Norwich Fortnite Live event dubbed a flop after hundreds demand a refund

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An event organiser claimed visitors had enjoyed themselves at the show and the main problem lay with staffing issues, which led to long queues forming at the start of the show.

Families who bought tickets to the two day event some as early as September with many bought as Christmas gifts queued for more than an hour to enter.

On top of the 13.95 ticket, visitors were required to purchase a Canada Goose Online 20 wristband to take part in the “specialist activities,” such as archery and canada goose black friday sale laser tag, with many having to wait again for another hour in long queues to participate.

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The empty fields as people struggle to justify the pricetag of the ‘Fortnite Live’ event held at the Norfolk Showground. Picture: Ella Wilkinson

Mothers and fathers waited for more than an hour in a long queue which spilled out of Canada Goose online the arena doors to get a refund.

Floods of comments appeared on the Fortnite Live Facebook page with customers airing their frustration and comparing the event to the 2017 Fyre Festival, in the Bahamas, in which thousands of festival goers who paid up to 75,000 for tickets slept in soaking wet tents and were fed soggy sandwiches.

Steve Patrick travelled from Terrington St Clement to attend Fortnite Live with cheap canada goose uk his wife and two children.

canada goose outlet store winnipeg “There was nothing there,” he said. “We were there for half an hour, the queue for a refund was massive.” canada goose outlet store winnipeg

cheap Canada Goose Sarah Chapman (middle) with her sons, Daniel (left) and David (right), are unhappy customers at the ‘Fortnite Live’ event held at the Norfolk Showground. Picture: Ella Wilkinson cheap Canada Goose

canada goose parka uk sale Speaking whilst waiting in the queue for a refund, Philip Hinchliffe, from Norwich, who brought his 11 year old son to the event, said: “He’s out in the field playing with sticks, he’s having more fun doing that than he did at this event.” canada goose parka uk sale

Lucy Walters, who was with her son Harvey, 11, said: cheap canada goose “It was pretty rubbish. We queued and queued and queued for nothing, we bought wristbands but there was nothing there.”

canada goose outlet toronto factory When asked what went wrong, events organiser Shaun Lord said: “We don’t know.” He said there had been staffing issues which https://www.fabulalitera.de resulted in long queues forming at the start of the event.”That was the biggest problem,” he said. “We had a bit of queuing at the beginning and that in turn got people in a different mood before they even got in. canada goose outlet toronto factory

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Nathan Patrick (back left) and Craig Parslow (back right) with their children (from left to right) Logan, Brayden and Harvey, are unhappy customers at the ‘Fortnite Live’ event held at the Norfolk Showground. Picture: Ella Wilkinson.