Thorpe Park Turnstiles, entrance for Merlin Pass holders

[knight74123]

Hi: Is it still only the last 2 turnstills on the far right for passholders or can you go to any of them? Are their workers there to help or is it do it yourself like in Alton towers. Its usually faster when you do it yourself, but would like to know how Thorpe Park  operates now this new year 2024. Thanks!!

[JoelAllen]

No, they allocate the right hand side of the entrance turnstiles for annual pass holders, to ease up the queues at the start of the day. But when we went yesterday we used a day ticket on one of these turnstiles and it worked fine. There was staff on hand too.

[knight74123]

JoelAllen: Thanks for the quick reply! Usually at legoland and chessington, its done by the staff and the queues take forever. But alton and thorpe park let us do it ourselves and its 10xs faster. Just wondering if its still like that this year, are they letting you do it yourself? Thanks!

[tactic]

I went on Tuesday. All of the right hand side can be used by both pass holders and normal ticket users, while the left hand side is only for normal ticket holders. 

[JoelAllen]

4 hours ago, knight74123 said:

JoelAllen: Thanks for the quick reply! Usually at legoland and chessington, its done by the staff and the queues take forever. But alton and thorpe park let us do it ourselves and its 10xs faster. Just wondering if its still like that this year, are they letting you do it yourself? Thanks!

Yup! Scanned the ticket myself and the turnstile lets you in, not sure why they got rid of these at Chessington. They were great and are always easy to use. 
 

If there were any issues, staff would be there anyway!