The most poorly organised event I've ever been to.

Once we hit Southport we queued for over an hour to get on to a car park. No staff in sight to advise how long it was taking/cost/if there were actually any spaces left. Once we reached the carpark we were met by a sign advising us to "have payment ready" it's a shame the people taking the payment weren't ready for the 21st century. Not knowing how to operate a card machine holding it long enough to accept payment from the card! 2 people were taking payment, no wonder the queue took so long. What an absolute joke. Why not offer a parking pass when purchasing tickets online. Saving time (& money btw on staff that are not needed and don't know how to do the job!)

We finally park up and head down to show our tickets, which then couldn't be scanned as the scanner was having trouble reading the barcode due to the glare on the screen! 🙄 The guy gave up in the end and let us through anyway.

Having been in the car so long we now need the toilet but good luck finding anything as there are no signs, staff or anything and just a prominade so full of people that you can barely move. So of course we have to walk up and down until we eventually find 2 blocks of 2/3 toilets per sex (good luck if you want to change your baby! They hadn't thought about that!)

We then go to get food and drink. Pay £6 for a pint warmer than a Luke warm bath and give up on food as did a lot of other people after been stood there for a good 45 minutes

We then decide to head down onto the beach. Which was a problem as the only way to get the pram down was lift it over a high wall or carry it up and down steps. So they haven't bothered to think about disabled or Pram access (which I'm pretty sure is a legal h&s requirement)

Once on the beach where our 15month old could play we then stood in another queue for 2 hours to get some food before deciding to leave early so we weren't stuck in yet another queue.

We appreciate these events come with queues but having been to Glastonbury festival 2 weeks ago getting on and off the carpark in less than 20 minutes and not queuing longer than 5 for food or 10 for beer this is absolutely ridiculous. I can not comprehend why this was so poorly organised. I've genuinely never seen anything like it

The actual airshow and planes were fantastic it's just shame that whoever arranges or plans this has absolutely zero event planning experience. I genuinely think a class of primary school children would have done a better job.