longest attraction queue ever witnessed?
Apr 7th, 2005, 12:43 PM
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Waiting for the toilets, food, water at the Toronto SARS Festival with 499,000 other people for 12hrs.
Can't believe the negatives about Philly's airport. We just drove 7hrs. to catch a flight to London instead of flying through Logan. I dread Logan most of all!
Can't believe the negatives about Philly's airport. We just drove 7hrs. to catch a flight to London instead of flying through Logan. I dread Logan most of all!
Apr 7th, 2005, 12:47 PM
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Waited three hours to get into a pavilion at the World's Fair in Montreal (Expo '67). I was a small child. We saw a nun vomit way ahead of us in line. I held my nose when we went past that point. 
Apr 7th, 2005, 12:55 PM
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Have waited in line a few hours at places like Disneyland, Cedar Point, Six Flags, but that was when the parks were jammed with people, but you could still see them moving the people through, there were just a whole lot of people to move through. Where waiting in line for hours got to me, was at Frontier City in Oklahoma City, & Dollywood. There were less than 1/2 the people than I have seen at any of the other parks, the pace was so slow & they would not put in more cars, trains, boats, logs whatever to accomidate the people in line, just keep the slow moving pace. At Dollywood, it took almost 2 hours just to get parked in the parking lot. Traffic control non existent. One way in, with only a couple lanes open.
Apr 7th, 2005, 01:10 PM
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The one thing about going on a tour is that you don't have to wait in those long lines. I'm sure that's another reason why some of the wait time is so long, the tour groups just get to go on in ahead of you. I took a tour my first trip to Europe ( have done on my own since) and we never waiting anywhere. Well actually we did have about a 30 minute wait at the Vatican because it wasn't open yet but then we just went right on in. So, if you are in line at say the Eiffle Tower, all the tours groups that come that day just go to the head of the line.
Apr 7th, 2005, 01:20 PM
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Hopscotch mentioned this in Nov. and I need to reiterate it. Getting OFF the Eiffle Tower. The crowds trying to get onto the elevator, and many being from cultures that don't share our proclivity for queing, made it a nightmare. It's about the closest I have come to a panic attack.
Apr 7th, 2005, 02:37 PM
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it is a bit mad there.the staff regulate the number of people to attempt to get on the elevator at the base of the eiffel. at the 2nd/1st level you just queue up in the railings and get on.the staff member inside the elevator operating the buttons has little control over how many people will *attempt* to get on.
Apr 7th, 2005, 02:47 PM
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Ira im with you!! Ive seen Disney World on Christmas day...every non -christian and every fool who beleievse it will be empty....The line to get out was the worst... from the castle to the parking lot but I guess it doesnt count since it's not europe
Apr 7th, 2005, 02:50 PM
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Waiting in line for around 5 hours to pass by the casket of President John K. Kennedy in the Washinton Capitol Rotunda after driving from near Hartford, Connecticut. I still have the black and white Polaroid (?)pictures. Mike
