DaveStroem Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Just got home from a blah day at CP. The park was packed and we only got a total of 11 rides the entire day. Since I travel with 3 females, I always try to tell them we need to be on the road 15-20 minutes before I really want to leave. This morning I didn't do this and we were about 10 minutes late leaving. When we got to the parking lot it was about 10 till 9:00 and by the time we were at the resort entrance they were playing the national anthem. The line was backed up to the road tunnel. After we got in we headed straight to Maverick but by then the line was long enough that they were starting to open up the queues. It was about 9:40 when we got off so instead of our normal pattern of hitting Millie next then TTD we just went to TTD. When we got there, they had not opened the ride yet but the line reached back to the station. This was still short compared to what it would be the rest of the day. After a great ride on TTD we booked it over to Millie. By this time the line was just into the first set of switchbacks. Begin Rant: After about 15 minutes the group in front of me gets on their cell phone and starts to wave at someone. I told her that if they want to ride with someone else, they need to go join them, and not have the other people jump the line. This did no good and here shows up a 50 year old woman and her 20 something son. Not your typical line jumpers but still douchbags. I lit into her about all the people that they cut in front of and got a sob story about how they wouldn't let her bring on her purse and that she had to get a locker while the rest of her group got in line. I told her that it was still line jumping and that her group should have waited for her at the entrance. If there had been an op at the turnstile in the station I would have reported her. Rant over Millie gave us a great ride in the next to last row. Much more air then we got during CoasterMania. Next we took the train over to Frontierland to hit Mean Streak and work our way down to Magnum. Mean Streak had a line that went out to the entrance. I was kidding the ride ops that they needed to open a queue. They said they had not seen it this busy for quite a while. The rest of the day was about the same with long lines but decent rides. We only got 1 lap each on the following Maverick, TTD, MF, MS, Gemini Red & Blue, Maggie, BS, Raptor, DT, Ferris Wheel and the train. Not the worse day, but not the best by a long shot. If we would have gotten there 10 minutes ahead I feel that we would have saved 1/2 hour at Maverick and then gotten in MF before the end of the ERT making everything else a lessor wait all day by moving up the schedule and doing less walking from one side to the other. Oh well I will have to remind myself to build in that extra 15-20 minutes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragsterfan420 Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 To begin with, I completely loathe when people line jump. Whether it be one person or 20 people, the latter obviously being a whole lot worse. People in parties I have been in have told me before to cut in lines and I've blatantly refused and decided to go ride something else while waiting for them. I'm sorry those people gave you such a hard time. On another note, that sounds like a pretty bad day at CP. I can relate with the "living with 3 women" thing because for the most part I go to parks with my mom, sister, aunt, girl cousin, and a boy cousin(who might as well be considered a girl in this case 'cause he takes forever to get ready too). That is weird that Mean Streaks line went all the way back to the entrance. Out of all the times I've been there, even on the busiest of days it's never been passed the part of the q-line that is leading to the stairs. Anyways, I'm sorry the day wasn't that enjoyable for you. But at least you got to spend a nice day at CP with your family. (I wish I could do that) Kyle PS: Will their be pictures? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ajbt1981 Posted July 14, 2009 Share Posted July 14, 2009 Look at the bright side, the park NEEDS to have some crowded days so that it can continue to stay open. However, given that it was a Monday, that's pretty surprising to me. In regards to line jumpers, its clear that those people are obviously more important than the rest of us NON-line jumpers, so I keep my mouth shut and simply deal with it (Insert sarcasim here). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveStroem Posted July 14, 2009 Author Share Posted July 14, 2009 In retrospect, it was probably a typical CP day. We have gotten so spoiled by lite crowds that my opinions just may be skewed. When we went to BGW on a Saturday, the longest wait was 20 minutes for a front row on Griffon. If we had opted for 2 or 3 rows, we could have gotten on in 5 minutes. The entire park was like this all day long. It was great. Yesterday was the first time all seasont that we had a wait close to an hour. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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