Coming tomorrow in the Daily Mail, the story of thousands of families with their sad Daily Mail face pose complaining that the site crashed so they can't afford to go and have upset children cos they promised them a trip out to Drayton Manor

I hope it's not another scam like thorpe park.

Code is - HTTP404! Just bought 20 tickets.

The code is 8E11ENDZ :laughing:

They were posting 10+ minutes after 12 saying go get the tickets. In the comments they are replying to people saying they sold within 5 minutes. I don't think there were any and no one has got any. Normally one HUKD member would have been luckily. What a waste of time.

I am calling it, they pulled the promotion, as it was the only way to sort it out

@jonohanson Exactly!

With the amount of people on here you would expect to have seen a few posts from people who did get them. I have not seen one serious post yet on here, or their FB page of people successfully getting a ticket. Not to mention that you'd expect a few to be for sale on Ebay by now!!

So now that the dust has settled, did anyone manage to get tickets?

For all those whining about people whining...don't read the posts if you don't see it! Of course people are gonna whine! And rightfully so. People have wasted time for a chance to get what they thought was a genuine offer yet Drayton Manor's website wouldn't load prior to 12! For those who have mentioned getting onto the site and selecting tickets, I can't recall anyone on here stating payment had gone through or a confirmation email received. Then also on their Twitter account they said you could do it from a mobile yet there was no place to enter the promo code. So until someone confirms they got the tickets with a pic of the conf email, I won't believe it either. And for those claiming it will create bad publicity...there's no such thing! If it was a stunt it's hot people on social media buzzing about it so people will see it on their feeds...chances are it'll work its way around to a number of people who have never heard of the place and might book anyway? I must have mentioned it to 2 people today who haven't heard of it and have children who would love it!

My payment got stuck in processing state for 30 mins after putting in payment details, after checking with Drayton Manor they said the order hadnt completed and all tickets had been sold. However I could still buy tickets on the 7 day advance offer.

Hmm £130+ for 5 tickets or the £2.50 I thought the payment was processing for. Think I'll give their compensatory offer a miss thanks.

there was talk of a 'class action lawsuit' from one guy.. lol

it did go on the website.. the problem was the website wouldn't process anything..

All tickets sold out in less than 5 minutes of release at 12:00 but I still don't get how when there site was down.

So no one here got it? Not even one person? I really don't think they had any. The website didn't seem to work for any of us.

Sorry, yes I realise that but for the people not on twitter or facebook (I can't access FB at work) I was hoping to see the code on the web site they said it would appear on.

I went afk came back and the calendar had finally loaded but then it was all over by then.

Seriously, how many sour faced people can you get on 1 thread. It was a 1000 50p tickets.

How many of you are ones posting on Facebook, its a scam, con, lets set up a facebook group to boycott Drayton Manor. Or the best one, I was going to buy a full price ticket till I saw they were some being sold for 50p, now I cant get one of those I am never going there again and I am going to tell all my friends and post it on my facebook wall!!!!

Seriously though, people expecting a response to...can I see a list of all those people who bought a ticket for 50p, what.... yes certainly here are their details, sod the data protection act, but we hope it helps you sleep easier tonight

Why don't those who feels its a scam and con setup a gofundme page and with the possible donations you can take your case to European Court of Human Rights as you clearly feel your rights have been violated. Then Trading Standard and lets not forget Advertising Standards Agency

FINALLY MANAGED TO GET ON TO SITE TO BOOK TICKETS

Response email from Drayton Manor on facebook .......

"Hi Mahesh, due to popular demand our website experienced difficulties. We are sorry that you were unable to purchase these 50p tickets and for any inconvenience caused. Many thanks DMP"...........

and then my response to that was.......

"Can I see a list of those who did manage to purchase the tickets ? I dont believe that anyone would of been able to complete a purchase given the technical difficulties".........

Their web site is still down, probably trying to avoid all the complaints. Think they would have known better after the Thorpe Park fiasco, I know they are different companies but they copied that promotion and the problems associated with that were well publicised

Lol can't tell if you're being serious. What they said was so obviously a joke...

They released the code on twitter and facebook.

This is about the twentieth time i have said this :/

Not really a surprise to be fair - they won't be the first and won't be the last to offer ticket deals in this way and then not have the server capacity to deal with demand.

The main issues I'd have would be that there are people who are saying the code was meant to go out by email and didn't - and it also didn't appear on the website where they said it would. Granted, that probably still wouldn't have helped people get tickets but if you say you are putting a code somewhere, at least put it there so people can get it and then waste two hours trying to get some.

