The Legoland Windsor attraction has closed abruptly due to a burst water main.<\/p>\n
Customers were told to leave rides and exit the resort at lunchtime on Sunday.<\/p>\n
Thames Water said it had to shut off the damaged main near St Leonards Reservoir to prevent flooding, which affected supplies to the theme park.<\/p>\n
It said some local residents had reportedly suffered flooded gardens and it apologised for the disruption.<\/p>\n
Merlin Entertainments, the operator behind Legoland, said it is continuing to work with local partners and thanked guests for their “patience and understanding”.<\/p>\n
One Legoland visitor, who came with her children from Cornwall, said the sudden evacuation felt “surreal”.<\/p>\n
The woman, who asked not to be named, said: “We were queuing for a ride and had got right to the front when, all of a sudden, everything stopped moving. <\/p>\n
“Then they came out and said, ‘Right, come on, everybody off.’ <\/p>\n
“Over the announcement system, they said there had been some sort of Thames Water disruption in the local area and they didn’t have any water.<\/p>\n
“We’d booked a night in the hotel and stayed there last night, so we’re absolutely gutted because we’ve just had to drive home.<\/p>\n
“It’s a good five-hour drive to come up for a nice day, only to come back after half a day.”<\/p>\n
Thames Water said supplies had been restored and repairs were under way. It said it would provide an update on Monday.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for Merlin Entertainments said the resort was closed while Thames Water worked to restore normal service.<\/p>\n
“We apologise for the inconvenience and thank our guests for their patience and understanding,” the group said.<\/p>\n
The BBC understands the resort will reopen on Monday under normal operating hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Legoland Windsor attraction has closed abruptly due to a burst water main. Customers were told to leave…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":799908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84,59,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-799907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/799908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}