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River Town entry arch being installed today

We dropped into MW yesterday and today. SE was running one train at 3pm this afternoon, with a listed wait time of 30 Minutes. Low and behold, after 80ish minutes standing around, we got on. Such a shame that the ride ops only seemed to give a shit about how quickly things moved after the the line was shut, presumably to get home on time. Rivals was even worse yesterday. We bit the bullet and joined the 90 Minute line at 1215 yesterday, only to not be on until about 3. Staff seemed lethargic, uncaring, like they didn't want to be there, and were above all else slow. There also clearly was not enough of them to run things efficiently. 5 (and that's me being nice) Minute dispatches on your flagship attraction on any given day is deplorable, let alone with SE down and GL being as unreliable as it is. I will concede I Did not ride today so there could have been a better crew on. It's a stark contrast to how we saw things at DW. As much as lines were long, the place was organised, staff were working hard, friendly and actually looked like they cared about visitors and wanted to be there. The contempt that the Village seem to be treating the consumer with is disgusting - the fact that in an off peak time, I could only get on 4 things in a whole day is deplorable. The arrogance to do things like have a listed SE wait time on the app of 30 minutes yet close the line at 4pm is quite shocking (what is up with these clearly under-representing wait times?). I knew from on here Village were bad, but man the contrast between the places is insane. I really hope things turn around and trend Upward at DW with JR. They clearly care about and have a passion for visitors and their experiences at the park, where Village don't.

Running a business doesn't seem like yours..

And that's totally because of WhiteWater World not getting the attention it deserves, and not because of Covid and the sale of Main Event

Just make sure you do a better job than DW

Well, you really don't know what they're discussing. They could be chatting about the awesome pub crawl that they just had, or they could be receiving instructions from the supervisor that they need to remember to follow a certain safety procedure, because something was just missed. Again Devil's advocate - we know the village procedures aren't the fastest and maybe one of those is a regular checkin between supervisors and station staff to ensure everyone is on the ball. My experience at USJ in Summer is a little different. As far as flying dinosaur went: 4 people were at the entrance to the queue line. Some were checking express pass entries, some were directing guests to the test seat, and all of them were waving frantically as if their lives depended on it. Another worker was at the end of queue merge before the lockers directing people to the 'briefing' spaces 4 workers occupied the briefing spaces, holding laminated cards with instructions in multiple languages informing people to remove everything from their pockets, and then issuing them with locker barcodes An additional 2 workers patrolled the lockers to assist with locker issues 4 more workers manned the handheld metal detectors prior to the final queue line. Even with this many cast, short queues formed in front of each worker to be permitted into the final queue line. Then one grouper, and two restraint ops per station I should add that they allowed the piece of paper used to unlock the locker to be kept in a pocket, but a slightly larger piece of paper with an express pass barcode had to be placed in the locker. Naturally it wasn't metal so on subsequent trips we didn't bother to put it in a locker and it never fell out because it was inside of the fall-resistant locker paper. Yes ok, blah blah, USJ gets more people than MW so not as many staff required - but MW still gets similar wait times to USJ and TDR so I think its a fair comparison on the numbe of staff required.

8 years since the incident? or 4 years since the start of covid? How long since covid 'ended' ? And are you making allowances for the botched management decisions that only set them further back? like the adventure river? or the ampitheatre? what about the stupid effort they wasted seeing if mine ride could be reopened? The last management made a lot of dumb decisions. The current management are being sensible - and you aren't. Well, they did get down to 0.18 in March of 2020, and that was when they owned Main Event - so congratulations on more than doubling your share price AND getting an additional 94c per share payout! No, google doesn't show me back that far. Do you know how much they were right before covid? (spoiler - $1.63 January 2020) And $1.41 right before they sold main event and paid you out. See you want to point at how much money you lost in 2016. What you're not taking into account at that point is that your shares were worth so much because the management at the time were prioritising profits over safety and human life. They had engineering reports in their hands, and historic records of multiple incidents that occurred almost in the exact same way as October 2016 - and despite all that, they were actually petitioning the government for less regulation and more self inspections because they were such a safe operation. The inquest uncovered just how poorly that place was run, so when you complain about how much the share price has dropped since the incident, what you're actually saying is you'd rather kill people for profit. All your whining about how they're running the park makes so much more sense now.

WWF has been bang on. Absolute crock of shit. Spoke to various members over the parks in the last couple of days, inclusive WnW. They are very aware of the amount of school groups arriving over the next two weeks. They wouldn't set up big marquees and label them with individual school names on a whim and a prayer. It's gross what they're doing and getting away with as a business. The fact that the park is ultimately failing to deliver an advertised product and then blatantly lying to the high-paying customers they've ripped off is terrible. Second train is good when you don't have a crew stacking every second train for 2+ minutes.

Nah I totally get your stance, I was just joking around. In isolation it’s minor, but it’s like the straw that broke the camels back. One of the many disappointments coming from village that don’t equal value for money with passes. I totally get it. Im not sure if he IS the one to blame, but it seems like an overhaul on Ops is the priority for Village to improve everyone’s experience. So maybe Bikash needs to go…

Tell me you don’t know sensible business management without telling me… It’s simple economics mate. Would you invest $1 on something that will give you $1.20 return or something that will give you $3 return? WWW will get the attention it deserves, neither DW or WWW is in a place right now to prioritise WWW over DW.

I'm still waiting for African Safari World Maybe once that opens we will get a Disneyland... with it's main attraction being a themed indoor wild mouse with fire sensing eyes...