Winchester's Great Hall has offered refunds after families were disappointed by a 'fake' and 'cheap' Father Christmas at Santa's Grotto.
Who would win in a battle of the Santas? It seems not the 2024 version , who fell short of last year’s original Children were left in tears by a ‘blatantly fake’ Santa Claus accused of ‘ruining the magic of Christmas ’ at a popular festive event. Tickets cost nearly £70 for a family of five to see Santa read The Night Before Christmas at Winchester ’s long-running Santa’s Grotto Experience.
‘You could see that in our kid’s faces. This wasn’t there with the new Santa. He wasn’t as jovial and he wasn’t very talkative either.’ Lisa Catherine, who took her newborn granddaughter, was similarly disappointed by the ‘very haphazard reading’ beneath a tree decorated with ‘a smattering of baubles’.
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