Theme Parks

A question about : Theme Parks

A campaign should be undertaken in relation to this ridiculous issue of classing 12yr olds as adults. Cannot think of any other industry where this happens.

Best answers:

• If a twelve year old is old enough to go on all the rides and takes up exactly the same space as an adult, it seems perfectly sensible to me that they should pay the same as an adult.
  Reductions should apply if and when people are not able to make use of all the facilities in the park (e.g. too short, disabled etc)
• Gig tickets - they don't care how old anyone is when it comes to price. Yeah some are over 14s/over 18 but everyone pays the same. No child rates for Disney on Ice (which made it prohibitively expensive for us )
• Every airline I've used has a cut off of 12.
  IMO, children are getting the same service as adults, so should pay as much. As mentioned above, many 12 year olds would use rides more than adults.
  CK
• In Disney, I am not too sure if this is still the case now, but you are an adult aged 10!
  For years, my parents lied about my age - ie saying I was 11 when I was 12/13. Couldn't do it when booking holidays. Because of me being tall, they could not do it for long.
  Their lies must have saved them a few hundred quid.
• Strange then that a 12 year old cannot take their 11 year old friend to the theme park, despite being classed as an adult for admission purposes!
• I would prefer it if theme parks had 2 adult prices (maybe with different coloured wrist bands for each). One for people wanting to ride all the rides, and a cheaper one for wusses like my husband, who's only role in a theme park is to hold the bags.
  For our family theme parks and many other attractions work out quite expensive, due to only having 1 child, and therefore not being able to make use of most family tickets, and buy one get one free isn't as good a saving when there is an odd number of you.
• Why not charge according to height rather than age?
• So they can be sizeist as well? Let them charge by weight too - the PO's been doing that for years too!
• Charging a different price for non-riders at a theme park won't generate as much money as charging them. Why would any company say no to (essentially) free money?
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• We went to Disney in Florida when my children were 8 and 10 the older one was classed as an adult..
• It's not just theme parks and airlines. A local chinese eat all you like buffet near me charges adult price for 12 and over.