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New Merlin Annual Pass for 2012

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TP Rich

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Taken from TowersTimes's Rob:

"In a survey Merlin are currently conducting they ask for people's opinions on a third MAP.

They are suggesting the price of this pass to be £309pp, or you could pay £120 to upgrade. It has the following extra benefits:

-Free preferred car parking
-Unlimited fastracks on selected rides up until 2pm
-A free drinks capsule to use for the entire season on fountain drinks
-2 free guest tickets per year that friends/family can use at Merlin attractions
-A free limited edition lanyard"

WANT WANT WANT!!! :--D

Although there was me thinking I was really special because I'd just purchased my first Premium Pass, but there you go... anyway, I think it's a fantastic idea. I'd really like to own one of these passes, and maybe I'd consider getting one next year. The Fastrack perk is brilliant, free drinks capsule... free guest tickets!! Yes... it would be really nice to own one of these. :)

But what do you think?
 
£309pp... **** off.

I mean, sure, it has the fastracks, but nothing else that special. Two free guest tickets is hardly a great deal. I mean, I wasn't considering one anyway, but it seems awfully expensive for not a lot.
 
A premium premium AP?

Watch as the benefits of the premium are stripped away and the standard becomes a day ticket...
 
I think the 'Premium Premium Annual Pass' will have all of the benefits of the Standard and Premium, but with a few extra. I mean... unlimited Fastrack for every visit until 2PM! That's a stonker of a benefit! You could save a few dozen quid every visit with that alone! I agree that £300 is a very large amount of money, but considering all the benefits you get from it, I think if you can afford it, it'd be a good buy.

I don't believe this will affect the other passes in any way.
 
That's the most outrageously expensive thing I've ever heard of.

The amount of times you'd actually need Fasttrack at a Merlin park, let alone before 2pm, just makes this insulting.

Still, can't fault their buisness plan. Find rich, stupid people, wave some shiney things in their face ???? profit.
 
^ Also, it states "selected rides", so take Thorpe Park for instance, you know that`s just going to be Colossus and Nemesis Inferno, not Stealth, Saw and certainly not Swarm.
 
Anyone who wants and/or pays for one of these is a **** ING idiot. 300 quid for a couple of free tickets and free drinks that cost PENNIES to make.

Idiots.
 
Yeah this is a **** con! And you know damn well there will be a *disclaiming.....

*free tickets cannot be used on weekends, fright nights or summer holidays because were greedy **** and the only people we care about are our shareholders. Fast track is only permitted on selected rides (that dont gather large queue's) before 2pm again because we dont actually care about you the customer, And we still want to rip you off by selling you fast track tickets for the rides you ACTUALLY want to ride. The following is permitted on the unlimited drinks offer, toilet water, tap water, water from Thorpe lake etc.


So ummmm no. I wont be purchasing one of these.
 
Not for £309, no way. I've never looked at an annual pass for ANYWHERE and thought "if only they added preferred parking to this...", I'll do some maths at some point to see how long this would actually take to pay for itself. It may well work out at really good value, but I highly doubt alot of people were looking for this in terms of customer perks.

I notice there is no family option for £700 or something, that would be properly retarded!
 
Maybe I visit Thorpe more often than I thought... :lol:

Quite an angry response to this annual pass, I see. Maybe when it is actually released there will be more perks - or I'd hope so... there'd better be...
 
God no.

Even though I make about 25 visits a season to Merlin attractions, itthis proposed type of pass is not worth it.

The only benefit there is the unlimited Fastrax, but if you've got an annual pass and can visit plenty of times, what's the **** point?

hurri said:
Watch as the benefits of the premium are stripped away and the standard becomes a day ticket...
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These were my initial thoughts. All I want is unlimited access to the parks regardless of the time of year (during open-season before anybody is pedantic) and free parking.

As much as I've been impressed with Merlin's recent investment, marketing and ride theme/choice decisions, their brazen profiteering is sickening. And that's coming from somebody who sits right-of-centre!

I won't be buying one of these until it makes financial sense to do so. I'll never stop visiting the parks <3
 
If the other passes should not be affected by the new pass, I would say it was not brilliant, but good value. If the other passes do lose their perks/have their perks downgraded, etc., I would not say it was good value at all. But I really think we need to find out some more information about this pass before we can be certain.
 
While I don't mind (or take offense to) the existence of such a pass, I WOULD prefer it to be as expensive as they can get away with

The idea of several thousand of these ultimate pass holders being in a park and infinitely stalling the regular standby line is a bit grim.
Kinda like the misery of a Disney World standby line when the constant stream of timed ticket people walk through and take 65% of the seats all day long.

So yeah, if there's a market for a super pass, go for the sell! But price them sensible and maybe limit the number available to ensure they don't become too common
 
I doubt they will become common at £309. I see your point but I cant seeing that being much of a factor, Say they sell 10,000 of these, how many of these people would be at the park on the same day as you? How many of those will want to ride the same ride as you at the same time? The final number of people fastracking in front of you would be minimal to the point of unnoticeable.
 
See, it's reactions like this:

TP Rich said:
WANT WANT WANT!!! :--D
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that keep letting them get away with it. It's shameless profiteering. If they just did an unlimited pass with free parking and food discounts they'd make plenty of money with repeat visits anyway.
 
^The main reason why I see the benefit of my pass is the food discounts and free parking to be honest. As long as these perks continue to be included then I'll keep buying one every year.

But yeah, I don't want fast tracks or whatever, I've been enough times to not care too much if I can't ride something because of a long queue, or don't get that high of a ride count on a day out because of the length of queues, I've got an annual pass, I could go again next week if I wanted to.
 
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