Alton Towers says ditch work for coasters, businesses not amused

Ditch work? Hell, QUIT your jobs and go to Alton Towers!

Is Tussauds still up for sale?

And I need to get out my Cedar Fair annual report and see how much cash they have floating around?

In my mind best merger ever, as they both rake in the money threw common sense expansion? plus CF could use some Tussauds theming.

Gee...I'm doing just that. Ditching work for a week to go on a coaster odyssey. That's why I get paid vacation.

auscoasterman, I do make sense, you just didn't happen to comprehend the material. And some people just don't sometimes, and that's okay, really. If you want a basic, Kindergarten-level synopsis of my post, then I'll be glad to let you have it.

I also want to know how having an adequate vocabulary makes me intellectual or "using big words." It's the new generation of Americans with a Fourth Grade vocabulary - that is the problem.

A specter (correctly spectre, outside of America) is a ghost. Good luck wearing a ghost. Last I saw, the old bloke was wearing a pair of spectacles. This is a stupid argument - contact me by PM if you're that determined to stay on your high horse and want to continue it and I'll be glad to reciprocate.

Funny what else I found just doing a Google search looking for more information about the UK's sick day laws - Sick workers struggle on, says unions. It seems that even being legitimately sick in the UK doesn't keep people away from the office.

wahoo, I was COMPLETELY expecting the same thing after reading the headline....I was like "geez, the NIMBYists won't let them build up OR down", LOL....poor Alton Towers, first severe height restrictions, then severe free speech restrictions.

You don't want your employees taking time off, don't offer any leave time....problem solved ;) Seriously, is it any of their business *what* I do when I take time off?

bill, has been known to visit a park on a "mental health day"

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Gee...I'm doing just that. Ditching work for a week to go on a coaster odyssey. That's why I get paid vacation.

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Same here - i live in the UK and have taken a week of my vacation time to go to Blackpool via Alton Towers, then Southport's Pleasureland, Camelot Theme Park and lastly, to finish it off, Cadbury World (wife is a chocolate fiend)

Lawyers = bored.

Alton Towers = Easy pickings for criticism.

GregLeg - Chessington is hardly a rival so they're wrong on two counts - one for the ownership and two for the 'rival' - Thorpe Park, also a Tussaud's attraction, is more of a rival, if it wasn't the same company. Colossus rules, btw.