{"id":8005,"date":"2022-06-24T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themeuk.net\/ChessingtonWorld\/?page_id=8005"},"modified":"2024-07-10T15:06:14","modified_gmt":"2024-07-10T15:06:14","slug":"chessington-history-safari-skyway","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/themeuk.net\/ChessingtonWorld\/?page_id=8005","title":{"rendered":"Chessington History: Safari Skyway"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-page\" data-elementor-id=\"8005\" class=\"elementor elementor-8005\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-5aa4892 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"5aa4892\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-f3f8b78\" data-id=\"f3f8b78\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-efc7aa0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-heading\" data-id=\"efc7aa0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"heading.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<h4 class=\"elementor-heading-title elementor-size-default\">Safari Skyway<\/h4>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9a3f3c9 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"9a3f3c9\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Opening Pre-theme park in 1986, the Safari Skyway was a slow moving monorail ride elevated off the floor to give you great views of Chessington Zoo, travelling from the Market\u00a0 Square right around the whole of the Chessington Zoo area. Not as much as a Safari as it used to be the ride started to have issues in 2014 with much downtime, it also became apparent that the amount of people the park was attracting was also causing lengthy queues.<\/p><p>In 2015 the ride packed up mid season and it was announced in early 2016 that the ride will not be opening again, whilst some signs remain of the ride still most of it has now been removed.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-d88ac55 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"d88ac55\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-fdb0422\" data-id=\"fdb0422\" 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