Congratulations @Ethan!Ye queues have been much better today. Huge milestone for me too today which I'm so happy with. I reached my 100th ride on smiler this year. Done smiler more this year than I've done most the rides in total since I started visiting towers in 2013
You get the odd school trip right the year round...some posh prep/boarding schools have year round placements for parents abroad...they often have passes for year round reward trips.
Ye queues have been much better today. Huge milestone for me too today which I'm so happy with. I reached my 100th ride on smiler this year. Done smiler more this year than I've done most the rides in total since I started visiting towers in 2013
I now have a vision in my head of a bunch of kids wearing double breasted suits called Tarquin and Gideon with double barrelled surnames riding Grand National.
Didn't think about it that way. You might be right unfortunately I don't know how these things will affect me in the long term100 rides on The Smiler in 4 months….. based on the brain damage caused by Rugby and boxing that’s early onset dementia for you!
A few times this season I believe - busy peak season a few seasons ago it would regularly be 100+ minutes
Wet weather operations?
This was what it was like last summerI don’t know that it’s exactly a ghost town today… 3 coasters (Smiler, Rita and Galactica) are on 60, with Wicker being on 55 and Spinball being on 50.
Nemesis on 30 is pretty quiet, though, and Oblivion on 10 is practically deserted… particularly when Smiler is on 60. I know Oblivion has a somewhat higher throughput than Smiler, but surely a few extra pph on their own wouldn’t reduce the queue by 50 minutes compared to Smiler?
Perhaps the weather might be playing a role today? I don’t know what Alton is like, but it’s bucketing down with rain here in Gloucestershire…
EDIT: Scratch that, Oblivion’s now 30… must have been an understated queue time.
What’s Enterprise?This was what it was like last summer