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Booked a family ticket which ended up costing nearly £100 Inc Parking.
When you initially walked in, it was chaos! First thing the kids see is the monster truck rides, which of course, is an additional cost.
Once we convinced them to go past, the next thing you come to is market stalls...again, run!
We decided to grab some food first, we went to the stall with the smallest que, we should've read the field as the food wasn't great however the price wasn't far off Michelin.
Once getting over the heart attack, of course the kids wanted to go on the rides next, obviously these also weren't included in the fee as these were £5+ Per Person. Possibly one attraction wasn't but that was over in 30 seconds.
After almost spending the daily budget in an hour, we decided to watch a couple of shows, kids excited for the monster trucks & us adults excited for the motorbikes....it wasn't worth us getting excited. The motorbike show was impressive but it wasn't thrilling, possibly saw 8 jumps in total between two guys....taking turns. Monster trucks just seemed to be racing up & down, the kids dragged us away within 5 minutes.
We then come across a donut stall....£5 per donut.
Drink stall....£11 per adult drink.
The only thing that seemed to be free was the live music...which took the kids attention for 10 minutes.
Possibly other stalls but everything was just so chaotic.
I do think they should have staff/stall reps going around asking kids if they want to get involved in the free things, or make it very obvious when something is for free.
It honestly would've been cheaper to all go to chessington for the day!
Unfortunately getting into they event & exiting was an absolute shambles, gridlocked. Thousands of people going to one location just doesn’t work, definitely need to limit tickets. So much smoke & fog you could hardly see the fireworks. Let’s not talking about the pricing of fair rides & food 😐
I strongly don’t recommend this event!Me and my partner were really looking forward to going to see the fireworks. We aimed to arrive for 6:30ish as we weren’t bothered about seeing anything before the fireworks. We live less than an hour away from this event and it took us 3 whole hours to get in. 2 WHOLE HOURS OF VERY SLOW MOVING/STAND STILL TRAFFIC!!! By the time we had got into the car park it was already 8pm and we actually thought there was no point in going in because we will get caught in a long queue to get out so we stood at our car waiting for the fireworks to start. However the fireworks didn’t start till 9pm so they were an hour late!!!! Once the fireworks had finally started you couldn’t even see them due to all the smoke from the bonfire filling the sky. After 10 minutes we got in the car at 9:10 and drove home so we didn’t get caught in queues🙄Overall a big waste of time and money!!No wonder you can’t get a refund because everyone would want one!
Every year we give you the benefit of the doubt that you've "fixed the traffic management". Every year we say never again. Tonight, after 2 hours to do 13 miles from Oxford to Abingdon, we eventually gave up and missed it. This is the last time. It's a shame, because the fireworks are normally great.
Abingdon fireworks 2025.The worst fireworks I have ever seen covered by a massive smoke from the bonfire. Extremely loud music everywhere, rides and food overpriced, parking was a nightmare. Not worth the money. I’ve been three times, this one was the worst and sadly the last one.Google removes bad reviews.Save money and avoid this place.
This was my first visit to the Abingdon fireworks event. The journey, which should have taken approximately 45 minutes, instead took two hours due to a severe tailback on the A34 caused by the volume of attendees. Fortunately, I had left very early and managed to arrive just before 6 p.m.—I dread to imagine what conditions were like later in the evening.The fairground itself offered a good selection of rides, although the £5 charge per ride felt extortionate. The food stalls were similarly disappointing: overpriced and of poor quality. I purchased a bag of candy floss for my son, only to find it rock hard. The DJ also played several songs containing profanities, despite the event clearly being family-oriented, and then attempted to dismiss the language by claiming the words were French, which only made the situation more inappropriate.The bonfire produced such an overwhelming amount of smoke that it noticeably obscured the fireworks. Nevertheless, I still felt the display itself was impressive once visible.We left the site as soon as the fireworks finished , and this is when the true chaos unfolded. Prior to attending, I had read the organisers’ assurances on Facebook that a new ANPR one-way system, supported by 120 stewards, had been implemented to improve parking. This system required a £5 fee, which implied a level of organisation and efficiency. In reality, the parking arrangements were absolutely dreadful. Leaving the car park was complete carnage: no organisation, no visible stewardship, and cars forming their own lanes in a wholly uncontrolled and unsafe manner. It took two full hours to exit the car park.I have attended many large-scale events, some with far higher capacity, and I have never experienced parking management as catastrophically inefficient as this. Of the few stewards I did see—no more than five—none were actively directing traffic; instead, they stood at the end of the road chatting and contributing nothing to the situation. Under these circumstances, all parking fees should unquestionably be refunded. Charging attendees £5 for such an appalling experience is indefensible.Despite all of this, my five-year-old son remained blissfully unaware of the surrounding chaos and thoroughly enjoyed his evening, which was the one redeeming aspect of the event.
As seen as my review from google has magically disappeared, I shall write it on here too …..Absolute shambles.Says to make sure you arrive by 5, chance would be a fine thing if you could even get near there!Sat in traffic for well over 3 hours and still nowhere near the front. As a family of 4, we can safely say NEVER GO HERE. Sitting in standstill traffic with screaming children is not what we had planned for our day out. Won’t even make it in time for the fireworks! Cant wait to watch them from the car as we try and get out the traffic to turn around and go home. Will be demanding a refund!“UKs largest firework show” more like the UKs largest traffic jam! Very very disappointed.Update…. We finally decided to leave the “queue” at 8.15pm. Fireworks hadn’t even started. Traveled 1.5 hours to get home, best part of the night.
The fair is the big attraction for kids but some of the rides took down thier prices and were charging silly prices. £10 for a bumper car.others were upto £8.several rides were clearly priced and were £5 which i felt was fair.to much light during fireworks which obscured its visibility quite abit
I’m not sure where to start with this review.I live one junction away from Abingdon Airfield. It’s normally a 12 min drive. Today I allowed an hour for the journey but it took 2. I had three realistic options based on their colour coded routes. The A34 was complete gridlock so I opted to go via Marcham. I later found out that most people on the A34 never made it in at all.The bonfire was due to be lit at 7pm. At 730pm they were still pouring petrol all over it to try and get it to light. Eventually, when they did try and set it alight it just didn’t go up as expected and within moments staff were clambering all over the petrol sodden wood to try and get the thing alight. The correct decision at that point should have been to abandon the fire and move on with the evening. That being said, it did eventually go up, however, the delay meant they couldn’t start the fireworks because someone had the bright idea of putting an enormous fire right in front of the fireworks display, so when they did start, 1hr15 mins late at 9.15pm, you couldn’t actually see them.We made the decision to leave 10 mins in to the display, as did thousands of others, a) because you couldn’t really see the fireworks anyway and b) I knew the traffic was going to be a nightmare.The event has huge potential. For next year I suggest the following:1. Limit the number of tickets to avoid the chaos that prevented many people getting in tonight. The crowd size was definitely not safe.2. Have decision points. If something hasn’t happened by a certain point, move on to the next event.3. Put numbers or letters at the end of each row of cars so people can find cars at the end of the night. The idea of dropping a pin on Google maps is useless when the phone networks completely stop working as they did tonight.4. Don’t put the fire infront of the fireworks display. Look at the weather forecast and build it down wind of the fireworks.5. Have two sets of portaloos, one at each end of the event rather than one big area at the entrance.In sum, lots of potential but a complete disaster tonight due to traffic and poor planning / execution.My review was deleted from Google so I’m giving this a go instead. Makes me realise what a sham all these review sites are when legitimate reviews get deleted.
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