Weymouth - station, facilities, improvements, events and incidents - merged posts

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[Timmer]

As mentioned above, the Super Snails aren’t returning to the beach this year:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4grege0e0zo

A Super Snails ride, that has been a "much-loved" tourist attraction in a seaside town for nearly 25 years, will not return this summer.

Owner, Cesar Palucsis, says his business has suffered as a result of the decision.

Weymouth Town Council has merged pitches for attractions on the beach meaning the snails missed out, but says that stakeholders were invited to apply for a new licence.

The merged site will have seven rides from one company and will include trampolines, a balloon ride, a pirate coaster and a helter-skelter.

Mr Palucsis says people were saddened when they heard his ride had not been given a licence: "They brought their kids and second-generation kids and it carries on.
"We did have some people being upset seeing that there will not be a pitch for the snails.
"I tried to reassure people that we are trying to look forward, to make some way a pitch, or try to come to a conclusion with the council in a forward direction."

Owners at the resort have to apply for a seasonal contract to get a pitch on the beach from March to October.

A statement from Weymouth Town Council says the licenses expired in October and that "in November we contacted all stakeholders to make them aware of the tender renewal in the new year, and possible changes to attraction sites".

[Mark A]

What a curious place to dump that. It'll suit the council, mind. There's an entire chapter to be written on visitor attraction retendering processes and not all good, as the operators of, for example, a certain miniature railway knows to their cost, having had a narrow escape from oblivion, though I can't recall if it was a retendering or simply a lease renewal.

Mark

[Mark A]

As mentioned above, the Super Snails aren’t returning to the beach this year:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4grege0e0zo

A Super Snails ride, that has been a "much-loved" tourist attraction in a seaside town for nearly 25 years, will not return this summer.

Owner, Cesar Palucsis, says his business has suffered as a result of the decision.

Weymouth Town Council has merged pitches for attractions on the beach meaning the snails missed out, but says that stakeholders were invited to apply for a new licence.

The merged site will have seven rides from one company and will include trampolines, a balloon ride, a pirate coaster and a helter-skelter.

Mr Palucsis says people were saddened when they heard his ride had not been given a licence: "They brought their kids and second-generation kids and it carries on.
"We did have some people being upset seeing that there will not be a pitch for the snails.
"I tried to reassure people that we are trying to look forward, to make some way a pitch, or try to come to a conclusion with the council in a forward direction."

Owners at the resort have to apply for a seasonal contract to get a pitch on the beach from March to October.

A statement from Weymouth Town Council says the licenses expired in October and that "in November we contacted all stakeholders to make them aware of the tender renewal in the new year, and possible changes to attraction sites".

Quite a lot of push back at the council, both in the planning application comments and also elsewhere about *that* decision, and from a wide geographical area too. Weymouth Super Snail ride to be found on Youtube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8QBtk88SVs

Mark

[Timmer]

Quite a lot of push back at the council, both in the planning application comments and also elsewhere about *that* decision, and from a wide geographical area too. Weymouth Super Snail ride to be found on Youtube here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8QBtk88SVs

Mark

The only place you will find the Super Snails this year