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Are There Any Ways in Which I Can Help The Site?
One is to help reduce the cost of what I have to
pay for the domain name and service provider by visiting one of our sponsors.
You can go to the
tickets page
and see if their are any parks you're planning to
visit. There are often special offers where you save money by buying the tickets
on line, so you can save money and help the site.
Also if you're a regular customer to
just clicking on the button their will mean we get
commission to towards the cost of web hosting on anything you buy for the next
month, and it doesn't cost you anything extra.
Another way you can help is to
contribute to the site. You can write a review, for a ride not reviewed at one
of the parks we cover, or provide a set of photos for a major ride not featured
in our album.
You may also decide you'd be willing to write reviews for a whole park we
haven't covered yet. Parks I'd especially like reviews for are:
For this
I'd need a review of the park itself, and as many rides as possible, including
at least most of the main rides, plus any photos you can provide would also be
useful.
If you e-mail
me with details of any contributions you'd like to make I'll get back to you to
confirm if I would like them or not, and with more details. I'd recommend doing
this before you write anything, just to make sure it's not a park or ride I'm
planning to visit in the near future.
I'll need confirmation that you hold the copyright to any text and photos, and
will give you full credit in the form of your name and/or a web site or e-mail
address link.
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Why Haven't You Reviewed a Park or Ride?
The Main Reason is because of a lack of
material. Either I haven't been on the ride, or visited the park. If I have been
it was too long ago, or I didn't get enough time to write a fair and accurate
review.
I do accept contributions if there's anything you'd like to write a review for
yourself. If you
e-mail
me with details on what you'd like to review I can get back to you with more
information.
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I Don't Agree With One of Your Reviews / Rankings / Scores:
There will always be some disagreement on which
are good and bad rides, and how good a particular ride or park is. All the
reviews here are based on the reviewers own opinions based on there own personal
experiences, which differ from person to person.
I will try to say if a review is written that deviates widely from widespread
opinion, or if there is a lot of disagreement about a ride.
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Why don't you score in percentages? / give scores out of 100?
Apart from the hassle and time it would take to
do new scores and uploading every review, I believe a score out of 10 is
sufficient enough to give people an idea of what the reviewer thinks a rides
like. Also apart from the high ranking rides I don't believe a few percent in
score will mean that much difference, and for the higher ranking rides I believe
the charts are a more effective way of clarifying which rides I feel are better
than another.
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Can You Help Me Find A Parks Website?
All the official British sites I know about are
in the links
section. For information for parks outside Britain, or for more information on
any park I recommend starting off with a search of
rcdb.com.
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Why Don't You give Directions To Parks?
If you need road directions my best suggestions are the parks own websites, the local
tourist information centre or
The AA Route Planner.
All of which should be able to provide more accurate and up to date information
than I could without plagiarising their information.
If you're going to a park using public transport all the information I have on
that is in the public transport section.
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Can You Recommend any parks in London?
There are no parks permanently based in London
itself, apart from a few fun centres, which are basically big arcades with a few
other small attractions such as dodgems. The best ones I know about are Fun Land
at the Troccodero at Piccadilly Circus, and the Namco Fun Station near The
London Aquarium, just a short walk from The London Eye.
There's also Chessington, Thorpe Park and Legoland, which aren't in London
itself, but are close to London if you can organise travel to them.
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Can You Put Up a Link to My Site?
If you have a site which would be of use or
interest to people looking for material on British Theme Parks
e-mail
me with the web address and I'll take a look at it.
I would appreciate it if you also put a link to my site in your own links
section in return, either using your normal text format, or you can use our
button on banner.
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Can I Use Some of Your Photos?
For this you should
e-mail
me with details on what photos you wish to use, as well as where you wish to use
them (including web addresses where appropriate) and for what purpose you wish
to use them.
Generally I'll say yes, as long as it's for non profit purposes, and appropriate
credit, including a link to this site is given. However you should always
e-mail
me first to make sure.
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Can You Help Me With an Educational Project?/
Can You Provide a Map of Parks in Britain?
The first place I'd recommend trying is
rcdb.com. You'll find a
large amount of stats and information about roller coasters and parks.
Included are the location of parks around the country, which will allow
you to put a map together.
Another good place for information is Joyland Books,
a site which specialises in selling various books, DVDs and other products with
information on roller coasters and theme parks.
If you can't find the information you want there, or on this site or any other
site in the links section you can
e-mail
me. Please specify in the e-mail what information you require, I get quite a few
e-mails just asking for information, without specifying what information not
already available is required. I'll then do the best I can to provide it.
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Can You Give Me Advice on Obtaining Work Experience or Employment in The
Theme Park Industry?
My best advice is to get in touch with your
local park. Their web site is a good start if your seeking employment, as a lot
of parks to advertise vacancies on their web sites.
If your seeking employment you should send a C.V. with an introductory letter,
including relevant personal and contact details.
If your after work experience you should send a letter, including contact
details, and personal details including why you want to do work experience at
the park, and the dates and times you can work. You'll need to bear in mind
you'll probably be required to organise your own transport to work, and nearby
accommodation if required.
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Why Are You Called Theme Parks of England When You Have
Stuff on Oakwood Which is in Wales?
It goes back to when I first started this site,
which was before Megaphobia was built. Then the name theme parks of England was
appropriate as all the parks I covered where in England.
Since then other sites have used similar alternatives, such as theme parks of
Britain or theme parks U.K. meaning I can't really adapt that name myself.
Another problem would be that changing the name would mean all previous links to
this site would be broken. My limited budget means I'm not able to go to the
expense of multiple domain names.
I don't mean to cause any offence to the Welsh, and apologise if I have
inadvertently caused any offence.
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