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Thorpe Park: General Discussion

Two hour queues can be avoided if you do the rides/mazes in a sensible order. I've never believed the Scarefest crowd scare stories, we always manage to do everything we want to :)
 
Did scarefest at towers on opening day last year, didn't do mazes, only for night rides. Got on main coasters and queues were fine. Might go for the Friday due to being a weekday and kids being at school!!! Never been to Thorpe before so coasters are a priority but any mazes are a bonus!!!
 
Go the first night of the scare season if your happy to avoid the mazes. Most coasters after 6 turn to 5 mins or walk on.

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My experience of TP at fright nights in recent years has been nothing short of a complete farce.

Between endless breakdowns, over selling of fast track tickets, over selling of entry tickets, and increased popularity of IP''s coupled with several rides SBNO it resulted in ride queues hitting 3 hours in some cases. I haven't been back since.
 
Gumbo_B said:
Biting the bullet and going for it.
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Based on recent form queues shouldn't be too bad after 8. Don't get disheartened if they are long during the day, on these "events" we usually don't turn up until about seven and get on everything at least twice lol.

If anybody wants evening rides without the hassle of long queues and also wants to do the mazes, grab tickets for the annual pass preview evening when available, there's usually no queues for them, last year my son wouldn't go in the mazes but there were so few people doing them we managed to talk the actors into coming out and doing photos.
 
Frightnights is a total abortion.
As. Vip passholder getting unlimited fastrack on rides and mazes I still won’t be going.
It’s a total nightmare

All rides on one train after 7pm

The mazes are complete sht.

This is just my opinion and experience tho over the years. I can’t see it changing anytime soon o_O
 
bluesonichd said:
Frightnights is a total abortion.
As. Vip passholder getting unlimited fastrack on rides and mazes I still won’t be going.
It’s a total nightmare

All rides on one train after 7pm

The mazes are complete sht.

This is just my opinion and experience tho over the years. I can’t see it changing anytime soon o_O
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Your in general not a fan of Thorpe are you?

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The only redeeming quality Thorpe has and the only reason I force my visits is Stealth

Exit rides for the first 30mins in the morning as soon as it openes are the only way to wake you up

7pm and it drops to one train ... :mad: RIP night rides
 
I don't think the 7PM, one-train thing is always true at Fright Nights, when the park is pushing 20K visitors? I wouldn't reccomend a half-term visit at all, but surely it's not always the case as the event gets busier?
 
The capacity of the park is 14,000. Also, I have seen no evidence of this one-train reduction in the past two years.
 
Tom said:
The capacity of the park is 14,000. Also, I have seen no evidence of this one-train reduction in the past two years.
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Really? That's lower than Chessington's; I'm quite surprised by that, actually! I always thought Thorpe's capacity was 20-25,000!
 
25,000 would be not much shorter than Towers' current capacity, to which extent it simply cannot operate without crumbling. I dread to think what sort of hell on Earth Thorpe Park would be with 25,000 crammed into its significantly smaller space.
 
My recent off-peak FN visits (not last year, but both previous) has seen rides running on 2 trains with pretty much no queues until early evening. Once it gets dark rides drop to 1 train and suddenly there is a 30 minute wait.
 
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