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Like Ash, I'm a little bemused about this legend of BPB being the hang out for all of Blackpools degenerates when it was free entry. I lived in Blackpool in the 1980's and spent a lot of time on park on busy Saturdays and I can genuinely say I always felt safe even when you could barely move...

Today is another stunning example of why we didn't renew our season passes and why this is most likely going to be the first year since 1980 I won't have been to Alton Towers. All rides are at present 55+mins according to ridetimes with what is still down for a 4pm close, hopefully they might...

Thorpe Park really needs to sort it's website out as if you click on resort info and then opening times and travel and then open up cars it still shows parking at £7 It does mention prices subject to change etc, but nothing about the great sting that awaits you if you dare not to book in advance.

A few years ago it used to be Tuesday and Wednesday they closed off peak, from a purely selfish standpoint I'm glad that's not the case in 2019 as it would have limited my visits a little. It does make sense not just for financial reasons but operational as well. Hopefully it will lead to less...

It makes you wonder if the rumours about Icon not having the desired impact are actually true with these couple of changes by the park. That said most ride ops I know were saying that Icon had led to an increase in guests.

It looks like BPB will be closed some Mondays and Tuesdays off peak during May, September and October going off the recently loaded booking dates on the calendar. I couldn't really blame them for that if it's true as some days they can have less than 500 booked in during term time. Just glad...

If only!! Don't get me wrong I think Grand National is great, but if an El Toro clone was a replacement I would operate the wrecking ball myself!! :tearsofjoy:

Sounds like most of our holidays at PortAventura, we actually dread what might be when we go to check in :tearsofjoy: It doesn't surprise me that 1 in 3 people that visit PA stay at the resort hotels as there are a couple of very good reasons why. First of all after a long day in the theme...

I'm glad I didn't get tempted by the Black Friday season pass offer with Towers being closed pretty much every off peak Wednesday in 2019, I just don't have to will to go anymore during peak times and wait ages for The Smiler and Th13teen due to how they are now operated with the bag faff, that...

Continuing on something on the last page about nutters who liked Mean Streak and who like Furius Baco and Tornado, well that would be me!! :p The latter being far better in it's first few years with the Corkscrew of doom :tearsofjoy: The only ride I've ever done that I thought was too rough to...

Not sure if it's relevant to the late opening the past couple of days but there a very noticeable hissing sound in the station above the train when the harnesses are released until they are locked. Something I've not heard from Nemmy over 24 years

45mins queue for Nemmy at present, but thank goodness she's back up and running :)

So they can put in conditions of entry that they can take photos of you, but they don't want people to take photos of a broken down ride!

I'm hoping so as well Laura, especially for tonight. Nemmy still number 1 for me here :)

Nemesis been closed all morning so far :(

It wasn't busy in all honesty, shocking ride reliability and cutbacks were the biggest problems. Once we waited nearly 2 hours for Wickerman with just around 40 people ahead of us in the queue after they reopened it. Another thing to consider regarding today's shambles is that a lot of days...

The Alton Towers season pass was the worst thing I have done in 2018, there was no way I was getting another MAP after all the cutbacks but I was enticed by the Alton Towers season pass and its very good price. However in 4 visits this season the highlight of the day has been the breakfast at...

At the moment it's 100mins for The Smiler, 70 mins Th13teen and average around 40mins for the others with Nemmy still closed, on a 6 hour day as well!!

I love Scarefest but I really don't think I can cope with a Saturday this year doing it :(

That's one of the reasons I won't be visiting this September midweek like I always have done in the past as they are condensing 5 days worth of trade into 2 days, ok some people will be like me and won't be able to go due to midweek days off falling on the wrong day. But quite a few will just...