• ℹ️ Heads up...

    This is a popular topic that is fast moving Guest - before posting, please ensure that you check out the first post in the topic for a quick reminder of guidelines, and importantly a summary of the known facts and information so far. Thanks.

2018: General Discussion

Status
This topic has been locked. No further replies can be posted.
Benjsh said:
That doesn't make sense to me as they all open at some point so the staff must be there just not maybe right away.

What they have done is cut their hours most likely.

Again I hate harking back to Smiler incident but when you lose 600,000 through the gates over a year, you feel the pinch.
Click to expand...
There may be fewer technical staff, or they may have shorter hours that prevents them getting all rides ready by 10am. If maintenance budgets have reduced, I'd expect (and hope) that the reductions are relatively small compared with the cuts to the operations team and retail/f&b.

EDIT: Both Smiler and Wicker Man now listed as unavailable on RideTimes. Just Spinball, Oblivion and Enterprise open out of the thrill rides.
 
This is my issue you can't keep cutting operations and offerings to improve profit. Yes visitor numbers went down circa 600000 after smiler but the park need to get them back in! !! Cuts ain't going to achieve that. Maybe they help improve profit margin but you can only squeeze so much juice and pips out of the orange until it runs out , then what?

Sent from my SM-J320FN using Tapatalk
 
themeparkfan said:
This is my issue you can't keep cutting operations and offerings to improve profit. Yes visitor numbers went down circa 600000 after smiler but the park need to get them back in! !! Cuts ain't going to achieve that. Maybe they help improve profit margin but you can only squeeze so much juice and pips out of the orange until it runs out , then what?

Sent from my SM-J320FN using Tapatalk
Click to expand...
switch to grapefuits?

I see spinball is now down, so nearly an hour into park opening and we have Oblivion and Enterprise to choose from

glad I stayed at home
 
I'm assuming this will be one of the busiest days of the year outside of prime summer and fireworks?
 
Hmm.

Enterprise 0 mins
Oblivion 30 mins
Galactica Unavailable
Nemesis Unavailable
Rita Unavailable
Spinball Whizzer Unavailable
TH13TEEN Unavailable
The Smiler Unavailable
Wicker Man Unavailable
Battle Galleons 0 mins
Charlie and Lola's Moonsquirters & Greendrops 0 mins
Congo River Rapids 0 mins
Cuckoo Cars Driving School 0 mins
Duel - The Haunted House Strikes Back 0 mins
Frog Hopper 0 mins
Gallopers Carousel 0 mins
Mr. Bloom's Allotment 0 mins
The Blade 0 mins
The Numtums Number-Go-Round 0 mins
Hex - The Legend of the Towers 5 mins
Marauder's Mayhem 5 mins
Justin's House Pie-O-Matic Factory 10 mins
In The Night Garden Magical Boat Ride 20 mins
The Furchester Hotel Live Show 20 mins
Postman Pat Parcel Post 30 mins
Get Set Go Tree Top Adventure Unavailable
Go Jetters Vroomster Zoom Ride Unavailable
Heave Ho Unavailable
Octonauts Rollercoaster Adventure Unavailable
Runaway Mine Train Unavailable
 
I'd be surprised if the park is overly busy anyway, the weather there looks crap. Not quite as bad as opening weekend, but it isn't far off.
 
Thought it was 6 for easter weekend but 5 makes sense. I wonder what the tracking sheet looks like in the office I bet they are below target?

Sent from my SM-J320FN using Tapatalk
 
Danny said:
This is the current state of Wicker Man from Instagram:


There's also been images posted of the entrance plaza covered in ice, as well as Towers themselves confirming the ride closures due to the weather on Twitter.
Click to expand...

That's very strange, my friend is by Nemesis telling me the weather is fine. BBC/Met Office also saying the same. Towers replied to me this morning saying they expected a full ride offering also.
 
Status
This topic has been locked. No further replies can be posted.
Top