Sold out

such a lie and thats not even the code!!

Sold out!!

The outrage!! lol...

Come on, you can't have it both ways.
If the website wasn't even loading, how come you managed to select tickets? :confused:

not really a con - just awful tech support/planning ​

I can't even book normal tickets yet :disappointed:

They would have been better springing it as a surprise when the guy went into the park yesterday as the visitor.

love it, even at a low estimate they would have had 50-60k of people trying to get tickets.... each using the self proclaimed ipad, pc, mobile approach of multiple approaches = more chance of success. So thats 150,000 attempts and perhaps 200 groups will be able to get on and purchase 5 successfully.

Thats a likelihood of 0.133%... come on people...dont pout

Same here, managed to pick dates it then hung for an age and....;

"An unexpected error has occurred and the web store is unable to continue processing. "

It's failed after 20+ minutes of processing - "An unexpected error has occurred" - time for lunch I think. Best of luck for those still trying.

They should learn from Argos website during sale time, let first 1500 people get on and see who checkout quickly... rest of the world put them in the waiting queue.

Twitter and Facebook.

So the page now loads, and its exactly the same as before:

"ALL YOU WILL NEED TO DO TODAY IS ENTER THE CODE WE SUPPLY YOU AT 12 MIDDAY..... WATCH THIS SPACE...

WE WILL UPLOAD THE CODE TO THIS PAGE AND SHARE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AT 12 MIDDAY, DON'T MISS OUT, WE ONLY HAVE 1000 TICKETS UP FOR GRABS AND WE THINK THEY ARE GOING TO BE POPULAR."

So if they are saying its sold out how did people manage to get the code, as the web site is exactly the same as it was before 12 with no code

hmmm

Well actually mine has been on payment stage for about 30 minutes and still says its processing so I'm not convinced they are confirmed yet.

Haha, those same people will probably get a confirmation email saying there has been a mistake
:stuck_out_tongue:

That would explain why June was not available I guess

Their Facebook page has gone nuts. Bit of a back fire me thinks :laughing:

SHOUTING IF I WANT TO USE CAPS I WILL

Please stop shouting.
As I said, it's not compulsory to post that you got some, but then, oh look, just up there ^^^^^^^^^^, some peeps posting they got some.

What a con, website down 11-1
Finally get to select tickets, but froze again

I find it funny how they managed to sell these tickets when the website wasn't even loading! They only did this for marketing.
As a result, we should all boycott Drayton Manor for a year :smile:

Can't believe I wasted 2 hours on something which was a con!!!!

proof please

the 50p tickets were only only valid for 23 July - 31 August...

Yes they have Shouty McGee... just a few comments above yours

What a con, website down 11-1
Finally get to select tickets, but froze again

I find it funny how they managed to sell these tickets when the website wasn't even loading! They only did this for marketing.
As a result, we should all boycott Drayton Manor for a year :smile:

Can't believe I wasted 2 hours on something which was a con!!!!

Page not loading, going to keep refreshing... even if the tickets are sold out....

Poor Server..

I find it hard to believe that the tickets have actually been successfully purchased by anybody given that the website has been almost completely inaccessible since about 10 minutes before twelve. Surely Drayton Manor should realise that this is going to create more negative publicity for them than positive? There's really no need for it either in these days of 'elastic' hyper-scale web providers who can scale automatically to meet demand.

NO ONE HAS SAID THEY HAVE GOT ANY.

it was very slow and it took 2 attempts - most of june is sold out, got to july /august for available dates

I got some 10 minutes ago. I got the confirmation screen but no email as yet.

How is it a con? Have you lost any money?
How do you know no-one on here got any tickets, it's not compulsory to post stating you have.
Did you really think you would be able to swan in at mid-day and bag yourself 5 tickets?

So did anyone manage to get any tickets?

How did you manage to select a date?

I am still on the processing screen - no confirmation e-mail as yet, so how long do I wait? Anyone actually got a confirmation e-mail or a confirmation on screen?

Confirmed on twitter, its done;

Drayton Manor [email protected] 3m

50p tickets are now SOLD OUT.
0 retweets 0 likes

WELL THIS IS A CON AS NO ONE ON HUKD HAS GOT ANY AND THE WEBSITE HAS BEEN FULLY DOWN. CON CON CON.

They want people to be off from their server

so 1 hour 20 mins of refeshing and it is sold out

50p tickets are now SOLD OUT.

​How the F did that happen?

From their Facebook page:
Please note: 50p Tickets are now SOLD OUT.

