Overview
Wondering what a priority pass is and how to use them in your park? This is the guide that was made for you!
What the heck a priority pass is, and why you should care.
In Planet Coaster, a priority pass is an item that guest can buy that will let them jump to the front of ride queues. This turns out to be a very nice money maker, and from what I can see from playing around with is well worth the effort. Plus it adds a bit of realism, since many real life amusements parks also have this feature.
Note: I’ve done a bit more experimenting, and made some updates to the information in this guide. Originally, I thought the player had to have an information booth before they could enable priority passes on the rides, but that turns out not to be the case. I also added in some information about the priority pass pricing.
Ok, I’m in. Let’s do this thing.
Excellent choice! Firstly, you need to have an information booth. This structure only exists to sell priorty passes. If you don’t have the ability to make them, then you need to head over to the park management menu and hit the research tab to look for the ability to make it. Depending the park mode you are playing you might have to research other facilites first, but it should come up pretty soon.
Note: I’ve one a bit of experimenting, and found out that the above is a bit misleading. You don’t actually have to have an information booth to start. I started a game with in that didn’t have them available, and I was still able to activate the “Activate Priority Pass” option for a ride, and build the priority pass queue, which I describe in detail below.
None of the guests actually used the priority pass line, since there was no way for them to buy a pass without the information kiosk. However, if you want to build rides with the priority pass queues included while you research it so that they’re up and running as soon as you plop down your first booth, you can certainly do so.
Also, in normal challenge mode you have to research the ATM before you have the ability to research Information Kiosks. I haven’t explored the availability of it in other game modes.
Here we see some some peeps lining up at a charming fairy tale themed information kiosk.
In the game I was playing, normal challenge mode, the default price for the pass was set at $40. This might work after you’ve built up your park and have several rides with a high scenery rating, but with my very small starter park the peeps simply were not buying them. You might want to play with dropping the price down at the start.
With just one ride in the park, which did have the priority pass enabled, with no scenery in the park at all, I had to drop the price down to $10 before the peeps started buying them. I have a hunch that once things in your park get rolling, you’ll be able to bump that number up to something a bit more profitable.
Now let’s plop down a ride, and add in the entrance and exit gates as usual.
Next up, connecting the gates with a path and queue line to the park path. If you like to draw a more freeform queue line than the gride style I used, remember that you’ll need to have a fairly straight segment near the start and end of your queue.
Now it’s priority pass magic time! Click on your ride, and go to the Operations tab.
At the bottom of that you’ll see the enable priority pass button. Click on that, and you’ll go the a checklist that will tell you that you need to build a special priority pass entrance and exit. Click on build an entrance, then place it on your regular queue path near the park path.
Next you have to build your priorty pass exit. You should place this on your queue close to the ride.
Finally, you have to connect the two with a queue line. A regular path simply won’t work here. I like to use one with a different pattern than my regular queue line so that I can see that the guests are actually using them.
After you do this, you’ll have the ability to open your ride and see your priorty pass line in action!
And that’s all there is to it.
It’s pretty easy, once you get the hang of it. Good luck and great amusement parks to all of you! If you liked my guide please click on the thumbs up vote at the top of the guide. Thanks.