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Yeah I do have a hell a lot of disposable income. I also have 3 kids, whom would like to experience something different. And my kids have been to Disney world and Disney land. So yeah would be good for them. I know they won't get the Disney input in our hotels as overseas, but imagine being a kid and waking up to a roller-coaster next to your window?! I know your a depressing dude, been here for years, but when something like this happens maybe to other people it will be a cool thing.

The last time I checked, the park writes to residents within a certain range of the park to let them know they'll be operating late, and offers them tickets or something to invite them to participate where its a public event as an appeasement to local residents who would otherwise complain. I'm not sure how much is good faith and how much is required by council to permit the trade or whatnot, but I know its happened in the past. For MW to trade regularly beyond sunset, they'd probably need to enter the real estate game and buy up a lot of local housing. As for the hotel, I am hoping this is being positioned for families rather than corporate - or perhaps offer both (they do this decently at Sea World Resort, in my opinion) as while the corporate and events space will utilise the onsite hotel for convenience (if the price is right, that is) I also see it as convenient for younger families with kids that have an early bedtime - because you can leave the park, head back to your room, bath the kids and put them to bed. The precinct also offers nighttime family entertainment including AOS, TopGolf and WNW movies (seasonal), so even the older kids that don't stray far from their parents can still have some 'night time' activities after the park - but still close enough to head back to your hotel room, drop your souvenirs and day bags, shower off the grime of the day and get changed into some nice dinner clothes to go out with. I'm reading above the "its too far from the clubs and bars" and that's fine for that market, but i think families will like the northern GC positioning that provides the convenience of being on the doorstep of MW, PC, AOS, WNW, TopGolf, DW & WWW - just the theme park chains alone provide up to 4 days and at least 2 nights of solid entertainment if you do everything (and the hotel itself may offer enough entertainment to fill a couple of 'downtime' nights within the hotel area itself). Having done Main\broadbeach holidays and visiting the parks from there, Smith Street \ GC HWY was murder at the wrong time, and really ate into the day - spending an hour on a bus to get to all the northern parks was painful. Staying at Oxenford, even if its only for half of your week on the coast, is going to be far more convenient if you're happy to do nothing but Village\Ardent property - and theres a lot of people (not just enthusiasts) out there that would. I can't wait to see how this all plays out.

I made this an unlisted video but luna park have added a video on the home page to prepare for the june opening with a nice animation snippet of Boomerang and sledgehammer and if you want to check the website out https://www.lunaparksydney.com/

I'm sure there's millions & millions of people who have never seen or heard of "Water world" but still some how get a kick out of watching the live show every time.

I mean as a theme park fan it's better than residential. I've never been big on places that try to be both a resort and a tourist park at the same time, but I guess there is a market for that sort of thing or those places wouldn't have popped up everywhere. You'd have to assume this will be in the Lagoon corner of the property, so here's an idea for the cheapest easiest slam dunk in the history of theme park hotels: Build a train station connecting to the park. If Dreamworld wants this to be a family theme park resort, build it so it's got a unique theme park selling point with some creativity. There will be 3 or 4 theme park hotels on the Gold Coast in very near future. What makes yours special?

