Fred

It is entirely a deterrant - and quite rightly so.The service is a privilidge, not a right, therefore comes at a cost. Plus, as it is, the demand for fastrack is too high and they do sell out, causing complaints anyway.The higher it is, the better imo. The less people who buy fastrack, the happier the entire world - the main queue goes quicker for it, and the fastrackers get a quicker fastrack queue.At the end of the day, its up to you to secondary spend. Moan all you like about entrance prices though .(In the case of towers, dunno if its more than thorpe or not, they hand out a LOT of free entry tickets and have a LOT of annual pass holders.. so rely on fastrack as secondary spend, and the fastrack should be high enough to still be a kind of value for them, but not too cheap for everyone to wanna use it).

Hey. I'm nowhere near the top. I don't think it's working well.But at least it goes to the right place. So thank yous.

Maybe they just feel its beneficial to be open consistently, so guests will turn up on a whim.. rather than worrying about whether its open, so just dont turn up.It's a tactic done by shops and cinemas etc.. be open even if there's noone.. just to build up that image

Bugger. Don't think I'd be able to fit it in then. Thanks anyway.

When I wanna click ooonn overall top posters, it takes me to my messages thing. Does this mean overall, I'm the best?

Yeah, literally only reason I posted was its open fully in Sept and Oct. Other than that, woo for bland opening times.

What queuetime do you think mr monkeys banana ride will have on the parks opening day? Just that I wanna fit it in between inferno and lunch.. cheers.

I believe its 650pph!

Casually browsing and this just appeared and got me into hysterics. Epic.

Chessie has managed to get a full array of opening times this year. No zoo days at all according to the website.(yeah you can find the opening times yourself )

Well you do. This is a fast and bumpy ride.Oh wait, like almost everything at chessie supposedly. Interesting..

Money money money. It's not that bad. Depends if you rate job satisfaction at all .I thought this'd be perfect for JoshC, minimum wage* seems like something you'd be able to live on, if we read your posts!*for 22+, so its pretty good for a 16yr old, especially if you compare it to working at a supermarket which will pay at the 16-17 level

I loved my recent job, and just waiting to go back to previous job which I also thoroughly enjoyed. Ooh!

Gah, you do wind people up sometimes!I fully respect his wanting to work at chessie, I was in exactly the same situation at 15, wanting to work at the same park.I've continued to work within the parks at not too much money (5 seasons on!), but its affordable. Who cares if its minimum wage or near it? Doesn't matter. As long as you enjoy your job. And I personally love working for merlin.School is boring ****, I chose the route of working instead of education. Sure, I ain't gone far, but my job satisfaction and morale is high, and I love my life. Some people get far more from working than education anyway. Think Richard Branson etc.Jobs ain't that easy to come by - and summer jobs are even harder seeing as everyone that age is trying then. Grab them whilst you can. I fully support the 15yr old!

Abdab shouldn't be outside. He's made for an indoor attraction, and as so, I'm sure the weather is ruining him. He'll look godawful in a year or twos time.. not that he looks amazing now anyway with chipped paintwork.

Can't believe I have to quote myself.

I'm tired of people moaning about it.If the road is usually gritted, it would've been gritted. It doesn't stop snow settling.Dunno if you get on trains, but if you did you'd realise the past few weeks, the platforms are gritted everyday.. yet when the snow falls.. omg.. it settles on it.Bloody hell. Expect bloody disruption. Every country in the world gets it. Its just how they deal with it. And tbf, they've dealt with it well (apart from ****ty spanish owned heathrow - but we all know why that is).

One window has a spider, one window has a hand, one window has a face which lights up every now and then and is freaky, and the other is a room thing which had that **** HPH thing.The light was added this year I believe. It definitely didn't exist pre-09 as I spent a fair amount of time in that tunnel

Rameses fountains are manually operated. The strength or amount of water will change, as will the rides position, every cycle.

Well you do know what you're getting with an eye brand and a sealife brand etc.It's boring, but consistant and they're not bad really.

Out of the hundreds of APs I've looked at this year, I've seen two premiums. They don't look anywhere near as sexy as the blue standard ones though.

Probably in terms of how many extra people they can get to buy an annual pass.Renewals have been quite cheap for a while, they can capture some extra from that.

Think it'll just be unbranded. They wouldn't get rid of it.. its alright, its tempremental.. but it has a shockingly high throughput which they cant really get rid of.

Let's not compare thorpe to drayton, but what about to flamingoland or lightwater valley? The valley definitely pissed over what thorpe had, and they didn't exactly have like money..

Well its just a name change for the restuarant in the hotel it seems.. the thing already fits into african savanna so I doubt they'd change much inside. The menu sounds the same as well!