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^ Just because I haven't got bored of posting this yet

Throughputs are not exactly Gadv's speciality...

I feel like they tried this sort of thing in 2014... with predictable results.

If you come from the M1, you have Alton and Denstone to contend with - or from the M6 there's Cheadle, Oakamoor and that last little bit through Farley. The roads are very narrow in some places, and there's a corner or two on Oakamoor Road that still catch me out! Like most enthusiasts, I've...

I can't see anything about park closures. Obviously, if people are thinking twice about travelling, I understand that, but my (uneducated) guess is that this will blow over fairly quickly.

£15 for parking. £15. They don't want my custom this year, do they...? https://www.altontowers.com/plan-your-visit/before-you-visit/car-parking/

Ah, so that's why Sanbrooke had a kid... :P In all seriousness though Josh, totally agree and I've been saying that for a while.

Happily, a lot of the ****e I posted in here almost a decade ago has gone to the great scrapyard in hell... In no particular order, this is currently operating coasters*, classed as thrill or extreme by RCDB, that I have given less than 4/10. Had to filter like that because of my hatred of SBF...

Not ready for opening day - interesting...

Cheers Josh :) I got back around a fortnight ago now, and I've been too lazy to articulate my own thoughts, but it sounds like we had fairly similar experiences. After my first day at the park, I was approached by an (in retrospect, unlicensed) taxi driver at Jeddah Road and said yes out of...

^ The metro was dead easy (once I figured out the single men have to ride in the front car) and as long as you were in the main city/theme park, the majority of people spoke at least some degree of English. The biggest hiccup is the inconsistency around glasses straps, some staff entirely not...

You've reminded me of a big reason why my stint at Towers was as short as it was - and for all the reasons you mention, the more senior rides/ guest relations management will always side with the guest. Maybe I'm thin-skinned, but it only took one arsehole to ruin a day, and you're simply not...

The shuttle buses gave an 'air hostess' like presentation during the journey, mentioning the last bus left at 1am - I'm sure they'll let you know if it's any different :) If you're planning on using the metro, that stops at midnight, but ubers from Jeddah Road are pretty cheap

FYI. They could do with being more organised about this stuff, I don't claim to know or understand the reasons...

Florida does seem to be the spite capital. Sheikra, Kumba and Journey to Atlantis all missed last March. I was spited by one side of Fiorana Challenge last week. I was quite glad - it's a ****ing terrible ride.

What we have here is probably the best collection of coasters outside the US (and possibly Japan) Falcon's Flight is a masterpiece - didn't really kick in for me until the second half, but once you reach that precipice, everything that follows is Gwazi levels of euphoria. Wipes the floor with...

^ I'm doing a Wednesday and a Thursday - glad to be seeing some more positive thoughts :D

I knew someone who had worked there. He'd escaped with a drug habit and a good few horror stories...

Being a bit naughty and letting your friends come up fast-track is a little different from 'encouraging queue jumping'...

Bollocks. Didn't know that.