Single Riders Under Current Restrictions

[Lneeno]

Bit of a broad question but are parks throughout Europe In general allowing single riders? Not necessarily the queues, but allowing them to queue and ride. I’ve heard of a few issues at Alton that’s all.

if so, which parks are? Apologies if this isn’t worthy of a thread.

 

[Acl90]

Great thread. I’m hopefully off to Energylandia and Europa in a few weeks and would be keen to know if being a single rider is going to limit my ride choices.


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[CSLKenny]

^At Europa being a single rider won't limit anything for you. Just wait in the normal queueline with everyone else.

 

[Themeparksandy1981]

What happens if there a family of 3 or 5 from 2 households? It’s kind of a difficult question as I notice on Shawn and Charlotte in there uk Vlogs they been on there own row but in there European videos they been sat next to each other.

 

[Enter Valhalla]

Bit of a broad question but are parks throughout Europe In general allowing single riders? Not necessarily the queues, but allowing them to queue and ride. I’ve heard of a few issues at Alton that’s all.

This is because Alton Towers have a rule that you are not allowed on any rides as the only person in the vehicle.

This is fine on coasters such as Nemesis which have long trains with people on other rows. It only becomes an issue on the Rapids and Spinball because single riders can’t be paired up with other guests due to social distancing. This means that these two rides can’t accommodate single riders.

This is however, unlikely to be an issue at any other park. Alton Towers is the only park I’ve ever come across this rule of people not being allowed to ride in a vehicle alone. At other parks, including Merlin ones, I’ve witnessed single riders being alone in a ride vehicle, including on comparable rides such as Dragons Fury and other Rapids rides.

In short, it’s an Alton Towers policy which you’re unlikely to encounter elsewhere.

 

[Lneeno]

This is because Alton Towers have a rule that you are not allowed on any rides as the only person in the vehicle.

This is fine on coasters such as Nemesis which have long trains with people on other rows. It only becomes an issue on the Rapids and Spinball because single riders can’t be paired up with other guests due to social distancing. This means that these two rides can’t accommodate single riders.

This is however, unlikely to be an issue at any other park. Alton Towers is the only park I’ve ever come across this rule of people not being allowed to ride in a vehicle alone. At other parks, including Merlin ones, I’ve witnessed single riders being alone in a ride vehicle, including on comparable rides such as Dragons Fury and other Rapids rides.

In short, it’s an Alton Towers policy which you’re unlikely to encounter elsewhere.

Cheers for the reply, there’s not much info about single riders on many parks websites so it’s good to know this is more of an alton towers thing.

 

[John_P]

Must be a recentish rule change as I'd been on both the log flume (genuinely terrifying when the duck accosts you) and the river rapids on my own.

 

[Themeparksandy1981]

I went to Alton Towers alone in 2012 a month before my wife gave birth and I then had no problems been a single rider on many rides.I had my own tub on the flume and my own boat on the rapids so can’t see what the difference is now.

 

[Enter Valhalla]

I say this because signage is now in place on the Rapids and Spinball stating that single riders can’t be accommodated and when I visited last week this was being fully enforced on the Rapids, I saw someone get turned away for this reason.

One time when I was last in the queue for Rita, riding alone, I was literally the only person left in the queue as a full train had just been batched through. As Alton also enforce a no re-rides policy, meaning that nobody from the previous train could jump back on with me (as would be the case at many other parks), they had to get a staff member to jump on with me so that the no single riders rule could be observed.

 

[djtruefitt]

I imagine it’s a fairly new ish rule, as certainly years gone by I know of people riding rides on their own, used to always have a trick on old meets where you would force someone on their own rapids boat, and was never a issue.

But towers go over and above with rules and procedures compared to any other park in the world.

 

[Orange Ribena]

This is because Alton Towers have a rule that you are not allowed on any rides as the only person in the vehicle.

This is fine on coasters such as Nemesis which have long trains with people on other rows. It only becomes an issue on the Rapids and Spinball because single riders can’t be paired up with other guests due to social distancing. This means that these two rides can’t accommodate single riders.

This is however, unlikely to be an issue at any other park. Alton Towers is the only park I’ve ever come across this rule of people not being allowed to ride in a vehicle alone. At other parks, including Merlin ones, I’ve witnessed single riders being alone in a ride vehicle, including on comparable rides such as Dragons Fury and other Rapids rides.

In short, it’s an Alton Towers policy which you’re unlikely to encounter elsewhere.

I was put in a boat on my own on the River Caves and the Rugrats Log Flume at Pleasure Beach no issues. I'm not sure why AT have to be so tight in terms of single riders. Oh and the Dora the Explorer boats as well...yeah no excuse for an adult going on that themselves but there was no queue and I'd never been on.

 

[rob666]

Not the first grown up that has gone on their own...
Use it to wash my feet after gardening if spongebob is closed.

 

[John]

I visited Le Pal in France the other day, almost all of their major rides have single rider queues and they're all still in use from what I saw.

 

[yoursilentface]

I was at towers yesterday and went to spinball first....got there quite early so was in the queue before the ride opened

There was a young girl at the very front of the queue...god knows what time she got there...but the ride opp waited until he opened the gate for us to walk through the queue line to tell her single riders couldn't go on the ride alone

What a stupid thing to do,surely he should've told her when she arrived...caused some right grumbles from everyone else waiting