Marc

Around £49 each so by no means cheap, but I wanted to try it out just so I have!

After staying at the crash pad Thursday night I just thought id give my little review. We headed over to the reception building at around 2, inside the entire back wall is just a massive picture of all the Thorpe rides and it looks great. There was a mix up with our booking (I booked for 2 people instead of me) the staff were only too happy to help, although it did take abit of messing around to sort. We were taken to our room and left to it. Whilst from the outside you can't hide the fact they are shipping containers, they've done a good job with the surrounding area and the little garden area looks really nice. The rooms them selves are obviously abit tight, but they are of a very high quality, the beds are very very comfortable (probably one of the nicest I've sleeped in!) and the rooms are nice and warm (or cool!) if you like. The area around the double bed is padded so you can confortably sit on there watching tv without much fuss. The wet room is ok, the door isn't great and don't offer the best privacy and the plumbing as abit loud. But apart from that serves its purpose well. The rooms come with free shower gels / shampoo and soap along with bottled water. You can get things like hair dryers / irons from reception if you need one. For the evening meal your asked to book a time at bar 360, when we got there at our time we were shown to our table. There was full table service on offer which was nice, the food the same as in the day but the menu has improved somewhat on last year so that's no bad thing. As for the evening entertainment it changes each night depending on how busy the park is, we had rock and roll bingo and some sort of quiz, but the done was so quiet it was all abit awkward and will probably be better and offer more when it's busier. ( it's sold out the next few days so will be interesting to see how it compares) the shop in the dome seemed to open till around 7:30/8 and the arcade games were available till the dome closed at midnight. For breackfast your also given time slots either 7 till 8 or 8 till 9, your given tickets to hand in when you get to bar360, they offered a free continental breackfast or a full fry up for £5.95, I went for this option and it was quite nice. Checking out was nice and easy and there able to offer you somewhere to leave bags etc for the day, Swarm and Fish opened at 9:15 for crash pad guests giving around 45 min ert on these 2.

New signage hasnt arrived yet as far as I know!

Yes and yes

They've obviously put alot of effort into the lighting effects in the ride, I thought they were very good and with the building full of smoke the lasers are pretty decent!

The trains will go forward and from the pictures look like they will have individual lapbars, dont see why it cant be 1.0m Also ive checked and TPMs FB does say 1.0 m so not sure what happened there

How comes, its stated on the map and the website it is now 1.0 m I dont see why it would be all wrong?

Its just what X ever needed, loud music, decent lighting rig and a lower height restriction IMO.

Wow old topic! Just wanted to say I think the park deserve alot of praise for how the past few days have been handled with the cold weather. They've made sure everyone's been up to date as quickly as possible and obviously worked hard at getting an almost full line up (apart from Colossus and saw) running. Today the temperatures dropped further but with the park wide anoncments and complementary tickets due to some rides closing early I think it's all been handled great!

I beleave Colossus and saw we're closed today, not sure if inferno opened

It's possible the restraints have been replaced if they have been damaged but they will be the same ones

And yes, the water on both drops is working.

Aslong as the evening entertainment is set right, I think this will be pretty perfect for the park at this stage.

I find saw so strange, I'm able to brace my self from hitting my head on the bar its self yet it still gives me a headache most times, I guess its the ride just shaking my head around more than anything, where as on say Colossus I can stop it from hurting me.

http://www.chessington.com/updates/ 3 Rides out for the start of the season and Zufari opening late.. I look froward to seeing these upgrades!

http://www.thorpepark.com/press/image-bank/images.aspx?cat=The+Crash+Pad some new pics showing off the inside, Whilst obviously small, I think there pretty nice inside.

http://www.thorpepark.com/press/image-bank/images.aspx?cat=THE+SWARM The pictures which Thorpe took of us

Which with a bit of luck they will have.. (if its over of course) I dont see why people think we would get any better theming added to a 4/5 year old coaster than what we have already. The Saw name also still keeps it popular, cant see it ever being open as anything but Saw tbh.

Fair point, when it opened yesterday alot of the forward rows were going empty, everyone wanted to try it backwards!

People saying Back row fastrack is crazy, its almost double the capacity of Front row fastrack when they sold it on The Swarm and much higher than the Front row fastrack on Stealth..

There must be an alternative to this... As I said over closed season stealth has had new railings and a wider walk way added and you can walk under the launch there as you wish, you can also queue under it where as I beleave at Rita if still has staff stopping you whilst a train is launching.. Very odd

Yeah I think it is, Stealth has had some slightly higher / wider railings added for this year so they can have this area open for guests

This. If anything it looks worse than it did before, Dont see why at Stealth they are able to solve the issue without any of this scaffolding.. I guess its cheaper than adding to the ride maybe?

Cant add much more than what has already been said. A big thanks to Peaj for his help in arranging all this, would of been impossible without him. Also a massive thanks to the park them selves, firstly for the opportunity for us to be part of the photo shoot, and secondly to the staff working on the ride entertaining us during the breaks with some * interesting* music choices!

Like they did on Saw? No real surprise if there is fastrack for back rows, hopefully it's abit more that £6. My bigger worry is in the station and how busy it gets, IMO they should only allow 2 trains of people In the station and send through 28 every time a trains sent to try control it