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‘I’ve seen more entertainment at a morgue. It is absolutely shocking,’ said one attendee at the High Octane Family Fest Weekender at Ffos Las Racecourse in Trimsaran<\/p>\n

19:44, 27 May 2025Updated 21:24, 27 May 2025<\/p>\n

\"PictureThe event organiser said it would be “unforgettable”.(Image: Supplied)<\/p>\n

Local community members have criticised a fun family festival event, claiming they felt it was very different from billed. Several people took to social media after going to the ‘High Octane Family Fest Weekender’ at Ffos Las Racecourse in Trimsaran writing “do not attend”, and posting pictures.<\/p>\n

Some attendees said they lasted “20 minutes max” before heading back to the car with one man saying that the event was a “total rip-off” and a “shambles”.<\/p>\n

Robyn Morgan took her family to the event on Saturday, May 24. She said the event was “absolutely shocking” and wrote “please don’t waste your money, we lasted 15 minutes.” Stay informed on Carms news by signing up to our newsletter here<\/a><\/p>\n

“[The event is] not as described, even today when the weather<\/a> is nicer,” claimed Robyn.<\/p>\n

She also claimed: “There is one ramp for the BMX bikes. Teacups, trampolines, one ride and a crazy maze. One burger van, one sweet stall, one ice cream van, and you can see it all stood in one place.<\/p>\n

“Balloon baskets were there but not inflating balloons, a character stitch walking round, no music, no atmosphere.”<\/p>\n

She said: “Such a waste of time and wouldn’t really keep the kids entertained. They shouldn’t be able to get away with advertising this and certainly shouldn’t be charging for tickets.<\/p>\n

“I’ve seen more entertainment at a morgue. It is absolutely shocking.”<\/p>\n

Another attendee on Saturday, who has asked to remain anonymous, told WalesOnline: “I have just returned from the event today at Ffos Las advertising motorbikes, medieval jousting, giant funfair.” She said: “it was not as advertised.”<\/p>\n

She also claimed: “There were three men on BMX bikes – who were pretty good in all honesty – a hot air balloon that didn’t go up, five very expensive fairground rides (tea cups, fun house, trampolines, a spinning thing, and two toddler rides).<\/p>\n

“There was one burger van and a sweet van,” which she said were “overpriced”, no bar and no live music, she claimed.<\/p>\n

“I got super-early bird tickets at \u00a313.45, but some people have paid \u00a330\/ticket. I have asked for a refund of my tickets for tomorrow.”<\/p>\n

The event was on across the bank holiday weekend, May 24-26, between 10am and 8pm each day.<\/p>\n

Tickets were being sold on Friday in a “flash sale” for \u00a33 each but adult attendees who bought their tickets more in advance are believed to have paid between \u00a313 and \u00a330 for entry.<\/p>\n

High Octane Events has not responded to our request for comment. It advertised the event by describing it as “unforgettable.”<\/p>\n

A post on its social media last week said: “This time next week we\u2019ll be putting the finishing touches on a wonderful weekend of hot air ballooning, live music, fairground rides, motorbike shows and more!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"‘I’ve seen more entertainment at a morgue. It is absolutely shocking,’ said one attendee at the High Octane…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":136889,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5010],"tags":[748,57987,1146,24537,59784,4884,59785,16,15,1764],"class_list":{"0":"post-136888","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wales","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-carmarthen","10":"tag-carmarthenshire","11":"tag-family-kids","12":"tag-ffos-las","13":"tag-great-britain","14":"tag-trimsaran","15":"tag-uk","16":"tag-united-kingdom","17":"tag-wales"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114581860868976711","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/136889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}