ARDENT Leisure has unveiled a $75 million plan for a new hotel and tourist park – Dreamworld Resort. In an announcement to the ASX this morning, the theme parks operator said it had appointed accommodation developer Evolution Group to fund and build an accommodation precinct on part of the surplus land owned by Ardent next to the Dreamworld park. The accommodation offering will include a 4-star 250 room resort-style hotel, 40 bungalows and a 5-star tourist park with 100 powered sites. The news follows revelations last week that Village Roadshow had reignited its plans for a hotel at Movie World, lodging a trademark application that reveals its likely branding for the nine-storey, 398-room landmark. IP Australia records show Village Roadshow applied for a trademark for “Hotel V” at the end of March. It is pending registration. The idea of a resort at Dreamworld has been around for more than a decade, with former CEO Noel Dempsey hinting at the project in 2010, and former operators Macquarie Leisure Trust including it in its “complete entertainment precinct” proposal in 2013. Ardent said its Dreamworld Resort would be designed to cater to all guests, especially interstate travellers, with a broad range of family friendly accommodation options, as well as restaurants, conferencing facilities and leisure facilities such as swimming pools and a gymnasium. Guests of Dreamworld Resort will also have exclusive offers to access Dreamworld and WhiteWater World throughout their stay. The agreement is currently non-binding and subject to the satisfaction of a number of preconditions, however both parties are optimistic that final terms for the project will be agreed in the near future. “The hotel and tourist park will complement Dreamworld as a premium entertainment destination and add a new level of convenience for guests who will have our theme park and water park on their accommodation’s doorstep,” said Dreamworld CEO, Greg Yong. “This announcement is another positive step in the recovery of our parks post-COVID and will have a significant economic impact not only for Dreamworld, but also for the northern Gold Coast, one of Australia’s fastest growing regional corridors. “The project will create employment within the local community and contribute to the regeneration of tourism on the Gold Coast.” Evolution Group is headed by John Robinson Jr, son of John ‘Foxy’ Robinson, who together recently opened the Gold Coast Airport Rydges Hotel. “They bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the project and understand the needs of the local community and travellers in relation to destination tourism projects,” Mr Yong said. “Relying on an experienced partner to execute this project will also allow the Dreamworld team to continue focusing on future investments in the theme park’s attraction portfolio, including the launch of Steel Taipan in late 2021.” Mr Robinson said he was excited to take on the project. “The Evolution Group team is a family company providing over 2200 rooms around Australia through our resorts and accommodation houses,” he said. “Having Australia’s favourite theme park on the doorstep of this development will certainly provide guests with action-packed getaways.” Dreamworld and developer Evolution Group will work closely with local and State authorities to obtain the requisite planning approvals. Ardent Leisure said it continued to explore options to maximise the value of all of its surplus land. Planning documents reveal the Movie World development will include 32m high, nine-floor “theme park hotel” with 398 suites which is earmarked for land currently occupied by its northernmost carpark fronting Entertainment Drive. https://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/gold-coast/ardent-leisure-unveils-plans-to-build-75m-dreamworld-resort-at-its-gold-coast-theme-park/news-story/e43a819ca1fc5062d950826c725e8097

There will be no theme park that will be able to compete with us’: Movie World plans for a hotel Village Roadshow has reignited its plans for a hotel at Movie World, lodging a trademark application that reveals its likely branding for the nine-storey, 398-room landmark. VILLAGE Roadshow has reignited its plans for a hotel at Movie World, lodging a trademark application that reveals its likely branding for the nine-storey, 398-room landmark. IP Australia records show Village Roadshow applied for a trademark for “Hotel V” at the end of March. It is pending registration. Village Roadshow, which was delisted from the ASX last year after a takeover by private equity firm BGH, gained development approval for a hotel in 2017 for its 14ha site at Oxenford. Planning documents reveal the development will include 32m high, nine-floor “theme park hotel” with 398 suites which is earmarked for land currently occupied by its northernmost carpark fronting Entertainment Drive. The ground floor will house reception, a lobby, administration office, business centre, bar, function centre, cafe, kitchen, kids club, amenities, gym and hotel back-of-house facilities. Ramp access and an elevated walkway on level one is planned to provide guests connection to the adjoining restaurant and dining precinct building plus theme park entry. The project is also set to incorporate “extensive outdoor swimming facilities, outdoor guest recreation areas and feature landscaping plantings”. A three-storey restaurant and dining precinct building, including a ground-level cafe and upper-level restaurant is also a feature of the plan. “Guest access to the restaurant and dining precinct is provided via an elevated walkway above the proposed porte-cochere, which will provide a prominent architectural feature” planning documents lodged by Urbis said. Village Roadshow declined to comment on hotel progress, but chief operating officer Bikash Randhawa has been active on social media, hyping big upcoming reveals for the company: “I don’t do this often, but get ready for some HUGE announcements from us. There will be no theme park on the GC or in Australia that will be able to compete with us.” When someone posted a photo of a Harry Potter studio, Mr Randhawa replied: “That’s small with what will happen over time.” When another person suggested another theme park was coming to the Gold Coast, he said “over the next few announcements, better than that”. Mr Randhawa said “no way” when someone suggested a casino could be built at Movie World. The hotel will be Village Roadshow’s latest in a hefty pipeline of investments on the Gold Coast, which in recent years, have included the $35 million DC Rivals Hypercoaster, Top Golf and its $50 million Atlantis precinct at SeaWorld, which is expected to be completed in mid-late 2021. The news follows revelations last week that Dreamworld’s owner Ardent Leisure was also shopping for major new attractions as work continued on its $32 million flagship ride, the Steel Taipan. https://www.goldcoastbulletin.com.au/business/gold-coast-business/there-will-be-no-theme-park-that-will-be-able-to-compete-with-us-movie-world-plans-for-a-hotel/news-story/e5e43e739e312105dd3e706f1fb8dfd0?fbclid=IwAR0M4MNR8C_L9V9cgSGI-xRjfcxlmRrGkbn-b1LwP_rUe5cSGHbUkMxRSXY

Pretty unnecessary to make smart-ass backhanded comments like this. Uncalled for.

