I went to gold reef city on valentines day of 2007 when i was on holiday and i also missed out on TOT and golden loop but anaconda was amazing and im sure there was half the amount of people there on my visit than yours, i mean a ride op pretty much walked round with my girlfriend and i and just ran the rides we wanted to go on if we could get anough people to ride.
But the parks theming is beautiful and it is quite a small park but the railway was open on my visit and also the powered mine which has a surprising amount of negatives.
Great trip report south africa is great.