Ride Availability/Operations 2022-24

[Matt N]

Similarly to @dave___, I rode Thirteen in extremely rainy conditions last March. I saw it go up the lift hill problem-free during an absolutely torrential downpour.

They seem to have solved the previous rain problem, as far as I can tell. You should be fine.

 

[rob666]

The issue is general reliability...and it isn't always quick to open, as I experienced this week.

 

[rob666]

Kids these days don't deserve rewards. Get them doing national service etc etc. Always on their pads and phones. Pfffft. A theme park is no place for children!

Back down the mines if they fail the eleven plus, like it should be.

 

[Bowser]

The issue is general reliability...and it isn't always quick to open, as I experienced this week.

Yeah, it's a sunny calm Saturday and neither Thirteen or WickerMan are open yet so don't have much hope on a wet Monday.

 

[Danscott22]

Might've missed this, but is TWoDW now opening at 11am every day instead of 10?

 

[Skyscraper]

Might've missed this, but is TWoDW now opening at 11am every day instead of 10?

Looks like it, yes. Not quite sure why though.

 

[Bowser]

I’m here now, everything has been open since we arrived, even Congo

 

[dave___]

I’m here now, everything has been open since we arrived, even Congo

You should be down in FV rattling the fences asking the builders what they are making

 

[Burner]

Looks like it, yes. Not quite sure why though.

Probably staffing issues. If Tech Services haven't got enough staff, it's best to focus resources on getting the major rides open for 10, rather than spreading themselves thin and then nothing is open on time.

 

[Bowser]

You should be down in FV rattling the fences asking the builders what they are making

They were making a racket is all i could ascertain.

Best ever day at AT though, only ride i ever saw down was Nemesis. Even Thirteen managed to open at 10am and run all day despite constant rain.

 

[stu646]

We went yesterday and had a great day! No ride had a longer queue than 15 mins all day. Nememis was walk on, same with oblivion as well.

The only thing I will moan about, when you have walk ons all day like nememis was, my god...don't make us walk round the whole queue line! We spent longer walking the empty queue line than riding it!!

Food wise, as always I went to Woodcutters, for £32 me and my daughter had 2 nice meals and drinks each. Always nice food and much better value then the fast food outlets..

 

[Ethan]

The only thing I will moan about, when you have walk ons all day like nememis was, my god...don't make us walk round the whole queue line! We spent longer walking the empty queue line than riding it!!

Nothing they can do about that they’re not going to let people walk through fastrack are they

 

[Alsty]

Not sure on the layout of the new queue but there's normally gates to open and close sections. You don't need all the queue areas open on quiet days.

 

[Skyscraper]

Not sure on the layout of the new queue but there's normally gates to open and close sections. You don't need all the queue areas open on quiet days.

They do close off some sections of Nemmy's queue on quiet days, such as the section that goes around the tank.

 

[Ethan]

Noticed that Rita has had a lot of downtime in recent days. Was only open for about 30 mins or less yesterday. I saw it testing regularly at around 3pm but it didn’t open unfortunately. Wonder what the issue might be as it was testing without a problem from what I could see

 

[Alphe86]

Sunday Rita ran flawlessly on two all day. Odd.

 

[Blackhole_Sun]

Sunday Rita ran flawlessly on two all day. Odd.

Not quite….It was down for a large period of time in the afternoon I believe. I managed to get on it in the morning.

I noticed on row 8 that the wheels were making a very weird noise that I had never heard before. It was possibly because they were new.

 

[Bowser]

Parks all seem relatively quiet and with good availability today! Tomorrow likely to be better or worse?

 

[AT86]

Parks all seem relatively quiet and with good availability today! Tomorrow likely to be better or worse?

Today and tomorrow are exclusion dates for Merlin Discovery, Silver & Gold and local park passes.

I would expect tomorrow to be similar in crowd levels to today, if not slightly less.

 

[Bowser]

Today and tomorrow are exclusion dates for Merlin Discovery, Silver & Gold and local park passes.

I would expect tomorrow to be similar in crowd levels to today, if not slightly less.

Does seemingly confirm that overcrowding is due to MAP then?