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Single Rider Queues

Islander said:
Matt H said:
My view on single rider queue's has always been the same! Get rid of them! I find them pointless because ... why ride on your own when you have come to the park with people you want to spend time with!
...and if you're visiting on your own? Although clearly the majority of people visit in groups, not everyone does.

This; I've been on my own for a couple of afternoons this season and did the same last season and was able to make use of the single rider queues. They are also good for if one person in a group wants to go on a ride again in a relatively short space of time.

:)
 
Most of the time when I visit the Towers I go on my own, none of my family and most of my friends aren't into rides, I've been visiting the park since 2004 and I go at least 4 times a year, and there's only been 3 times in all that time someone has come with me, so where ever posible I use the SRQs, Oblivion is the best, the most I've had to wait was 10 minutes, and that was at Scarefest last year, Nemesis is second best, it used to be really good, but in the last couple of years I've noticed more groups of people using it rather than single riders, Thirteen's is pretty quick too, Rita's and Air's is the worse, but I don't ride either often so I don't mind, and Sonic Spinball is a bit hit and miss, but thats another ride I don't go on very often.
 
i worship nemesis' SRQ, if noone or not may people are in it, noone really knows its there... prefect, normally 5 mins wait max. Bus as soon as a small que gathers, people cotton on... :(
 
Nemesis is certainly the best as sometimes you can get straight off a train, run to single rider and get back on the train you just got off :p
 
Just ridden Oblivion via SRQ, the group in front of us were loaded into the same bay, as were we. Great for us, perhaps a little annoying for those in the half hour main queue.
 
Generaly i think the oblivion single riders queue is they best on park apart from spinball when it goes down to three per car when it's raining
 
Nothing beats Spinball SRQ during Wet Weather - it only dawned on me yesterday that I haven't used the main queue for that ride for at least a year; the second a cloud of bad weather passes over it, you can get onto that ride miraculously quickly! :p
 
I visited Alton Towers a week ago yesterday and I went on Rita with my Dad 3 times in 30 minutes using the single rider queue. The regular queue was about 1 hour. We went on two out of three rides on the same train too. I felt bad for the people we kept passing who were in the regular queue, but that's life! :p
 
BigAl said:
I visited Alton Towers a week ago yesterday and I went on Rita with my Dad 3 times in 30 minutes using the single rider queue. The regular queue was about 1 hour. We went on two out of three rides on the same train too. I felt bad for the people we kept passing who were in the regular queue, but that's life! :p

The classic SRQ and Fasttrack evils. At their worst on Air when you have to walk straight towards the usually long queue in the fasttrack line - and endure the stabbing eyes, almost accusing you of stealing their ride time ;D
 
On Sunday when we rode both Air and Rita the SRQs were significantly longer than the main queue. On Air the staff member at merge told the back 2/3 of the SRQ they'd be better off in main, which at the time had no extensions open and was only just beyond the entrance. Rita was also using no extensions but the SRQ well way beyond the bottom of the steps, it looked to be around 30-40 minutes when main queue was around 25. Rita's SRQ has been very long on several occasions this year that I've witnessed, it seems relocating the entrance has increased its use
 
John said:
Rita's SRQ has been very long on several occasions this year that I've witnessed, it seems relocating the entrance has increased its use

Hardly surprising, given it's now the one ride on park where guests walk past the single-rider entrance long before they get to the main entrance.
 
Awakening this topic from the dead! Whats the smiler SRQ like? (Scarefest preperations :))
Depends. If it's coming out the optical procedure room don't bother (unless the main queue is really long), but it's normally quite fast moving.

On the subject of scarefest SRQ, do they have a member of staff on oblivion at scarefest usually? I normally use the SRQ if the main queue is short and then jump back over into the main queue so I don't have to walk up the whole hill, but can't do it with staff there.
 
Depends. If it's coming out the optical procedure room don't bother (unless the main queue is really long), but it's normally quite fast moving.

On the subject of scarefest SRQ, do they have a member of staff on oblivion at scarefest usually? I normally use the SRQ if the main queue is short and then jump back over into the main queue so I don't have to walk up the whole hill, but can't do it with staff there.
I think we all do the "oblivion shortcut" there's not normally anybody at the entrance, just do it hehe.
 
Awakening this topic from the dead! Whats the smiler SRQ like? (Scarefest preperations :))
I've used the srq on The Smiler to the extent that this season was the first time I'd ever used the main queue! I'm a massive srq fan and I think they should be written into UK law.

If the srq is coming out of the projection room, it tends to be around 15 - 20 mins. I've only ever queued longer than this in the srq due to down time. Normally it's straight up to the stairs as soon as the attendant has noticed you in the darkness, but it's worth noting that I'm rarely in the park on weekends so Im rarely used to long waits for anything at Towers.
 
I've used the srq on The Smiler to the extent that this season was the first time I'd ever used the main queue! I'm a massive srq fan and I think they should be written into UK law.

If the srq is coming out of the projection room, it tends to be around 15 - 20 mins. I've only ever queued longer than this in the srq due to down time. Normally it's straight up to the stairs as soon as the attendant has noticed you in the darkness, but it's worth noting that I'm rarely in the park on weekends so Im rarely used to long waits for anything at Towers.

I've found this when I've visited at weekends. So I wouldn't worry about that!
 
Yesterday I joined the Smiler SRQ despite it was queuing outside the projector room. We were all soon let in and up the stairs. There were no people queuing up the stairs for the normal queue, but empty trains waiting to be loaded, so the ride op let all the single riders on to fill up the trains, so I only queued for no more than 5 minutes :)
 
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