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No, on a park-wide level ride capacity is certainly not everything. It would clearly be daft for a park to only install a ride if it can chew through the contents of a sizeable cattle pen in 20 minutes flat. As you pointed out Rick, such a policy would exclude a lot of popular ride types and...

^ This, to be honest. Throughput is Serious Business at EP, and getting in its way can result in some staff getting peeved. Even the park's majority of polite hosts prioritise getting buttocks onto seats and restraints down above all else.

Good god no, I'm hardly expecting Kvasten to be uncomfortable; the SFC and SLC seating arrangements are virtually incomparable. I just wonder whether the 'Vekoma factor' still affects this ride type to some extent.

I'm rather looking forward to giving Flight of the Pterosaur a go after the tiny Jimmy Neutron SFC at Movie Park Germany. It was the first Vekoma I'd been on that felt 100% competently engineered. I'm also supposed to be going to Grona Lund later this year, and it'll be interesting to see how...

Going back to my semi-usual unorganised tendencies, is anybody else still in need of accommodation?

A large warning for what usually isn't that big a deal. G-Force only has one train anyway. Admittedly the guidance on making it first ride is spot on. Dispatches are actually quite quick, but with only 12 seats available to trundle through uncomfortable mediocrity at a time the wait can often be...

Excellent report Ben. I really enjoyed reading this and your Italy report. These were more or less my thoughts too. We were told that Karacho's launch was running below maximum power to allow them to reduce the height restriction. Quite frankly the kids could've got stuffed for all I cared, as...

I don't think there's any particular time to avoid Leah really, or at least no more than any other park. Operations are usually alright, and the lack of fastrack means a queue gets the ride's full capacity. Perhaps a Sunday early in May? I've been once or twice a year since 2011, and it's been...

I would respectfully suggest Hazbriz that you (or anybody else interested in a trip abroad who's yet to attend a meet) come along to some UK meets and mini meets first before sticking your name down. It's nothing personal, but simply that when you're arranging an intense week or two of...

What Matty said. You might want to tell us what you think the positives are. That's how first posts in forum topics work; you start, we discuss. :) At the moment people could conclude from your post that there's nothing much to be positive about, which I'm sure was not your intention.

The main draw of a theme park is indeed its rides and themed areas, of course, and no, I don't go to a park to eat all day. However, a day at a theme park consists of more than just being in queues and going on rides. People have to get lunch, and will remember whether the food and guest service...

The big steak pasty that can be bought at the Mutiny Bay pasty place is probably one of the best options for lunch in the park at the moment. Now there's a depressing thought.

I agree, or certainly not beyond the end of next season.

I used to love Chessie around 2011, but sadly it was indeed dreadful last year. Going to Legoland, which can sometimes feel like a mistake for geeks our age, improved the day. There lay the issue with South as the Merlin park only meet it was; one park was always rubbish, and you either needed...

There won't be many of us by the seem of it, but yes, expect park clothing and practical trousers. Surely there must be more people that have started attending meets since the last trip in 2013 and haven't gone hammering through the woods on The Ultimate yet?

You could argue that there wasn't a good quality food offering to be found in Forbidden Valley back in 2010 either. Burger King, Refresh or Merlin's special soggy fish and chips was hardly an appealing range of offerings, and when Burger King became a third Burger Kitchen it felt like a kick in...

There eventually comes a time when the average small but expanding family park requires a thrill coaster on a limited budget. From the early 2000s the Eurofighter has absolutely made that market its own. There will still be lots of parks out there though that were maybe planning on phoning...

Vekoma's Battlestar Galactica duelling coasters at Universal Singapore are like this, with the inversionless 'Human' sit-down coaster and inverted 'Cylon' coaster beginning with side by side launched lift hills.

Not as far as I'm aware. Even when booking directly through Phantasialand's website you have to add them on or upgrade to a package that includes them.