Carlos Marina (Aspro Managing Director) "...state of the art attractions will play an essential role."
Carlos Marina in the latest issue of 'Attractions Management' magazine has been interviewed on the recent rapid growth of Aspro Ocio over
the last few years. In the interview Oakwood is put at the fore-front of Aspro Ocio's recent developments and reveals that they've "embarked
on a new phase of the park's future where reinforced security and state of the art attractions will play an essential role." 04/07/2008
2009 Section Of Site Now Live (Sort Of)
I've now launched the 2009 section of the site, more details are available there. 01/07/2008
Introduction Of 'Special-Offer' Schemes
Aspro Ocio has initiated the first of many special-offer schemes to Oakwood Theme Park. It is now possible to gain entry into Oakwood
through the use of Tesco Clubcard vouchers, and from the of 1st July production of an easyjet boarding pass will result in a £1 discount on
the
cost of entry into the park for adults and juniors. Both these discounts cannot be applied to Family/Group discounts. 30/06/2008
Aspro Ocio Makes Next Change - New Opening Times
The new owner's of Oakwood Theme Park have made their next change to the business. This year's opening times have been altered
and now involves the park opening until early November, but also restricting opening days to weekends during parts of September and
October, full details of the new changes are available here. 21/06/2008
Oakwood To Stop Offering Late Entry Discount & More During August
Oakwood from this August will not be offering visitors to the park a discounted entry rate after 5:30pm. From here forward After Dark is no
more, but the park will still be open until 10pm in the evening throughout August. Fireworks will still be on offer at the end of the night
with outdoor entertainment, but there will be no water fountains or indoor show from here forward. It's still unclear whether this was a direct
action from Aspro Ocio, the new owners of the park. 06/06/2008
Oakwood To Close Early For McFly Concert
Just a quick note to inform anyone planning to visit the park on the 19th July. The park will decrease it's opening hours on this day from 10am
untill 4pm in order to prepare for the park to reopen an hour later for the McFly Concert. 05/06/2008
Oakwood & Bluestone Agree First Joined Deal
Bluestone has reached a deal with Oakwood to provide all of it's visitors to the Holiday Village in July & August a free day's entry into the park.
Details of the deal have not been disclosed, but it is hoped that this will become the first of many deals between the 2 companies, seeing as
they are based right next to eachother. It must be pointed out though that the detal does not allow entry into the park for the McFly concert
on the 19th of July. Perhaps one day Oakwood could become apart of the Bluestone Resort - who knows!? 03/06/2008
Architects Spotted At Oakwood
This week we've been informed that architects have been on site at Oakwood carrying out analysis at a number of different areas within the
park. Could these visitors be linked to the recent aqusition of Oakwood by Aspro Ocio? I'm sure we'll find out soon enough. 06/04/2008
Coaster Force
One of the most prolific online coaster communities paid a visit to Oakwood on March 29th, the event namely 'Oakie Koakie' included one
hour of ERT (exclusive ride time) in which all 51 attendes had exclusive use of Megafobia from 9am - 10am, a full hour before the park
opened. Aside from the poor weather, the club enjoyed themselves at the park, especially The Waterfall water ride, also known as the 'Death
Slide' when in reference to Coaster Force. Coaster Force will likely continue to visit Oakwood for yeras to come. 30/03/2008
Oakwood's Future - Something's Coming in 2009
Before we updated the site to it's new design, we introduced an initial home page which was displayed upon root entry to the site. Simply
titled 'Something's Coming'. At the time of adding this to the site, it was firmly anticipated that Oakwood would be sold, but to whom was
still a mystery. You may notice a menu item above to a '2009' area of the site which is yet to go live, this area will follow Aspro's plans for
next season and any new attractions they hope to install. 29/03/2008
Site Update
You may notice a new style and design to the site. I apoligise for the lack in updates to the site over the last 18 months, but i hope to improve
on that and provide regular news updates to the site. Currently only a small area of the site has the updated design, i hope to roll out these
changed as quickly as possible to provide you with the best viewing experience possible. 27/03/2008
Paddy McNamara to stay on as Advisor
Merely days after the takeover of Oakwood by Aspro Ocio for an undisclosed sum, i've been informed that Paddy will remain on as an
employee of the park and act as an advisor to the new owners for the foreseeable future. 12/03/2008
Oakwood Leisure Ltd. sold to Aspro Ocio - European Leisure leaders
One of the largest leisure companies in Europe Aspro Ocio, has finalised an agreement with Paddy McNamara for the purchase of Oakwood
Leisure Ltd. Back in December of 2007, it was revealed that an offer had been made to take over the park, and since then numerous
companies have expressed a similar interest in the park and made subsequent bids. Spanish based Aspro Ocio is probably most famous for
it's Aqualand franchise of water parks based across Europe, and currently has 2 UK based attractions, Oakwood will be their first attraction
in Wales and their biggest attraction yet. It is anticipated that they will seek to improve on the current standard and state of the park and
perhaps introduce new attractions in the future to attract more visitors to the park each year. 11/03/2008
McFly to perform at Oakwood
Two local entreperneurs under the name of Mint Gigs have once again successfully managed to sign up a top band to play at Oakwood this
summer. Last year it was Girls Aloud and this year McFly will play at Oakwood on July 19th. Tickets are available here. 10/03/2008
Several Companies interested in aqusition of Oakwood
Sources close to the park have informed me that there are now several companies interested in taking over Oakwood, and several of these
have had tours around the park with management. 02/02/2008
Oakwood receives takeover bid
Oakwood have just revealed that they have received a takeover bid for the park, the company/individual behind the bid has not been
revealed. 21/11/2007 |
