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Thats always the best way to look at it. The likelyhood is that unfortunately rides will experience technical difficulties during the duration of your busy, but hopefully if there are no rides listed as unavailable on the website, everything should be open from the morning when you enter the park.

Oh dear....

The ride availability widget does work and rides where listed on there at the beginning of the season. The rides will only be listed on that section if they are going to be unavailable from the morning and throughout the day. If a ride experiences technical difficulties during the day it will not be added to the list as rides do frequently shut down and re-open so it would not be possible to keep updating the list.Also, it seems that both the Chessington and Thorpe Park website are down at the moment. (This now seems to have been fixed)

It is not the people who actually fix the effects that should head over to Thorpe, the management team at Chessington work very hard with their guests to find out which effects they would like to see and which effects can be restored to their former glory. The management team then push for the engineers to fix these effects, or if necessary purchase new ones.

Could people possibly list some effects which used to work at chessington (whole park) and you would like to see brought back to life?

Why advertise old attractions, people already know they are there. Advertising a new attraction makes the public aware that there is something new to go and visit for. It makes perfect sense.

I'm sure they'll appreciate that ! Next time you visit Chessington go to guest services and tell them about any staff who you found to be very good, that way people like Mark can get rewarded for all of their hard work

Well let me give you rough statistics, the park has been open for 30 days 'ish , with around 5 days having a full ride lineup. 1/6 days = Approximately 17% up-time. I'm sure that the real percentage of actual time that all rides have been available will be alot lower however.

I don't believe that, please remember CCR has been down since Monday or before. They've not even gone 5 days with a full ride lineup so there's no way that can be 32%

Clapham Junction > Kingston is also another good idea. Then a bus from Kingston To Chessington should take not much longer than 20 minutes.

To spin the ride outside the station the rides staff would have to evacuate all guests, call engineers , this is just not possible. In the guide for guests with disabilities I believe it does outline which rides you may have difficulties on. The rides staff at bubble works should not of allowed you onto the ride and it should not have been stopped. Unfortunately Vampire does not have any wheelchair access, this is stated in the handbook for guests who are non ambient like yourself. Alot of complaints you have made are valid, but they are certainly things which are outlined before your visit in the day. You have to realize that a lot of efforts have been made to ensure that non ambient guests such as yourself can make the most from their day and it is just not practically possible to for fill 100% of your needs for ride access, the topics of which you brought up with Nicci and Rob will be looked into but please remember that you are told that Vampire and Bubbleworks are not advertised as rides of which you will be able to go on, this is due to the reasons of which you have given such as the fact that there was no wheelchair access for vampire. As the Bubbleworks manager would have told you today, the ride can not be stopped to allow guests onto the ride as if you unable to board yourself I would think this would cause some problems in the event of an evacuation needing to be carried out.Complaints aside, it sounds like you had a great day at Chessington and I would definitely like to go there soon to see all of the new improvements!

WE ARE NOT PHSYCIC... CHECK THE ****ING WEBSITE.

Whatever he looks like, he is also the security manager of the theme park you work at, so I'd be careful what you say.

Not if the said staff are sent home. The Saw shop will be closed with the ride as they would want to keep the island clear of guests, if people hang around the area more often that not as soon as it begins testing large crowds will gather and get hopes up that the ride may be opened. If it's off topic then why post it here? They have been moved, that's what happens with objects.

Boris was indeed very large. This information was not meant to be released so early after the event and for others information this was not released by myself. Boris the Sealion fathered over 40 pups and has died aged 28. He died in the early hours of yesterday morning and shall be very much missed by the staff and guests at Chessington.

They are indeed, the same has been done at Dragons Fury.

There shall hopefully be two new additions to the Sea Life center this year at Chessington. A new amazonian section along with a new walkway above the shark tank which will allow guests to feed the sharks and other fish.

Ah I didn't realize the other day, alternative travel shall be arranged for tomorrow now, thank you Alex If your traveling from Kingston, get a train from there to Raynes Park where you can change platforms and from platform 4 you can get a train to Chessington South.

The 465 is the bus you would like to get from Kingston - Cromwell road bus station, it only takes 20 minutes to get into the park from there, the 71 route may take slightly longer. The park is open on Saturday for those with special tickets such as Marc. On Sunday annual pass holders will be allowed into the park, as the event is not widely advertised we are not expecting a huge gate figure so the queues should not be too long, its definitely worth coming down to have a look at all the changed that have been made over the closed season this year!

Capri Sun...Chessington Or Thorpe Park

Vampire now has a new queue line complete with it's own small kiosk within it where you will be able to buy ice creams and other foods. Lockers are now provided at the entrances to Vampire and Dragons Fury.

I am doubtful the park would have made the changes that have been made this closed season if it was planned to depart anytime soon.