Oh yes we did. Spent a day at Universal Studios. Luckily for us all this is the only shot I can use:
The other shots feature she who must be obeyed prancing around in front of various attractions and you really don’t want to see that.
Here are some top tips for those considering a trip to Universal Studios Singapore:
- Don’t go.
- If you do go, make sure you are taking with you every member of your family that may ever wish to visit; because you will not want to go back twice.
- Buy a priority pass for $30. Even midweek low season, the queues for rides were very long. For example, without a priority pass you would queue for more than an hour for the Transformers ride. A priority pass gets you on in a couple of minutes; and in the best seats.
- The Transformers ride is pretty good (although not a one hour queue good).
- It’s actually not as bad as you thought it would be.
Comments 🔗
2014-05-29| Clive saysI appreciate this is cynical, but I think the challenge is caused by the owners, who tend to be a greedy bunch, by and large. They want to make a big profit. They know visitor numbers, and they spend just enough on rides and employees to create a park with hour-long queues. They don’t care if you queue an hour, because the pay-once-on-entry model means people will say, “I’m here now, I might as well stay the day and get value for money.”
A queuing time of up to an hour means that the first thing you will do when you get off a ride is buy a drink. Or food. Or both.
If they had more rides, or employed more people to reduce queue times, it would hurt their profits.
Basically the only reason that the quality of theme parks like this has deteriorated is because of this push for profit margin.
Cynical. Sad. But true.
2014-05-29| Spike saysI didn’t mention that every ride we went on exited into an appropriately themed gift shop. I only had to steer my wife away from some tacky keyrings on one occasion; but I spotted some very stressed parents who were being coerced into purchasing shit fluffy toys related to the ride their little brats had just queued for an hour to enjoy. To experience the capitalist joy of running a theme park; I recommend Roller Coaster Tycoon. Put extra salt on the fries; and then stick a cola stand next door to make people pay to quench their thirst. Put a burger bar near the entrance to an extreme roller coaster, and then watch the riders vomit as the leave the ride; shortly after they will be back at the burger bar to fill up again!
2014-05-30| genuinej saysSounds just like Disneyland/world. All good fun for those with lots of patience and heavy wallets, as is our very own Alton Towers.