Using some real back of an envelope maths, the queue would be almost 12 km long!That is quite an amusing errorLooks like someone entered a time but forgot to delete the previous entry.
Wonder where the end of the queue would be if it was 2050 minutes! Car park?
2025: General Discussion
- Thread starter Elise
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For the month of June the park doing an excellent offer 4 tickets for £75.
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Is anyone on park today? If so, how busy is it with the late opening and fireworks? Considering going to the next one but don’t want it to be ridiculously busy.
It’s busy but not the worse I’ve seen. The lines seem to be because of low capacity on rides
I didn’t get home to 3am this morning from my holiday so I won’t be going today and I don’t think I want to watch the same firework display for a 3rd time.
what’s the longest queues looking like? as in ride and time
quiter than yesterday wave 70 gold rush between 40-100 minutes
Drayton do need to sort out their ops get rides running as efficiently as they cam. Wave needs a 2nd train and StormForce 10 needs faster theoughputs.
Have Draytons ops ever been amazing
been here all day, absolute shambles its been today sadly.
The Park is -very- clearly more popular than it’s ever been. But reliability and Ops haven’t kept up at all. 2023/2024 we had amazing visits.. we’ve been 12 times this season and every time there’s been significant problems each time.
Someone quoted the accelerator host as saying things would be better if “we were staffed properly “
Wave line said 40 mins yday, ended up just over an hour due to some downtime whilst in queue, accelerator was well over an hr wait, gold rush went down again, will say though, Barrells was no more than a 5 min wait, Bounty wasnt long either and the ops for Bounty were entertaining guests with dad jokes 
Rapids was late opening too i believe, saw a couple maintenance hopping into one of boats whilst in queue for wave after 3ish. Did see an awful load of people vaping and smoking around the park, saw a fair few security around too, more than iv noticed on prev visits anyway.
Loki was also only loading up half too for some reason, does anyone know why?
Rapids was late opening too i believe, saw a couple maintenance hopping into one of boats whilst in queue for wave after 3ish. Did see an awful load of people vaping and smoking around the park, saw a fair few security around too, more than iv noticed on prev visits anyway. Loki was also only loading up half too for some reason, does anyone know why?
Nice and quiet today, queued 30 for Gold Rush in the afternoon but everything else was 15 or under. Ops were decent - Loki was on half capacity though. They really need more staff, they only had one person on lots of rides. Entertainment was nice to see though. All in all managed 18 rides so good day overall.
Staffing has never been great at Drayton to be honest, not as bad as 2023 though when 1 staff member had to switch between Sheriffs and Drunken Barrels.
I've no idea why they're doing the fireworks whilst its still very light at 9pm. You cant see anything. Theres still a few firework evenings left too..
That’s why I didn’t bother going to this 1 as I knew it was gonna be to light to see them. The longest day is 21st June so no point going to the 5th July display also the 2nd August sunset is just before 9 but the 30th August is at 8pm so will be dark at 9pm so that will be the next 1 I go 2 and that’s it to the end of the season.
I did the rapids today and saw 2 extra water jetts today one near the end in the image and one at the start was those there last year or new for this year
We got soaked with all the jets because the wind forced it backwards onto you.
same i was like also jetts are only at the end then i saw 2 at the start was like hold on they wasn't there before