2018: General Discussion

[John]

Ah, their usual "from only £xx" ploy. I need to stop falling for that one, not a bad deal at any rate, though for me any pass not valid at scarefest/fireworks is basically worthless

 

[imanautie]

Ah, their usual "from only £xx" ploy. I need to stop falling for that one, not a bad deal at any rate, though for me any pass not valid at scarefest/fireworks is basically worthless

Only £50 extra to go pmap!

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[RoyJess]

Don't the standard MAP allow you to have access to Scarefest and fireworks? We have always go into these event with a standard MAP

 

[BarryZola]

Wicker Man apparently not opening until after 10am according to staff.

 

[rob666]

If it is this busy on a moist weekend in what is usually off peak September, I pray for all the tortured souls who will be infesting scarefest this year.
Be afraid...be very afraid.

 

[MakoMania]

Scarefest has always been slammed, this year will be no different.

 

[IanSR]

But you’ve got a 9ish month season pass + 12 month annual pass for that price.

Assuming you've made use of the season pass yes, I wonder how many got the pass on the day of their first visit, experience the shocking operations and never went back.

 

[AT86]

Assuming you've made use of the season pass yes, I wonder how many got the pass on the day of their first visit, experience the shocking operations and never went back.

If those people think that throwing good money after bad is a good idea and hand over cash to upgrade to a Merlin pass then more fool them.

 

[IanSR]

If those people think that throwing good money after bad is a good idea and hand over cash to upgrade to a Merlin pass then more fool them.

There are a lot more about than you'd think.

 

[Coaster]

A 5pm close just isn't good enough on a busy Saturday, despite efficient ride operations yesterday there just wasn't enough time and we therefore missed out on Galactica, Spinball, Runaway Train, Rapids and a fair few other rides purely due to lack of time.

Also it felt like we were being hurried out yesterday due to hundreds of scout groups arriving just as the park closed; I think it's terrible that they arranged this knowing full well it meant they wouldn't be able to extend if the park was busy, as IMO the customers who are visiting a theme park for its primary purpose should be the number 1 priority.

Disappointing.

 

[chilli2]

I was with one of those scout groups, taking a group in.
We used to go in a back entrance, coming in by the aquarium avoiding the main public entrance, avoiding the crowds. although I think the change to the main entrance was a Merlin decision.

As for the hurried out, I've noticed this on normal days.

 

[rob666]

A 5pm close just isn't good enough on a busy Saturday, despite efficient ride operations yesterday there just wasn't enough time and we therefore missed out on Galactica, Spinball, Runaway Train, Rapids and a fair few other rides purely due to lack of time.

Also it felt like we were being hurried out yesterday due to hundreds of scout groups arriving just as the park closed; I think it's terrible that they arranged this knowing full well it meant they wouldn't be able to extend if the park was busy, as IMO the customers who are visiting a theme park for its primary purpose should be the number 1 priority.

Disappointing.

Should have got a fasttrack Jamie!
To think I got six rides in on the Beach this morning in an hour and a half, including three rides on Icon.

 

[ringo]

@chilli2 change of entrance is most likely down to safety & security. On a curious point, did you get searched bringing the stuff into the park?

 

[JB1985]

I love RideTimes because it means 20-30 times a day I can look to see how long people I've never met are waiting to go on rides. If it ever went down I don't know what I'd do. Probably go to Alton Towers, which is my second favourite thing to do after checking RideTimes.

Who are you? What is this all about? Have you nothing to do???

 

[Poopoohead]

Our first proper visit as a family this weekend for the season, the removal of SRQ certainly had a big impact on my enjoyment of the day. So frustrating seeing so many empty single seats going round!

 

[Sauron97]

I love RideTimes because it means 20-30 times a day I can look to see how long people I've never met are waiting to go on rides. If it ever went down I don't know what I'd do. Probably go to Alton Towers, which is my second favourite thing to do after checking RideTimes.

I think it's time we had a new topic just for ride times screenshots. Maybe even a whole subforum.

Right. Perhaps its time for a large alert that takes up almost the entire screen to be placed on this very forum, that repeats approximately every 5-20 seconds, reminding every single member, willingly or not, of the two words that describe the most important pieces of data to ever grace this good earth. Ride-Times. Clicking on this alert would bring up one of the biggest information hubs ever seen on a theme park fansite, displaying not only the approximate queue times (guessed down to the last second), but also a visual GIS map of the queue showing every single person within the queue-line, the average speed at which they are moving at (in knots or mph) and also data on how the length and width of the queue might alter the average queue-time as well.

 

[Croftybaby]

Sounds crap. The one on TTF shows you what the people in the queues are eating and what they had for dinner the night before.

 

[imanautie]

Right. Perhaps its time for a large alert that takes up almost the entire screen to be placed on this very forum, that repeats approximately every 5-20 seconds, reminding every single member, willingly or not, of the two words that describe the most important pieces of data to ever grace this good earth. Ride-Times. Clicking on this alert would bring up one of the biggest information hubs ever seen on a theme park fansite, displaying not only the approximate queue times (guessed down to the last second), but also a visual GIS map of the queue showing every single person within the queue-line, the average speed at which they are moving at (in knots or mph) and also data on how the length and width of the queue might alter the average queue-time as well.

I may have to put something together

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[rob666]

And you use knots for speed on water, so that is just the smiler queueline.

 

[Log Flume's Dennis]

Turn push notifications on for RideTimes for the ultimate virtual queuing experience. You might think that's daft but I knew how long my uncle's accountant queued for RMT on Sunday in realtime, so...

Seriously though, we should all organise a ride times only meet up. We can have a WhattsApp group and by monitoring RideTimes, role-play an entire day at Alton Towers from the comfort of our beds.