Marc

Thorpe don't over sell it more than any other park I've been to to be fair and it's managed better than some of them too. If it was a massive problem causing masses of complaints then they would need to do somthing. Anyway as has been said the park are trying things to improve it such as reserve n ride. Will be very interested to see how this works when it's on more than the swarm.

IMO if fastrack was actually a Problem and by that I dont mean somthing enthusiasts just complain about, something would have most certainly changed.

Thing is its a way of life and not just in theme parks, you can pay a few quid and get to the front of the queue at Airport Security and of course for a few quid more the front of the line to get on board the planes! If it wasnt for fastrack there will have been trips I would have wasted my time queueing instead of enjoying the rides so I do have to disagree with that, whilst they may not be demand in Europa I guess its clear in the UK theres plenty of demand here.

Apart from those who would like the option to pay more and queue for less time which there clearly is a large demand for

After visiting Port Aventura Thorpe / Merlin fastrack really isn't run that badly at all. Each ride has a vending machine to purchase fastrack outside its entrance, with some rides having their own little booths to purchase. Ride staff don't seem to fussed atall about the normal queue and fastrack are more often that not let straight on... Good for us but I wouldnt like to stand in their normal queues! Along with that, on the busiest day Bacco had a constant full fastrack queue, which cant have been any less than 40 min which I can only assume its either unlimited or its limits are set way higher!

I *think* it used to have 5 trains, it has 4 now but only runs 3. If it runs 4 it will stop on the 3rd animation each time, on 3 it can go straight though so the throughput shouldnt be affected!

^This. Retail / Sales staff have no influence atall over the times displayed on the queue boards. Its a crazy theory made up of someone putting 2 and 2 together and making 5.

Surely a system which is both easier to update and syncs up with their new app to keep guests informed of queue times is better than the old system which both didnt always update and didnt sync with the app is a improvement? I'm interested to see where this reserve n ride goes, it seemed to work well during the trail last weekend and if implemented correctly could solve alot of issues in one shot.

Heh I saw Port Aventura had fastrack vending machines outside all of their fastrack rides, I'm sure people will be delighted if these replace the people at the front in the UK

As far as I'm aware at the moment its updated by rides staff, people who will naturally have a much better knowledge of both the rides throughputs / queue lengths and are better informed to guess the queue time. Stealth has some counter counting people in and out of its queue which I can only assume is a trial, whilst that works well in theory if the rides running at 100% capacity all the time, only the smallest thing could go wrong and suddenly you have a queue advertised at 20 mins when its really 40 mins, I can assure you 99% of people will be more unhappy at the queue being longer than advertised than if its shorter than advertised. Personally I dont think its a new problem, whilst every effort is made to keep them updated and systems have improved over the years (particularly this years new boards) they are still only an approximate number and from visiting towers / CWOA not exactly a Thorpe issue. I personally dont think its possible to make the advertised queue length correct 100% of the time, there are to many factors constantly changing to make this possible. And dont forget this is the park trailing a new system to eliminate queues on its major rides completely all in the aim of improving guest experience..

I don't see what the park can do unless they employ a member of staff to stand out side each ride to constantly monitor the queues. Because queues change so quick it's impossible to have them right 100% of the time but know for a fact they are not shown to be longer to boost fastrack sales.

Hi all It's come to our attention that members from the forum are going into off limits areas of the park to photo updates of the new maze construction. Whist we understand your all excited about what the park have in store for us it's important members DO NOT enter areas off limits to the park or take cameras onto rides to get images. Doing so is against both park and H&S rules and any members found doing so may not be permitted to attend special exclusive TPM events. On that note we have some exciting news to release soon Thanks for your understanding and if you have any questions please contact me. Marc

Ah this reminds me of saws first season sating how they must fix it and what not. They won't and it will just get worse

I guess you wernt around when inferno was at the top of the lift for over a week.. Obviously guests were of by then though

To be fair I guess this is part of the problem, thorpe park are clearly putting alot of effort into this years event and I think it will be the biggest haloween event we will have seen this side of the pond, with that brings interest and in turn the crowds will flock to it. I guess if you your self are not too fussed about doing the Halloween attractions then there may not be a massive appeal to you to stand in long queues to do them

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Yeah I did think this, but then I assume there must be a cut off point at which it will not allow any more people to join the "queue"

Seemed to work quite well for forwards, how ever backwards did get quite a queue at some point. The system was giving out time slots for 6:40 on a 6pm close, not sure if it was meant to but I'm guessing not!!

It's clear the majority seem to like the £5 entry method more. To be fair for your fiver your getting another totally revamped event which it's clear is going to cost a significant amount of money or you can go to towers for a largly unchanged event.

I wouldn't say it's a failed concept, wasn't obvlion the only dive machine for some time time before they started popping up everywhere? It just depends what the park was to do with one, I wouldn't rule out any ride types just yet!

It's open now

I'd say if it dont ask for an annual pass number you will be fine, but if it does you may need to wait till you have your new pass.

It will be free to pre book for premium passes

They are bringing out a new one soon so the old one has been taken down from the app store

Ive allways said Storm Surge is underrated