IWONDER if any other people have had the experience my son and daughter had recently on a visit to Thorpe Park?
Like many children in the area, they looked forward to a school trip, paying half of the cost themselves.
When they arrived they found the park was so overcrowded during the six-hour visit they were only able to ride on one attraction, and this after buying another fast-track ticket.
They had both ended up paying £20.50 for one ride.
To the concern of their teachers the overcrowding was causing serious health-and-safety problems.
People were unable to move freely between attractions, children were fainting from heat and squashed in the three-hour queues, there was no accessible first-aid provision and no water, although the park did manage to find staff to sell ice creams.
I contacted Thorpe Park to ask why they had decided to oversell so drastically, so far I have had no reply. Maybe we should all vote with our purse on this one.
Julia Smith, Arsenal Road, London
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