Theme parks will always try to milk you for more money. From the entrance fee to overpriced food to games where you can “win” overpriced toys at every corner, it’s an all out assault on your budget. I don’t know if other theme parks “offer” a similar “service”, but at Legoland you can buy “express passes”. In their most basic version (just 20 bucks per person per day!) you can reserve you place in line and then wander off to eat some overpriced food and then return at your scheduled time to take your place in the line. This goes up to the premium version (almost no waiting time for only 70 € per person per day!) and of course you are simply not making any friends when you walk past people who’ve been waiting for an hour and take “their place”.
Now, it would be perfectly easy to integrate the basic version into an app for all customers and thereby eliminate those fucking waiting lines altogether, but that might lose them some money (maybe it would make them some money because people would have more time to hang around the food courts instead of eating home made sandwiches while standing in line?), therefore it’s inconceivable!
On the other hand I mentioned to Mr: “Imagine we’d spent some 600 bucks on those express passes and could ride one of those things every 15 minutes. Wouldn’t that be horrible?”
I still don’t know what I find worse: waiting in line for the rolercoaster or riding it, but I’m tending towards the latter. Before you think I’m all grumpy, enjoy some images from the “Atlantis” aquarium.
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My family has games (pass & play board games on phones, and non-electronic games like the alphabet game) that we play while we’re waiting in line. Actually, those are some of my best theme park memories!
Oh, we’re a happy family of Pokemon Go players.
Damn, I thought the fish would be Lego, too.
Lines is the main reason Husband categorically rejects going to any theme park, it’s been a challenge to get him to a couple during off-season times. I’m going to try again this year because so far he’s agreed (twice!) to go to aquaparks (once here, once in Lithuania), though the second time he was under pressure from our friends with whom he and the kids were travelling. But he really, really hates lines and even if he agrees to go, his mood is ruined comparatively quickly and that’s a bit of a downer for me, too, because I have a hard time maintaining enthusiasm all day, even for the kids. An app would be an amazing solution.
I wonder if that’s a Neanderthal lego skeleton, it isn’t gracile enough to be a modern human.
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Good luck convincing your husband, the app sounds like a great idea to help with that assuming there is one for the park you want to go to, if a total rip off.