HAD A GOOD DAY at Alton Towers with Ashley today! Was interesting though as there was more power cuts today, following the ones yesterday. The whole park was cut off, leaving lots of people having to be rescued off rides.
Started the day with a good time, rather busy but got in a good few rides in. We were sat eating our lunch and commented to each other that the Sky Ride has shut for a while. We then tried to access the other half of park to find out it was closed due to power problems. Whilst we were wandering around wondering what to go on next the whole park lost power. A lot of people got stuck on rides and needed evacuating!
It took them a while and a lot of people where really annoyed and wanted refunds. As there was power problems though funny how the managed to keep all the arcades open! There was an absolutely massive queue for quest services but it wasn’t really Alton Towers fault as the fault was outside the park.
Spoke to a few people who got stuck on things, including a few people who got stuck on Sky Ride for 2 hours! There was also a load of people stuck on the monorail for a good few hours! They eventually started starting up the rides though couldn’t run everything because of the ongoing power issues!
The new ride Thirteen though broke down quite a few times and once I saw them evacuating people from it down safety lines! ... Thought we where going to get stuck on ittoo, as we got to outside the station it stopped for about 5mins though eventually it started up and we went into the station.
At least all the rides where open until 19:00 and people got free return ticket, not much got for me with annual pass though!
Anyway more details of the power cut can been on my article.
Started the day with a good time, rather busy but got in a good few rides in. We were sat eating our lunch and commented to each other that the Sky Ride has shut for a while. We then tried to access the other half of park to find out it was closed due to power problems. Whilst we were wandering around wondering what to go on next the whole park lost power. A lot of people got stuck on rides and needed evacuating!
It took them a while and a lot of people where really annoyed and wanted refunds. As there was power problems though funny how the managed to keep all the arcades open! There was an absolutely massive queue for quest services but it wasn’t really Alton Towers fault as the fault was outside the park.
Spoke to a few people who got stuck on things, including a few people who got stuck on Sky Ride for 2 hours! There was also a load of people stuck on the monorail for a good few hours! They eventually started starting up the rides though couldn’t run everything because of the ongoing power issues!
The new ride Thirteen though broke down quite a few times and once I saw them evacuating people from it down safety lines! ... Thought we where going to get stuck on ittoo, as we got to outside the station it stopped for about 5mins though eventually it started up and we went into the station.
At least all the rides where open until 19:00 and people got free return ticket, not much got for me with annual pass though!
Anyway more details of the power cut can been on my article.
