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Chessington World of Adventures Resort

Matt N said:
Out of interest, have Chessington done much advertising for Jumanji in and around London/the South East?

I haven’t personally seen any adverts for the World of Jumanji, but I’m in the South West, so I wondered if Chessington were staying regional with their marketing.
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I'm in Kent, and have seen some advertising on cereal boxes, but nothing else.
 
Hopefully things settle down. But then, Chessington is the home of low throughput.

Has anybody got a figure for throughput per hour on the coaster yet?
 
AstroDan said:
Has anybody got a figure for throughput per hour on the coaster yet?
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The reports are very variable. @zeock above suggested that around 700pph was being attained, but I’ve also heard various reports of 4-5 minute dispatches from others, which would peg the throughput at between 336pph and 420pph.

For some idea, Chessington are apparently allocating 434 Virtual Queue slots per hour (350 main queue, 84 RAP).
 
AstroDan said:
So are we saying currently, on a 10-6 weekend day, 8 x 434 are riding = 3,472/day.

That's not many.
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Apparently so!

The reports of 400-500pph are being corroborated by quite a few different sources, so I’d expect that to be the average throughput on a regular day. And you’d also hope that they’re keeping the throughput of the virtual queue fairly closely matched to that of the coaster.
 
If these issue prove to be permanent and if Merlin for once wake up and realised they've wasted money on a combined capacity nightmare that long term won't give them back their investment, I wonder if heads will roll at the top or those at the top decide to put the blame on someone and throw that person under the bus?

TBF, I suspect the whole area was planned under the previous management and that the current management decide to pass the buck on them and try and save face?
 
Blackhole_Sun said:
Surely the ride manufacturer would suggest this also?

As soon as the train arrives back in the station you are told to run around the top. The gate is usually open by the time you get around the top and you walk straight on the ride. It would help being at the air gates but it’s not going to mask over what little capacity the ride has generally.

The first year of operation will be hyped, this is also the first weekend the ride is open to the public. Combine that with decent weather and it’s not surprising they have big queues.
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With a maximum daily capacity at about one third of the parks capacity, queues for guest services will probably be longer.
 
What I seen online Chessington have had a shocking day with awful queues for rides, ride breakdowns and apparently RAP wasn't limited to one ride a day on the rides so queues went crazy for them too, hour virtual wait then a hour in the RAP queue themselves.

A bad start start to the busy season
 
I’ve got my first visit to Chessington tomorrow since about 2002, any tips on what order to try and do things to make the most of the day? I’m not bothered about stuff like Croc Drop, just want to get on the coasters (hopefully including Dragon’s Fury) and maybe Tomb Blaster.
 
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