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Me and my parents ended up in San Diego for spring break, so I dragged them to SeaWorld in hopes of a pleasant experience. I came in knowing they had a smaller collection of coasters, but my god was it underwhelming. Me and my dad bounced between every major coaster (except Journey to Atlantis, which wasn't posted anywhere that it opens late af) and found some of the slowest, least enthusiastic ops possible. Firstly, their newest coaster Arctic Rescue was on 1 train, which was painful. Emperor and Manta were on 2, but it didn't matter since both were operated so poorly. Emperor stacked every cycle, and wouldn't even begin loading until the previous train hit the break run, and Manta was the saddest thing I've ever seen, to the point I timed the dispatches and found it was running at below 500 riders per hour (it's rated at 1400 according to the internet, but that's running 4 trains; even with 2 it should be hitting far higher than it was considering how easy it is to check and dispatch those trains). I understand that United Parks aren't know for running their parks the best, and yes, I was visiting on a Thursday, but it was spring break in San Diego too and it is down right evil to have their coasters running like that. On top of that, my mom (who isn't the biggest fan of coasters) made her way to the orca show and had an awful experience there too. The park felt desolate despite the crowds as well, and really just felt half-baked. Arctic Rescue's queue was clearly rushed, Emperor looked like an active construction sight, and half of the park felt empty of anything interesting. Genuinely the worst experience I've ever had at a park. Manta and Electric Eel were pretty sweet tho. 4/10