Mellors Group director James Mellors has spoken out about the company’s recent decision to reduce the operating hours of Fantasy Island, telling the Daily Express “we’ve got to reduce power.”

With energy bills for the Ingoldmells theme park now topping £1m, the company has decided to close its rides for two days a week during off-peak periods, with Mellors warning “I can only see it getting worse.

“I feel like we’re getting hit in more ways than one. We’re absolutely getting punched. Our electricity has gone up – it was £600,000 in 2022, we’re now over £1m – so we’re closing two days, we’ve got to reduce power.”

“We can’t run a theme park without power. It’s alright saying ‘go sustainable’, we could put as many wind turbines in as we want and it’s not going to give us the power we need each day. Fuel is obviously through the roof as well, so a lot of our customers are finding it more expensive to get out here to the coast. We just feel like we’re getting hit in every direction.”