Now sold out according to twitter - https://twitter.com/Draytonmanor/status/743055271367413760

why don't everyone just give up

how do you get to the payment page.. lol. doesnt let me select dates

How did you get the date selection to work? I click on the little calendar and get the loading icon :disappointed:

Me too just been stuck on payment page for 10 minutes

The code still hasnt been displayed on the actual Drayton Manor website ?

I have managed to get to the final payment screen and how it says processing for the last 5 min, so I guess it not processing?

in the same place, this was never going to work lol

Loaded on mobile - had to turn to mobile site for calendar but nowhere to enter code

If anyone didn't know in advance what would happen, then perhaps they shouldn't be on this site.

Site is now loading again but still not working lol

so are you supposed to go into 'tickets' or click into '50p tickets available more info' ??

it would be more logical that way - tells other people it's a good deal because you can actually get the product!

these tickets are not worth the hour of my life I just wasted trying to get them. good luck to anyone who gets through that mess of a website.

seriously, look at the code he is quoting.....does it look familiar at all? Like an error code maybe??

seriously, look at the code he is quoting.....does it look familiar at all? Like an error code maybe??

So, only those who got/get tickets can vote hot?

I've voted thousands of deals hot but haven't bought the vast majority of them. :confused:

i keep getting the ticket price page, cant work out how to actually buy any (if its still even available)

No wonder you didn't get this ...

LIER CAN ONLY GET 5 AT TIME

Actually, I think they are still!!

Have code but having problems

Same here lol

Service Unavailable
---------------------
HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.

Actually, I think they are still!!

Yeah I said that too but im still refreshing lol

i give up

:wink:

Lol haha

Think Alton Towers are missing a trick by not offering 50% off tickets for today only in celebration of Drayton Manors ticketing system going down

Sold Out. "Deal" Expired.

you have the code already. GIMMIE50

New page has come up check

still cant get through to tickets though.

Front end is up. Back end webstore is down. Its going nowhere until they put the store back online.

It's still saying watch this space. There is no code

Bet they're all sold out and we're all trying for no reason!

do you realise you're only making things worse? site is experiencing too much load, from too many people on too many devices trying to connect and you're doing "oh if I connect 5 more devices, surely it will work on one of them"

lol

But that would be doing what they want you to do!

Always got to be one greedy a**hole

Lol sold out. Haha. There is no code

So so true everytime

Got in on the phone, it is website only for booking and they are about to announce they are sold out :disappointed:

Can't be bothered now. I'll just pay full price. Thanks for f all Drayton manor

You just quoted from Jeremy Clarkson on the USA special running away from the red necks

A masterclass in how to DDoS a website

I haveanaged to refresh many times but there is still no code.

This is painful...

Site is dead. Couldn't get the calendar to load........

Looks like the site has been taken down. not even spinning now

as soon as i clicked book now site crashed

They are lying. Their website has not even been updated yet

Some people have stated on Facebook they've been able to get tickets, but still 1000 tickets, someone ordering 5 each they would have likely sold out by now.

I also got that far, I got an unstyled page with no option to actually buy/add tickets.

I saw the code on facebook at 12... didnt have a chance to post it here.

I am on the same page, but cannot get the calendar to load

What a joke !!! Tried for 30 mins cant get on

Not one person managed to get any tickets, yet this deal has managed to get Big Heat.

Did you actually manage to get the 'select a date' pop up to work? I've stuck with it because I managed to actually get to that page, but can't get it to show me anything that selects a date.

Managed to add some tickets to the jmobile website but no where on that to add the promo code - seems it has to be computer only

You'd think they would have checked how many concurrent sessions there web servers could host before putting up a crazy offer.
Bet its something stupid like 50 at any given time

Have Amazon price matched yet? :laughing:

Trying to get website to open using 2 computers & a mobile & not one is loading, all showing service unavailable now!

I wouldn't worry, you have a virtually no chance of getting tickets anyway..

Managed to get through but its a cached version. Now stuck on add to basket lol.

Has anyone even managed to get any?? :laughing:

What a joke !!! Tried for 30 mins cant get on

Here is the picture of the code given on Twitter

How could they, Drayton Manor get it so wrong!! :disappointed:

Incidents like this, convince me that at some stage, people have successfully mated with vegetables...

As my old manager used to say "these people are too dumb to even run a whelk store"

Marketing magic.....

I know saw that , and the phones have gone down due to lots calls complaining about the website lol

What a joke !!! Tried for 30 mins cant get on

Still no code on their site

it does say just further down the history of them apologising for their shocking servers!

I just got into page but still hasn't changed

I saw that, absolute bell ends! Lol

If you manage to get on there is a bonus code to get a letter C, D or K for the Walkers Promotion!

given up theres no chance

No thanks Turd!

