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2024: General Discussion

I love being able to sit out on the lawns with a Pimms or a Beer but seriously am I the only one who gets chased by wasps, I sware it only happens at Towers, nowhere else, it's like I arrive and they come out and chase me, does anyone else have this problem, mainly by benches, this aside its great to see so much more seating available where sometimes it can be a challenge to park down for 10 minutes.
 
Agreed with the above posts, it's a great event! My kids are a little too old to watch Cbeebies now but still absolutely loved the shows. Special shout out to the Mister Maker show featuring Barry from EastEnders and Rectangle on the Runaway Mine Train 😅
 
Ripsaw97 said:
I love being able to sit out on the lawns with a Pimms or a Beer but seriously am I the only one who gets chased by wasps, I sware it only happens at Towers, nowhere else, it's like I arrive and they come out and chase me, does anyone else have this problem, mainly by benches, this aside its great to see so much more seating available where sometimes it can be a challenge to park down for 10 minutes.
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Might be your drink choice! Isn't Pimm's like 80% sugar?

Joking aside, the wasps at Alton Towers can be terrible, particularly on the lawns. Remember having particular issues at Corner Coffee/Ground Command in forbidden valley last year as well.
 
Ripsaw97 said:
I love being able to sit out on the lawns with a Pimms or a Beer but seriously am I the only one who gets chased by wasps, I sware it only happens at Towers, nowhere else, it's like I arrive and they come out and chase me, does anyone else have this problem, mainly by benches, this aside its great to see so much more seating available where sometimes it can be a challenge to park down for 10 minutes.
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Want a job as a gardener mate!

The secrets...
Avon skin so soft lotion, on top of sunscreen.
Keep all drinks covered, at all times, even straws...the drinks smell, all of them, even tapwater.
I often go inside the garage to drink while gardening...it works.
Ignore them completely when they come near, they don't sting if you don't swing.

But horseflies...oh don't get me started.
They hurt like hell, can make you ill for days, and have top level stealth skills, blood suckers that like to puke directly into your bloodstream for fun.
They need jungle formula, whenever you are near inland water (as in all theme parks), and drive me nuts most years (nutser even).

The best thing, an onion on your belt.
Probably.
 
Sounds like the CBeebies event was really good for the target market. I wonder if it pulled many extra people to the park or whether most guests simply saw it was on when they were there?

I do think it is a shame that this event has essentially replaced Mardi Gras. Maybe having 2 events so close would have caused logistical issues, but it would have been nice if Mardi Gras could have followed on from this.
 
Rob said:
Sounds like the CBeebies event was really good for the target market. I wonder if it pulled many extra people to the park or whether most guests simply saw it was on when they were there?

I do think it is a shame that this event has essentially replaced Mardi Gras. Maybe having 2 events so close would have caused logistical issues, but it would have been nice if Mardi Gras could have followed on from this.
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I was at the park on Monday last week and although it was clearly very busy arriving at the park it didn't seem that crowded in the thrill areas, so I reckon a lot of people had gone specifically for the CBeebies event. RAP was also sold out though I saw very few people using it, so even with the cap in place it seems likely a lot of those were being used in CBeebies land.

It did appear to be a special 10th anniversary event so wouldn't be surprised if they do something different this time next year, maybe a return to Mardi Gras? Hope they bring something like that back soon - the "summer party" vibe with the food stalls and carnival parade were a hit for me.
 
AT86 said:
Looking at the details here this will be for hotel guests only during the summer holidays. One hour ERT on Nemesis and Curse. Good to see extra perks coming back for hotel guests.

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Tbh that hotel entrance should be accessible to everyone I don’t see the point of just 1 main entrance when you can enter right next to some rides. You have to walk over to the entrance just to walk back to valley which you were next to anyway. I wouldn’t complain if they made it the main entrance and turned towers street into a new land
 
The major rides at Towers were initially placed at the extremities of the park (FV and X Sector) to ensure they didn’t get swamped on opening, the distance means that guests filter to other attractions and it avoids bottlenecks.

Opening the hotel entrance to everyone would negate that park planning aspect and would also throttle demand for FV at the start of the day
 
The other problem with making Forbidden Valley the main entrance is that it would introduce a horrid bottleneck in the park’s layout.

At present, the location of Towers Street works pretty well from a bottleneck standpoint, as it gives guests two obvious “paths” to follow at the bottom and people can disperse. Guests can either go left towards Mutiny Bay/Katanga Canyon/Gloomy Wood/Forbidden Valley or right towards CBeebies Land/Adventure Land/X-Sector/Dark Forest/The World of David Walliams. People will naturally disperse between the two, so guest flow goes two ways and the park’s capacity is spread out more nicely.

If you moved the entrance to Forbidden Valley, this goes out of the window. Everyone in the park is shunted through Forbidden Valley/Gloomy Wood/Katanga Canyon/Mutiny Bay, and there’s no obvious way to diverge from that path until you exit Mutiny Bay. This makes the queues in these areas huge, and it makes the areas horribly overcrowded.

Think of this way; at some point, Alton Towers’ capacity was revealed to be 28,000. Under the current park layout, with Towers Street as the main entrance, each principal “path” would only have 14,000 people following it at the start of a full-capacity day, assuming equal dispersion between the paths. If you moved the entrance to Forbidden Valley, you’d suddenly have 28,000 people all following the same principal “path”, which makes things very overcrowded in those areas and very inequitably distributed in terms of crowds. I know there’s more nuance to it than that, but I feel that the basic principle still stands.
 
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