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Historical Queue Times

IanSR

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I often see posts on here asking how busy the park will be on a specific day, for the past year I've been collecting queue times data for all Merlin's major parks (Alton, Thorpe & Chessington), so if you want feel free use my site to view the historical data on a particular day to see what kind of queues there were this time last year.

Alton and Thorpe have data going back to 6th April 2017, and Chessington 8th April 2017.

To access the historical data go to a parks present queue time page, click/tap on a ride and this will take you to the history page where you can select a specific date for that ride.

This is a work in progress so please bear that in mind, but it works most of the time.

The site is here:
http://www.lynxdv.co.uk/queuetimes
 
It already does round up (or down, I can't remember lol, should be following normal rounding rules though) but it doesn't take account of time the ride spends closed.

Are you asking because the average is sometimes higher than the actual length? That's because the average is for the whole day up to that point, so if the queue has been long in the morning and short presently, the average will be higher.
 
It already does round up (or down, I can't remember lol, should be following normal rounding rules though) but it doesn't take account of time the ride spends closed.

Are you asking because the average is sometimes higher than the actual length? That's because the average is for the whole day up to that point, so if the queue has been long in the morning and short presently, the average will be higher.

No, I noticed that Smiler earlier said "2 minutes" and Wicker Man said "49 Minutes" rather than a rounded up number.
 
Yeah I get that but surely you would say the average queue time is 50 minutes rather than 49 as that isn't a realistic figure for the park? I would personally say it's currently at 35 minutes, but averages at 50 minutes. Just seems like more realistic data.
 
Yeah nearest 10 personally, so if the average it 14 it's 10, 16 it's 20.

Just my personal opinion though, if you prefer the exact average leave it as that.
Wouldn’t it be better to round to the nearest 5 like the queue times do??


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Not on an open forum you shouldn't ;)

I'll scratch my head and try to remember how averages work in php and alter it to rounding to the nearest 5 lol
 
Not on an open forum you shouldn't ;)

I'll scratch my head and try to remember how averages work in php and alter it to rounding to the nearest 5 lol
Good luck with that mate I need to learn php myself


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Well done Ian.
Good stuff, nice to be able to view how well we did ducking the queues over the day.
Can say from today's experiences on park that it is pretty accurate.
With our experience today, God help all of you that are going tomorrow!
Might be a little bit busy.
 
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