Fred
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I doubt she'll be able to do anything - the previous guy has worked under Tussauds Group and I can imagine him not wanting it to be the way it was either!
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It's only advertised on the Queue Boards - didn't think anyone paid attention to the ride entrance ones (where you can change them anyway?).
Staff ask too. But when they were extending til 7pm the overwhelming majority of queues were 0mins at the 6:30 ride times update. Not to say it was still dead, but shows that people dont tend to stick around.
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Why do people think this Horror Pass is bad value? The freedom pass at towers was exactly the same price and sold out.
It's obviously aimed at the TP and standard passes market to get more visitation in (as that's what they're struggling with, hence TP season passes and annual passes being stupidly cheap this year!)
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Poor deal. Also dislike the Horror Pass idea.
Towers has removed their Freedom Pass option this year to allow queues to flow more smoothly, this is what thorpe should be doing rather than littering with fastrack (or turn them into paid mazes!)
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Unless Fastrack is closed (such as early morning).
There's no way they'd block off 4 rows for disabled guests. It'd cause all sorts of issues should the ride shutdown.
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That rock has actually laid there for months - was there last year.
The queue was closed due to an issue with a step, but good on TowersStreet for just jumping to conclusions
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The incident was easily preventable last year.
As for the above "fault" it sounds like a tripped sensor, either being misaligned or a fat guest.
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I have a childhood phobia of escalators. I use them, but I really dislike them.
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It must be one of the quietest days of the year I think but not entirely sure. Rollercoasters will be on one train and rides on slower operations I would imagine just like Thorpe
You don't know Towers then.. they don't DO one train operations, even on the quietest of days!!
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True story! The above vegetation love damp porous materials. Hence why the volcano is green. And every normal active volcano is green.
I enjoy this. This is like the "it's meant to look run down" answer.
It's meant to look like it was built to look like, not what nature has made it become due to a lack of TLC
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There's never any point in getting Gold. But yeah only buy Fastrack if worth it.. it's not really worth it on first week of Scarefest (just get loads of maze tickets!).
Fastrack I'd recommend is Silver+ - the 6 coasters for £30 - if you actually wanted to buy Fastrack
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I don't think extended opening hours work - they did this til 10pm a few years ago and was completely dead. People are still very much in the mindset of arriving around 11 and leaving around 5-7pm.
You would think that if any parks would've grasped how eradicate queues it would be Disney. Yes, they're trialling Standby+ and going mental (see http://www.themeparktourist.com/features/20140815/28078/4-theme-busting-changes-walt-disney-world-should-consider-reversing), however most of their editions are to... improve the queue experience. Or still have people around the queues anyway. Fastpass+ has huge difficulties and this is on same level as Thorpe.
Just really don't see it's worth it, reading the other topic and hearing how many staff they're investing in a free system is utterly bonkers!
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The thing which, judging from feedback, is the main reason people are enjoying it is because its providing shorter queues than the main queue without having to pay for it.
Obviously if people used the system, then the queues would be long, and it'd be great to see the feedback or if it diminishes in the afternoon.
Fair play to Thorpe for trialling it though - it'll be more expensive to run staff wise, they have the equipment (unless Accesso is doing everything for free...), and they're doing additional things to try and keep guests entertained. I'd absolutely hate to see what their Fastrack figures are at the moment (and can only imagine Fastrack would reduce in price/increase in allocation if only to maintain the same cashflow).
All in all, a very expensive way of improving experience and reducing your margins, when all you really need to do is invest in high capacity rides and then ensure the staff are running these at high capacity without putting bonkers operation rules in there to slow it down. Then suddenly guests have a good day, they enjoy themselves, and it's cost them bugger all really.
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RnR is operating on the basis of it being the queue... but for thorpe not to obviously adjust the main queue waiting times and not piss those guests off is just silly. a 40min queue on a normal day will not be a 40min queue when RnR is operating.
As for people saying it's cos they hate change - people are allowed to visit a theme park and ride at their leisure y'know. Not everyone wants to be dictated or have to use a mobile/queueing device to enjoy their day. Some prefer to have the information provided (a 40min queue should you ride this) then decide for themselves if they want to join it or not.
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Picsolve now offer £30 for unlimited downloads!!!!! (on the day).
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Those looking at transport - there's a really nice 8 hour National Express coach which reduces your cost from Victoria Coach station in london.
If you can handle the travel time, you may well wish to look at that option!
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They're having their worst season so far... due to lack of investment.
Shame, but unsurprising. If their management team ran Flamingoland it'd be good. Unfortunately I feel sorry for them.
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From my experience over 3 days (rather quiet days) Krake is best to do first - the queue just never relented on any occasion whereas I tried to do what you do in Britain (ie, queue for smiler early afternoon or at very end of day). Made no difference.
Hotels gorgeous though, by far my favourite Merlin hotel (built by tussauds.. shh).