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It's going to be June isn't it?

Why are you excusing awful quality and excessive price rises?

It’s great to see the parks finally spend some money on appearance and new rides, but that’s no good if they’re not getting the basics right. It’s clear the maintenance teams are seriously stretched, especially Chessington. A family spending a decent amount of money in the Easter holidays stuck in long queues with rides on reduced capacity and 4 major rides closed aren’t exactly going to rush back are they? They won’t care about the new rides opening later this year. They’re killing their reputation. Why are rides like tiger rock running at nearly a third of their theoretical capacity? There’s no excuse.

When there's actual news to share. Rule 1 of theme parks. Don't jump into ride areas. Rule 2. Don't give out time frames because people will hold you to them and get angry if its wrong.

Still saying spring 2023 hahahaha I wonder when they are gonna give us an opening date and how far in advance. I’d quite like to see an update

If Paultons continues on their trajectory then could easily surpass Lego and Chessie. Granted very difficult for them to tackle the 30 odd years both have been in the game. But they're certainly making a good effort so far. Few more decent expansions and infrastructure improvements and they'll get there. Unlikely we'll see good competition elsewhere though. The other parks don't seem to be much bothered.

We really do need some proper competition in the UK don’t we. I wonder if Merlin’s management actually know how dire it is at all the parks operationally? Or are they too busy backslapping and congratulating themselves about the new rides (most of which still aren’t open) and Aramark outsourcing? Because it never seems to change does it. There should be no excuses for not getting at least most rides open at capacity before the Easter holidays, surely? Good luck to the engineers on their strike. I hope management sit up and listen.

Rattlesnake did open and it was displaying an 140 minute queue. Which is possible as when I went it was on a three car operation. It's unbelievable incompetence. Something is fundamentally wrong with the Merlin parks.

The 3 Merlin parks seem grossly under prepared for the season. Again.

And that's with it missing a key coaster, their headline water ride still yet to open, no Banana Ride, and technically still being a ride down compared to last year since Ghost Train has yet to open. Eek.

Exactly. An engineer at a rebar factory I used to work in sales for, said to me once he looked into working for Thorpe Park - but the salary wasn't anywhere near where it should be and was a mickey take!

Vampire, scorpion express, kobra and rattlesnake are closed all day today. Happy Easter kids.