[xmodz10]

why does all of merlins theme parks like alton towers, thorpe park have queues that last for hours.

are they making the queus longer on purpose so people buy them fast track things.

blackpool on the other hand is why much better in terms of queue times. iv gone on a ride, went back on the ride within 10 minutes. alton towers however id be lucky to get onto the ride once.

[Picto]

I lost my shoe on the Nemesis.

[Voynich]

Not just merlins. But theme parks in general. They are busy places. Try to go when the schools are still in and avoid weekends.

[Voynich]

Originally Posted by Picto

I lost my shoe on the Nemesis.

Don't wear flip flops on the Nemesis!

[Dandem]

Go to Alton Towers on a rainy day. Maybe slightly less enjoyable than on a summers day, and the water rides aren't great, but the cues are practically non-existent. I managed to get on Oblivion, Air, Nemesis, Rita several times, as well as other rides.

[Chasing Shadows]

Guess it depends when you go. Back when I was into Theme Parks and the like we'd go on a day when all the kids were at school and pretty much have the whole of Alton Towers to ourselves. I remember one mate who stayed on Corkscrew for twelve goes - didn't bother getting off as there weren't enough people queuing to get on to necessitate him giving up his seat. I think he threw up when he eventually did get off though.

[Hugh Jboobs]

Originally Posted by xmodz10

why does all of merlins theme parks like alton towers, thorpe park have queues that last for hours.

Because lots of people want to go on the rides.

[xmodz10]

Originally Posted by Voynich

Not just merlins. But theme parks in general. They are busy places. Try to go when the schools are still in and avoid weekends.

i did last time, when schools were busy to thorpe park. only got to go on 4 rides there.

[shackfan]

Originally Posted by xmodz10

why does all of merlins theme parks like alton towers, thorpe park have queues that last for hours.

are they making the queus longer on purpose so people buy them fast track things.

blackpool on the other hand is why much better in terms of queue times. iv gone on a ride, went back on the ride within 10 minutes. alton towers however id be lucky to get onto the ride once.

Yeah, they employ hundreds of extras and make them queue with the rest of us because they want to piss off its customers. Had you actually considered it could be because it is?popular? It is the same at Disney, Universal Studios and Busch Gardens you know.

[Cryolemon]

Originally Posted by Picto

I lost my shoe on the Nemesis.

It's always marginally tempting when I've been to Alton Towers to take a spare pair of shoes and fling them into the forest off the top of the first hill of Nemesis. I've never done it though.

[Delta Tango]

Talking about losing things on rides, I lost my disposable camera on a ride at Drayton Manor.

It was one of the rides that goes up in the air. The camera fell out my pocket and landed on this platform thing.

They managed to retrieve it. When I got the camera developed it only came out with about 10 pictures. fkgsfjlgsjlgs

[Papoo]

We used to go on the day the football season started, managed to get on Nemesis in about 10 mins in those days

[sparkplugs]

I like how they have an activity at Alton Towers known as "Water Walking", where you are inside a piece of plastic that when inflated, makes you look like you are inside a giant bubble, and then you can walk on a pool of water in it. What I don't like though is them charging £5 for it!

[Jambo_c]

Like others have said it depends when you go. If you go on a weekday during term time it's fine. School holidays are terrible though, unless you time it right. We went on the Tuesday after August bank holiday last year suspecting that the majority of people would go on the Monday or the weekend and it wasn't too bad, pretty much walked straight on Oblivion. The longest we queued was about 30 mins for 13.

The fasttrack tickets for Alton Towers are ludicrously expensive. We had fasttrack tickets for Universal Studios and they weren't much more at all, it was well worth it as we went in the middle of August.

[LoopyDog]

We went to Alton Towers at the beginning of June... a Monday. The place was pretty dead. Longest we queued was 20 minutes and that was for the front of Nemesis. Some rides we had to wait for more people to turn up so it was worth starting the ride.

As others have said, avoid weekends and school holidays like the plague. Strangely enough, I've heard that bank holidays are pretty quiet as everyone believes the place will be packed so don't go.

[James2001]

We always go to Alton Towers during the week during termtime, it's nearly always dead. When I went in October 2010 and I think the longest queue was for air, and that was only 10 minutes. I was straight on most rides (Including 13, which was brand new then). I when we went back in Mat, it was busier, but even then I thinkt he longest queues were about 20 minutes. If you go during weekends or school holidays, you have to expect it to be packed.

[walterwhite]

Go in the week when schools are still in term time and when the weather forecast isn't great. Always works a treat for me.

[xmodz10]

Originally Posted by shackfan

Yeah, they employ hundreds of extras and make them queue with the rest of us because they want to piss off its customers. Had you actually considered it could be because it is?popular? It is the same at Disney, Universal Studios and Busch Gardens you know.

it could be that they only run one train instead of two or three. there can be many reason who alton towers and the merlon group can do this okay