Anyone been yet and is there new rides etc this year.
love the fair and will be taking my daughter this year for the sights and sounds.

Silently hoping my kids don't mention it and I don't have to go and waste money

how much is the average ride nowadays?

Took my daughter last night and got through over 50.00 in less the 2 hours - she enjoyed it so money well spent. Plenty of fuelled up idiots, though.

Oh, and after 15 years of trying I've finally accepted my dart skills will never win a prize.

We're doing the same today (coming over from the West Riding specially). 2 kids, so a big expense, but they absolutely love it. Food's better over the years as well, last year could get fajitas and a proper espresso.

Be pi$$ING down is it??

Phil 'The Power' Taylor would struggle with their darts, made of wood with a rubber point.

Fajitas and an expresso? It'll be prawn sandwiches next........ At Hull fair you should have a greasy bob carvers, can of pop and a dodgy toffee apple for afters.

I went to the fair last night, I remember it being magical as a kid, just found it dirty and full of drunken chavs. Is this a new thing or do you just not notice them when you're a kid.

I think it is something you do not tend to notice when you are a kid.

I took the daughter to the fair few weeks back & she was nagging for 1 of them story goes....
daughter..dad can i have 1 of them??
me...not a chance sorry (for obvious reasons)
bloke on the stall...why not its 1 of her 5 a day!! He was bloody serious anorl!!

i managed to win with them

The espresso was a bit disappointing TBH. Ended up having a hot dog which was not nice. But still, a chocolate fountain, proper skewer kebabs on a charcoal pit, plus Whitby scampi - that's progress surely?

lovely day today, will take the kids for a once and only walk round

I asked the wife if we could take them today and she said that it was mean...... I countered with a but it will save a bundle of cash argument.

I lost we go midweek

So what's the average price for the rides this year?

thank god my kids are grown up and can go on there own

i hate the place

£2 for the ones we went on. We always start on Sea Storm which was £2.50 each so that was a tenner down after 5 minutes.

There was one I'd not seen before for kids about 12 and under - giant inflatable beach ball type things you climb inside on a giant paddling pool. Youngest went on that and really liked it although it was £5.

Your life

I used to go on the rides but when you work in engineering and you look closely at the way those things are put up, and who they're put up by its scary

No, it isn't, these guys put the things up and take them down 20+ times a year, all are rigorously checked and have certificates awarded, can you say the same about a bicycle assembled by Halfords?

The Fair is many things, systematically unsafe it isn't.

I was at a tournament on the astroturf the week before the fair and we looked at a bloke climbing up the support strut of the big wheel; he got to the centre and it was only when he swung across that we could see he had no safety harness or rope attached at all; frightening.

i had a door swing open on one of the big ones a few years back, if i hadn't had hold of it, i'd be dead. there answer, well sort it and you can have a free ride!!! erm dont think so.

So your saying they get checked at every fair before being opened to the public? If thats the case than thats good, Things can easily be missed or lost when putting equipment up so quickly though so if they only have annual checks i'd still be dubious about riding them.
And a bike from halfords can always be checked before riding it, plus it does'nt spin you round 80 foot in the air at 60 m.p.h! unless your an extreme mountain biker of course!

Well if anyone of them are unsafe, i know a man who will gladly help you if you get hurt

If you want the night to end early go on the ride called supa spin ( i think ) my son and I went on it....when we got off he was green and had to be sick moments later and I, a veteran of all crazy rides, was definately under the weather, we did not eat before we went either.....needless to say my son was happy to go home and take a new xbox game as consolation

I'm considering reporting you to the NSPCC.