July 14, 20187 yr comment_258973 1 minute ago, Mattgwise said: You must have gone on a bad day as my recent visits have been great. Swarm and Stealth regularly dispatching in less than a minute (40 seconds on Swarm in several instances) Nemesis Inferno admittedly has been slow for a couple of seasons now. Really shows how every day can differ. On my two visits this year, I was faced with constant downtime on the first and horrendously slow operations last weekend.
July 14, 20187 yr comment_258974 Admittedly I have a friend who said the same about last weekend but I have not had any major issues on the 6 visits I have made this year. Hopefully it will be sorted soon!
July 14, 20187 yr comment_258975 For me I find the operations on Stealth and Saw to be okay. Nemesis and Swarm are very hit and miss but when they are slow, they are damn slow.. Colossus on both rides was perhaps the most frustrating dispatching I have seen in a long while and I can see why you want fastrack for that one.. The rides ops are so slow the queue barely moves, heck even with fastrack I would get annoyed in that queue.
July 15, 20187 yr comment_258977 I love it when people suggest that rides deliberately act slow so Fastrack sales go up... Like, Rides would probably love it if Fastrack went away, because it's just as big a pain in the arse for them as it is for guests...
July 15, 20187 yr comment_258979 2 hours ago, Benin said: I love it when people suggest that rides deliberately act slow so Fastrack sales go up... Like, Rides would probably love it if Fastrack went away, because it's just as big a pain in the arse for them as it is for guests... Maybe the rides department don't consciously run them slower (though in that case, why are they being run slower than a snail's pace?) but I can imagine a conversation in the marketing department going something along the lines of; "We're getting a lot of complaints about queue times" "Oh excellent, let's launch a £400 fastrack pass and make money out of the situation"
July 15, 20187 yr comment_258980 39 minutes ago, Coaster said: Maybe the rides department don't consciously run them slower (though in that case, why are they being run slower than a snail's pace?) but I can imagine a conversation in the marketing department going something along the lines of; "We're getting a lot of complaints about queue times" "Oh excellent, let's launch a £400 fastrack pass and make money out of the situation" I’m not sure it’s quite like you make out - you complain about queue times and I get the impression your not going to be going to buy a Fastrack Pass!
July 15, 20187 yr comment_258982 For £400 I could afford to go to another theme park in an entirely different country!!! I can see some appeal as, if you go often enough, it likely turns out to be very little per visit (20 trips per year makes it £20 a visit). But if you visit that often surely you'd not want Fastrack, as your ridden everything plenty of times? Sounds to me like a little gamble and I wouldn't be surprised if no one actually buys any.
July 15, 20187 yr comment_258985 On 7/14/2018 at 12:46 PM, Stuntman707 said: For someone who visits Thorpe twice a year, and someone who visits whenever they want, how is the Fastrack season pass anything but a rip-off? I really don’t know why Merlin don’t have Q-Bot at Thorpe & Towers? It’s a much fairer system and you can guarantee the value of the service being paid for unlike fastrack*. You can have a virtual queue with higher tiers that reduce the wait time. When the queue time is low, people can see it’s clear the higher tiers would not be value for money unless you can skip negative queue time! If you buy fastrack on the other hand and the queue ends up being short, you’ve basically paid for nothing. Equally when it’s busy, there’s no guarantee of a maximum waiting time limit whether you’re a VIP or one shot holder. TLDR - Fastrack does not offer a consistent value depending on who you are and how busy it is. That’s my main issue with it. (*Obviously this does not include unavoidable delays to operations.) Thats the gamble you take and it gives me no greater satisfaction when someone buys it only for the park to be really quiet and they've thrown their money away.
July 15, 20187 yr comment_258986 swarm bag room today - awful - massive queue to get bags back and the girl working there couldn’t have look less interested if she tried. Also the queue for the actual ride was about 40 mins but the station was pretty empty. Colossus - still slow dispatching - painfully so. Stealth and Saw by far the best. Ride availability today was good with only storm turd down for a long time - park wasn’t too busy (I’m guessing due to the footie and tennis). I'm not speaking for all staff here but so many seem miserable - ok today it is flaming hot which I’m sure must be horrible to work in but only one person asked how our day was and that was a girl working in the Colossus shop
July 15, 20187 yr comment_258989 2 hours ago, Han30 said: swarm bag room today - awful - massive queue to get bags back and the girl working there couldn’t have look less interested if she tried. Also the queue for the actual ride was about 40 mins but the station was pretty empty. Colossus - still slow dispatching - painfully so. Stealth and Saw by far the best. Ride availability today was good with only storm turd down for a long time - park wasn’t too busy (I’m guessing due to the footie and tennis). I'm not speaking for all staff here but so many seem miserable - ok today it is flaming hot which I’m sure must be horrible to work in but only one person asked how our day was and that was a girl working in the Colossus shop I mean what do you expect they are only paid minimum wage? Lol but I get what you mean they should be providing guests a good service all round.
