No more queues! Ocean Park develops smartphone app to book rides in advance
… only you will have to wait a year for the app that Ocean Park believes will cut waiting times for its roller coasters and other attractions
Are you put off a trip to the amusement park for fear of long queues for rides? Ocean Park is hoping to remove the problem by developing a smartphone application to allow visitors to book rides in advance.
With more than seven million people a year lining up to ride the park's 80 attractions, the thinking is that the app would spread out the crowds and shorten waiting times for everyone. It would be fed information on visitor numbers in various areas of the park and then recommend people head to less crowded places.
A pre-booking app was set up for last year's Halloween Fest, which allowed visitors to schedule visits to the haunted house and other rides. The new app will be similar but on a much grander scale.
And to help access the information, a free Wi-fi network in the park is to be launched in about nine months' time, said the park's deputy chief executive, Matthias Li Sing-chung, yesterday.
The park's financial year to June last year saw a record 7.7 million visitors pour through the gates, a 9 per cent rise on the previous year. Half of the visitors came from the mainland.
