What a huge failure!! (The O2 (formerly the Millennium Dome))

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Product:	The O2 (formerly the Millennium Dome)
Date:	22/09/01 (784 review reads)
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Advantages: facilities are good

Disadvantages: Content is dull

The Millennium Dome was, according to the Government, going to be the centre of the World's millennium celebrations. Now all the god awful and overstated year 2000 celebrations are over we can maybe look at the Dome in the cold light of day.

I'll be nice and start with the good points. Travel to the Dome is a breaze, though I can see how some people would be shocked and annoyed that they can't drive there. In the Dome itself facilities like bathrooms and lifts are all execeptional too. This building could potentially hold something very interesting and fun - pity they decided to fill it with some of the most boring attractions known to man.

Now I've done all the Disney parks, Universal Studios, Paramount's theme park, Alton Towers and numerious other family attractions - I consider myself a bit of an expert in that field! The Dome doesn't come close, it shouldn't even be mentioned in the smae breath. It really does look like the attractions were built for one year's use. Epcot Centre (probably the closest thing in terms of subject matter to the Dome I've every visited)has a sheen about it because its attractions will probably be there for 25 years or more and took maybe 5 years of planning. The Dome's attractions were planned in a few months. They are not informative enough to be museum-like and not fun enough to be like stuff in a theme park. They just fall somewhere in the boring what-am-I-looking-at middle.

Dome staff (and by that I mean not the people who were working in, for example, the outlet of McDonalds or Yo! Sushi there) were rude and unhelpfull too. I don't know if it was just my bad luck, but each one seemed to be worse than the last.

Please, I beg you, spend you hard earned cash elsewhere. London has plenty of far superior arrtactions fighting for your time and the Dome was definently my least favourite of a very long list of places I visited in the Capital. If you must
experience a Millennium project go for the London Eye - it is a very enjoyable half hour.

The Millennium Dome as an attraction has no redeeming features. As a building it is up there with the best in terms of access and general facilities like lifts and bathrooms. Pity there is nothing vaguly interesting to fill it.

Now its Gone.

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