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  1. BarryZola

    Ride Access Pass and Disabled Access - 2024 Discussion

    Let's hope that's taking into account how many people are in each party too.
  2. BarryZola

    Talbot Street Tuesday

    Good write-up on the ruins 👍
  3. BarryZola

    Planning applications for potential new Scarefest maze locations

    Any chance any of these new buildings will take Scarefest mazes out of the ruins making it more likely for public to be able to wander around them again? Or are they just more permanent buildings for existing mazes? Or is it very unclear at the moment?
  4. BarryZola

    Flamingo Land - March 2024 (1st time visit review)

    Great post. Thanks for sharing your thoughts! I keep forgetting to go to Flamingo. I've never been. Who knows, this could be the year...
  5. BarryZola

    World Record Attempt

    There was a guy called Paul Jones who was obsessed with it in the opening year or two. Can't remember the figure but he had the record at one time at least. He was using single rider on a weekday when you could actually catch a real quiet day and an almost empty single rider queue. I doubt...
  6. BarryZola

    Ride Availability/Operations 2022-24

    The thing is, there aren't really any walk on days anymore as they're clearly incentivizing schools to book trips on traditionally quieter days or incentivizing people through lower ticket prices on those days. So they need to cough up and staff the place properly on weekdays as well as...
  7. BarryZola

    Alton Towers Merchandise

    I think I like a couple of those resins, but the stingeyness of my brain won't allow me to buy immediately. I already have one of the grey Hex ones which I actually prefer. I might get one of the Towers ruins ones, even though it's not very accurate lol (I know it was already there last year - I...
  8. BarryZola

    Ride Access Pass and Disabled Access - 2024 Discussion

    Now, that would be totally unethical. Just totally out of order. Anyone caught doing that should be banned from having an annual pass and RAP ever again.
  9. BarryZola

    Ride Access Pass and Disabled Access - 2024 Discussion

    Hopefully they will have been able to start meaningfully restricting RAP numbers each day by now, and certainly by then. If they are still struggling to cap numbers for May, they've got an even more severe problem than we all thought.
  10. BarryZola

    Ride Access Pass and Disabled Access - 2024 Discussion

    Basically, if you have a RAP, you just join straight into the RAP queue, which due to the new limitations is likely to be a shorter or significantly shorter wait than the main queue. It is a bit like one free fast-track a day, depending on how many punters you get in front of you in the RAP...
  11. BarryZola

    Ride Access Pass and Disabled Access - 2024 Discussion

    Just the email from when you booked the RAP with Merlin I think.
  12. BarryZola

    Ride Availability/Operations 2022-24

    How times have changed. Annual pass holders and hotel guests used to get to ride from 9am and then they'd still manage to have most of the other stuff ready for 10am for everybody. This was apparently in the bad old days of certain ownership. Now they can hardly get anything open by 10am...
  13. BarryZola

    Ride Availability/Operations 2022-24

    They do need that, but I don't think they're capable of doing it due to the way the place is run, and has been run. Even without Hex and Skyride to look after. But, we will see.
  14. BarryZola

    Climate Change

    I wish the rain would go away. Ruining my week off (was planning a couple of non-theme park days out) and most of the other weeks. Would rather it was just cold, than getting warmer and rainier.
  15. BarryZola

    2024: General Discussion

    Can't promise as I'm not sure if I'm even going this week, but which ones do you want, just in-case I do go?
  16. BarryZola

    Monorail Refurbishment

    Well, you know, I do try my best ;)
  17. BarryZola

    The Alton Towers Music, Video and Other Multimedia Thread

    Yes, along with maintenance issues and it had had a couple of crashes with someone being injured.
  18. BarryZola

    Alton Towers 23rd/24th March 2024

    Yeah, it's easy to forget how much fun Wicker Man is sometimes. In the dark it's especially nice. And then Nemesis, it's definitely been missed in the line-up.
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