Went to Luminate Margam park a few days ago and wasnt impressed. I'd gone a few years ago and frankly it was miles better then. This year looked like a cut down cheapy do. Plus INMO it's actually a bit dangerous.
Let me explain. First off they had me drive over quite rough ground to park as they were packing the cars in (my cars low slung), I was worried about damaging the underside off roading. Then after you go in it's well... underwhelming frankly. Now while some parts are fairly well lit, large areas and not, and coupled with rough unveven ground it's an accident waiting to happen.
Theres no reason all the paths couldnt be lit by fairy lights other that cost. One area with very rought ground was only lit by a dim red light, another area was unlit and for some reason had a smoke machine squirting smoke over the path as well. That baffled me, with lights the smoke would have been great, without lights it made it bloody dodgy in almost total darkness to see where you were stepping.
The consession stalls were fairly expensive, £4.95 for a cardboard cup of mulled wine, and indeed I got the feeling the whole thing was just designed to rip off visitors.
The last dodgy bit was on the way out. In their wisdom the park had made a roped off path into the park from the car park, great idea! Sadly they hadn't bothered for those leaving, so you have to walk on the road, nobody was bright enough to put a few cones out to make that safer. All you got was a security guard shouting at people for walking on the road. The only other option was unlit very uneven grass. Good luck with getting sued Margam part.
Frankly for over £20 I'd expected not only a better display, but a lot more organisation, this isn't their first time, they should have figured out all the issues by now.
I wont be going again, not worth the money and I dont fancy a broken ankle.
The first batch of pis, many of these will look brighter that it actually is. All hand held, Canon 6d2.
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