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It was pedestrian bridge to get to Rocky Hollow, and was there before the spaghetti Junction was a thing

All seems fair enough. I rage at the rides close half an hour before the park does crap. I don't care how you spin it the park closes when the rides do. Otherwise, good. Exactly what they should be doing, and possibly a response to the past couple weeks. Also pleased to see WnW getting its normal 4pm closing time back too over winter; it had been reduced to 3:30 so that's a good thing. I can almost guarantee they won't, but I'd love to see the Aqua Colour infrastructure put in late December and run a different 'non Carnivale Sea World themed' show at 7:30. Try and really take advantage of whatever boost Leviathan will bring.

Not sure if this is in response to the chaos that there has been at the VRTP Easter school holidays, but they have published their parks operating hours for the rest of the year. And it is great to see they are extending the trading hours for the September and Summer holidays. Wet n Wild slightly reduces their hours for the winter, but it’s great to see they are already stating they will be open until 8 next Summer. Movie World is slightly extending the hours for September and a reasonable amount of time for Summer (wouldn’t expect anymore because of the houses nearby) And SW will extend their too

Yeah I know how noise works - luckily theres a big row of trees between the park and the houses.

I mean it can't be that bad - the nosiest bits (superman/rivals) are on the far side of the park from the residents..

That reo seen in the images above was for a new pathway built alongside the current pathway under the GD. I’m assuming they old one will be closed off to allow for the refurbishment of the tower. I really do hope they use this time to fix the mess that this area of the park has become. With the shade sail over the MDMC now gone, it allows for a great vantage point for photos of the launch track from the GD exit. Unfortunately MDMC it’s scheduled to reopen next week when GD closes so anyone who wants to try get some good shots from this angle will have to wait until September.

Hopefully these temporary closures don’t last too long as Rivals and WWF are closed from Tuesday

I think that’s a pretty safe bet

Just wanted to say that seems a very fair, balanced and reasonable review.

I think one thing that doesn't help is they don't really have a calendar that says hours in advance, so the assumption is open at 10 close at 5. Now with Covid seemingly done, they could really be planning this stuff out months in advance, and mark in special events, extended holiday trading, and even shorter weekday trading in winter. I'd prefer that tbh, and would help with visitors planning visits. Eg if the hours are longer you know it will be busier.

This is a highly underrated comment in this dumpster fire of a thread. I even suggested extending the hours, but what's that going to do for you really? Thw VAST majority of guests go home at 5pm when there is extended trade, because that's what they're used to doing. Honestly they could have stayed open till midnight and it wouldn't have made much difference. Some difference for sure, just not much. Would be an absoloute bonanza for the 1500 people still in the park after 6pm and do fuck all for everyone else. All the parks got slammed on the weekend with the sort of numbers that haven't been seen since pre pandemic. All the parks were their own version of mental, and MW had 4000 guests more than the next busiest park. It's not about how MW responded (though as it happens they really didn't respond well), it was just too busy. They have reduced the number of tickets sold to night events in recent years to deal with over crowding, so I don't buy for a second the lazy 'They don't care, it's all about money' trope, it's just not as easy as that for day trade. No one is set up for it either. I think a system does need to be investigated though because so long as MW is the best park with the best rides and draws by far the most guests then they will continue to be victims of their own success, and victims of the other park's inability to draw a reasonable proportion of guests. Maybe the cheapest local pass doesn't need to let you in over the Easter long weekend or the first 2 weeks after boxing day? Anyway, I'm going away for a couple of days again, will check back in on the dumpster fire again then. Look forward to everyone continuing to lose their minds!

I think the issue is that the park does so many things that folks say "why on earth would they do that" and there is no other reasonable, logical explanation forthcoming - so the conclusion is they must be doing it intentionally. Perhaps if they communicated openly to guests what their woes were, instead of saying "welcome back, we're ready to welcome everyone in!" then the public at large would at least know what they were getting themselves in for. As for Qantas and Airports - yes of course, let's listen to Alan Joyce blame the customers, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the large numbers of staff they sacked during the pandemic, as well as things like baggage handling that they outsourced to the lowest bidder - no, none of that cost cutting had anything to do with the airport delays, and it's all the customers fault, right? Yep. Everything on facebook is made up. Zero possibility of there being any truth to the matter. We should never believe anything we read, hear or see. Everything is a conspiracy these days. Hand me my foil hat! Yes they should have. As has already been said on this thread several times - the park capacity is not capable of as many people as it used to be. The park is the same physical size, but the number of rides, and the number of guests each ride can put through per hour is far lower than it was when the park's capacity was determined. 10,000 guests and 4 hour lines on a ride that has been open for 5 years now outside of the xmas-NYE hell week is beyond ridiculous. If they don't have staff to handle the max capacity. If they don't have the trains to handle the max capacity. if they don't have show crews to put on enough extra shows to handle the max capacity. Then. They. Shouldn't. Let. That. Many. People. In. The. Park. Disney has been routinely maxxing their parks out. They shut the gates. They offer appropriate alternatives to passholders and single-day ticket holders. They refund people who have no other option. Its the trolley problem. Are you gonna reject 3000 guests and upset them, offering refunds, complimentary passes, or some other form of customer service, or are you going to let that 3000 in, and in doing so, upset 10,000 who all have a miserable fucking day getting 1-2 rides while spending all the time in a queue? Closing the gates is a realistic solution. it doesn't require extra staff - there are already staff at the gate and ticket booths. And it doesn't create 'as much' negative backlash because the folks who did get in have a much better day and the folks who didn't have an opportunity to get compensated - a refund, or a return visit ticket, or some other thing that means they didn't waste $100 per person on one fucking ride. And not shutting the gates shows intentional contempt, or obliviousness to the fact that the park wasn't able to cope with it's former "max capacity" "because covid" doesn't wash when Dreamworld up the road was a pleasant day. "We're ready to welcome you back" is marketing, but its also total bullshit. I think your alternate reality is baffling everyone else here. This goes back to the fact that the park's theoretical maximum capacity was most likely determined when you had a studio tour, BATRide, PASS... etc etc. Even these numbers are very generous. Rivals dispatches when i've been in the queue, outside of peak times, with two trains or one are more realistically closer to 5 minutes. GL dispatch times assume the grouper isn't also the loader, which is very common, and like superman on the regular, they don't group people to the doors while the ride is running. Does west still dispatch every 30 seconds when it isn't continuous load? I think MW's current "comfort" capacity sits closer to the 5-6000 mark. 8k is an extreme and is going to start putting pressure on some rides (because the above numbers also ignore popularity and just consider bums on seats. I've never seen every seat in Roxy full, for example)

Primary thing they can do easily is stop gatekeeping wait times behind a park entry. Guests can see how busy the park is up front. Other than that restricting numbers or extending hours is all they can do, but I think that will upset an equal number of people being locked out of the park than those that want to go and wait in 3 hour lines. We hit up wet and wild today. It there was very little wet and quite a bit of wild. Got in a ride on Constrictor and then Kaboom and it was 1:30pm. We gave up, got changed and went back to SeaWorld. JetRescue was running much faster today! SeaWorld a lot quieter today than Sunday in our experience.

I mean, not sure if the park is really busy or if they've just neutered a ride with great capacity by eliminating the continuous load station and introducing individual lapbars. Like sure - health and safety reasons are fine, but the capacity loss is still a loss. (It also doesn't help to have an entire boat cycling the ride completely tagged out. I heard a boat sank in the trough the other day too.)

Yeah agree. Refreshing to see that garbage abandoned.