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[🌎 Universal GB] Planning, Transport and Infrastructure

There will eventually be a large amount of people staying on site so as more hotels are built the late night offerings begin to make more sense. The site also has the advantage of being well served by road and rail, something neither Thorpe or Alton Towers have. Part of the reason late opens struggle at Towers is it's location, it's a mission to get to unless you are really local.

The late night openings at Universal may start as a limited offering but is definitely something they can expand as the site grows. They will also have the advantage of a City Walk that have food and drink to keep people on site later on into the evening.
 
Quantum said:
There will eventually be a large amount of people staying on site so as more hotels are built the late night offerings begin to make more sense. The site also has the advantage of being well served by road and rail, something neither Thorpe or Alton Towers have. Part of the reason late opens struggle at Towers is it's location, it's a mission to get to unless you are really local.

The late night openings at Universal may start as a limited offering but is definitely something they can expand as the site grows. They will also have the advantage of a City Walk that have food and drink to keep people on site later on into the evening.
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Another good thing Universal will have great roads with Black Cat Roundabout being overhauled and other junctions being overhauled it should be better journey.
 
I’ve never done a HHN in America, I’m not sure I’d fancy a full (let’s say 8 hour 10-6) theme park day, leave to city walk for food, back on park 8pm to 1am. 13 hours in october in the uk is definitely not the attraction 13 hours in Florida or California. I’ve randomly thrown these timings together but my point remains.
 
Ben said:
I’ve never done a HHN in America, I’m not sure I’d fancy a full (let’s say 8 hour 10-6) theme park day, leave to city walk for food, back on park 8pm to 1am. 13 hours in october in the uk is definitely not the attraction 13 hours in Florida or California. I’ve randomly thrown these timings together but my point remains.
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A lot of people don’t do a full park day and the HHN, they arrive just off the separate ticket evening event. Also if you do have a day ticket then better to stay in the park for the transition into HHN and then you are closer to queue lines when they open.
 
John said:
This feels very off topic but as of right now we're importing nearly 20% of our total usage, that's not insignificant. Source: https://grid.iamkate.com/

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I would not read too much into that, France has alot of nuclear and needs to get rid of it. We buy it when they have excess or are even paid to take it on. I live in an area where the cables come into the country and about 3-5x a week I'm given power for free or paid to take it. Just look into octopus power ups if you don't believe me. I'm also on agile and on a day like today I'm paid to use the excess power... Making my bill about 33% cheaper than the standard fixed tariff.
 
Ben said:
I’ve never done a HHN in America, I’m not sure I’d fancy a full (let’s say 8 hour 10-6) theme park day, leave to city walk for food, back on park 8pm to 1am. 13 hours in october in the uk is definitely not the attraction 13 hours in Florida or California. I’ve randomly thrown these timings together but my point remains.
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That’s true, also we have the benefit (that Florida doesn’t) of the sun setting at 4:30 ish so we get a few hours of extra darkness earlier anyway
 
What I find interesting is that they’ve also listed Diwali and Chinese New Year in the last opening hours in addition to Fan Fest and Halloween Horror Nights. That shows that across the board there’s so much diversity in terms of audience for late night openings.

I think one of the reasons Merlin’s late opening event dissipated was because Mardi Gras, Oktoberfest and the summer events were just attracting the same crowds. Whereas this offers something for UK residents and international travellers that wouldn’t visit for rides alone. Truly a theme park that offers something for everyone and harkens back to the roots of a public park. I’m just as excited for the shows, events and atmosphere as I am for the rides themselves!
 
Quantum said:
There will be far more to keep people on site later into the evening be it dinning, shows, special events etc. if your local City Walk is going to be great
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We don’t know what CityWalk is going to offer yet. It might not be designed to attract that many extra people and could just be a few restaurants for on-site guests.
Think about places like Europa Park and Disneyland Paris, there isn’t anything really for locals, Disneyland Paris just really is shops and restaurants outside the park. Unlike Florida where both Disney Springs and CityWalk have large cinemas which attract more locals.
 
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