To think Hyde Park winter wonderland should not be cancelled?

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It has just been announced it's cancelled due to corona. www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/breaking-hyde-park-winter-wonderland-22616729

At a time where deaths, hospital admissions and positive tests are really low, should we not trying to go move life forward instead of cancelling events?

I know what people are gonna say, "you can't social distance at winter wonderland", but pubs are open and how many people are social distancing there?

Don't be silly

Yes! Let’s cram people together in a confined area and have people trucking to walk past. Don’t panic it’s only a killer virus after all.

Not for corona reasons, but for all the antisocial behaviour and criminally overpriced mince pies.

The virus will be worse in winter.

Have you ever been to winter wonderland? I have and absolutely understand why it is not happening this year. I’ve also been to pubs but you’ve had to have a table and table service with space between different groups. Completely different.

It's shite and overpriced at the best of times, I certainly won't be shedding any tears over its absence. I don't need a load of extortionate mass produced "artisan handmade" crafts from China or watered down mulled wine to give me the christmassy feeling.

Phew...I can cancel my application to remortgage my house

So you are paying to put it on. You are in an environment where nobody actually knows if corona will lead to another lockdown which will spell financial disaster.
You cannot insure against that risk.
What would you feckin do?

You’ve never been have you op?
It is LOADS of people crammed in just shuffling along. You see something on a stall you like, you can’t get there, just keep shuffling.

Part of the issue for events like this will be they have a lot of costs to cover, if they have to massively reduce capacity - which they would have to - then they will either need to increase ticket prices significantly or make little or no money.

Events like this and safe social distancing just don’t work

Ive never been but ive read posts about crushes there in the past and people have been worried that its another Hillsborough waiting to happen.

Rates may be low now....winter is coming, schools returning etc so they likely won’t stay low over winter.

@Lockheart

It's shite and overpriced at the best of times, I certainly won't be shedding any tears over its absence. I don't need a load of extortionate mass produced "artisan handmade" crafts from China or watered down mulled wine to give me the christmassy feeling.

Yeah! We've had enough from China this year

Of course it should be cancelled! That would be insane to let it go ahead!

To be honest there are 4 stalls requested 20 times.

A pub is small

Winter wonderland is massive and people travel from everywhere to visit it

Absolutely it shouldn’t be going ahead this year

*repeated 20 times.

I have been to the Edinburgh one enough times and it is so packed that I feel panicky.

Organisers and producers of events cannot get insurance that covers any form of loss/cancellation caused by Covid! They can’t take the risk financially never mind from a public health perspective

The Edinburgh winter wonderland is legendarily expensive. A local reporter once calculated that yard for yard, the kiddies 'Santa Express' train ride cost more than the Orient Express.

I'll miss the fresh doughnuts, mind.

I bet the council are rubbing their hands with glee at the chance to call a halt....it's completely DREADFUL

the worst fair ground rides at extortionate cost, ditto "artisan" mulled lukewarm and sour wine and the one time we walked through it was obscene woolly hats, fake fairisle, and dubious "faux fur" items

Thing is if they book all the rides and stalls and selling tickets and start employing people and it then has to cancel they would probably have to pay out some type of compensation.

If the event doesn't turn a profit there is no point, from the organisers' perspective, in putting it on. It is not like a permanent theme park that can spread costs, allow people to come over time, etc. Also, it is far better not to run it and have people wish for it back than to run a rubbish event that scars it in people's minds.

@MorrisZapp

The Edinburgh winter wonderland is legendarily expensive. A local reporter once calculated that yard for yard, the kiddies 'Santa Express' train ride cost more than the Orient Express.

I'll miss the fresh doughnuts, mind.

Oh the donuts 🤤, last year I spotted someone with a loaf filled with melted cheese and was thinking of heading for one of those this year.

It’s hideously expensive and the area gets clogged up so that traffic crawls worse than usual (and since they have decided to expend the bike lanes so that a previously busy two lane road is not a single lane one).

Can’t say I’m upset it’s been cancelled. Oh and corona...

@Lockheart

It's shite and overpriced at the best of times, I certainly won't be shedding any tears over its absence. I don't need a load of extortionate mass produced "artisan handmade" crafts from China or watered down mulled wine to give me the christmassy feeling.

This. It's so grim in the most British way.