A Dickens of a New Park
From signonsandiego.com:
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It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,†Charles Dickens famously opened “A Tale of Two Cities.†He also wrote, a line or two later: “It was the age of foolishness.â€
Was the age of foolishness? If only Dickens could see what his greatness has wrought, 137 years after his death.
Today in Chatham, England, about an hours drive from London, a $125 million theme park called Dickens World opens to the public. It has boat rides, a haunted house, animatronic characters and costumed characters walking around the Dickensian streets some of them snow-crested re-created out of the pages of “Nicholas Nickelby,†“Oliver Twist†or “Great Expectations.â€
The price of admission: $25 for adults, $15 for kids. Cheap by the standards of some theme parks — are you listening, Disney?.
(Note from Mark to the author: That entire park doesn’t even cost as much as Expedition Everest alone — Disney is more than worth the price of admission)
Hey I live just round the corner from there and had absolutely no idea at all that the park even existed!
I just phoned a friend of mine who works for our local newspaper, he was invited to the press day for the park opening, in true theme park opening style – not much was working but that being said, the park does look great aparently, I will get some photos soon (not today, the weathers awful here) to see for myself.
Heres something the website doesnt mention, the park has smog machines to give that eerie feeling of old kentish/london times, I personally cannot wait to go! 15 minutes that way to the Dickens park, 15 mins the other way and i’m on the eurostar -> disney paris Lol, great place to live ;)