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Ride Availability/Operations 2022-26

Squiggs said:
Oblivion has made it onto the ride availability page.:
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Though weirdly, Bugbie-Go-Round still hasn't despite it being closed all year so far.
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Customer services email addresses
Trip advisor
Google reviews

They need to hear how unacceptable this remains.

Sadly I’m not sure if it would make much difference.
 
On the other hand, from my experience yesterday (on a different point), the ride team are really trying to speed things up as much as is in their control. The girl who was showing people to their rows in the station was asking people that only one person in their group take bags etc to the cages as to speed things up that tiny bit more. Actually my interactions with (and observations of) staff on the ground floor were really good in general.
 
Matt N said:
I wonder if it would be a good idea for the park to do what some European and American parks have started doing and buy one extra train for each coaster compared to what it could run. That way, the park can run things at maximum capacity even if one train is having issues.
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As much as this would make lots of sense in lots of ways, I'm not sure it would solve their issue. They don't have the staff to get what they've got ready, so I'm not sure they'd be able to have enough staff to get the other trains signed off. Also they don't have any operating budget as is, I'm not sure where they would find the cash to buy more trains for aging rides. Perhaps when they build a new coaster they could get a spare train?
 
Some of those "28 main" would have been from the FT queue though, so it's not quite that simple. We also don't know the relative numbers of RAP & FT users in the new combined queue, if it's more FT than RAP then going back to the old arrangement would make little difference. The queue is certainly slower than it used to be, but a big chunk of that is caused by how much lower the overall throughput is these days. It used to be rare for the trains to stack, now it happens almost every cycle and often for an extended time. If they could run it at 40+ trains per hour like they used to then we wouldn't need to talk about ratios as the queue would still shift.

On a more positive note, the Smiler team were excellent yesterday - they were consistently getting trains out before one stacked behind the station. Trains were clearing lift 1 with a train barely onto the vertical lift.
 
Alton after dark is always popular, and the weather has been uncharacteristically good. But assuming the fuel crisis doesn't bite hard it definitely doesn't look like it will be any quieter than last year (possibly good if you want the park to survive in the long term).
 
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