Comments on: Do You Try to Ride Coasters as a Group?

By: CoasterCritic

CoasterCritic — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 17:52:18 +0000

I'm not sure I'd call it inconsiderate, but it wasn't ideal. I'd ridden once and completely forgotten about them trying to line up their ride. Oddly enough I was thinking about myself and my friend's enjoyment of the ride and having a good time. Then they asked if we wanted a re-ride and I answered without thinking. I felt bad for a moment and I would've thought it all out and not accepted the cut in line if I had my strategic rider planning hat on, but I didn't. And, for that matter, shouldn't have to.

By: Kristofer

Kristofer — Sun, 19 Aug 2012 03:17:39 +0000

I get really annoyed if I have more than 1 or 2 people with me when I go to a theme park. For that whole instance where they let you go ahead, I believe that because you payed for the privilege to ride you are able to, however, it was pretty inconsiderate of you to just screw them up when they were trying to make things work for them. I don't know. that is a tricky situation.

By: DRU

DRU — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:32:27 +0000

It's all about the ride pics for me. We always buy at least 1 from each ride sometimes more if there is another good pic on that 2nd or 3rd ride. It is nice how they can squeeze an extra row or two into the pic We frame a coaster ride picture collage at the end of each season. My daughter is already 16 and I know she'll appreciate these pics a lot when she grows up.
Today happened to be my first solo trip and my first trip to Dorney. What a wonderful thing to be able to cater to myself all day. Dorney has some sweet coasters!
Solo to Great adventure tomorrow. Can't wait!
I hate going to a park with more than 3 other people. Solo is great, 1 friend is the best…

By: Prof.BAM

Prof.BAM — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 20:57:12 +0000

I hate that. When you wait in line for hours and somebody asks to go ahead. The rides aren't that long, people!

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:07:24 +0000

I always find myself having to do this when I go to parks with more than one other person. It is stressful having to figure out how we can all ride together and having to count people in front of you, etc. Why do we do this? Because we may not be able to high five our friends, but we can still talk to them. We choose consecutive rows so we can talk to them while on the ride. They don't have a problem hearing us since they are only a row behind us. And yes, we all like to get off together. Not only so we can talk about it at the same time, but because it is aggravating having to wait for your friends at the exit. This is why I love B&M rides. You can fit up to four people with you on the same row. I do not usually have more than 3 other people with me, so B&Ms work perfectly to get us to all ride together. Overall, it is important to ride with your party so you can talk to them and have the same ride experience.

By: @mattmcirvin

@mattmcirvin — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 15:50:00 +0000

This was actually my major inhibition about getting back into riding coasters; I didn't have any friends who wanted to ride them and I couldn't bring myself to go ride them alone. There seemed to be something sad about it.

Then I got over that, and, lo and behold, it was fun anyway. I generally go to parks with my family, and it does mean I can't ride the big coasters as much as I'd like (since I don't want to abandon them all day), but that may be for the best (see the marathon thread). Riding alone also means you can sometimes have a much shorter wait or a walk-on.

It's still enormous fun to share the experience with someone else… but only if they're into it; I'm no sadist, or one of these parents who trick their kids into riding rides they're not ready for. I still feel guilty for taking my poor wife on Boulder Dash.

By: Surya

Surya — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 09:42:03 +0000

My friends and I tend to talk during the ride, comment on the experience as we experience it. And we joke around quite a bit. So it's more fun together, but we don't stress about it. We don't mind being on the next train that much

By: CoasterCritic

CoasterCritic — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:46:27 +0000

Exactly! I think it's their drama (no matter how minor it is) interfering with my excited, joyous state of mind is what makes it all so annoying.

I'm not a fan of how I can't pick my seat on Carowinds Intimidator, but when the staff is assigning rows and organizing riders at least there's none of this occurring.

By: CoasterCritic

CoasterCritic — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:38:46 +0000

You're right. It's not a big deal. I guess when you've been in A LOT of stations in a short period of time, little annoyances like this compound themselves. Just like seeing guests sit on the hand rails over and over and over and over.

I guess it's a good problem to have. Not everyone can visit theme parks as often as I have recently…

By: Patrick Adcock

Patrick Adcock — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 03:37:19 +0000

I think this is a reason I prefer going by myself, with my significant other and/or at most 2 other people. I just want to get on the ride and move on myself. As a usual single rider at times I've been asked to move ahead numerous times. The only positive I see from this is that it has helped me time wise. I just see it as wasted energy and time trying to calculate over and over and over again who's on which train and you aren't even in the same car, or even the one in front or behind. It's really silly to me. I mean, you end up at the same place, right? JUST GET ON!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL