People have no patience about long queues

I’d be betting that Italians have a system that means if you understand the system you can skip an awful queue.

Edit - this is said with approval

It’s different people who complain if they have to book a slot.

And these people should not be pandered to as they simply can’t be bothered to organise themselves.

People who can be bothered to think in advance shouldn’t be stuck with having to queue because others moan about not being able to “just turn up”. In fact the very words “just turn up” have become rage inducing due to these type of people.

If you go across to the forum first and get the all in one ticket you get to skip the first line outside

Edit: or at least you could 10 years ago.

Sorry, X post. Queues for attractions in Italy are bloody awful because touts buy up a lot of the official timed tickets and resell them as 'skip the line' on getyourguide and suchlike.

So you end up either getting scalped by resellers or spending half your holiday in queues.

If you're going to other places have a look at the official websites (you can do it while you're standing in this queue!) and see if you can get timed entry tickets yourself from them. It will save you a lot of hassle.

I queued for what felt like hours for the Terracotta warriors exhibition in London. I think it was less than 2 hours though.

That's poor management on the part of the gallery. It's relatively straightforward to allocate time slots and save everyone the inconvenience.

I'd rather not attend.

If you're in that queue to see the Queen, you're too late.

I've got better things to do with my life than spending two hours in a queue.
As previous posters have said, timed entry is the obvious solution. But they won't do that as they can charge more for "fast track" passes.
It's just another scam to get more money out of people, and I refuse to get drawn into that scenario.

Sums it up perfectly.

People complain when they have to book a slot.
They complain if they can't book a slot and have to queue instead.

They will never please everyone. Popular venue = having to deal with other people.

The worst thing is queuing on the phone with intermittent automated message saying "do you know you can do xy or z online, just visit www.our company..."
Well duh if what I wanted was available easily online why would i be spending 50 min in a queue listening to horrific lift music...??

If you don't complain about queues then you maybe need more going on in your life, because even reading an ebook it's boring. You should value your time more.

Totally agree. Why would anyone choose to spend an hour outside in a line of people and then spend another hour outside in a line of people? I just would not do that. There is nothing I would wait for an hour in a line of people for, nothing

Wow on Tutankhamen exhibition! and you are right people have always queued a long time to be the 'first' to see something on a limited tour.

I think it's the everydayness which is different.

I’m at a tourist attraction for an exhibition,On website, notices and staff say that queuing would be at least an hour outside and an hour inside.

Fuck that, I'm surprised there hasn't been a bloodbath stampede yet. Moaning sounds positively tame.

Only thing I'd even consider queuing 2 hours for would be a Henry Cavill kiss-a-thon.

Not entirely a modern phenomenon...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11389753/How-1-6million-queued-Tutankhamuns-treasures-British-Museums-1972-exhibition.html

That would have to be an absolutely awe inspiring attraction for it to be worth 2 hours of queuing.

I know in general life moves faster than in the past so people do appear more impatient.

But in this case less so. Hour long queues for theme parks and attractions are a modern phenomenon - never happened in the 80s or 90s. It may be more people in general or higher expectations for leisure activities.

Any way - it sucks. Can't think of anything I'd queue 2 hours for.

Plenty of people go, these places sell out, so it's fine. And if less people go, then the queue are less. Bingo!
It's also not soulless or horrible - lots of rides now theme their queues so you get to see far more if you have to queue.
I rarely have to queue for an hour at a theme park though, because we go when the schools are in.

And the "virtual queue" system it in place for big rides at Disney, for free I believe, which in reality means you HAVE to get there for park open, log on immediately, do all kinds of preplanning... I've watched YT videos about it, it looks far less fun and far more draining then just queueing tbh

Thats a badly managed attraction. They need a queue management system.

@Jaxhog been to lots of theme parks, Disney et al, never queued 2 hours!!

Are you going to make us wait 2 hours to find out what the attraction is?

I can see many of you have never been to a theme park! This sort of queuing is typical there.

While 2 hours queuing is uncomfortable, there was fair warning that this was the case; and if people don't check first, more fool them. It isn't always possible for venues to reduce queuing if a shed load of people turn up at the same time. It isn't to do with poor management on the part of the venue.

Timed slots often don't work either, as too many people still turn up when they feel like it.