imanautie
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Some government advice around public transport explictly mentions gondala systems.
There's signage at the entrance saying masks are required and the host appeared to agree with my Reasoning why
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There's signage at the entrance saying masks are required and the host appeared to agree with my Reasoning why
Rick
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I am not at all suggesting you don't need to wear a mask - makes total sense, but it's a private gondola system, on private land for guests who are visiting an attraction run by a private enterprise.
Masks are required on Wicker Man too. I hope GCI are considered for the next Tube extension!
imanautie
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I'm not saying I agree with the reasoning, but staff seem sure that is the reasoning.
No I meant what time it opens.
imanautie
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Some point after 12.
Skyscraper
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Doesn't that make the monorail public transport too then?
imanautie
TS Member
Unsure.
Alsty
TS Member
Potentially yes, under The Health Protection (Coronavirus, Wearing of Face Coverings on Public Transport) (England) Regulations 2020
2(2). “Public transport service” means any service for the carriage of passengers from place to place which is available to the general public (whether or not for payment, whether or not all of the places connected by the service are in England and whether or not there are breaks in the journey)...
Although Skyride and Monorail might be exempt if only people from the same household were in each gondola or compartment (3(3)g of the regulations).
2(2). “Public transport service” means any service for the carriage of passengers from place to place which is available to the general public (whether or not for payment, whether or not all of the places connected by the service are in England and whether or not there are breaks in the journey)...
Although Skyride and Monorail might be exempt if only people from the same household were in each gondola or compartment (3(3)g of the regulations).
imanautie
TS Member
Knowing merlin they probably just saw the first bit so over reacted.
Stevie
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I went on park for the first time this season yesterday, with the family. I know it's difficult given the current circumstances, but honestly I have never seen the place so miserable. Maybe the weather didn't help, but it just had no atmosphere whatsoever. The queues were astronomical, more shops and F&B units boarded up, and generally awful service from staff I thought. I think they let way too many people in yesterday, especially the fact that they knew that rides are on reduced capacity and some remain closed.
Honestly in my opinion, if anyone is still to go this year, I'd say wait until next season if I'm being completely honest.
Honestly in my opinion, if anyone is still to go this year, I'd say wait until next season if I'm being completely honest.
How many rides did you get on?
Stevie
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Three. Enterprise, Runaway Mine Train, and the Rapids. I didn't really go with any great desire to try and get loads of rides, as it was just supposed to be a nice day out with the family, but even then I couldn't be bothered to wait an hour and a half for every major ride.
Que boards can vary atm with distancing. I went today and it was busy.
Spinball was showing 55mins took about 15
Oblivion was showing 30 took about 10
Was on park for the full day and managed to do all coasters apart from galactica(my choice) and got dungeons and blade in.
Although I do need a nap
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Spinball was showing 55mins took about 15
Oblivion was showing 30 took about 10
Was on park for the full day and managed to do all coasters apart from galactica(my choice) and got dungeons and blade in.
Although I do need a nap
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Ye Rita was shown as 25 at the end of the day but infinite thrills walked onto it so just shows how innacurate they are. I don't think they should bother with queue times at the moment as it's much more difficult to estimate. Instead they could do a traffic light colour system which indicates how busy a ride is. If it's green, it's quiet. Yellow moderately busy and red busy. It just seems more reasonable as this way you don't need to try and estimate a time, you just change the colour based on how big the queue looks
imanautie
TS Member
Probably not too difficult to do for the app, basically pick any 3 queue times to change the colour.
Lneeno
TS Member
So I visited yesterday, and it was a decent day. Have to say it was just nice to visit, and the staff were very good, all knew what they were doing with the new restrictions and rules.
The queues were mostly exaggerated but still quite long, but this was expected. I must say it didn’t seem like there was much of a reduction in numbers, I was expecting queues but it also turned out the paths were pretty busy everywhere. However despite the crowds we still managed to get on everything once and oblivion a few times so not bad for a Sunday in the holidays. Shout out to the wickerman staff who were getting trains out before the other had even hit the breaks, making an advertised 75 min queue Actually 45 mins.
Have to say the park does feel a bit neglected though as you all probably know. They really need to give poor old smiler a good clean! It’s filthy and so are the barriers in the queue.
The queues were mostly exaggerated but still quite long, but this was expected. I must say it didn’t seem like there was much of a reduction in numbers, I was expecting queues but it also turned out the paths were pretty busy everywhere. However despite the crowds we still managed to get on everything once and oblivion a few times so not bad for a Sunday in the holidays. Shout out to the wickerman staff who were getting trains out before the other had even hit the breaks, making an advertised 75 min queue Actually 45 mins.
Have to say the park does feel a bit neglected though as you all probably know. They really need to give poor old smiler a good clean! It’s filthy and so are the barriers in the queue.
jon81uk
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This isn't completely aimed at you, but its more of a general thing I've always thought when talking to people who come back from Aton Towers and say "the queues were too long I didn't get to ride anything!". If you join a queue, there will always (well except for breakdowns) be a ride at the end of it. If you wander round the park and choose not to join many queues, you won't do many rides.
Personally I think although not great, 90 minutes is fine to wait for.
I think that although there is a cap on numbers, they may have not got anywhere close to capacity in normal operations anyway, so they are still under the cap. Its not a reduction in the number of people compared to an average day, its a cap on the overall capacity I think.
But they should still have all food places open to help with the queues!
Lneeno
TS Member
I know this has probably been mentioned, but they really need more filler attractions as well.
jon81uk
TS Member
I've said this a lot on the SW9 thread, they need to replace Submission, replace Twirling Toadstool (with another Wave Swinger), replace Boneshaker, add a second flat to Dark Forest and replace Ripsaw. Plus get Sub-Terra working or replace it.
The park really really needs those flat rides. AT has lost four rides in the last 20 years, without direct replacements.
Edit to add, they have also lost two shows (Pirates and Ice Age / Cred St) which need replacing.
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