Perhaps you are one of the few sufferers, so they won't make much difference.
A few local schools may have tied a training day to the bank holiday (not half term, not end of term), but not enough to affect numbers.
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Queue Times Discussion 2024
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A few local schools may have tied a training day to the bank holiday (not half term, not end of term), but not enough to affect numbers.
AT86
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‘Day after bank holiday syndrome’ only tends to apply if folks are off school and work the day after the bank holiday, so Easter, late May bank holiday and Aug. Tomorrow everyone is back at school and work, so it’s unlikely to have much of an uptick in numbers versus other Tuesdays off peak.
Backed up by the dynamic ticket pricing, Tues-Thurs this week £35 with Friday being £37.
Backed up by the dynamic ticket pricing, Tues-Thurs this week £35 with Friday being £37.
Dhev123
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I always found smiler’s queue times to be overestimated and galactica’s to be under. I went last May on an off peak day and most queues were under 10 minutes but galactica took over an hour! It was on a two train service but they’d send out a train maybe once every 5-7 minutes it was ridiculousFairly low, i've done a monday visit, and 2 friday visits in the last few off peak weeks and got loads done on all visits. The Nemesis queue will be low, it was walk on in the afternoon on friday! biggest queues have consistently been galactica and the smiler with around half hour queues on my visits
I assumed it was running one train until we actually got to the station and realised there were 2
windoesnot
TS Member
Lots of schools have inset days tomorrow, ours included
The smiler is a whopping queue time of ‘Opens at 10am’
Skyscraper
TS Member
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There were thunder storms I think, that probably put some people off coming.
Here today and with some careful planning (I.e a 0915 arrival and starting in forbidden valley first) we’ve done 9 rides already, and now just enjoying a packed lunch on the benches at the front of the towers ruins people watching.
There’s a fair few school trips here now but appears to be primary schools mostly.
Starting early and staying late seems to be the way forward if ride count matters to you during this part of the season!
There’s a fair few school trips here now but appears to be primary schools mostly.
Starting early and staying late seems to be the way forward if ride count matters to you during this part of the season!
Great effort and was similar yesterday for me. In the Rita queue line by 9:15 and by 10:20 had already done Rita twice and Thirteen once. Managed 16 rides before leaving at 4:15 (Nemesis three times, Wicker Man, Thirteen, Curse, Rita all twice, and Smiler, Oblivion, Galactica, Mine Train and Spinball once).
Longest queue all day was 35 minutes on Spinball Whizzer - Sod’s Law would have it that as we joined the queue it started raining so only half filling trains, until the exact moment we got in the train when the sun came back out and switched back to full ops
When every coaster is running Towers has good capacity, I think their ride staff are consistently some of the best around, but obviously when unreliability or maintenance issues occur the place can be a shambles.
AT86
TS Member
I would expect a better day on Sunday in terms of queues and less crazy kids high on sugar everywhere.
You can get an idea for weekday queues by keeping an eye on here:
Dhev123
TS Member
Thank you!
charlotte130
TS Member
We stayed over at splash landings last night, was going to do 2 days theme park with my son but just couldn't do it today. Yesterday wasn't to bad at all and got a fair few rides in. Today on the other hand was very different. We walked into the park at 10:15 and were out again by 11. The queues hit 60 minutes for almost every ride straight away and there was just kids everywhere. The atmosphere weirdly also felt different, then I heard a staff member say they were expecting a busy day with school trips... I made my mind up there and then and went to see of we could book the waterpark last minute. Never again will I book around these dates.
Dhev123
TS Member
yes and no.
It's pretty much accurate most of the time in 'real time', it definitely helps you plan your day
BUT
Depends how you use it. If you've just gotten off reborn in forbidden valley and you see that wicker has a 15 minute queue, by the time you walk there it'll be like 75 or something because of the distance it takes to walk there, and everyone using the app will flock over there
So I'd say it's good for:
- Planning your day
- Keeping updated with closures and re-openings
- Useful for nearby Attractions
Not so useful (not the parks fault)
- kinda redundant if you're on another side of the park and you're interested in queues elsewhere, i.e., you're in X Sector and want to go to forbidden valley
Usually the above doesn't matter during weekdays in term time but it's currently peak school trip season so even weekdays can be busier than sundays