Rhonda Elliott, who attended the event with her husband William and four-year-old daughter Katie, described the experience as 'horrendous'.'We ended up having to stand in a huge line full of prams with kids getting upset and an elf trying to push us further along even though there was nowhere to go - it was terrible,' she told the Belfast Telegraph. She also derided Santa's beard as 'shockingly bad'.'His beard didn't have a hole in it for his mouth so he had to pull it down to speak,' she said.'Horrified kids were shouting: 'He isn't real! The organisers of the event admitted to falling short of expectations, and pictures and video on social media show the poor attempts of decorating to give the site a festive feel. Children were horrified to see Santa pulling down his beard and shouts of 'he's not real' were heard. This is me, aged eight, at St Malachy's Primary School in Armagh City. I'm standing by the blackboard wearing appalling shorts and knee socks, sporting a bad haircut and looking very cheesy. For a few years we were in York, where my mother comes from. Some children were left in tears after a Christmas event in Northern Ireland, where the ice rink stank of chlorine and Santa had to pull down his ill-fitting beard down to speak.
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