On thier Twitter it says please check social media for the code , but that is social media !

GIMMIE50

It's still not even loaded since 12pm, what is the code just incase i ever get there?

Even if people managed to add tickets to basket, the basket will time out before they manage to buy .. starting the loop all over again! The site will become accessible again after August 30th..

At least the tab name has changed to 'Drayton Manor' so that's something.

You seem to be getting further than anyone else, good luck!

What?! That's daft, I was hoping to buy 4 tickets for me and my family and travel over (as live in NI) some date we can find cheap flights.

Looks like site has crashed

You have to choose the date you want to go on......still very slow but getting there

It's on their facebook page

more like imposible

looks like they've turned it off and on again.....

"HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable."

Im skipping my lunch for this!

"Ticket offer has gone live but we understand people are experiencing difficulties due to popular demand. We’re sorry for any inconvenience"
Acknowledgement on Twitter

mobile site fine but no option for a code

Proper **** stain this one

Same with the Harry Potter play in London. Luckily I was able to get 2 tickets there lol

Happens all the time with high demand for tickets, same happened when Adele tickets went on sale, brought down her website, the SSE one and then ticketmaster.

Never mind GIMMIE50 , how about GIMMIE1 ?

These retailers clearly do not learn from when other companies do this. You get website crashes every time.

And Facebook

Nothing loading it's so annoying

Very poor planning on their behalf. They should have invested in a few more web servers to handle the load. Hopefully someone in IT will get a slap.

Looks like they've successfully DDoS'd themselves with a poorly thought out promo.

Twitter..

So if nobody is able to sign in, does it mean I still have chance!?

of course we know what is going to happen, website will suddenly load....all sold out!

​Or you can just feck off and stop trolling you absolute weapon.

Yeh sure won't get 18p

Hundred on eBay for 60p. Scandalous!

It is, i saw it on twitter

GIMMIE50 from their official Facebook page

From their twitter account:
Due to the popularity of our 50p ticket our booking system is experiencing a high demand of traffic. This offer will go live at 12pm today.

no ccs, javascript nothing load, damn :disappointed:

refresh again!

I can do a special discount for Hotukdeals members, £15 a ticket

GIMMIE50

This was never going to work

and yet the mobile site is perfectly fine.....but you can't add codes there :confused:

Sites completely crashed

This site has crashed.

I reckon Drayton Manor buy them all up and sell them all full price :sunglasses:

It's like the Playstation anniversary all over again!

Gotten through to the page but there hasn't been any update with a link, clicking book now leads to another crash

Turd!!

probably from twitter

I got the ID10T error.

Can't get on

Just managed to load the page once, and it still hadn't updated. So not sure whether it was a cached version on the computer which loaded or they're just struggling... lol

Don't know how people are getting the code when I can't even get on the site?!?

People like you are vile.

code is GIMMIE50

​How to act a bell #34976

GIMMIE50

"This web page is not available"

#Awesome...keep refreshing people..

the end is nigh

he is trolling

what a load of blocks :smiley:

Website crash. Who would have expected that??

GIMMIE50

Code is "GIMMIE50".

GIMMIE50

code????? no evidence of code

Has this ever happened before?

yea right

We need a maintenance man!!!

all sold out, i managed to get 15 using three different email addresses
i am listing them for sale, £18 each.. bargain!

the website is as useful as a pair of tits on a nun

as expected, the 1990's server they are using is overloaded, no one is buying tickets....
just drayton manor get high traffic stats, that's all....

crashed lmfao

This site cannot be reached

I'm not a computer person but I got this. Not exactly techy to know the 404 error message!

Seriously a basic page just came up but still no code on it :disappointed: I reloaded and it timed out again.

Do they still have the Buffalo roller coaster?

website melted

LOL, only computer people will understand this, this is not really the code, its error message for unavailable site

Try it for yourself - 209.18.111.126/WebStore/shop

how to DDOS yourself, advertise on Hotukdeals

WE WILL UPLOAD THE CODE TO THIS PAGE AND SHARE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AT 12 MIDDAY, DON'T MISS OUT, WE ONLY HAVE 1000 TICKETS UP FOR GRABS AND WE THINK THEY ARE GOING TO BE POPULAR.

Code is - HTTP404! Just bought 20 tickets.

Ugh, I've just looked and the server is based in the US. Clueless. Good luck getting tickets!

website crashed :wink:

It's slow as hell via the IP too. Jeeez, may just pay full price and have done with it, hahaha.