July 15, 20187 yr comment_258990 2 hours ago, Han30 said: swarm bag room today - awful - massive queue to get bags back and the girl working there couldn’t have look less interested if she tried. Had the same experience with the bag room a few weeks ago. Seemed to be down to a lack of staff as they moved one member of staff from platform to the bag room to speed things up and they were both working quickly.
July 16, 20187 yr comment_258992 19 hours ago, Mark9 said: Thats the gamble you take and it gives me no greater satisfaction when someone buys it only for the park to be really quiet and they've thrown their money away. ^ This 100%.
July 16, 20187 yr comment_258993 20 hours ago, Mark9 said: Thats the gamble you take and it gives me no greater satisfaction when someone buys it only for the park to be really quiet and they've thrown their money away. On the contrary, walking past a 3 hour Shambarla cattle pen straight onto the ride is pretty satisfying too
July 16, 20187 yr comment_258994 44 minutes ago, Marc said: On the contrary, walking past a 3 hour Shambarla cattle pen straight onto the ride is pretty satisfying too I mean, I wouldn’t be at PortAventura so I still think I’m really winning.
July 16, 20187 yr comment_258995 Port Aventura is just one of those parks where getting express pass is essential to have the best time. I certainly don’t fancy waiting several hours only for Spanish guests to push past me every so often. Thorpe Park’s certainly have their pros and cons but generally aren’t as bad as P.A’s. £400 annual fastrack certainly sounds obscene at first glance, but there are clearly people willing to pay that price.
July 16, 20187 yr comment_258997 I would consider it for £395, but cannot stretch to £400 due to the sugar tax affecting my budget.
July 16, 20187 yr comment_258998 Does anyone know why the evening only ticket has disappeared from the ticket selection page of the Thorpe Park website?
July 16, 20187 yr comment_258999 5 hours ago, Marc said: On the contrary, walking past a 3 hour Shambarla cattle pen straight onto the ride is pretty satisfying too But that's when the point of the system works! (Plus of course, most of the Spanish populace just jump the queue without paying for it, so perhaps in the end Fastrack at PA is pointless and a waste of money?)
July 16, 20187 yr comment_259000 1 hour ago, Mattgwise said: Does anyone know why the evening only ticket has disappeared from the ticket selection page of the Thorpe Park website? https://www.thorpepark.com/events/love-island-lates# Scroll down to the "Cant handle 12 hours" bit and click Book now and you'll get the evening ticket.
July 16, 20187 yr comment_259001 Cheers, Still silly that it's not just on the ticket selection page! A lot of people will miss this with it being on the event page rather then general ticket page! Also, when they first went on sale they were 4pm to 10pm, then changed to 5pm - 10pm and now are just 6pm to 10pm. Still amazing value regardless.
July 16, 20187 yr comment_259002 32 minutes ago, Mattgwise said: Cheers, Still silly that it's not just on the ticket selection page! A lot of people will miss this with it being on the event page rather then general ticket page! Unfortunately that's probably the reason they've been moved, gets people to pay for a more expensive ticket
July 19, 20187 yr comment_259024 Got asked along on a rewards trip from my school (despite having left weeks ago) but it turns out every other school in the planet is also here. Queues to get in are colossal but seems to be well organised so far.
July 19, 20187 yr comment_259026 3 hours ago, Mark9 said: School groups there during School week? Thats crazy AF! Oh I'm so very sorry. Please accept my sincere apologies for pointing out that it was busy, but well organised due to there being lots of schools there on a school week. CRAZY AF!
July 19, 20187 yr comment_259028 43 minutes ago, Whatever said: Oh I'm so very sorry. Please accept my sincere apologies for pointing out that it was busy, but well organised due to there being lots of schools there on a school week. CRAZY AF! Your response made no sense, you suck at sarcasm ?
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