100s left stranded at theme park after free admission promotion

100s left stranded at theme park after free admission promotion

2025-04-04

An offer for free admission to a theme park has proven to be too popular for its own good. The Leofoo Village Theme Park has a promotional event giving free tickets to anyone under 18 this long weekend, which resulted in the park getting packed with teens. But once it closed, hundreds of people were left scrambling for a spot on a bus back to the city, and many of them didn’t make it onboard. Let’s hear more.

Voice of Mr. Kao
Taxi driver
At about 7, I was taking passengers from the park back to the hotel, but on the way there were lots of people on the side of the road. There were maybe hundreds of people standing around at different spots. On the taxi service platform, we kept getting requests from Leofoo Village Theme Park. People were calling over and over again, because there weren’t enough drivers to take them.

Yeh Chung-yueh
Leofoo Village Theme Park
We have spoken with bus companies, taxi companies and our own shuttle busses. In principle, they will all offer more services than yesterday at closing time. We may also start announcing the closure and to get people out earlier so that not everyone leaves the park at the same time.

Footage of the commotion shows a huge crowd of people trying to board a bus, which only opened its front door to prevent a crowd crush. People push and pull and screams can be heard as everyone tries to get on. Some people reportedly waited for two hours and ultimately decided to walk back home. Leofoo Village Theme Park says transport operators have added extra services, and the park has extended its opening time by one hour. Whether the next few days will be less chaotic remains to be seen.

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六福村18歲以下免費入園"人潮爆量" 數百人回不了家

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知名樂園六福村，因應連假，一連四天推出18歲以下免費入園活動，吸引爆量人潮，最多的就是國高中生，不過閉園後卻出現疏散危機，數百人因為擠不上回家公車，一度在園區周邊遊蕩。

[[聲源:計程車司機高先生]]
“七點的時候，載客人到園區的飯店住宿，但是沿路就有很多人，可能總共幾百人站在園區各處，我們計程車的平臺，也一直報六福村有人叫車，有人叫車，但是很多case重複叫了很多次，都沒有司機接單”

[[六福村總經理葉忠岳]]
“(已經聯繫)客運業者，那另外的話是計程車業者，以及我們自己的接駁的部分，原則上都會比昨天(3)，再有更多的班次來做一個疏散的動作，那也可能會再提早做一些，開始就開始做宣導跟疏散，那避免大家都集中在同一個時間點來出園”

公車只敢開前門，讓旅客接續上車，就怕發生踩踏事件，不過大家都好想趕快回家，現場推擠，尖叫聲此起彼落，有人甚至等兩小時都沒車可搭，只好放棄，走下山。六福村澄清，客運及接駁車都有配合活動加開班次，樂園甚至延後一小時閉園，活動還有三天，園方會更嚴陣以待。

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