2016-07-02 - Sat - LFGSS does Thorpe Park Part III

Let's go ride all the rollercoasters!

UPDATED Route: https://ridewithgps.com/routes/14732482

It's pretty flat, perfect for a social roll out.

Trains run frequently from Waterloo to Staines, where it is a 3 mile cycle to the park. Obviously there is the potential for some groupsave action if 3+ people decide to get the train.

Or for those who don't want to cycle at all there is a shuttle bus from Staines station to the park.

Same as previous years I propose to cycle, meet at the Achilles Statue inside Hyde Park at 9am.

We will meet some other people, @fasih and @branwen at the roundabout at the bottom of Sawyers hill in Richmond Park.

The time of the event should be 9am but for some reason it wants to show as 7am..

Edit event to start at 10am and it should be right I think

:) Thanks! I'm learning innit..

I don't know if it's just a plain old bug or is something to do with daylight saving, but it's annoying. Perhaps @Velocio could take a look...

I'll keep an eye on it after the weekend.

Posting here again, 10 am tomorrow 25 March there's a chance of 12p tickets:
https://www.thorpepark.com/12p-ticket

I think I'm being thick...the Thorpe Park website states:

Tickets will be sold on a first come, first served basis, limited to four tickets per purchase.

You will need to:

1. Enter your promotional code.
   
2. Supply your name, email address and postcode.
   
3. If you are quick enough, you will receive your unique code via email.
   
4. You will then be able to use this code to buy up to four 12p tickets online until 5th October
   
   

Does this mean that we need an initial promo code, then enter it plus name etc. to get unique other code, which can then be used to by tickets, or have they just worded it badly?

PS - everyone try to buy 4, need I say!

Yeah, maximum number each!

That makes no sense what is the promotional code needed to make the initial purchase? I am confused.

Maybe the promo code is something like a captcha to make it harder for bots to get in?

I'll be driving towards the Forest of Dean tomorrow at 10am. Can someone bag me a ticket if they get a code?

Everyone just try to get as many as possible and we can work out between us getting tickets as cheap as possible between whoever goes.

I propose we try the 12p thing, get as many as we can if any, fall back with the 2-4-1 cereal packets, we can then buy tickets between all of us and split the costs to save all of us as much money as possible.

Rollercoaster socialism.

Love it.

Sounds fun! I'll try and grab some tickets tomorrow

How to buy 12p tickets:
Tickets on sale: From 10am on Good Friday, March 25

Buy: Visit http://www.thorpepark.com/12p-ticket and click "Buy Now’"then enter the exclusive promo code

Promo code: DBGT1871

Number of tickets on sale: 1,871 tickets, the year in which Derren Brown’s Ghost Train is set (1871)

How many tickets you can buy: A maximum of four tickets per person

@braker

Messaged Braker on Facebook, he's on it!

Google being weird

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Everyone ready? No chance we'll get any of these tickets, haha!

SOLD OUT! It's not even 10 yet!

Lol. My clock says 9:59 and sold out already

Oh. Refresh fail

I tried a bunch of times and now the form to fill in doesn't even appear, crap.

Same here. Ass

Back to the search for 2-4-1 offers, better than nothing.