Poncho

[Donz1979]

We are visiting Aug (never been august before) and have read poncho is a must, where do people buy these, as seems lots variation in price, and how many will we need (2 aduls, 1 11 year old boy)

[gavinbrad]

They are about £3 each on eBay.

We've often been on August and don't do the ponchos. It's that warm you are dry in a matter of no time and less stuff to carry. It will generally rain at a specific time each day in the afternoon and the rain forecasting is very accurate. 🙂

[Bondy007]

I’m with gavinbrad on this. I just think ponchos are unnecessary! We won’t be buying any, will be wearing clothes that should dry fairly quickly. Will probably put flip flops or similar in our park bag and switch to them when rain is due. Shove trainers in the bag to keep them dry as they’ll take forever to dry!
Think we’ve bought them once previously, they just ended up in the bin fairly quickly!

[Pencilcase]

The trouble with ponchos and August is the heat! You just sweat like you’re in a sauna as soon as you put it on and then it starts sticking to your arms and legs and feels sooooooo uncomfortable. As the others said you can normally manage to dodge the showers and an umbrella is way better to get you from a to b if you need to go between buildings.

[aprilshack]

Have an umbrella and a bunch of disposable ponchos. That will do.

[Claudette]

I would absolutely never say a poncho is a must! They are hot and horrible. We shelter for a few minutes if there is a downpour and if we get wet we soon dry out. I don’t want to be wearing a sticky poncho or carrying one about.

[maddo11]

ponchos IMO are the biggest waste of time ever. you dry out so quick

what really gets to me are people who go onto a water ride and wear a poncho. that is something i will never ever understand

[sam7]

We bought disposible ones that came in a ball on a keyring, reused them a few times. It was certainly nicer to throw on a poncho when we had a downpour as we were heading to a restaurant, nothing worse that sitting in the freezing aircon soaking wet. We reused one poncho for the whole holiday.
Yes walking round the park we would shelter and wait if it was a 10 minute downpour, but we did have a few evenings when the rain lingered for a couple of hours.

[Scotsmomma2]

Originally Posted by Bondy007

I’m with gavinbrad on this. I just think ponchos are unnecessary! We won’t be buying any, will be wearing clothes that should dry fairly quickly. Will probably put flip flops or similar in our park bag and switch to them when rain is due. Shove trainers in the bag to keep them dry as they’ll take forever to dry!
Think we’ve bought them once previously, they just ended up in the bin fairly quickly!

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Beware of flip flops in the rain,some people are like Bambi on ice😳 and go down like a ton of bricks wearing flip flops during a Monsoon,luckily only bruised and no broken hip😁

[Mr Tom Morrow]

Get the Disney ones. They will change them free of charge if they get damaged.

We still have ours from the 1990’s!