He's bull'ing, the servers are overloaded, even if you could get the IP you'd have the same issue.

Google "cloud computing".

can't even get on site

The code is 8E11ENDZ :laughing:

Waiting for it on another session to then enter in the checkout box. :smiley:

I'll post it on here in a few minutes.

trying ot add 5 tickets for 25mins now so I can put code in when it comes but not even adding to basket :@

IP addy please?

Oh dear site can't be reached....Heat though OP

how do you do that?

There is no such thing as a cloud full of computers.
They are all in buildings which ultimately all have connection limitations..

do u have the code?

The daft thing is that massively increasing server capacity these days is a matter of 2 clicks and 30 seconds.
And for half a day it would cost them less than £20 to bump the server up to the max to handle the traffic.
(I'm assuming it's built properly in the cloud and not hosted on a PC in an office somewhere!).

Where do I enter the code? When I get to payment screen there doesn't seem to be an option to add a code, only a button to select "charge my card"

HELP me please

It's an DNS Issue, go direct to their IP. WOrking fine for me, 5 in basket waiting until 12. :smiley:

down down down

seems to be intetmittent

As others have said it's down already but come 11:59 I'll be hammering it regardless - GIMME THEM CHEAP TICKETS!!!!

lol, site down now

website down

Put the code on here if you get it before the rest of us

voted cold as website has already crashed! standard

website if f****d. typical!

Website is down already :neutral_face:

Why don't they charge something like £5 instead (I'm sure most people would be happy with that price) and give away 10000. Still little chance of getting them but at least 10x the people will be lucky. 1000 will go in a blink of an eye.

I've asked them on twitter about this so will let you know of they reply!

Meh - site already crashing and slow... gl to all who get it. Not going to bother... 1000 tickets out of 10k+ people trying... hmmm.

ALL YOU WILL NEED TO DO TODAY IS ENTER THE CODE WE SUPPLY YOU AT 12 MIDDAY..... WATCH THIS SPACE...

WE WILL UPLOAD THE CODE TO THIS PAGE AND SHARE ON SOCIAL MEDIA AT 12 MIDDAY, DON'T MISS OUT, WE ONLY HAVE 1000 TICKETS UP FOR GRABS AND WE THINK THEY ARE GOING TO BE POPULAR.

From the site.

Purchase ticket page has already crashed

I know exactly what time it is, the website has a code box, the mobile site does not, as in you have no way to enter a code when it becomes live in 33 minutes.

Its not 12 yet!?!?

The mobile site works, but you can't input a code anywhere!!

oh wait, they've started already!!

Can't wait to see the complaints on here at 12. :smiley:

which site release the code though

Im sure they release the code on the site at 12.

Exactly how I thought crashed,no chance then.

Probably won't get any but it's worth a go... U got to be in it to win it as they say????

Yes crashed as always!!!

Website is already down.. http://www.isitdownrightnow.com/draytonmanor.co.uk.html:smirk:

Oh look, the website's crashed.

Who'd of thought eh?..........

I bet the site is crashed anyway.

cant load website at all... times out constantly

a) Could they have made this any more confusing*? Why not just reduce first 1000 bookings after 12pm??
b) A whole ONE THOUSAND cheap tickets. With <=5 per transaction. So... ~250 bookings? As a maths/web dev, I'm predicting either enormous levels of disappointment or a very quick DDoS / server fallover!

* Exemplified by the ridiculously complicated pricing structure, what is this madness?? https://www.draytonmanor.co.uk/tickets-and-prices

Is there another one being built in Europe?

Even after 22 years shockwave is still Europe's only stand up roller coaster !

Ok great :smile:

Anyone know if there's a limit to the amount to f tickets that you can buy? I don't plan to be an ass & buy 20 or something. Probably about 3 if I can

How does the Thomas land compare to CBeebies land or Nickelodeon land ? Thanks

It is advertised on main Drayton Mannor site so should not be a scam

"Who want's a Drayton Manor ticket for 50p?.....but knows they won't have a hopes chance of receiving one!"

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02362/zombie-crowd_2362318b.jpg

what is the code

Worth it I suppose

ah worth a punt. only i won't be taking the kids if i get tickets lol alllll for me :smile:

Why promise your kids they can go if there's only a few tickets?! Plonkers. They'll learn the hard way not to make that promise again.

Coming tomorrow in the Daily Mail, the story of thousands of families with their sad Daily Mail face pose complaining that the site crashed so they can't afford to go and have upset children cos they promised them a trip out to Drayton Manor

Seems everyone is copying Diggerland.

I hope it's not another scam like thorpe park.