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Ride Availability/Operations 2022-25

Sometimes bad weather can help. I went for 2 days, staying 1 night at the hotel. And on day 1 it poured all day. Which was a pain but everyone with a day ticket must've reconsidered and postponed their trip as we had really good queue times and had a great day. Day 2 was nicer but queues were longer.
 
MrCoaster said:
Sometimes bad weather can help. I went for 2 days, staying 1 night at the hotel. And on day 1 it poured all day. Which was a pain but everyone with a day ticket must've reconsidered and postponed their trip as we had really good queue times and had a great day. Day 2 was nicer but queues were longer.
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Can't seem to find one great dead day for ques atm ha
 
Bowser said:
Friend is there now with family for first time ever, everything outdoors has been closed for several hours, somethings never opened and gangster granny down (with young kids so that was planned storm salvation) :(

Update: Granny has reopened!
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There was a park wide power outage during the electrical storm so the rides that don’t usually close during electrical storms were forced to close also.

The storm was right on top of towers so it’s unsurprising the power was affected.
 
AltonLover123 said:
There was a park wide power outage during the electrical storm so the rides that don’t usually close during electrical storms were forced to close also.

The storm was right on top of towers so it’s unsurprising the power was affected.
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I'm not sure the Gangster closure was related as Hex remained open he said but his kids were too scared to go on.
 
Matt N said:
What is the point of an indoor ride with a leaky roof that can’t operate in rain?

Surely they should fix that, as isn’t the whole point of an indoor ride to be shielded from the rain?
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In fairness the point of an indoor ride is usually immersion primarily and being rainproof is an additional bonus.

I’m not convinced this rain theory is correct. The forecast today is rain most of the day, does that mean it won’t operate? Surely it would be the most frequently closed attraction if this was the case? Queuetime has it as being available for 89.9% of park opening hours the past 7 days and presumably most of the closure time is due to the regular late opening? Other than the hour closure yesterday it has had virtually no downtime once operating the past 7 days. I gather it has been rather wet everywhere?
 
GooseOnTheLoose said:
I've read that they could make a saving of at least £200,000 by closing them for the remainder of the season*.

*Granted it was an AI hallucination, but that's good enough just to dump here, isn't it?
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Given how many staff members it requires and how much it probably costs to run, I wouldn't be surprised if it was around that number.

Still a shame that it's one less family ride for Scarefest, though.
 
Skyscraper said:
Given how many staff members it requires and how much it probably costs to run, I wouldn't be surprised if it was around that number.
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I need to make it perfectly clear, that it absolutely would not cost £200,000 to run the rapids for the rest of the season.

I made it up entirely, whilst attempting (and failing) to make an amusing joke based on a post in the Thorpe Park thread, where a user dumped an AI generated table which falsely stated that it would cost £140,000 to run their raids for the remainder of the season (without verifiable sources).
 
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