Marc

They are second in the world for visitor numbers which as far as I know is what they claim?

Indeed dont think there is any relevance atall but hay ho This is looking really good - am looking forward to trying this out!

Really like this - so fresh and inviting massive thumbs up!

To be fair it has very little use now in one piece or many pieces! Always sad to see old parts of the park destroyed though.

http://thorpeparkmania.co.uk/news/12-05-2014/Angry-Birds-Construction-Update - Full update from the weekend just gone.

Have you stayed at the Hotel? The rooms are built to a very high quality whilst obviously small they are very comfortable and pleasant to stay in.

https://m.facebook.com/thorpeparkmania An update from today on our Facebook - parts for the dodgems are on site now, most of the rasa has been closed off

https://www.thorpepark.com/ - New website has been launched looks pretty nice actually and continues on with the re-brand Quite like the rides pages how you can search for rides by how tall you are - can see that being helpful for familys planning trips

Ha seen this before - No way would I want to try that!

In my experience (and I visit a lot!) only on the busiest of busiest days does the car park come to a halt inside - and on the worse days they sometimes raise the barriers and it still queues so I really don't think they cause as many problems as people make out

Its in the process of being re-painted

You don't see it because the lights are off , unless you have a camera flash in there I don't know why they've removed them but they won't have done for no reason..

Just because you don't see the point don't mean there isn't one

I do agree with you, and I'm sure many of us on here have had fastrack as compensation for issues before! Don't worry about it and enjoy it!

To be fair as has been said alot of the time Staines road queues back from Staines to the Park so the barriers really won't make a huge difference. It's also hard to compare as the parks much busier now. 1000's of cars leaving a car park at the same time will cause similar problems, as I've said queue much longer than that at football and the charge is double thorpes!

What can they realistically do? 1000's of cars leaving at the same time will cause problems / delays no matter what...

Ive noticed more and more recently over the past couple of years that Staines road queues all the way from Staines to the park, which obviously makes the situation in the car park a lot worse too.

Realistically I don't think theres much they can do, whilst the barriers don't help they are not the root cause of all problems, When there are 1000's of cars all leaving at the the same time there will always be congestion, I don't think you can say 4 barriers cause it because there are ultimately only 2 lanes out of the park. Often after football I wait at least an hour to get out of the car park and thats without barriers!

Fixed - thanks

To be fair they are probably more complicated than a typical fountain you would find in your garden pond! Sure it don't look great how it is, and Chessington and its Engineers will be well aware of that and is no doubt top on the list to be fixed. For all we know its waiting for a part or something, but in the busy Easter period they are probably better off having the ride open without the fountains working.

http://thorpeparkmania.co.uk/page/johnwardley Heres part 1 of a recording of the event. Thanks very much to toofpikk

Well before the area was kind of a mismatch between Amity Cove / Calypso Quay and Pirates from Pirates 4D so you had Amity Drop and Shop in a Pirate themed building, Amity Fish and Chips was also in a pirate themed building but then it was generally accepted it was part of Calypso Quay? If anything it makes it a proper area and not just a mismatch.

I think the key words here are so far. Ok we are not going to have an area with Disney standard theming, but I am confident when it opens Angry Birds land will look good and be a massive improvement on what was there before.

Whilst obviously staff being rude is a total different matter I don't really think Swarms station needs batchers inside the station, people sort them selves into 2s easily enough, will wait for the front if they wish too. I guess the problem starts with the back rows, I think what would work better is to have no backwards row queue at the entrance and allow people who wish to do it backwards queue in the station. Would all work much better IMO

Another new Resin for this year - really like this one!