Pre Covid, Movie World was operating events and conferences almost 5 nights a week. Having to bus conferences guests (some that book entire wings or on occasions that whole resort) from seaworld was a logistic pain in the butt. It opens up a new hotel with conference facility's to play host to multiple offsite dinners and events with out having to use non VRTP venues. So basically, they use their own facility keeping all the extra cash in house. It was a huge market to them and with bookings now starting to come back, its a no brainier. There event team is very good at selling their venues and its sort after by cooperates

I think it'd be a great idea to have a hotel in Coomera. And I can kinda see why the COO said that no one could compete with us. For me as a local, it'd make going to MW for the weekend a lot more appealing if I could MW one day and WnW the next. I reckon they'll also be a lot more bookings from interstate travellers who would probably think the same. If you think about it, they have SW and SW resort in Main Beach already. There's still the same old touristy spots you can go look at nearby or a few kilometres away, like The Spit, Broadbeach, Ripley's and Infinity to name a few. But they'll probably draw even more visitors from abroad after the Atlantis rides have opened. It'll give Sea World that needed boost which it has been missing for a few years now. Building and opening a hotel next to an area which has more places to go look at will be even more rewarding in the long run. You have MW, WnW, PC, Outback Spectacular and TopGolf all in a reasonable distance within one another. If you add shuttle buses or something similar in the mix as an extra charge, visitors can travel between A and B much easier. It'd also be more rewarding if you have a Locals or OnePass. Hopefully, it'd even give the Coomera/Oxenford region a bit of economic gain. Including DW and WWW. If they go through with the hotel near MW, they have major bubbles in two high-traffic areas. All in all if things go very well for VR then I could see them becoming the biggest tourism operator in the GC, hell maybe even South East Queenland (although that's a stretch). It's almost Disney-like (or rather a toned down version). There could be a lot more I can add in detail but that's just my general consensus.

How do you know though? It could well have special themed suites, as a lot of theme park hotels do. Hotel V.....I'm not sure if that name will will be a goer in the end, It's literally one letter below a competitor:

I am sure these films are expensive to produce, but I would like to see Dreamworld invest in a few different local ones they could cycle through over a few years. Maybe even get a few cut scenes with various themes for various events like halloween (pumpkins and cornfields) or christmas (yule fires and snow). The marketability of these "different" shows has been talked about before and its a great way to get locals to visit repeatedly too. I think one of my last visits to DW was to see the USA video...

I have no idea how they're going to fit lines in this space unless they go for a virtual queue? Though then again I've never seen huge lines at LPS anyway so maybe they're banking on that?

If the place had one room, and only Austrlain Coaster fans went, it still wouldn't be full most nights. Coaster fans are not important or sizeable demographic. Also the M1 is going to be the bigger issue as far as noise goes. I'd expect some pretty decent sound proofing going on. The target market one is interesting though. Hotel V sounds like it's one of those dimly lit trendy places that is everywhere in surfers these days. It doesn't scream family hotel like say 'Movie World Resort' would. I wonder if the market is more the Top Golf/ Corperate/ sophisticated crowd while Sea World Resort stays being all about the families. The name to me seems more consistent with Gold Class Cinemas than it does a theme park holiday hotel. My standard 'Village isn't a lifestyle brand, stop trying to make it a thing' rant aside, that's what it sounds like to me. Less family resort, more cocktail lounges. Yes resort stuff with nice pools and whatnot, but no tipping bucket if you know what I mean.

Well, I mean it's not like no one knew that MW was planning a on site hotel. Plans for a hotel were announced alongside the new coaster which turned out to be DCR. MW really needs this hotel since it's developing into the place to go for Australian coaster fans. You think there be noise complaints from hotel guests ( looks at LPS ).

A hotel, eh? Interesting. I know I'm looking forward to looking out the room window and seeing Rivals at night!

