Wicker man has a long wait. Is it on 2 or 3 trains?a busy and wet day at towers today. seems that a lot of school groups have come today; thirteen closed all day so far (presumably due to rain)
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General Queue Times Discussion 2023
Duckworth1
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Looking at Queue times today is it a glimpse into the future. Long wait times, limited thrill rides all it will take is a closure and days could be long and rough. Towers needs to find some supporting rides for next year or reduce capacity
Danscott22
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Duel re theme, hopefully Sub Terra, and more than likely the retro squad (don’t want but I’ll take them over empty spaces) +1 probably in enterprises space will probably mean nemesis being closed *should* be manageable
Matt N
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Looking at RideTimes myself, I don’t think today looks too bad.
There are a few 60s and one 70, yes, but there are also plenty of rides below 60 minutes, as well.
In the Family section, nothing is above 20 minutes… and I should add that that is with 2 rides, one of which is the Rapids, currently being closed.
There are a few 60s and one 70, yes, but there are also plenty of rides below 60 minutes, as well.
In the Family section, nothing is above 20 minutes… and I should add that that is with 2 rides, one of which is the Rapids, currently being closed.
BenTechy66
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ops only loading a single train at a time on oblivion today, resulting in a 40+ minute queue
DistortAMG
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Looking at RideTimes myself, I don’t think today looks too bad.
There are a few 60s and one 70, yes, but there are also plenty of rides below 60 minutes, as well.
In the Family section, nothing is above 20 minutes… and I should add that that is with 2 rides, one of which is the Rapids, currently being closed.
Today was not too bad..queues were overstated across the board on the app today.
We entered queues to find we were queuing much less than what the app said, some rides that had 20 to 30 minute queues stated on the app, were walk on. Very high ride count achieved today, that includes arriving at lunchtime and not rushing around.
But back to the point, every single ride we rode today had overstated times on the app.
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Danscott22
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I dunno, usually for me queue time are usually very accurate when I’m on park, and they’re only not accurate if they’ve not been updated in a while. It doesn’t seem to be like Disney where they’ll stick 70 minutes down for like 15 minutes.
LordOfDarkness
TS Member
Oh dear. Awful start to the day for ride availability today.
Only Nemesis and The Smiler open rollercoaster wise.
The Smiler has up to a 2.5 hour queue already.
Only Nemesis and The Smiler open rollercoaster wise.
The Smiler has up to a 2.5 hour queue already.
Is it on 4 or 3 trains?Oh dear. Awful start to the day for ride availability today.
Only Nemesis and The Smiler open rollercoaster wise.
The Smiler has up to a 2.5 hour queue already.
LordOfDarkness
TS Member
4.Is it on 4 or 3 trains?
Although now The Smiler is down with one train e stopped halfway up the first lift hill.
Not a good day so far!
Danscott22
TS Member
A considerable amount of people queuing for Funk’n’Fly could be between 1.2 and 1.39 metres. A considerable amount of people may also not like rollercoasters. Even if they do, a considerable amount of people may find going upside down that many times unpleasant/be scared if it. That’s probably why.
Poisson
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That Funk n Fly queue is probably physically not very long but the ops are appalling. Not looking at the app means you would have no idea without observing it for a cycle or two.
I've seen worse. Last weekend at one stage, Shambhala, Furius Baco and Dragon Khan were all on 2 hours with Stampida and Hurakan Condor on 1.5 hours. Still, it highlights the lack of rides Towers have.
I've seen worse. Last weekend at one stage, Shambhala, Furius Baco and Dragon Khan were all on 2 hours with Stampida and Hurakan Condor on 1.5 hours. Still, it highlights the lack of rides Towers have.
Skyscraper
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And the info screens located around the park, but no they don't have their own queue boards.The RetroSquad don’t have advertised queue times other than on the app, do they? So surely people joining the queue for a RetroSquad ride won’t know how long it is unless they look at the app?
Benjsh
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Monitoring the queue times this weekend since our visit on Friday...I think it's fairly obvious this park needs a lot more capacity. At some point every major coaster has had 80-90min queue this weekend and all at the same time too quite often.
The park need to bite the bullet and invest in some flat rides. Some that are high capacity and high throughput.
Add HH, NST and 1 or 2 high capacity flats would make things much better for wait times.
These traveling rides are quite frankly an insult to customers when you're getting these kind of visitor numbers.
The park need to bite the bullet and invest in some flat rides. Some that are high capacity and high throughput.
Add HH, NST and 1 or 2 high capacity flats would make things much better for wait times.
These traveling rides are quite frankly an insult to customers when you're getting these kind of visitor numbers.
Danscott22
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The retro squad rides queues aren’t advertised on boards around the park, noticed that the other week when we were looking at themAnd the info screens located around the park, but no they don't have their own queue boards.
The queues were consistently long yesterday. We delayed getting there to miss the morning's heavy rain, but there was little respite from the queues until well after dark. We ended up only missing out on Rita as the 13 queue never really abated and so after that we needed to hot foot it over to FV for a last ride on Nemesis and finished with Galactica. There's usually a few times where queues for one or another ride drop to 15/20 mins for a spell, but that never really happened.
The fast track situation is getting worse. The box office stated sold out by soon after midday - and, judging by the long FT queues for most rides, they'd sold loads of these. We only buy FT's for WM in advance - but even these had really restricted times available for the evening when I went to buy them, as so many people must snaffle them up. I always feel annoyed at myself for being part of the FT problem but, without doing that, we lose over 2 hours of what is already to tight a timeframe for the day, and that's two extra rides (one Scarefest a few years ago we didn't get FT's and only got on 5 rides all day in over 10 hours - 2.5 hours was queing for Wicker)