People paying on the day don't tend to leave at 2 because it is busy!
This is about day ticket admission prices.
Here we go...
Men in white coats at the entrance, remember them well!
They take a tenner parking, and direct you to whichever car park you prefer...just like the old days.
Have smaller car parks all round the edge of the park areas, using coaster corner (an old coach park), the staff parking areas, at the back of Oblivion (more old parking from the seventies, and some of the current parking...no need for barriers...free entry!
Make every ride pay per ride, on a fluid, supply and demand price, with one staff on a turnstile, who would also check heights.
Special offers in low and peak season...Oblivion and Nemesis at a quid occasionally would still turn a profit with their throughput.
Fluid pricing would shorten the ridiculous queues on busy days.
More people in the gardens, more grandmas and grandads, money to be made all year round from the "stately home" side of the estate.
And a whopping great coaster on the black slab car park down to the hotels.
Sorted.