Maybe having a VIP annual pass means that you haven’t seen the park from the perspective of regular visitors? For example, using Fastrack on everything would mean the impact of rides breaking down a lot of the time, and other things such as staggered openings, has a minimal effect on your visit, as you won’t have queued for long at all and can just head to another ride. Whereas it really does dampen the day for the rest of us.
When rides break down its immediately apparent on fastrack queues, so yes I do notice it.
Oh definitely, the merging of rap and fastrack isn't good for either but it's better then the alternative towers tried on The Smiler(shudders)
What was the alternative?
The last thing like that was probably the Monorail and Skyride makeovers in 2009....
I think that's a little bit unfair. I am not sure you could answer that question for many other parks either. However Alton Towers has given us plenty of bad surprises and bad decisions recently and those are not being repeated by other parks. That's the difference.
Maybe, but us enthusiasts actually make little difference in the grand scheme of things. Even if we all boycotted the park it would make no difference to Merlin because we're a small fraction of their total visitors. By boycotting the park we'd only sacrifice our own enjoyment to try and prove a point to Merlin. While I agree with the principle, I can't personally subscribe to that view.
