May 30, 201411 yr comment_184380 Alton towers online que times (http://ridetimes.co.uk/) now has a section with Thrill rides and Family rides. It looks a lot better now that they are split up as before there was way too much on the page. There is a problem though as it's new I guess, after like 5 secconds in then shows all of the rides again. I'm guessing this will be fixed very soon! EDIT: I just went on it again, and it's working fine now. Edited May 30, 201411 yr by ThorpeAddict
May 30, 201411 yr comment_184382 That'll be down to your cookies rather than the site itself - you'll realise it stays eventually. It sometimes does this on your browser, showing updated queue times before reverting back to whatever it used to show before it. It's a browser issue rather than the website!
June 13, 201411 yr comment_185235 https://www.facebook.com/altontowersresort/photos/a.10150665640316201.439798.21765316200/10152420854001201/?type=1 Looks as though the Alton Towers Ride game is getting an upgrade I have a feeling they've done a competition type thing like this before but I'm not sure either way a 'Which ride is better?" competition is about to commence!
June 13, 201411 yr comment_185236 That whole "Vote for your favourite Alton Towers coaster" thing was what, 2/3 years ago now? (Wow!) Nemesis won it because that's what the enthusiasts voted for... I'm sure the same will occur this year... Always good just to bring back the old "FOUR! Inversions..." thing...
June 18, 201411 yr comment_185460 Shock! Alton Towers have announced on their facebook page that they have extended their hours to 6:30pm this weekend. AT rarely do this!
June 20, 201411 yr comment_185607 Should be 6pms all the time, don't mind a 6:30 but it isn't really needed there as everyone leaves early anyway to travel home.
July 4, 201411 yr comment_186299 Prefer these to Thorpe's - but even that said, Thorpe's new ones are miles and above better than the previous scrolling LED versions
July 4, 201411 yr comment_186312 These new queue boards are a great improvement to what they had before. High tech and classy at the same time.
July 4, 201411 yr comment_186314 It looks soooo out of place! But the old ones were absolutely awful so anything is an improvement.
July 4, 201411 yr comment_186330 The others are in far better locations... these ones are just designed to try and be eye catching and attention seeking (the vinyls will all be added soon it seems)
July 7, 201411 yr comment_186490 Has any info been released on the 2014 scarefest yet? And also why does it show the scarefest stopping on the 2nd Novemeber and yet on the 7,8,9th the park is still showing as closing at 2100? If it is closing that late does it mean if you are staying over you will get ert as during scarefest last year it said you didn't if it was a scarefest date
July 7, 201411 yr comment_186493 Has any info been released on the 2014 scarefest yet? And also why does it show the scarefest stopping on the 2nd Novemeber and yet on the 7,8,9th the park is still showing as closing at 2100? If it is closing that late does it mean if you are staying over you will get ert as during scarefest last year it said you didn't if it was a scarefest date 7/8/9 November are the fireworks days not Scarefest. No ERT on Scarefest or Fireworks.
July 7, 201411 yr comment_186495 Which one is usually busier? Is scarefest busier or fireworks? And are all the rides or most of them open until 2100 on fireworks nights like on a scarefest or do they close a bit earlier and the rest of the time is fireworks?
July 7, 201411 yr comment_186503 I went to scare fest first week midday which isn't school holidays for most of the UK and was maximum hour queues in general - and visited the fireworks event on the Friday, and was maximum 30min queues all day, besides the evening where it started to get heaving due to the fireworks, and the fact pretty much all the rides close prior to the display and then open for an hour or so after.
July 7, 201411 yr comment_186506 Weekends at Scarefest can be busier than fireworks, especially towards the end of the event. The first weekend usually isn't too bad and during the first week (not half term) it's pretty quiet. On fireworks days everything from Thirteen all the way round to Spinball will close for the show. As they have to get all guests out of these areas the queues will start to close mid-afternoon - expect The Smiler to close very early! The show is at 7pm, with rides reopening at around 7.45ish - as soon as they've been checked for any stray fireworks. Rides between Mutiny Bay and Forbidden Valley stay open throughout. Note that to get to X sector or Dark Forest after the show you will be forced to use the path near Spinball as the path on the other side doesn't open straight away. As a result this route is always very congested - the paths to Forbidden Valley are busy too but far more manageable. During both Scarefest and fireworks a small number of rides close at dusk due to lack of lighting, this includes the Flume and Skyride. At the beginning of Scarefest, this won't be until around 4.30-5pm, but by the end of Fireworks it'll be around 3.30-4pm
July 8, 201411 yr comment_186538 JohnD has got all the timings right for fireworks. As for queues, we got a lot done on the Friday morning but it got much busier in the rest of the day. If you want to ride in the dark after fireworks you will get 2-3 rides in but may have choose either mine train / nemesis / air OR Thirteen / Rita / Oblivion as crossing the park will eat into too much of the hour or so you have for dark riding. Thirteen & Nemesis are great in the dark, particularly the sections of Thirteen in the forest area. The gates next to air into the car park will be open usually so you don't need to walk back to main entrance after riding air and Nemesis.
July 8, 201411 yr comment_186597 The first weekend of Scarefest is gypsies. The first week of Scarefest is dead and a great time to do if you can. Fireworks are utterly fantastic too, and well worth it. Just don't expect to ride much unless you arrive in the morning (as everyone arrives for one ride and fireworks, literally).
July 10, 201411 yr comment_186742 Alton Towers now has Snapchat: alton-towers An interesting move; don't think there's many companies that have tried this tactic before!
July 10, 201411 yr comment_186788 Disney do it also - I follow waltdisneyworld on Snapchat and they're purely awesome!
July 13, 201411 yr comment_187009 I've not done one of these for a while and it is possibly not the correct topic, but there was some construction over the weekend. Over on the far side of the lake there is something happening.. The contents of this on Saturday look like: By Sunday they looked like :
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