Actually it isn't a rip off. They extended the validity of the original day ticket. Plus there is a big shopping outlet mall next to the dockyard to entertain the female component of the family.
Colin
sorry, Colin, and I knew you would get back on this one , but it is!, and IMHO you are both biased and wrong on this one but sadly only to be expected.
It is a national treasure and should be available to all, no matter what their financial position and status is,.......... it should be available to all and not just those visitors from abroad and the home counties which, as we are told regularly in the media, are the wealthier echelon's of society, and because of this the museum feel that they can charge the earth to gain entry..................so what if you can use it all year round for one purchase price..... I'll bet that there is a low percentage of ticket holders that use their tickets on a multi entry basis .
Uz folk fr'm up't north on oor annuuuual weeks holiday can only go'tat one place a year..........and once yer weeks up, it's up.... and back tut grind stone in't mill........and so the rest of the 51 weeks on the ticket is totally wasted.
it's a fact that the majority of populous don't live within "poppin' in distance from the museum, and the way the cost of fuel, train and other transport costs are going, the museum is relying on the old adage "you've come this far......you pay the over inflated price for the day."
If my family were interested, which they are not......it would cost us nearly a hundred quid to get entry for a
day year without all the other added on extras that usually come with museum visits and I could buy a whole lot of other things for our family holiday on that entry alone.
If the Liverpool Maritime museum and Tate Modern can give free entry.....then Chatham can lower their price to an acceptable
daily charge.
When you live on a small income from pensions,( under 15 K a year) you have to watch yer dosh..........and entry to the Chatham museum is beyond my income, as it is to many, might I say, if they were honest.
As for shopping malls refer to last para. My kids as many in this country these days have had to learn to buy their cloths and such from Peacocks, Primart and Charity shops...........NOT Este Lauda, Next, Harvey Nichols and other top Mall shops that you find in "shopping Malls" and I would hazard a guess that I speak for a lot of other people on here as well.
Hope this isn't too flippant for you as an answer.
Neil