TR From Alton Towers yesterday / Electricity Cut

[nemesis1978]

Travelled down to alton yesterday for the first time this year. It was a weekend so knew the park would be busy and queues would be long.

 

We had a 2 for 1 voucher so decided to get the fastrack scream ticket also which in the end turned out to be a godsend.

 

So how did the day go ??

 

Got to the park @ 9:15 and already a big but efficiently moving queue for the monorail. The overhaul of the monorail was long overdue and I am glad they have done it well. We had the pirate on the way into the park and he had lots of people laughing. Equally the bumblebee voiceover we had on the way back to the car park was equally amusing.

 

Upon getting to the park we got our tickets in no time at all and into the park we went. First ride was headed to was spinball whizzer unfortunately it was temporarily down.

 

So off we went to oblivion queued for about 20 mins. Our cart came into the station and what happens ??!!? .......... what happens.... we are sorry oblivion is experiencing difficulties however we hope to have the ride open shortly!!! this became a recurring theme through out the morning and seemed to chase us through the park. Oblivion got up and running about 15 mins later and I have to say was worth it alone just to be sat next to a scottish girl we had been talking to in the queue. They had travelled down overnight and before the ride she was soooo scared, thorughout she was hysterical and her on ride photo hilairous. God know s what she made of Nemesis !!!

 

Rita was next however was down so we got the skyride across to forbidden valley and used our fastracks for nemesis whos queue was already at 60 mins.

 

Queued for the front seat and literally just as we would have been the next train the whole station went down!! a car was halfway in the station and a car halfway on the lift hill. Nothing was working at all was literally as if somone had pulled the plug. Now depending on which member of staff you spoke to either the whole park went down or half of it and this lasted about an hour. I felt sorry for the guys on the trains also the skyrides as they where not moving at all with people in them giving eveyrone the thumbs down signal. I would have though a park would have back up generators??

 

We waited for a while and where given 2 priority passes as we had fastrack ticket after about 20-30 mins they managed to clear the riders from each of the trains and we where all told to leave the station.

 

I would love to know what happened but by the time we walked through o Mutiny Bay the log flume, battle galleons etc wherel all working as was Rita and Ugland so who knows happened but their where lots of unhappy people about.

 

The staff where fantastic and did everything to appease people, the closing time of the park was also put back from 6pm till 7pm!! The day from here onwards got better and we pretty much got everything else done that we wanted to depspite the average q time being 60 minutes with oblivion and rita reaching 90 at some points.

 

A good day was had depsite the glitch and as previously said i cant praise the staff we encountered enough in how they dealt with the problems and our queries, especially the nemesis crew who where constantly talking, not only, to ourselves in the bays but the guys on the trains as well to keep everything calm and us all informed as to what was going on. Also for Alton in general for putting the closing time back an hour and thank god for fastrack and priority passes.

 

Ride Count

 

Oblivion x 2

Nemesis x 2

Air x 2

Battle Galleons (love this ride)

Log Flume

Rita

Enterprise

 

Unfortunatley no pics due to my camera being rubbish and dying on me.

 

Thanks