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Sea World Visit - November 2022


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This was my first visit to Sea World in about 4 months, so I was interested to see what else has happened throughout the park since my last visit. 
 

Firstly, they’ve finally removed some of the walls and trusses from the parks entrance. It’s a shame they haven’t all been removed, but it’s a start. And already it feels so much better and inviting. It’s a shame they couldn’t move this into the exit store and completely open up the entry once again.

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The Lakeside food outlets are undergoing a refurbishment 

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The Dockside Tavern is closed for refurbishment. Most notably, there is heaps of work happening underneath, perhaps Atlantis related.

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Vortex is closed for maintenance and some of the panelling has been removed and it appeared they are doing so touch/patch up work too

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The Carousel remains dismantled and the reopening date has been removed

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Patricks and Ninja Flyer are closed. Is this mesh around the fence of the flyers new?

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And there hasn’t been any further works on the flume station site. But despite there being construction fencing, they’ve wrapped it in a black mesh, which makes it look ‘nicer’. But it makes me think it’s going to be there for a while.

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One refurbished food outlet has opened, the other has closed to complete its refurb

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The floor at the entrance has been resurfaced, hopefully this happens through the entire area as some parts aren’t in good shape

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The bananas available at MW are now at SW

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The carnival games in The Plaza are closed for renovations with new (but worse) signage being installed 

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The photo lab has relocated from the front of the park to this somewhat hidden store under the tavern

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Work is still happening under the tavern

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And the carousel has been completely removed, only the roof structure remains

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After years of the entrance to the park being ruined by entry photos, it has finally returned to its former self.

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Patricks Jellyfish Frenzy has reopened

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The Dockside Tavern has reopened and they have a takeaway menu downstairs, with a bar.

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The photo lab at the front of the park has reopened, but they also have this one under the tavern too, which is where you buy backwards seats for Leviathan and some of the merch

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And they also have this sign shown the height requirements for all the attractions 

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First time I’ve realised this, but kids can ride Trident before they’re allowed to ride the carousel!

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31 minutes ago, themagician said:

The photo lab at the front of the park has reopened, but they also have this one under the tavern too, which is where you buy backwards seats for Leviathan and some of the merch

The photo lab at the front of the park doesn't have on-ride photos - so if you want to get ride photos you need to go to dockside.

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I actually thing the various park departments (remember different people are responsible for all these things) deserve some props for co-ordinating to get all the various projects completed the same day and open with Leviathan. 
To have the Nick refurb work, dockside and Leviathan all open on the same day was a very nice touch. 
Could easily still had rides closed and the tavern being worked on which would have made for a much less polished day. 
 

Good on them I say

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The only thing I still don't like with the front entrance is the temp looking airport style barriers. I remember back in the day that each booth had like the metal queue rails for each booth. I just think it made it look a bit more polished. I can see why from an operational standpoint they have done this but I'd love to just see something a bit more permanent set up. However, it's still 1000% better than how it used to look. Overall the park is really starting to look good again, just a few more touch ups and things (like removing the flume etc) and it will make an even bigger difference.

Here's hoping this is the start of VRTP turning the tides and really focusing on appearance like what Dreamworld has been focusing on lately. Makes a huge difference.

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Jellyfish Frenzy used to have really nice theming and high tropical planting at the back of it. I guess this was all removed for New Atlantis, but it appears there is still a strip of garden at the back, so is there any reason why this can't return? It desperately needs a separation from New Atlantis by the looks of the photos, so bringing back those high plantings would be perfect 

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Forums still being screwy for me, showing me this “unread” topic from 6 weeks ago.

On 16/12/2022 at 8:27 PM, REGIE said:

Does seaworld still have the red train in the station? I couldn’t find it when I visited to park the other day

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the train has been long gone as has the station. This train is, I believe, the one now at Wild West Falls.

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Yeah not sure what happened there I can’t delete it now.

btw when I went to the park seaworld on jan 31st there was no where in park to buy tickets for Levi backwards. I went to the photo lab to ask and they said the only way to buy backwards is on the app. So me and my friend went on the app to buy the tickets but when we tried to pay it just said “unable to purchase” or something like that. It happened to both of us. There really should be a way to buy backwards in the park without going through the app.  Or at least make the app purchase easy to find and actually go through 

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