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Ride Access Pass Systems and Disabled Access (pre 2024)

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Alastair said:
Don't think I've ridden the back row of Nemesis for about 5 years due to RAP. Genuinely is the most annoying, badly managed and abused system the park has ever seen.
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Yes this is very annoying my fav row on one of my fav rides, wouldn’t even let me use it when there was no rap queue a few weeks ago
 
Poopoohead said:
Yes this is very annoying my fav row on one of my fav rides, wouldn’t even let me use it when there was no rap queue a few weeks ago
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Even though there's no batching host? I was able to use it from main last year. We just waited until they took the chain off. Thru didn't say anything.
 
A theme park disabled pass for a nut allergy? :rolleyes:
We really do live in such a pathetically entitled society, with no sense of patience or thought for anyone else.
Not saying that being too distressed isn't a thing, I'm sure it is, and there are people who need it out there and have honest reasons for doing what they do. But the whole process of defining whether someone is too distressed for a queue is too subjective surely? Everyone gets annoyed when they are queuing up for rides and it takes time, or if a young child is screaming down your ears. How are you supposed to draw a line and prevent abuse?
Why am I even ranting about this? There is zero chance anything will be done about it in this day and age. If they tried to stop abuse of the system, the following day we would be met with "SMILER CRASH THEME PARK HITS OUT AT INNOCENT DISABLED CHILDREN, HORRIFYING PARENTS"...
 
Chessington has it worst.

Room on the Broom can handle just a few hundred an hour. Around 60% of the capacity is RAP/FT - leaving the main queue to trickle through less than 150 an hour.

It's no wonder you've a 2 hr wait for a 4 minute walkthrough.

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AstroDan said:
Chessington has it worst.

Room on the Broom can handle just a few hundred an hour. Around 60% of the capacity is RAP/FT - leaving the main queue to trickle through less than 150 an hour.

It's no wonder you've a 2 hr wait for a 4 minute walkthrough.

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Erm rotb doesn't have FT does it?

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No. There’s no FT. It’s 50:50 main queue and RAP in terms of families/groups let through. The RAP groups are bigger than the family groups. It’ll take a max 180 an hour, as they only do one tour at a time, so the main queue is shifting less than 100pph.

It’s ridiculous.
 
It had a low capacity before - but now it's an IP, with marketing and people coming to Chessington specifically to visit it.

Nightmare.

When will that park learn that they need attractions that get a throughput? Barely anything there does!
 
AstroDan said:
It had a low capacity before - but now it's an IP, with marketing and people coming to Chessington specifically to visit it.

Nightmare.

When will that park learn that they need attractions that get a throughput? Barely anything there does!
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Yeah I guess Hocus Pocus Hall it wasn't as much of an issue as it was more of a filler attraction and never had a big queue.

Is it the same setup as HPH? Pre show followed by walk through and mirror maze?

Surely making it a full walk through, one in one out 'museum' style attraction could have worked to help throughput.
 
RicketyCricket said:
Yeah I guess Hocus Pocus Hall it wasn't as much of an issue as it was more of a filler attraction and never had a big queue.

Is it the same setup as HPH? Pre show followed by walk through and mirror maze?

Surely making it a full walk through, one in one out 'museum' style attraction could have worked to help throughput.
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I believe it's actor-lead throughout.
 
There’s a member of staff needed to press the button at the three ‘interactive’ bits. There’s no acting as such.

It’s an ok attraction. If you’re at he back o a group, then the timin is always off, and you can’t see the interim screens that are red in the corridors between the interactive bits.
 
skyscraper said:
It has a staffed preshow then the rest is walk-at-your-own-pace.
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AGL said:
There’s a member of staff needed to press the button at the three ‘interactive’ bits. There’s no acting as such.

It’s an ok attraction. If you’re at he back o a group, then the timin is always off, and you can’t see the interim screens that are red in the corridors between the interactive bits.
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I stand corrected. I wasn't prepared to wait 2 hours to find out. ;)
 
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