2021: General Discussion

Nemesis started the season with a lot of downtime (opening week it struggled), but it seemed to have improved a lot over the past month and has been working fine everytime I've been this year. Something obviously happened on Monday evening for it to be down the past two days.

 

It was open at 3:45 on Monday so it seems the issue started Tuesday morning

 

Both appear closed again today

 

Tibble thats correct both closed ... no work visible happening on either ride, that obviously doesn't mean they are not working on them or waiting for parts.

 

I would imagine the intention is to get both (or one) open for the weekend. Normally when a coaster is down for this type of maintennence, it's down for about 3 to 4 days (well, in my experience at least. Wicker Man was down for four days last year just before I visited in September).

Nemesis has definitely been having visible work done over the past two days, but any word of Funk N Fly? That's been down even longer.

 

Any work on Funk'n'Fly would require the company Towers hired it from to come and do it, which would obviously take longer.

 

Well it's operated by mellors staff who have previously gone and repaired it there and then! (Quite weird seeing the ride op physically repair a ride)

 

Not necessarily. Alton could be responsible for fixing issues themselves. They do have their own competent engineering department in a massive theme park after all.

 

Nemmy is back open!!

 

Nothing still from Funk'n'Fly though which is strange, I know not everyone will be bothered about it but it's still support ride at the end of the day.

 

Yeah I wouldn't ride it but I hope it will be back open as it will help to soak up the bigger crowds.

 

Even though nemesis and galactica still reach the same queues as before funk n fly came in. Seems like the park have increased capacity with the new attractions coming in, which makes the idea of then helping spread out crowds void

 

I'm not sure why that's the case. If people weren't in the queues for the temporary new attractions, presumably they would be in the queues for other attractions?

 

Tomorrow has been moved to an 8pm close (was previously 7pm).

Given the push they seem to have this year on getting the average number of rides per day up it makes the 4pm closes even more jarring. I hope they are getting feedback from customers that it isn’t good enough. I would also encourage anyone who has visited and not been happy with the early close and the number of rides/attractions they have been able to experience to inform the park about this ([email protected]) so it is officially logged.

 

It's a shame that they extend a 7pm day but yet have no desire or no problem with 4pm closes

 

Some weekdays in early June have been extended to 7pm, although that will likely be because it's half term.

 

You mean in July. June isn't the summer hols haha

 

No he means half term

 

Thanks for the correction, just updated my OP.