Slammer was closed pretty much all day today, it opened at about 4:20 but had closed again between then and 4:50.
The batching was dreadful of Wednesday, when people have said on here that it took 15 minutes to batch I thought there might have been a bit of an exaggeration, but it took that, if not more.
There were 2 people in each console, 1 was coming out to check restraints and batch, and one was operating but they were still not batching while the ride was in operation. They waited until everyone had exited the ride. When they did batch, they just let the chain go, they didn't count people in each row meaning that once everyone was behind the air gates they had to count us a couple of times. Why they didn't count us in I have no idea. Once they had that sorted they waited about 2 minutes before opening the air gates and then we were waiting in our seats for another couple of minutes before they locked the restraints. They couldn't of checked the restraints any slower to be honest.
When we were on the ride, we then got stopped numerous times after going up not even half way, one of the times was because staff not putting there thumbs up. After that they they needed to get us back behind the air gates and test it. Not sure why, probably because they had to stop it so many times
Anyway what could of been a 5 minute ended up being a 20 minute+ wait which is a shame. I'm not sure if they have been told to wait a certain amount of time before they let guests on and lock the restraints or not? Hopefully the batching can improve though and if for whatever reason they have been told to wait a certain amount of time before loading, this problem can get resolved and they can continue with normal operation