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