No way, they are always unique and cool.

To be honest if you could run Rivals without stacking, then the capacity would be plenty. That would mean opening the entrance gates as soon as the train parks like is standard around the world, and having more than 2 station staff. It would actually be fascinating to see the numbers and if an extra 2 loaders would be instantly paid for by increased ride photo/On ride video sales.

Very happy to see that.

Another piece of track was removed this week

He absolutely didn't. Dismissing my thoughts as a 'bad faith argument' and 'semantics' is in itself a bad faith argument. If you really want to delve into it, You said something matters "a lot", someone else referred to that same thing being given "top priority" and you then argued "i didn't say that" because they paraphrased different words that meant very similar things (and to be clear "this matters alot" and "this gets top priority" aren't that far from each other) And if you're going to argue that they aren't similar enough that everybody else reading this didn't understand the two terms to be interchangeable in context of the conversation that's been had above - then it isn't me that is being semantic. Now you're being disengenuous and you know it. The track for the ride is only being removed as needed, from what I can tell, and the plan to remove the track from the tower was included as part of the taipan build (and announced months ago) because the crane, operator, dogman and some riggers are likely to have some downtime in their build schedule. On the other hand, removing ride tracks that are still in use in order to remove plates mounted to the tower under them, and then replacing the track and recommissioning the drop tower is a huge risk - does the track need to be re-certified by the manufacturer? Does it require engineering signoff to ensure the ride is safe to operate again? Do they need to shim the track mounts to allow for the reduced tower thickness due to the plate removal? There are a lot more costs associated with that that aren't absorbed as part of Taipan's construction. I don't disagree with you on this. I really don't. I'd love for them to actually try to keep cohesion in theming and puffery. But they've shown they're not up to the job, and right now, nobody else is buying. Much as I know you dislike what has become of this park, I know the child in you holds this place dear - and if they have to bankrupt themselves to meet your theming expectations, the park will close and it will all go under the bulldozer - giving nobody else a chance to turn it around. For now, i'm just happy if they can keep the lights on long enough to find someone willing to buy it who will actually care about the details. As I said in my earlier post, most people don't visit to ride 'specific ride'. they visit to visit a park and do all the things the park offers. And while disappointment does occur when one finds an old favourite is no longer around - right now there's a shiny bright orange distraction nearby that will turn those 'never agains' into 'i'll come back when thats open' and soon that disappointment fades. If its that big of a deal, buy a Falcon gondola, or better yet, now that TOT is gone, rejig the drop to accommodate 4 drop tower tracks and then relaunch \ rebrand \ retheme the ride - and recycle the TOT name for the 'new' drop ride if that's what makes everyone's OCD happy. Call it "Tower of Terror Three: Choose your own way to face gravity" /s TL:DR - I think Dreamworld has more important things to spend their money on than taking down some letters. In the short term, if its such a big problem, paint over it in a bodgy way using the maintenance gondola, preferably during other scheduled downtime so it isn't down longer than it needs to be.

No, but you did say that it mattered 'a lot'. Yeah sure, people are gonna experience disappointment when they realise the ride they could see from the highway is closed - but its no more or less disappointment than what guests experience when ride is unexpectedly closed for unscheduled maintenance on their once in a lifetime trip. According to RCDB there is 191 coasters across the world classed as SBNO. I'm sure there's plenty of flat rides out there too, and i'm sure some of those are visible outside the gates and lead to disappointment. Let's not pretend though that that was the only ride that person was visiting for (if it was, they'd likely know when it closed) so their intention was to visit the entire park - and they still did and probably still enjoyed their day overall. Whether it's the top priority, or just matters a lot, i think expending a fair chunk of coin to simply remove or cover over defunct ride signage when the park is in a financial situation we're all lead to believe (even according to this website) is in a bad place where it was said at one point they may not be able to afford even to build their new ride - i think they'd have no business paying to have that removed when there are so many other actual problems at the park. If they could send someone up in the maintenance basket with a can of dulux and a roller then sure - but half assing things is what got DW into trouble in the first place, and doing it right would just be too expensive for it to matter very much at all.

If they just painted the tower I doubt only the keenest of eyes would notice. FYI, when the Tower of Terror was built, it had a smaller cap on the tower before The Giant Drop was added. It was when the winch floors were added (the barrel at the top) that the tower was officially named “Dreamworld Tower” to reflect its multi-use.