Lapland New Forest Scam. How to get money back...

cockhaise

Hi my family and I are due to go to Lapland New forest on 23rd December. What do I tell my very excited children? Paid by debit card. Lets hope we all get our money back that we paid in good faith. Appalling thing to do this time of year!

mynci

Hi this is my first post but I have tickets booked for the 19th and I'm really worried as I am disabled and wheelchair bound, we telephoned twice before opening to make sure that it was accessible and were informed there were no disabled concessions as the whole site was totally accessible; well irrespective of how shockingly awful it looks anyway; from the photos and footage I have seen there is no way my husband could push me and our very young son around without me getting stuck and injured. Does anyine think that if we phoned up and explained how we were lied to re wheelchair access and that I genuinely could not attend something that was basically a quagmire with no disabled access they wold give us our money back???

I would appreciate any thoughts and my sympathies go out to everyone else who has been conned by this rabble.

NB I have also noticed their website has mysteriously dissappeared

p1an0player

mynci wrote: »

Hi this is my first post but I have tickets booked for the 19th and I'm really worried as I am disabled and wheelchair bound, we telephoned twice before opening to make sure that it was accessible and were informed there were no disabled concessions as the whole site was totally accessible; well irrespective of how shockingly awful it looks anyway; from the photos and footage I have seen there is no way my husband could push me and our very young son around without me getting stuck and injured. Does anyine think that if we phoned up and explained how we were lied to re wheelchair access and that I genuinely could not attend something that was basically a quagmire with no disabled access they wold give us our money back???

I would appreciate any thoughts and my sympathies go out to everyone else who has been conned by this rabble.

Sorry that you've been conned. The place probably won't be open by 19th.
If it is, don't go. Find a free Christmas market or somewhere else with atmosphere.
Put it down to experience. Sorry.

angela110660

p1an0player wrote: »

£25 seems a lot of money. Doesn't Alton Towers cost less than that, and has many more attractions? Maybe there's nothing similar near Bournemouth

Paultons Park does a Xmas thing each year

angela110660

savemoney wrote: »

According to that its registered to this
Matchams Park Stadium
Hurn Road
St.Leonards
Ringwood
Hants
BH24 2BT



http://www.matchams-stadium.com/contact.php

Matchams has been used for varoius things over the years - more recently as a car boot sale site so would have to be okay for all the visitors.

matchew1974

update from the local paper 8.36 am

LAPLAND New Forest bosses are battling on with their troubled Christmas theme park despite calls for it to be closed down and the threat of prosecution.

The much-criticised site is still open for business despite more than 2,000 complaints and investigations from local councils and the RSPCA.

Up to 50,000 people are believed to have pre-purchased tickets Complaints have flooded in about the attraction,

soooo 50,000 x £25 = £1.25 Million i cannot believe its that easy to rip off so many people and make so much money and the authorities don't do anything about it - BUT go just a little too fast on a quiet road at 6am trying to get to work to earn some money and they are quick enough to throw the book at you !!!! Its so wrong. :eek:

tigger2000

p1an0player wrote: »

Sorry that you've been conned. The place probably won't be open by 19th.
If it is, don't go. Find a free Christmas market or somewhere else with atmosphere.
Put it down to experience. Sorry.

I wish I could share your confidence in it not being open by the 19th...some how people like this seem to always get away with it, like other people have already said it always seems so easy to fine us for overloading our bins or parking for longer than your ticket says but people like this get away with making millions at our expense...it's just so wrong. The only good thing to come out of this is that I will never trust people who promise me things and not part with any money without checking reveiws first!A hard lesson learnt, I am normally so careful but was the whole idea overtook my sensible head I think!

Fingers crossed for some justice!

the_worried_one

John-Boy wrote: »

He had a red and white neckerchief,

Really- a red and white neck-tie? You know what that means don't you?

John-Boy wrote: »

very gypo looking.

Exactly!

:rolleyes::rolleyes::rolleyes:


p1an0player;

Breaking news!

http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/b...-200812021434/
LORD Mandelson has added the pathetic Lapland theme park to his list of businesses that must be saved.

The business secretary insisted the ludicrous attempt at recreating Santa's magical wonderland was essential to Britain's economic future.

He added: "Christmas is the most businessy time of the year and nothing is more important than Christmassy businesses.

I've recently learnt that apparently forum ettiquite here requires the use of smilies in such posts to make clear for those who dont bother looking at the link!

the quote above should include a ':p', ':D' etc.

:rotfl:

kirasia

I don't understand when the tickets were £25.. I paid £30 for mine.. and calculated that with pre-paid ticket sales up til new year, they've already forked in well over £1,000,000
ERGHHHHHHH

twiglet98

I think tickets were £30 each, or discounted to £25 each for a family of four.