John Wright Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 Drove along the prom. Pouring rain. Two open sided trams jam packed with passengers in plastic packamacksand clear plastic head scarves/rain hoods. One closed tram with one passenger. Went to Ramsey. Three full coaches from off Island. Fourth one on the prom in Peel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Banker Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 5 minutes ago, John Wright said: Drove along the prom. Pouring rain. Two open sided trams jam packed with passengers in plastic packamacksand clear plastic head scarves/rain hoods. One closed tram with one passenger. Went to Ramsey. Three full coaches from off Island. Fourth one on the prom in Peel. Saw that this morning as well, couldn’t believe it as weather was atrocious!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omobono Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 Money to spend on so called extension to season keep museums heated and open and the MER and trains running , but when it came to the Manx Grand Prix government claim to only have money for a nine day race festival where people actually spend significant amounts of money in the economy , I don't know who actually does the value for money exercise , but I know which one makes better business sense to me ,and its not trying to attract visitors here in November , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Omobono Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 22 minutes ago, John Wright said: Drove along the prom. Pouring rain. Two open sided trams jam packed with passengers in plastic packamacksand clear plastic head scarves/rain hoods. One closed tram with one passenger. Went to Ramsey. Three full coaches from off Island. Fourth one on the prom in Peel. John that will be why the DOI have decided to dig up west quay and the promenade in Peel, all part of extending the season and working in conjunction with tourism and the 54 parking and disabled spaces that are going to be lost in the scheme , I feel pity for anyone coming here on holiday and after being ripped off for £12 half the visuals and effects in the Mouse of Mananan don't ' function anymore , Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asthehills Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 1 minute ago, Omobono said: John that will be why the DOI have decided to dig up west quay and the promenade in Peel, all part of extending the season and working in conjunction with tourism and the 54 parking and disabled spaces that are going to be lost in the scheme , I feel pity for anyone coming here on holiday and after being ripped off for £12 half the visuals and effects in the Mouse of Mananan don't ' function anymore , The house of Manannan is actually a disgrace and has been since before COVID It should be closed or free until they update it so things work and aren’t from the mid 90s. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Harry Lamb Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 Bring back the June effort! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
0bserver Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 12 minutes ago, Asthehills said: The house of Manannan is actually a disgrace and has been since before COVID It should be closed or free until they update it so things work and aren’t from the mid 90s. Just flatten it and use the site for parking Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Asthehills Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 2 minutes ago, 0bserver said: Just flatten it and use the site for parking Nah. It’s a decent building but even when it was built there was very little to engage kids. Now, in 2022 when kids expectations have changed and their exhibits haven’t ever been updated and don’t work, it’s a missed opportunity Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger Mexico Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 1 hour ago, Asthehills said: Yes. Most staff at MNH sites. Most staff on the MER Most staff on the Choo Choos. I think they might even have guides who work the summer only, people to great the cruise ships etc. Keep an eye out around Feb/March time and they are all advertised as pro rata positions. Quite a few Steam Railway/MER/SMR jobs are seasonal - though you will need to apply by 20 November to get one of them. It's conductors and guards and firemen, so drivers, station staff, maintenance, engineers etc are probably all year round. So it won't be 'most of' but quite a few. But the extension in November is only two trains a day each way, Saturday and Sunday only, so I would imagine they will only be using year-round staff. MNH doesn't seem to use any 'seasonal' staff, though I think a lot of their site staff are effectively zero-hours, so they'll only normally be working March to November. But many of these seem to be older people, treating it as a part-time retirement job, so that probably suits them. They also move people between sites (again the November hours are quite restricted), so they may also be operating using permanent staff mostly. The guides who take the cruise ship tours are self-employed, contracted by the company that runs them and I think the meeters and greeters are volunteers. It's not really relevant to the November extension anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleepyJoe Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 1 hour ago, Omobono said: John that will be why the DOI have decided to dig up west quay and the promenade in Peel, all part of extending the season and working in conjunction with tourism and the 54 parking and disabled spaces that are going to be lost in the scheme , I feel pity for anyone coming here on holiday and after being ripped off for £12 half the visuals and effects in the Mouse of Mananan don't ' function anymore , I passed a fella this afternoon asking one of the infrastructure workers on Peel prom how long they were likely to be there, & he said they were doing their best to extend it to longer than the Douglas prom works 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SleepyJoe Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 3 hours ago, Max Power said: I visited Killarney a while back and talking to locals, their season drops off at the beginning of December and resumes in February. I didn't see a lot there different to what we have here, just that some of it is done a bit better and some nice hotels. Still they have a plan to extend their tourism season 1.4m million visitors a year! https://www.failteireland.ie/FailteIreland/media/WebsiteStructure/Documents/Wild Atlantic Way/Killarney_DEDP_Draft.pdf Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kopek Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 We could bandwagon on that, get people to come here and then send them on a trip to Cillairne? Double hit for the tax man! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nellie Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 I think don't think that anyone should be worrying about a few quid in extra wages for train drivers, guards, conductors etc, and MNH staff. And at least this money stays on the Island. The major costs of this exercise will be in the advertising and promotion where the DoI could easily spunk hundreds of thousands in the blink of an eye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Passing Time Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 Maybe that's why the Tynwald Globetrotters have gone to Bahrain. Advertise there to entice the Bahrainis over here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
finlo Posted October 5, 2022 Share Posted October 5, 2022 Coming to Lake road soon! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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