Candice Prosser
Candice Prosser is a reporter with more than a decade of experience with ABC News in South Australia and is a senior court reporter in the Adelaide office. She sometimes presents radio news bulletins and has also worked in the Brisbane newsroom.
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An Australianshopping centre’s “Winter Village” is causing controversy after the event didn’t live up to the standards promised.
Angry parents lambasted the event, which was held at the Colonnades Shopping Centre in Adelaide and promised Christmas-themed games and activities, as well as the chance to meet Santa in an “enchanted forest”.
In reality, attendees were met with a dour warehouse with minimal decorations. The result was severely underwhelming.
To top it all off, tickets cost $27 per person, while a family deal was $92.
Photos from the ill-fated Winter Village also went viral in a tweet shared by Tom Tanuki. “It looks like the Fyre Festival of kid’s Santa events,” he wrote.
A Santa s Village attraction at a shopping centre has been shut down after furious families demanded refunds due to the dismal state of the Christmas installation.
Families vented outrage after forking out $132 for a group ticket, or $38.50 for individuals, to the Santa s Village at Colonnades Shopping Centre in southern Adelaide.
The fallout was so extreme that the landlord for Colonnades owner Vicinity Centres ordered the venue be shut down on Thursday and refunds issued to attendees.
Organisers promoted the event as a truly unique white Christmas to remember featuring a train ride, ice skating and photos with Santa.
Instead those who bought tickets were met with a sparse array of amateurish installations scattered around the concrete floor of a vast warehouse, such as a maze made of crowd barriers covered in tinsel, and a polar train which was made of flimsy carriages pulled by a mobility scooter.
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