They’re expensive. Doing anything more than standing around will cost you £3-5 a go. And this is just for an adult who likes rides. Imagine a family bringing multiple kids there? Fuck that.
Thing is plenty funfair type rides get action at music festivals. It’s just the funfairs themselves have shit promotion and there’s so much other stuff to do these days.
It’s a shame. I reckon they’re quite a tradition worthy of keeping hold of.
No surprises there. They’re expensive, tacky (just look at the fucking rides) and offer very little frankly.
It’s all about brand and quality experiences now, these places are something out of the past, that would do ok if they were really cheap but they’re not, that new Universal Studios will do so well despite how expensive it will be because people can rest assured despite the ticket they know the brand, it’s the “official” real deal and there will be a level of assured quality.
Putney?
Walked past this the other day. Blown away how dead it was on a Saturday at 7pm with great weather…
Good. They’re a bane on our parks and the people that operate them are generally scum.
Travelling fairs often have pretty poor health and safety too
Unfair
I’d rather waste money elsewhere.
Why spend £100pp at a funfair when you’re not spending that much more to go to disneyland paris?
Back in the days of a £5 wristband, no more than about 10 years ago, these were packed over the weekends as they were affordable.
Now at 1.50 a token and 3 – 4 tokens per ride, they are no longer value for money and no longer attract the audience they used to.
Eye sore I’d rather just have the park space and go to chesington
My kids used to love these but luckily seem to have grown out of them. I would refuse to take them anymore anyway. Apart from the Steam Fair one that used to come to Peckham Rye, they are always (in my experience) shite.
Bundle of ten tokens but every ride is three tokens and nowhere to spend one token – so you buy ten more and guess what there’s also nowhere to spend your leftover two tokens.
Crappy prizes, indifferent staff, rides are too short, food is shit – nope.
I remember the “expensive” rides in my area in 2002 (Manchester at the time) were £1 a go, 50p for everything else.
Adjusted for inflation, that’s £1.83 and 91p respectively today.
But they’re £3-5 a go now when I visit up north. I don’t know really how to attribute it, is it really just the cost of living crisis thats pushing pricing up by over triple inflation rates?
The last fun fair I went to on bonfire night was quite expensive and the rides didn’t last long at all. Us as a family of four spent just over £40 for in less than an half hour. The kids only did a couple of rides each. Plus the Union Jack is upside down.
Despite the sun and all that surprisingly chill today. So i am guessing some family didn’t stay long?
Also is this the one in Putney?
Shit rides these days even the ones that aren’t targeted to kids and also tokens aren’t even worth it since each ride is a minimum of like 4 tokens and if you buy 10 for £10 u go on what ? 2 rides and then forced to pay the difference for third via contactless. It’s so easy to overspend. I miss like 4/5 years ago when they used to do wristbands I’d pay like a tenner or so for and then unlimited rides 😞
I went to fun fair today with my son. He did 6 rides which set me back £40. To say place was dead is understatement.
Looks like you were there mid afternoon?
Over priced low quality food and drink, out dated old school rides and rigged carnival games with cheat store reject prizes !!!
The days or the fair are dead or dying, people would rather go to a theme park where all the rides are included
I have a fond memory of us scouring the house for change in the early to mid 80s so we could afford to go, we had a pile of 1p, 2p. 5p 10p and 50p . it may have predated the £1p coin as I’m sure we didn’t have any.
We took the coins and had a fun time, some rides, arcades with games, maybe candifloss, it was a defining memory of us being poor but stilil open to have fun.
Post covid every fair seems to be £5 per ride and more for any snack. No looking under the couch cushions for that.
I understand inflation and there may have been some play acting from my mum with the amount of change we got but £5 today was £1.50 in 1983 and I am sure a ride was maybe 50p then.
Where is this? Dulwich? This is the last day and lots of other things happening. Last wkd was packed
I miss the vintage Carters Steam Fair. It was easily the best travelling funfair in the country but unfortunately it was sold off in 2022.
The last funfair to come to my town (just outside London in Kent) did a deal of £1.50 for all rides on the Friday, usual prices (£3-5) on the Saturday and Sunday.
So the Friday was rammed and I was able to take my two kids for a good 90 mins or so including the queuing breaking it up a bit. I spent around £25 total including a snack.
The weekend dates were dead as fuck from what I could tell driving past. It’d have cost me in excess of £75 to do it on the Saturday if I did the exact same rides with them. And it’s a shame in a way because not everyone is able to take their family on the Friday and can’t afford the subsequent days so miss out altogether.
I don’t know the exact math of it all but I have a feeling they’d make more total if they just did £1.50 rides all weekend.
Also solid chance of serious injury or death, those rides are decades old and probably fucked
The costs are insane these days, but my main fear is safety on rides
Do ya loik dags
Sooner they’re rid, the better. Landlord of a pub local to where a funfair is at the moment has had no end of abuse from the “funfair operatives” to the extent he had bottles thrown at him. Fuck the lot of them.
Went to one outside of London and it was still moderately busy. Not rammed, but certainly nothing like this. If this pic was a peak time then it is a bit mad.
I was shocked by the price. The rides are most crap especially for younger kids (I took mine), some of the bigger rides still looked a bit dodgy.
£4-£5 for literally 1 minute or less
Overpriced rip off cash driven industry, temporary structures are a gold mine for laundering money, dangerous crap rides, take your pick
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Good tbh
They’re expensive. Doing anything more than standing around will cost you £3-5 a go. And this is just for an adult who likes rides. Imagine a family bringing multiple kids there? Fuck that.
