Yeah it's very busy by the looks of it. @Ethan must've expected it to be packed like sardinesTo me that is really busy, roughly an hour for 4 of the 6 coasters, wouldn't want to be there without fast track today
It's to sell more platinum passes and atleast the guest satisfaction for the full paying guests and families on those days will be higher if it's less rammed a lot of which will be people experiencing the place for their first time too, atleast that's the way I see it.I think the current system of blackout days needs to be relooked at to even out guest numbers around bank holidays. Perhaps the blackout calendar should have different dates for theme parks and midways.
I was expecting queues to get upto 100 minsYeah it's very busy by the looks of it. @Ethan must've expected it to be packed like sardines
I normally avoid this thread like I do exercise, but other than Sub Terra and Wickerman, I wouldn't call 5-10 mins "inflated". More margin of error.Was on park yesterday for first time in few weeks and I noticed that queue times were a bit inflated on some rides. In terms of queue times compared to actual waits:
Smiler- advertised 40 waited 35
Oblivion- advertised 20 waited 15
Th13teen- advertised 10 waited 5
Spinball- advertised 10 waited 5
Wicker man- advertised 40 waited 15
Galactica- advertised 40 waited 30
Sub-terra- advertised 45 waited 20
So overall some queues were fairly accurate and some were way off.
It surprises me that they can't count everyone that joins the queue, divide it by the hourly throughput and then you have an accurate queue time. They must know averagely how many dispatches they get through, thus giving the throughput figure. They just need some automated system that counts every time people walk into the queue line. They would need one for those exiting the queue after entering too and removing people when they board. For example, they calculate there's 1274 people in the queue for Wicker man, divide by 1080 (45 dispatches when ride is operating at best) then that's a queue time of 70.77 mins so they could just say 70 mins. Can't be difficult to count surely there's the technology to do it
Not sure how queue times are set these days, but back in 2000s we used to eyeball the queue and set the sign at the entrance. Sometimes you weren't quite sure so would apply exactly this logic and overestimate it.There is a lot of psychology when it comes to queuing. Tell someone it will be a 30 min queue it’s a nice surprise if it’s only 20.
Not all roads lead back to wanting to sell more fastrack.