Comments on: Don’t Get Carried Away http://www.leverpark.co.uk/2008/10/dont-get-carried-away/ Protecting Lever Park and Rivington for the future... Tue, 07 Sep 2010 18:43:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: David Pott http://www.leverpark.co.uk/2008/10/dont-get-carried-away/comment-page-1/#comment-47 David Pott Thu, 30 Oct 2008 21:49:23 +0000 http://www.leverpark.co.uk/?p=210#comment-47 I'm amazed at their family prices. For me to take my wife and two children would cost £90. Not much change out of £100 for perhaps as little as two hour's entertainment. That's not family-friendly, that's ridiculously expensive. So the only people who will be able to afford to go on this course will be the well-off and those on corporate freebies. And one of the reasons for Chorley allowing Go Ape into Lever Park was to widen the appeal of Lever Park to people who wouldn't normally go? I presumed that Chorley would be targetting the hard-working, ordinary working class families of Chorley and Bolton - not the affluent middle classes and corporate fat cats. I’m amazed at their family prices. For me to take my wife and two children would cost £90. Not much change out of £100 for perhaps as little as two hour’s entertainment. That’s not family-friendly, that’s ridiculously expensive.

So the only people who will be able to afford to go on this course will be the well-off and those on corporate freebies.

And one of the reasons for Chorley allowing Go Ape into Lever Park was to widen the appeal of Lever Park to people who wouldn’t normally go?

I presumed that Chorley would be targetting the hard-working, ordinary working class families of Chorley and Bolton – not the affluent middle classes and corporate fat cats.

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