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Just checked it out because I was aware there was a park in Perth which I visit a couple of times a year with mates for business - the website might use a couple of small tidy-ups. There's a lot going on here on my screen - lots of scrolling without any obvious cues to let me know how I can pause the scrolling to read the text - and some of the text is obscured by other page elements. Specifically: Abyss page has images full of text in the scroller - it scrolls way too fast to read them and some are cut off at the top. As they are images search engines won't find them either. Opening hours page suggests you're closed May-August this year. Is that right, or does the calendar just not go that far yet? On the main page there's three horizontally scrolling elements visible at once that scroll automatically at different speeds/times. Since this is the first page I hit on your website this is where I'll spend the longest to get a feel for your layout so that I can navigate. Having it constantly switching under me (and large amount of it that are content links) seemingly at random really makes me have to concentrate to be able to get where I want to go. On the main page two of the links in the main content link zone are for merchandise and corporate bookings. Unless these are a really large part of your market you might consider swapping one or either of these out with a link to attractions. Visiting your site for the first time I was keen to see what you have in the park, but that's not an option presented to me prominently. Oh, wait, I just saw that there's a list of rides directly underneath this zone (but it was partially off-screen at the bottom). Partially disregard the above point, unless that's something you're not looking to achieve. I like the list of rides and their names below them, however the list looks like it's meant to scroll off the right of screen (I can see part of an image of another right hanging off the right), but there's no button for me to click to see what it is - only a link above for 'more', although the 'more' is sort-of in a strange area, but I assume the 'more' relates to rides. I've just clicked through to your rides and attractions page. I like the images, and I know I can put my mouse over the tiles to see the names, but I'd rather see the names presented to me first. Just a personal thing, probably. Also, the rides don't really seem to be in any sort of order. Thrill level order might work for me, but if you're looking for the family demographic you don't want them thinking it's an all-thrill park I suppose. I'm a little unclear - are you primarily a water park? Is the water park separate? How, as a guest, should I best manage my day as I wouldn't think you'd want me on the rides if I'm wet? Anyhow, please don't take these as criticism, but more as observations by someone with an interest in attending your park. Free market research I suppose.

Actually, boilers tend to follow a bathtub curve of failure - a new boiler is at a higher risk of failure than one that is, say, 20 years old. I reckon ol' Sunlander might have you on this one, Alex.

I think you'll find they are claiming the cup as 'at reasonable cost'.

" The Liquor Regulation 2002 makes it mandatory for commercial hotel licensees, community club licensees, commercial other (bar) licensees, licensees catering to a commercial public event and any licensee who trades after 12 midnight to provide cold drinking water free of charge to any patron who requests it, at any time the premises is trading. All other licensees must make cold drinking water available either free of charge or at a reasonable cost to patrons when the premises is trading." So - perhaps go looking for the new burger place?

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Yawn, spare us. 1: You can't breach a policy you don't subscribe to. 2: Who the hell cares.

Look closer, Lenny.

Maybe we will see a comeback?

You seem mad. Y u mad?

They'll be pleased to know it's that easy, I'm sure.

What's a good walk-through, anyway? None spring to mind.

Caps Lock is cruise control for cool.

Haha, yep, you got me. I had assumed it was an elevator early on, but by the time I later found out it didn't actually go anywhere it was always known in my mind as 'the elevator'. Twas the earth drill.

No more than a year after it opened. I remember it well because in the last hour or thereabouts of the park being open (and as the buses have taken a lot of the crowd away) most rides are walk-on so it was a race to see how many you could get in that time. We had assumed the BT ops knew this and therefore weren't going to make people sit through the pre-show for no good reason. Naturally this was still in the days of fire on the mountain, and the turntable still operating.

How do you feel it would stack up against the BT pre-show?

This is worth watching. Verrrry similar:

I saw Bermuda in its heyday, including the pre-show. The costumes and all were lovely, but ultimately it was being herded into the room to watch a video clip, and then over the top onto the turntable. There really wasn't a lot to it. It added about as much to the experience as a video clip you'd be shown before a game of laser tag. The fact that the storyline of the ride tied into the video clip was nice, but that's about it. Come back late in the day and you'd find the video clip on a loop and people allowed to walk through. If I contrast it to the Batman ride you had the library set with the bookcase, then the tunnel where there was a back and forth between the host and video clip, then the bat cave, and then you'd be pushed through to the ride which constantly referenced the pre-show. That was a multi-stage pre-show with much higher production values. LTRR's pre-show was a mixed-bag. The room with the painted characters was fun to kill some time, the animatronics were a bit goofy but the kids probably liked them. The elevator was... an elevator. Whatever. As far as quality of effects in the ride itself Bermuda craps on the others pretty comfortably, but if we are simply taking the pre-show I don't think we can say the same. If I had to wonder - I'd say the Batman pre-show was double the length of the Bermuda one.

Or, just thinking about it, we could just not worry about it and assume that people are more interested in riding the damn thing than they are in whether a relatively insignificant level of detail exists in a place that has absolutely no bearing on the ride experience...

Correct, ala the fake-arm-soda-can gag window.

1: No, he is complaining that the fries are too expensive. They are. 2: It's okay to come out of your cave now - McDonalds has been offering table service for their gourmet burger (CYT) menu for quite some time. They even offer delivery in some stores. Amazing and life-changing, I know. 3: Not true, depending on the pathogen the onset of symptoms can be within hours, and may indeed have been the last thing you ate. You are not recommended to see a doctor in most cases unless symptoms persist for more than three days. Looks like 0/3 on that one. Your aim is normally better.

Better yet, he also has released them to the Internet under a Creative Commons license for you! https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Enclosed_hallway_before_circular_room.jpg

Someone with the same username and general penchant for abuse of the written word no less.

Trying to compare local pass prices to their equivalent in US dollars makes no sense. The opex costs of the park are incurred in Australian Dollars, not US Dollars. That a pass here would be cheaper for a US resident is irrelevant, just the same as currency fluctuations have almost doubled the price of a pass to the American parks for us in the last few years.

Yeah, the industry already has a thing for this. The customer is always the customer. That is, no matter how wrong the customer may be, no matter how rude the customer may be, and no matter how ignorant the customer may be the customer is always the customer and should be treated with respect and tolerance. They are paying your bills, so you should act like it.

That brings up an interesting point though about consumer behaviour. At a conference recently some research was presented that concluded that you could increase the customer perception of value at your property-owned food and beverage outlets by strategically placing a well-known brand that customers can be expected to know the standard pricing of in your park and contractually ensuring the mark-up on products over outlets outside the park is fairly low - the research concluded that customers saw the delta and made a value assumption on your other outlets that markups must be similar. It was an interesting take on it that I'd not considered. I'm unsure how wide-spread it is.