Director/PDMR Shareholding

Notification of Transactions of PDMRs

Merlin Entertainments plc

(the "Company")

Grant of Options to PDMRs under the Company's

All Employee Share Plan ("Sharesave Plan")

In accordance with the requirements of DTR 3.1.4, the Company announces that each of the following persons, each being a Person Discharging Managerial Responsibility (a "PDMR"), has on 17 March 2015 been granted options ("Options") to purchase Ordinary Shares of £0.01 each in the capital of the Company ("Shares") pursuant to the Company's Sharesave Plan at an exercise price per Share of £3.2371.

The awards in favour of each of the PDMRs set out below are all made under the UK section of Merlin's Global All Employee Share Plan, which is HMRC approved and is available to all Merlin's UK employees, subject to qualifying conditions.

The Options are, in normal circumstances, not exercisable until the completion of a 3 year savings period, which will end on 1 April 2018 and will then be exercisable for a period of 6 months. The exercise period will, therefore, in normal circumstances, be from 1 April 2018 until 30 September 2018.

The Company was notified of the grant of the Options on 17 March 2015.

Following the awards, the numbers of Shares, Conditional Allocations of Shares and Options over Shares in respect of which the above PDMRs are interested as at 18 March 2015 are:

For further information please contact:

Colin Armstrong

Group Legal Director and Company Secretary

Merlin Entertainments plc

00 44 1202 634 955

18 March 2015