Usually when you get stories like this it’s about some terrible Winter Wonderland hosted on a disused industrial estate that involved a drunk Santa or stoned elves, so it’s nice to see this tale of a ‘shambolic’ Willy Wonka-inspired experience in Glasgow occur outside the festive season.

Here’s the Willy’s Chocolate Experience that was advertised with AI images on their website to sell £35 tickets:

And here’s what the families and their kids got when they turned up to the Box Hub venue in Glasgow – so bad that they literally called the police:

They even printed some AI art on sheets and hung those up, perfect for Instagramming:

If you go to their website right now, you will see an AI catastrophe of a flyer for the Willy’s Chocolate Experience that makes no sense whatsoever. Not to victim blame or anything, but how the hell does anyone pay £35 for something that has a website looking like this:

One disappointed parent, Eva Stewart, told the BBC: “It was basically advertised as this big massive Willy Wonka experience with optical illusions and big chocolate fountains and sweets. But when we got there, it was practically an abandoned, empty warehouse, with hardly anything in it.”

In the end, after police were called and a bunch of complaints were raised, organisers for Willy’s Chocolate Experience pulled the plug halfway through the event’s first day on Saturday, while promising full refunds. So at least they did the right thing in the end. Still, you’d be raging if you were one of the parents who spent that money in the first place and turned up with your kids to be met with that sight. Hopefully they’ll be able to look back at the whole experience one day and laugh. Sweet memories!

For the Mykonos beach bar caught charging English-speaking tourists thousands of euros for oysters and beer, click HERE.