Six Flags Qiddiya | Saudi Arabia | Theme Park

[Geeky Pastimes]

It's not even just physical factors, but psyhcological too. Admittedly, I've only heard it from one local, but apparently, in these climates, it's not really anybody's idea of fun to spend a day outdoors if it can be helped. Spending the evening outdoors, sure, but the daylight itself is considered too hot for outdoor activities to be comfortable. Hence why most leisure centres tend to be indoors, full of shade, or generally only start to see life at sundown. And of course, you get there by driving in an air-conditioned car from door to door. I wonder how the outdoor-ness of the park will play into its perception by locals, which will have to make up most of the attendance for the park to make it economically.

Couldn't they just have opening hours in the evening? Like open 5pm-midnight?

 

[Hixee]

Couldn't they just have opening hours in the evening? Like open 5pm-midnight?

It would help, but in the summer months it really doesn't make much difference. The night lows can regularly stay north of 30°C (it was never lower than 40°C for the first month or so I was in Abu Dhabi), and whilst that is much better than the mid-high 40s you get during the day (and you don't have the sun hammering you too), the humidity climbs a lot in the evening and in my experience it felt just as crippling as during the day. There's truly no respite from it outside of air conditioning.

This will be a park to visit in the winter, for sure.