Doubles Lock Fireworks Rip Off
Nov 5th, 2007 by Jason
Fireworks night is really an event for the kids, and now that fireworks are used at a drop of a hat, for all types of occasions, it’s not even that special for them. All the same, as an excuse for a social gathering and some exercise in the Autumn air, my partner and I decided to walk to the Double Locks and meet friends to watch their fireworks display.
We arrived and were immediately taken aback at how many people there were, even compared to last year. The separate queues for beer and food were already significantly long so we each joined a queue.
Little did we realise that this would also defeat the purpose of the visit. After queueing for an hour we were almost at the point of being served; that is to say my partner was inside the bar tent and I was behind the big tree, by the food hut. Consequently, neither of us saw the fireworks.
Worse still was the rip off prices being charged for the food. The portions of chips were £2 each and the hog roast / burgers were all in the region of £5. The greatest rip off for me was that having queued for over an hour to get my hog roast, while watching huge piles of meat pass my by in the queue, when I received mine there was barely enough to fill the bun and half of that was fat.
Rather than stick around, having already been disappointed and ripped off by the Double Locks, we all walked to the nearby Port Royal where we spent the rest of the evening discussing the poor customer service and rip off prices that the Double Locks provide, along with all the previous times that we had visited and been disappointed by poor customer service or not received what we had ordered.
We enjoy going to the Double Locks because it is a nice walk along the canal or across the fields but my advice is don’t go to the Double Locks for the food.
sounds disappointing. Did you have to pay for entry to watch the firework display?
Well, as I said, I was unable to watch the firework display due to my position in the queue. The same for my partner.
Although we did not have to pay for entrance to watch the fireworks I paid:
1 hour of time in the food queue
1 hour of time in the bar queue
For overpriced food.
More fool us really as in the past we had eaten inside and ordered nacho’s and they were not as described, having only tomato sauce instead of salsa and no sour cream. They didn’t tell us this when they ordered or when it was delivered.
I guess they must pay their staff peanuts, and I’m sure you know that saying…
They are obviously trying to rake in as much money as possible for a short term gain and seem to have achieved it. Not sure what the future holds for the Double Looks but I would suggest (from the people I spoke to on Fireworks night) that it is not bright.