Chessington World of Adventures Resort

[MrTowers]

The cynic in me would suggest that low capacity = greater sales of fast track.

And possibly more return visits... if you can't do everything you want in a day, you'll have to come back!

Within reason, yes. There is a limit to how many people will buy fast track tickets, obviously they don't sell unless there are queues so finding a balance is key. Also if you sell too many its counterproductive as fast track is no quicker. If you only get on 3 rides in a whole day because the offering is poor you will start to lose visitors, and I think chessington is close to this.

Ideally you want there to be too much for a single day creating revisits or overnight stays, or the ability to pay for fast track to do everything in 1 day.

Personally I would say chessington is a 1 day park with poor capacity making it very unpleasant. My kids do love it though so we always end up staying over so it doesn't seem that much of a waste only getting on a few rides each day.

 

[owenstreet7]

The existing RAP entrance is similarly inaccessible for non ambulant so wouldn’t make any difference beyond giving ambulant a wider choice of seating at the cost of a much longer queue. FT often extends well beyond the entrance so combining them would be a disaster.

From a guest experience point of view, I'd say it would be better for RAP to be combined with FastTrack so they can see the station, organ and the theming before boarding which the Trails of the Kings entrance doesn't offer that.

The challenges that Chessington have is that there's not a lot of space for the queues and I don't think it was designed for either Reserve and Ride or RAP.

Another thing about Vampire is that there's often not very good batching and they often leave seats empty on trains when there's odd number groups.

If there was room, splitting the queue into odd and even or a SRQ could've improved Vampires operations but there is literally no space.

The cynic in me would suggest that low capacity = greater sales of fast track.

And possibly more return visits... if you can't do everything you want in a day, you'll have to come back!

I do get the impression that is at the forefront of their planning sometimes.

Even if Chessington should get a Vekoma Mine Train with two lift hills and multiple trains with over 1800pph and above capacity.

It seems lower capacity rides are chosen as a way of bringing in more FastTrack.

 

[Benzin]

Vampire just never tended to get a row batcher. Mostly because on 3 trains you needed 4/6 people on platform to prevent stacking.

Anything would be better for RAP than a repurposed fire exit. However Fastrack isn't accessible so they'd have to spend the money to rejig the entire queue (which actually is accessible. It's the exit that isn't.) which they likely won't do because they won't want to. Spend money on things that would improve guest experience? Never.

 

[owenstreet7]

Vampire just never tended to get a row batcher. Mostly because on 3 trains you needed 4/6 people on platform to prevent stacking.

Anything would be better for RAP than a repurposed fire exit. However Fastrack isn't accessible so they'd have to spend the money to rejig the entire queue (which actually is accessible. It's the exit that isn't.) which they likely won't do because they won't want to. Spend money on things that would improve guest experience? Never.

Vampire hasn't run 3 trains in years. I've seen batchers last year but they don't seem to be bothered about batching as much as they should be. At the same time, they're likely overwhelmed as they're sometimes part of the team on the ride station checking restraints etc.

I don't believe the back exit is accessible (step free) either. It's a series of steps down to the RAP entrance and I'd say the paid FastTrack queue is more accessible than the RAP entrance.

Vampire is a capacity nightmare and needs sorting out really.

 

[Bowser]

I don't believe the back exit is accessible (step free) either. It's a series of steps down to the RAP entrance and I'd say the paid FastTrack queue is more accessible than the RAP entrance.

Fast Track has 2 sets of stairs versus RAP's 1 so the less accessible of the two but neither option is great, though as you say FT at least get the organ player/theming compared to a dank hanger.