Matt N
TS Member
- Favourite Ride
- Shambhala (PortAventura Park)
If this weekend is anything to go by, it would appear that things have not improved in terms of ride availability thus far this season.
I get that it’s opening weekend and things are rarely tip top on the first weekend of the season, but this currently is a continuing trend from the end of last season rather than an anomaly.
Of all the parks I’ve been to, I’d think I’d genuinely struggle to name one with worse routine ride availability than Alton Towers at present, even ones with ostensibly worse reputations for operations. PortAventura, for example, always gets terrible flack in terms of operations, but last September, I felt that their ability to get things open on time and keep them open consistently was, on the whole, notably better than Towers’ seems to have been as of late. Thorpe Park has also had a historically poor reputation for availability, but on recent visits, I’ve felt that their availability seems better than Towers’.
I quite frequently feel that people overcook the rock bottom rhetoric surrounding Alton Towers (and Merlin more widely) on here, and that things are not nearly as bad as people on here make out. But ride availability is the one issue where I think something needs to change ASAP. I’d argue that some of the issues discussed on here are nice-to-haves, but open rides is a bare essential, really.
I get that it’s opening weekend and things are rarely tip top on the first weekend of the season, but this currently is a continuing trend from the end of last season rather than an anomaly.
Of all the parks I’ve been to, I’d think I’d genuinely struggle to name one with worse routine ride availability than Alton Towers at present, even ones with ostensibly worse reputations for operations. PortAventura, for example, always gets terrible flack in terms of operations, but last September, I felt that their ability to get things open on time and keep them open consistently was, on the whole, notably better than Towers’ seems to have been as of late. Thorpe Park has also had a historically poor reputation for availability, but on recent visits, I’ve felt that their availability seems better than Towers’.
I quite frequently feel that people overcook the rock bottom rhetoric surrounding Alton Towers (and Merlin more widely) on here, and that things are not nearly as bad as people on here make out. But ride availability is the one issue where I think something needs to change ASAP. I’d argue that some of the issues discussed on here are nice-to-haves, but open rides is a bare essential, really.