Thing is plenty funfair type rides get action at music festivals. It’s just the funfairs themselves have shit promotion and there’s so much other stuff to do these days.
It’s a shame. I reckon they’re quite a tradition worthy of keeping hold of.
No surprises there. They’re expensive, tacky (just look at the fucking rides) and offer very little frankly.
It’s all about brand and quality experiences now, these places are something out of the past, that would do ok if they were really cheap but they’re not, that new Universal Studios will do so well despite how expensive it will be because people can rest assured despite the ticket they know the brand, it’s the “official” real deal and there will be a level of assured quality.
Putney?
Walked past this the other day. Blown away how dead it was on a Saturday at 7pm with great weather…
Good. They’re a bane on our parks and the people that operate them are generally scum.
Travelling fairs often have pretty poor health and safety too
Unfair
I’d rather waste money elsewhere.
Why spend £100pp at a funfair when you’re not spending that much more to go to disneyland paris?
Back in the days of a £5 wristband, no more than about 10 years ago, these were packed over the weekends as they were affordable.
Now at 1.50 a token and 3 – 4 tokens per ride, they are no longer value for money and no longer attract the audience they used to.
Eye sore I’d rather just have the park space and go to chesington
My kids used to love these but luckily seem to have grown out of them. I would refuse to take them anymore anyway. Apart from the Steam Fair one that used to come to Peckham Rye, they are always (in my experience) shite.
Bundle of ten tokens but every ride is three tokens and nowhere to spend one token – so you buy ten more and guess what there’s also nowhere to spend your leftover two tokens.
Crappy prizes, indifferent staff, rides are too short, food is shit – nope.
I remember the “expensive” rides in my area in 2002 (Manchester at the time) were £1 a go, 50p for everything else.
Adjusted for inflation, that’s £1.83 and 91p respectively today.
But they’re £3-5 a go now when I visit up north. I don’t know really how to attribute it, is it really just the cost of living crisis thats pushing pricing up by over triple inflation rates?
The last fun fair I went to on bonfire night was quite expensive and the rides didn’t last long at all. Us as a family of four spent just over £40 for in less than an half hour. The kids only did a couple of rides each. Plus the Union Jack is upside down.
Despite the sun and all that surprisingly chill today. So i am guessing some family didn’t stay long?
Also is this the one in Putney?
Shit rides these days even the ones that aren’t targeted to kids and also tokens aren’t even worth it since each ride is a minimum of like 4 tokens and if you buy 10 for £10 u go on what ? 2 rides and then forced to pay the difference for third via contactless. It’s so easy to overspend. I miss like 4/5 years ago when they used to do wristbands I’d pay like a tenner or so for and then unlimited rides 😞
I went to fun fair today with my son. He did 6 rides which set me back £40. To say place was dead is understatement.
Looks like you were there mid afternoon?
Over priced low quality food and drink, out dated old school rides and rigged carnival games with cheat store reject prizes !!!
The days or the fair are dead or dying, people would rather go to a theme park where all the rides are included
I have a fond memory of us scouring the house for change in the early to mid 80s so we could afford to go, we had a pile of 1p, 2p. 5p 10p and 50p . it may have predated the £1p coin as I’m sure we didn’t have any.
We took the coins and had a fun time, some rides, arcades with games, maybe candifloss, it was a defining memory of us being poor but stilil open to have fun.
Post covid every fair seems to be £5 per ride and more for any snack. No looking under the couch cushions for that.
I understand inflation and there may have been some play acting from my mum with the amount of change we got but £5 today was £1.50 in 1983 and I am sure a ride was maybe 50p then.
Where is this? Dulwich? This is the last day and lots of other things happening. Last wkd was packed
I miss the vintage Carters Steam Fair. It was easily the best travelling funfair in the country but unfortunately it was sold off in 2022.
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The last funfair to come to my town (just outside London in Kent) did a deal of £1.50 for all rides on the Friday, usual prices (£3-5) on the Saturday and Sunday.
So the Friday was rammed and I was able to take my two kids for a good 90 mins or so including the queuing breaking it up a bit. I spent around £25 total including a snack.
The weekend dates were dead as fuck from what I could tell driving past. It’d have cost me in excess of £75 to do it on the Saturday if I did the exact same rides with them. And it’s a shame in a way because not everyone is able to take their family on the Friday and can’t afford the subsequent days so miss out altogether.
I don’t know the exact math of it all but I have a feeling they’d make more total if they just did £1.50 rides all weekend.
Also solid chance of serious injury or death, those rides are decades old and probably fucked
The costs are insane these days, but my main fear is safety on rides
Do ya loik dags
Sooner they’re rid, the better. Landlord of a pub local to where a funfair is at the moment has had no end of abuse from the “funfair operatives” to the extent he had bottles thrown at him. Fuck the lot of them.
Went to one outside of London and it was still moderately busy. Not rammed, but certainly nothing like this. If this pic was a peak time then it is a bit mad.
I was shocked by the price. The rides are most crap especially for younger kids (I took mine), some of the bigger rides still looked a bit dodgy.
£4-£5 for literally 1 minute or less
Overpriced rip off cash driven industry, temporary structures are a gold mine for laundering money, dangerous crap rides, take your pick
£5 a ride is too expensive for a family to bother
inflation. in the long run bad economy
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