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PortAventura: General Discussion

I usually find the people in the queues (queue jumping galore) and the cattle pens make PA queues unbearable, during the day the high heat doesn't make this any more enjoyable either.

Express can easily be bought on the day if queues are ever that bothersome. Personally I've never found queue lengths that bad over 10 years of visiting. I've always visited with multi-day tickets and have always fitted in all rides/many shows without needing to purchase Express.

I've just got back from Salou and visited the park for 4 days/1 night. The park was very busy on our visits, lots of school trips and lots of tourists on holidays. Despite this queues were very decent and advertised queue times have been higher than the actual queue lengths which has been a nice surprise on our visits. Dispatches on the coasters this year seem to be an improvement on previous years (still slow compared to other parks, but an improvement for PA). Shows were great as usual, PA have always been spot on with entertainments.

Ferrari Land looks good and well themed. Personally I'm not excited by the park and still don't see the point of it being treated as a second theme park, it's more of a park aimed at the Europeans that love brands, not for me. At only 15€ for a ticket though, it's not expensive for what it is and worth a visit if you're in PA.

I hope that PortAventura's next big investment will be a dark ride, it's what they are missing right now in the ride line up.
 
I thought PortAventura was in Tarragona, not Catalonia? I’m not that good with Spanish geography.
 
Sorry to go back to something that was discussed a long time ago in this topic, but why is graffiti such a problem in PortAventura of all places? Because I’ve never heard about graffiti in Europa or Phantasialand, and I haven’t even ever seen any in Towers. There certainly wasn’t any in the Orlando parks when I went either.
 
Matt N said:
Sorry to go back to something that was discussed a long time ago in this topic, but why is graffiti such a problem in PortAventura of all places? Because I’ve never heard about graffiti in Europa or Phantasialand, and I haven’t even ever seen any in Towers. There certainly wasn’t any in the Orlando parks when I went either.
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Just something negative in Spanish teenage and youth culture, I'm afraid. As annoying as the volume of grafitti at PA is, the consistency of it is impressive, at least. There's some fella called 'Bit.Bot' who has tagged everything.
 
I find French parks can also be bad for tagging. Wallygator was terrible when I went. Seen quite a bit on Joris at Efteling as well. Woodies especially seem to attract morons.
Thinking about it, I'm pretty sure I've seen a few tags on Wodan at EP towards the end of the season. At least it does get cleaned off there.
 
DiogoJ42 said:
I wonder if all the current chaos in Catalonia is affecting the park?
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I've spent yesterday & today at the park, and it has been absolutely lovely, queues were no longer than about 5-10 minutes, if the park was affected then it definitely wasn't noticeable. It seems like Barcelona is where most of the chaos has been & that Salou & the surrounding area has managed to avoid it.
 
Just as bad here really with the X "hearts" X 4EVA or X and X were here 2017 engraved in the wooden queue lines.

Won't go into the stuff that's written in the toilets...
 
PortAventura are reporting a 19% attendance increase in 2017, largely down to the opening of Ferarri World. 2017 saw 4.7 million visitors, up from around 3.9 million in 2016. They are targetting 5 million visitors in 2018.

I am unsure as to how PA calculate this. If someone visits the main park and Ferarri World in the same day, do they count as one visitor or two visitors? If it is the latter then it could be seen that only 19% of guests to PortAventura also visit Ferarri World.

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Attendance is usually the number of tickets scanned at an entrance gate, so I would think that Ferrari will be in addition to the attendance at the main park.
 
Rob said:
PortAventura are reporting a 19% attendance increase in 2017, largely down to the opening of Ferarri World. 2017 saw 4.7 million visitors, up from around 3.9 million in 2016. They are targetting 5 million visitors in 2018.

I am unsure as to how PA calculate this. If someone visits the main park and Ferarri World in the same day, do they count as one visitor or two visitors? If it is the latter then it could be seen that only 19% of guests to PortAventura also visit Ferarri World.

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Is this combined visitors to all 3 parks, or is it just for PortAventura Park? Because according to 2016's TEA report, PortAventura Park alone got around 3.6-3.7 million visitors, for lack of an exact number.
 
Yes you got people like me going in 2017 but the figure will fall this year. Kids rides won't bring in the numbers for Ferrari land while poor treatment of guests won't do them any favours.
 
For the first time since 2012 I won't be going - nothing to draw me back this year and I'm broadening my horizons to the East Coast of the good old U-S of A. I will miss it though seeing as it was my missus' first holiday together in 2009.

They really need to expand Ferrari Land more though...

*Correction :p
 
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