u/Dazzling-Respond8450

I attending Chessington yesterday and today and although the park was relatively quiet it was two really poor days out with constant ride breakdowns and generally long queues for all rides. I'm left kinda baffled by who this park is aimed at and why anyone would come here. It is basically a mix of a pretty crap zoo, a few little kids rides that constantly break down and have crazy long queues for kids rides, and a few thrill coaster that have really long waits, except mandrill mayhem which was usually not too bad a wait to be fair.

On the first day, Tomb blaster broke down while we queuing, zufari broke down while queuing and river rafts broke down twice while we were queuing.

on second day, seastorm broke down while we were on the ride and took 20 mins for them to get us off the ride, griffon galleon broke down while we were on the ride and again took ages to get us off and then the carosouel broke down while we were queuing too.

everytime i checked the app, there was constant rides being temporarily closed so i don't even think we were unlucky with breakdowns.

It also took 20 minutes to get a coffee as the guys said the order hadn't came through from the touch screen, and my prepaid parking pass didn't work the second day, just kept saying already scanned even though the barrier didn't go up.

Nothing in this park seemed to work, genuinely the worst place i have ever been, just constant frustrations.

My advise to anyone with kids would be go to legoland or paultons, both absolutely miles better. And obviously go to Thorpe Park if looking to ride rollercoasters, or go to any zoo if that is what you are looking for. Like I said, I am genuinely baffled by this park, it just seems to do a token crap offering to different demographics and do nothing well.