Dreamworld and WhiteWater World will extending its operating hours this Summer.

- From December 27 to 30, Dreamworld will be open from 9:30am to 8pm and WhiteWater World will be open from 9:30am to 6:30pm.
- December 31 both parks will be open 9:30am to 6pm.
- January 1 both parks will be open 10am to 5pm.
- From January 2 to 11, both parks will be open 9:30am to 6pm.
- From January 12 both parks will be open 10am to 5pm.

https://www.dreamworld.com.au/park-information/park-calendar/

I feel like shutting at 6pm during holidays is missing out. Kinda like "thanks for enjoying the park, time to eat dinner but not here".

Extending to 8pm is good.

It's not like DW has a great restaurant ready to go.  //s

The cost of staffing the park and the operating costs of running rides (energy/cycles/etc.) is almost always going to be greater than the additional money visitors spend in the park in those final two hours.

They already opened the restaurant on Saturday nights from 5-9pm.  If the goal is to get people to eat dinner and spend money, then they just need to open the restaurant, not the entire park.

Parks know when and where people are spending money.  If it were profitable to extend operating hours, they would.

They’d probably do a lot better closing at 8pm if there was a direct bus back to Broadbeach after close 

Yeah my understanding is that parks would LIKE to extend operating hours but the cost-benefit just doesn't add up in most cases

You have to give the guest something different to keep them in the park.  Extending hours isn't enough.

3 hours ago, New display name said:

You have to give the guest something different to keep them in the park.  Extending hours isn't enough.

How about food trucks and shiny light packages?

15 hours ago, New display name said:

You have to give the guest something different to keep them in the park.  Extending hours isn't enough.

Like half price tickets if you enter after 3 or 4pm?

$5 after 5pm rocked at Wonderland back in the day. Not sure annual passes make that metric work very well these days, but you can do it successfully.

16 hours ago, jjuttup said:

How about food trucks and shiny light packages?

How to turn a theme park into an amusement park?

Add food trucks.

There will be fireworks on the nights that the park is open until 8pm

https://www.dreamworld.com.au/events/fireworks/