Leekbrookgull
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Alton Towers. On the Day for 1 @ £43. Main gate parking £16 lower at £6 but walk/monarail to paygate. Crap food i/e Burger King etc. Then QUE to Ride.
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The UK's biggest Tourist Rip offs
- Thread starter Goring Gull
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Stonehenge is a bit of a rip-off- £8 to stand in a field and look at some stones that you can see from the road anyway that keeps you occupied for 10 minutes tops.
Ex-Staffs Gull
New member
You mention australia here...
I will allow
Public transport (local)
car insurance
And fuel
Coffee around $6 = £4.50
cinema = 15 - 20 = £11.25 - £15
housing - avg price in Adelaide (cheapest major city) - $405000 = £300000
glenelg pier is free but nothing on it.
Paintballing - son paid $50 - £35 for a session
cloud
Well-known member
Ripley's Believe it or Not, in London. £27 for an adult and £22 for a child
Buffalo Seagull
Active member
You're paying way too much for your coffee!!!
Adelaide average is $3.43
2012 Release: 2012 Q1 - The Real CPI - Cappuccino Price Index
Boroseagull
Well-known member
Have to say having spent December & January in Adelaide I agree with ESG. Could not get a good cup of Americano [long black] except in Harndorf, but the prices! Yes petrol, not diesel, is cheap depending on the day of the week you buy it. Public transport is a delight, clean, plentiful & cheap, actually like it is in Spain.
BensGrandad
New member
Miss Moneypenny on yesterdays Scrimpers said that Madame Tussauds was only £15 if booked on line. I havent been for years but my son tells me that Chessington charge for car parking which I consider to be a rip off and should be refunded at the gate on payment of the admission to avoid indiscriminate parking.
fire&skill
Killer-Diller
As a one off with the kids, yes. Get a year pass and you're ok. Was always worth the initial outlay. Sort of miss it now the kids are older. Especially the decibel counter in the yellow phone box and the hours standing waiting for the beaver to appear.
brakespear
Doctor Worm
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NickBHAFC18
New member
Brighton Eye...its shit and all you can see one side is sea 
Odd turn of phrase for a childrens zoo
fire&skill
Killer-Diller
Odd turn of phrase for a childrens zoo
Indeed. After many years of waiting I took great pleasure in telling the female zoo keeper I'd just seen her beaver.
CorgiRegisteredFriend
Well-known member
Not a tourist attraction but 3D cinema seems a total rip off.
Brixtaan
New member
I had no idea 3d is more ! went to the cinema At the weekend because the missus KEEPS bloody going on about it but at £25 for a view inferior to my Telly I won't be going back to this 'experience'
CorgiRegisteredFriend
Well-known member
I find it less relaxing too. Have to focus on various parts of the screen whereas 2D just take it all in. That maybe my age though!
Brixtaan
New member
No it's not your age, Ridley Scott had to stop himself from saying 2d is better whilst on the Kermode film review last week. And having tried 3d now, I would agree. This is aside from the fact that you can't pause,smoke, make tea, stretch out, drink wine and discuss flaws etc. Am I sounding old now?
Normal Rob
Well-known member
I paid £44 to get 2 adults and 2 kids into Wookey Hole last year. It's a cave.
SeagullSongs
And it's all gone quiet..
A certain 18 year old agrees with this. Maybe I'm getting old too?
I noticed it especially when I watch Avatar. I saw it twice, 2D and 3D. When I watched it in 2D I was free to look around at the fabulous scenery and creatures, but in 3D it's just Jake and N'tiri in focus all the time and all the stuff they spent years designing is all wonderfully out of focus in the background.
Horrible place, terrible service.