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<blockquote data-quote="crushersmum" data-source="post: 148777" data-attributes="member: 14568"><p>Thorpe Park gives passes to my son who has type 1 diabetes. I started asking for one after we spent 3 1/2 hours in a queue one day in August to a water ride ( tidal wave- which leaves you soaked to the skin at the end) & ran out of food during the time as we had left all the bags including the test kit in the lockers at the start of the queue so as not to get them wet on the ride. We never expecting a ride queue to be so long. He did of course refuse to leave his place in the queue after 3 hours even though he said he was going low, just to go back & find some food as he thought we were so close to the ride by then, but as a mother it was very worrying as he had just asked for some food & we had none. He was aged about 13 at the time. We now get a pass to get to the front of the queue so that he knows his BMs when he goes on the ride, but it does not give a major advantage over other ride users in terms of fitting in more rides as when you use the pass they note the length of time that you have avoided by missing the queue ( ie it would have been 3.5 hours that first time) and add that time onto the current time and you are not allowed to use the time for another 3.5 hours. This means you get no more rides than others but at least you do not have to spend all that time in a queue without your bags/food test kit. You can go on a ride with no queues during the time, but not the oneswith big queues. To be honest the experience was so bad that we have made an effort to return only on INSET days out of high season as then hte queues are far shorter & the problem doesn't arise.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="crushersmum, post: 148777, member: 14568"] Thorpe Park gives passes to my son who has type 1 diabetes. I started asking for one after we spent 3 1/2 hours in a queue one day in August to a water ride ( tidal wave- which leaves you soaked to the skin at the end) & ran out of food during the time as we had left all the bags including the test kit in the lockers at the start of the queue so as not to get them wet on the ride. We never expecting a ride queue to be so long. He did of course refuse to leave his place in the queue after 3 hours even though he said he was going low, just to go back & find some food as he thought we were so close to the ride by then, but as a mother it was very worrying as he had just asked for some food & we had none. He was aged about 13 at the time. We now get a pass to get to the front of the queue so that he knows his BMs when he goes on the ride, but it does not give a major advantage over other ride users in terms of fitting in more rides as when you use the pass they note the length of time that you have avoided by missing the queue ( ie it would have been 3.5 hours that first time) and add that time onto the current time and you are not allowed to use the time for another 3.5 hours. This means you get no more rides than others but at least you do not have to spend all that time in a queue without your bags/food test kit. You can go on a ride with no queues during the time, but not the oneswith big queues. To be honest the experience was so bad that we have made an effort to return only on INSET days out of high season as then hte queues are far shorter & the problem doesn't arise. [/QUOTE]
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