Volcano Bay: General Discussion

[tuttis93]

Hi everyone, I've been following the construction thread for a month or two as I'm heading to Orlando in a couple of days for two weeks. Unsure if this has been completely clarified so sorry if I'm repeating a question, but does the taputapu only save your queue for one ride OR does it do one ride plus honu/krakatau. Also, are ALL the rides taputapu, as in you can't just line up if you're waiting for a huge ride, or just the major ones like krakatau, honu, bodyplunges etc.

Had planned to do this rather late in my holiday so hope things are sorted by then as the twitter feeds seem pretty off-putting.. lots of people with only 1-2 rides in the whole day. Hopefully this is an easy fix within a couple of weeks

Thanks!

 

[Latveria]

It's gotten very negative on Twitter on day two of operations

 

[CowMissing]

I'm sure they have to work out the kinks. It takes time, especially for a brand new theme park. It's like purchasing the generation one of any new item, it takes time. They'll get it, it's Universal!

 

[RonaldsModernLife]

Today I learned people expect the first 2 days of a new theme park, on a holiday weekend, to not be crowded and for everything to work flawlessly.

 

[rcoasterdude]

Today I learned people expect the first 2 days of a new theme park, on a holiday weekend, to not be crowded and for everything to work flawlessly.

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[Chicagoshannon]

Maybe they should have discount tickets until everything is up and running properly.

 

[rhino4evr]

Never forget that day I was about to hop in the car to visit hogsmede grand opening, and came on this website and saw the crowd pictures and went back to bed.

Complaining the park is crowded on opening day is kind of silly.

 

[Latveria]

I agree I would never go to a park in it's opening week especially a Holiday weekend.

To be fair though you have to put yourselves in these peoples shoes. They spent how much money on parking, tickets, food, etc to get in and expected it to be ready for the high volume of guests UO must have predicted would show up. It's been a disaster from an ops side of things up to this point.

 

[adjjb]

This is why they should have done softs, set that expectation. Instead of opening on a long weekend when they knew and wanted full capacity.

These people are paying to get in, it's to be expected they should be able to ride more than one slide.

 

[Hockeyman55]

Video of Punga Racers:

Looks really fast. Too bad there's not a good view of the manta ray mats.

Also, I'm just counting the days until a Tapu Tapu appears on eBay. It's inevitable

This looks great and pretty fast from the looks of it. Love the mat slides they let you go down head first

 

[rhino4evr]

Maybe they should have discount tickets until everything is up and running properly.

Nah, I think they should cut their overall capacity instead.

Speaking of , does anyone know what the total capacity of the park is?

 

[12th Man]

If they can figure out a way to keep return times around 60 minutes and reduce the technical problems they're experiencing with attractions, it'd show us just how useful TapuTapu can be!

 

[rhino4evr]

If you offer "discount" tickets that will just encourage more people to go.

They may leave slightly less disappointed knowing they paid less, but that doesn't solve your crowd issue.

They probably need to dial it back about 2,000 people.

 

[sonoma15]

Also I'm pretty sure these people who waited 4+ hours are trying to queue for the volcano slides, if they wanted to go on more slides they could queue for a different one.

 

[Hockeyman55]

Wild Gravity Travels on Twitter posted the action lazy river is now letting people on without life vest, good to see things are evolving and adjusted, just need to give it time.

 

[adjjb]

They will probably end up getting a return future ticket from guest services.

Oh wow, one of those people told the twitter account there's over an hour wait for guest services.

 

[rhino4evr]

This looks great and pretty fast from the looks of it. Love the mat slides they let you go down head first

Mat slides are always some of my favorites. Way under rated. The sense of speed is thrilling.

 

[Kwame]

So it's basically impossible to ride all of the slides in 1 day withouth express?

 

[ArchieAndrews]

So it's basically impossible to ride all of the slides in 1 day withouth express?

For now. They'll work out stuff later.

Though I'm surprised not being able to ride everything in one day is a downfall. I'd think it's better to have a reason to go back to the park another day myself.

Obviously if the lines are all gigantic and that's the only reason why that's a little disappointing. But I mean, I've never been able to do everything at Blizzard Beach or Typhoon Lagoon in one day either. And I think that's more due to the sheer amount of content rather than just lines.

 

[Alicia]

Wild Gravity Travels on Twitter posted the action lazy river is now letting people on without life vest, good to see things are evolving and adjusted, just need to give it time.

Was just about to post this. This was my biggest complaint from what I saw yesterday. So glad they made the adjustment.