2025: General Discussion

[MrTowers]

Hiding the queue times, I can see where they're coming from however it isn't particularly transparent for those planning trips there. I don't think it's right that someone turns up and finds the park overpacked.

Hiding the rides, this gives a bit of ambiguity in regards to temporary or permanent closure which I wouldn't agree entirely with. There is now a planned closures page but not everyone will look there.

Paultons will do it better by adding in the dates for closure and keeping it on the app.

Especially as the parks are capable of putting down "Closed All Day" on it instead which would be clear as daylight.

I can see why they do hide rides though but I think it can be open to misinterpretation which is why I don't advocate for it.

I wonder how many times the parks have got queries about a ride being closed and whether it's permanent because it's not on the app.

It does seem strange as the Thorpe Park approach is to change the name to include the opening date. This is a lot clearer and probably won't get quite so many queries from guests if any at all.

Maybe wait and see what they do on Saturday, they seem to be changing it constantly at the moment.

 

[flyingguitar]

Tbh I don't know why this is a big deal, websites such as queuetimes.com have been giving queue times for more than a decade, which are much better than using the app fr analysis with historical data queue forecasts and they graph the queue times so you can look through the queue during a day.

I understand why AT may do this though, for enthusiasts there are alternatives, and the public can get freaked out about ride closures and maitanence imagine the sun on a slow news day making a headline "ThIS world RecCoR bREaKiNG coASteR hAS bEeN BrOKeN FoR a WEek AnD We STiLl hAVe nO IdEA wHY It Is BRokEn"

 

[Danscott22]

Small update but the rides have gotten new images on the app - believe they match the website, instead of just having the logo, eg Nemesis, Sub-Terra, and Curse had these had these since they opened but they now have an actual image

 

[AT86]

Car Parking has gone up 2 quid to £12.



Express seems to have been held at £20.

 

[Bert2theSpark]

Car Parking has gone up 2 quid to £12.



Express seems to have been held at £20.

That price increase better be for something like a monorail makeover, it won’t but if I paid to park in a big standard car park with a 20 minute walk just to get the entrance I’d want my entrance and first impression to be stunning!

 

[GaryH]

No justification for this rise at all. More reasons not to bother visiting anymore

 

[rob666]

They have to get money out of the cheap passholders somehow.

 

[GaryH]

First glance I read that as “out of the sheep” lol

 

[AT86]

Given the upcoming increase in minimum wage and national insurance contributions I am surprised we haven’t seen more price increases. Ticket prices appear to be on par to last year for 2025.

 

[jmc]

Rather comically, a Gold Merlin Membership at £17.99 a month is not far off covering the car parking costs alone should you be a monthly visitor.

 

[Ash]

Given the upcoming increase in minimum wage and national insurance contributions I am surprised we haven’t seen more price increases. Ticket prices appear to be on par to last year for 2025.

The MAP circus continues…

 

[Archie]

Few other updates I’ve seen:
-Lots of new fences
-Lots of new signs
-Fixed trommel at Alton Manor
-Potential repairs on CRR wave machines
-Rita has black restraints now instead of orange (seen on coastertogs Insta)
-Wicker Man’s station building wicker has been repaired/replaced
-New theming for TH13TEEN
-Rename of an outlet in Mutiny Bay
-new smoke effect for Oblivions queue line
-re paving and general cleanliness increase

Smoke machine in oblivions queue? call me cynical but is that to hide the peeling paint and rotting theming....
But seriously its nice to see oblivion get some attention

 

[AT86]

Smoke machine in oblivions queue? call me cynical but is that to hide the peeling paint and rotting theming....

You’re cynical.

 

[Archie]

You’re cynical.

thanks, you ain't too bad yourself

 

[Dave]

Given the upcoming increase in minimum wage and national insurance contributions I am surprised we haven’t seen more price increases. Ticket prices appear to be on par to last year for 2025.

Why?

We have minimum wage rises every year and usually some sort of tax adjustment so they will have this planned into their business model.

Seriously everyone needs to stop seeing these huge companies as victims of some sort of highway man raid.

 

[AT86]

Why?

We have minimum wage rises every year and usually some sort of tax adjustment so they will have this planned into their business model.

Seriously everyone needs to stop seeing these huge companies as victims of some sort of highway man raid.

Because it’s quite normal for ticket prices to rise each year to account for such cost increases. Hence why it’s surprising it hasn’t gone up this year.

I have not claimed for one second that companies are in any way a victim.

 

[Dave]

Because it’s quite normal for ticket prices to rise each year to account for such cost increases. Hence why it’s surprising it hasn’t gone up this year.

I have not claimed for one second that companies are in any way a victim.

Fair, I suspect they have decided the market won’t take a ticket price increase so they will increase these stealth costs instead.

 

[GaryH]

They usually increase at the start of the season and again towards the summer. If they haven’t done it now then I would definitely expect to see an increase towards to the summer in ticket prices.