before any other overheads are even considered.
Now considering there have been years where I’ve visited well over 20 times, then I think I’d be pushing my luck to expect a pass for less than £200…
If you aren’t visiting parks more than 5 or 6 times a year, why even look at Annual Passes? If it’s just the one park, as Will said, they do the Season Pass where it’s practically the price of 2 or 3 discounted tickets.
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