Dear Sirs
I'd like to bring the following issue to your attention. I'm disappointed that Legoland Discovery Centre in Manchester have taken this stance.
Lego is a brand that is close to the nations hearts and has been for generations. I am a 32 year old woman and still love Lego after inheriting a box from my uncle over 25 years ago. I'm a regular visitor to the Manchester stores and was planning on visiting to Discovery Centre in the near future.
I discovered yesterday that without a child with me I would be unable to visit the Legoland Discovery Centre in Manchester unless it was an an approved "adults only evening event". Apparently this is a child protection issue, which I find disgusting and, quite frankly, insulting.
Moreover, I have read many articles over the last 24 hours that have highlighted Legoland Discovery Centre's refusal to renew the annual passes of two men. The men in question both adore Lego and found it one of the few positives in their lives. They're also men with severe disabilities and each have a mental age of less than ten. Rather than making these gentleman welcome to your centre in Manchester you have actually acted with extreme prejudice against them. Ethically, morally and in a PR sense you have utterly, utterly failed.
These are gentlemen who are in no way a danger to anyone, who are the most vulnerable in society and who are actually willing to pay their way have been shunned by your centre in Manchester simply because you deem them a threat to children. You have taken the stance that all adults who wish to visit your Legoland Discovery Centre in Manchester without a child in tow are a danger to children. This is an opinion that is not only inherently wrong but insulting and disgusting. I'm horrified that not only these vulnerable men have been subjected to this treatment but that I also fall in this category and would be unable to visit whenever I chose. All because I don't have the luxury of having children.
To me it seems that you're making a decision based on a knee jerk reaction. You're making sweeping generalisations about adults who visit without children. Your team have in no way looked into the statistics. If they had they would know that children are more likely to be in danger from those that they know, such as an immediate family member and not, in fact, a complete stranger.
Legoland Discovery Centre in Manchester must use this opportunity to redeem themselves and retract their decision to bar these men from visiting. I am in no way affiliated with men but I suggest you offer these men a great deal of free goods by way of an apology, such as several yearly passes and many popular toys. You have the opportunity to turn this around but only if you act appropriately, something that has been lacking thus far.
I thank you for your time.