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How Busy Is It Going To Be?


Mark9

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Right, so instead of endless topics asking us how busy the park is going to be, instead here is a rough guide to the kind of business the park/s should be expecting this season. It's not set in stone and remember business can be effected by weather, ride reliability, mount of trains/cars on the rollercoasters, amount of staff working on things, fastrack etc etc etc!10am - 5pm Weekday. Likely to be very empty, particularly in term time. Queue time should be minimal (Unless your name is Stealth and you have a stupid system where you can only load 4 in the first, 8 in the second and then you end up rolling back anyway etc etc) 10am-5pm Weekend. Will be emptyish, however likely to be long queues for Saw, Colossus, Stealth and Nemesis Inferno.10am-6pm. Busy but not so bad. Queues for the coasters could reach 45/60 minutes, whilst the rest of the flat rides should be a max of 30 minutes. June and July are when schools start rolling in, so between 11-3 the park will be very busy.9.30am-6pm. Should be busy. Queues for the coasters could reach 60/90 minutes and the rest of the rides queues will be between 20/40 minutes. Fastrack will be in operation.9.30-7pm. Expected to be busy. Queues should be similar to 9.30-6.00 close except the last hour should be quite empty.9.30-8.00 Again should be busy. At least you have a long day to get on quite a few rides. 10.00am-10.00pm Will be busy. Last year wasn't as bad as previously however if it ever hits peak capacity, queues will be up to 2 hours for the rollercoasters and between 45/90 minutes for the flat rides.Remember guys, read this guide to help if you beat the queues without wasting money on Fastrack. Also use the park well. Head to Stealth and Inferno instead of Saw and Colossus. Do rides whilst they look empty instead of following the majority of the crowds.

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Planning on visiting on the 15th as well and only remembered about mothers day last week (how awful of me) I just assumed it would be practically empty? Weather if cold should put people off the only real draw is it being opening weekend. And let's face it only enthusiasts will care whether they go on opening weekend or not in my opinion! So I'm hoping for a nice quiet day.

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Worth noting they're giving away 500 tickets each day for that weekend, the 14th and 15th of March. https://www.thorpepark.com/events-experiences/events/my-first-coaster/

 

May encourage people to go to get the free tickets but I doubt it will make much difference at all, seeing as no one really knows about it anyway.

 

I imagine it will be dead, especially mothers day.

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500 free tickets won't affect queue times much at all.

 

That's what I was thinking, but the fact they're giving away tickets may attract more people to go. People who don't manage to get a free ticket may buy one anyway as they are there. 

 

 

Really? Isn't the total capacity of the park about 9000, so 500 is a significant amount. 

 

It's around double that aha. Most coasters get around 1000 people an hour, flats around 300/400 so 500 people spread around the park really won't make much difference at all. 

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Something I've noticed is that 13th April- 17th April are all listed as 10-6pm days which would imply school holidays however the Surrey Schools Term Dates calendar states that schools in the Surrey area go back on the 13th April.

Anyone got any idea on why this is, and if so, do you reckon the specified week will be particularly busy?

(Also, on the busiest days during Easter, what are peak queue times, I would imagine no where near as busy as Summer or Fright nights but coaster lengths of up to around 90minutes?)

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