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Blackpool Pleasure Beach: 2025 Discussion

b2311e said:
Yesterday (Sunday) was one of the busiest non-school trip days in years. I would be surprised if the park wasn't at capacity. Absolutely heaving. They still had Nickland rides running after 18:30, presumably hadn't cleared the queues!
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The park heaving, is this because the park is genuinely full of punters ? Or does it also have to do with the current abysmal throughput on some of the rides . e.g dipper on one train. Nash on one set. Valhalla only opening for half a day with not many boats, the awful slow batching on launch pad, etc...
 
shakey said:
The park heaving, is this because the park is genuinely full of punters ? Or does it also have to do with the current abysmal throughput on some of the rides . e.g dipper on one train. Nash on one set. Valhalla only opening for half a day with not many boats, the awful slow batching on launch pad, etc...
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It was genuinely very busy, but the operations did no favours.
Big One's queue was around 1hr 45 - 2 hours, it was stretching back to the HB stall under Rev at one point. I was unable to distinguish where the dipper's queue actually was, because Infusion's queue spilled out past it. Valhalla's queue at park close was allegedly 3 hours. Throughput on that is diabolical, observe the queue and come back an hour later and the same people won't have moved much.

Icon has been getting a lot worse for throughput in recent weeks. It's not even speedy pass slowing it down, its like everyone is in slow motion. Seeing the second train coming in before the restraints are down is laughable. It makes no difference when it's on three trains, as it stacks so badly now.

I know I say it a lot, but for the most part, these rides have all previously been operated much more efficiently. It can be done, but nobody seems to want to do it? Go back 15, 20 years and the amount of people in the park would've been the same, but I bet you could get on double the amount of rides in a day.

Edit: Forgot to mention the Nash. Think this might be the slowest dispatched coaster anywhere. Everything about it is slow, the train's movement, the amount of the gates sit open, the amount of waiting time after the restraints are checked before dispatch, and the amount of time it sits empty on the offload before moving down. Cycle time must be getting on for 10 mins
 
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