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2018: Park Operations & Ride Availability

Rapids has stopped with boats stacked at bottom of lift hill. Staff take 10 mins to come down with no announcement either, then when they do make their way down don’t explain what’s happened.

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Really poor to see what appears to be deliberate queue building on both Rita & Thi3teen this morning. holding full trains for a few mins and empty trains going round on both.

If this is indeed deliberate and done to push fastrack it's absolutely disgusting and should not be tolerated by guests. Merlin needs hammered if this is what they're doing. They'd just pull the safety card if questioned about it though.
 
Operations weren’t great today. Queue times were very off all day. Galactica up to its usual tricks of sending round empty rows even though non vr was clearly walk on but we were being held before the old photo point. RMT the queue was going outside the queue line yet the op was letting a number of trains go around 3 times. Wickerman at the end of the day was hilarious they put way too many in the pre show so whilst the next one was going in the door was still open and once we got into the station there were 6 people in each air gate. The positive of this morning was wm opening on time and the smiler staff were letting you self batch!
 
Operations weren’t great today. Queue times were very off all day. Galactica up to its usual tricks of sending round empty rows even though non vr was clearly walk on but we were being held before the old photo point. RMT the queue was going outside the queue line yet the op was letting a number of trains go around 3 times. Wickerman at the end of the day was hilarious they put way too many in the pre show so whilst the next one was going in the door was still open and once we got into the station there were 6 people in each air gate. The positive of this morning was wm opening on time and the smiler staff were letting you self batch!
Ironically Thorpe Park, notorious for horrid operations, was pretty good ops all day.

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Interesting summary from RideRater on Merlin and Varney's take on Brexit and the economy. And what do you know, on this issue, I actually find myself agreeing with Nick Varney! Dear god! Not only that, a few regrets about Merlin going public unsurfacing... I always remember a while back being confused thinking of tourism as an export, before obviously understanding balance of payments. Interesting read no matter what our views on the industry are.
http://riderater.co.uk/7077/nick-varney-brexit-is-good-for-merlin-entertainments/

Interview as referenced, which goes in to all sorts:
https://blooloop.com/features/nick-varney-merlin-entertainments-ceo/
 
When did towers start using "come back later"?

Battle Galleons 0 mins
Charlie and Lola's Moonsquirters & Greendrops 0 mins
Cuckoo Cars Driving School 0 mins
Duel - The Haunted House Strikes Back 0 mins
Frog Hopper 0 mins
Gallopers Carousel 0 mins
Justin's House Pie-O-Matic Factory 0 mins
Marauder's Mayhem 0 mins
Mr. Bloom's Allotment 0 mins
The Blade 0 mins
The Furchester Hotel Live Show 0 mins
The Numtums Number-Go-Round 0 mins
Heave Ho 5 mins
Congo River Rapids 15 mins
Go Jetters Vroomster Zoom Ride 15 mins
Postman Pat Parcel Post 25 mins
In The Night Garden Magical Boat Ride 40 mins
Runaway Mine Train 40 mins
Get Set Go Tree Top Adventure 45 mins
Octonauts Rollercoaster Adventure 60 mins
Hex - The Legend of the Towers Come back later

Also, is the park very quiet today? :confused:

Enterprise 0 mins
Nemesis 0 mins
Oblivion 5 mins
TH13TEEN 5 mins
Galactica 10 mins
Rita 25 mins
The Smiler 25 mins
Spinball Whizzer 40 mins
Wicker Man 50 mins
 
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