Tanana Valley State Fair Association — Attraction in Alaska

BEWARE : Unfair and arrogant treatment from an employee.

(It gets BAD)

A ride operator who I will describe as a relatively chubby man who is a ginger was operating the ride, “the Kraken” on Sunday august 3rd 2025. The line was long and it was around closing time so the man said he was going to do three more rides. Me, my friends and some other people behind us calculated that there was enough room all of us to get on the third ride.

Here comes the bad part.(it gets worst by the way)

There were numerous people cutting the line and we (as in everyone mentioned in the calculating part) noticed and called them out but the ride operator tells us that he can’t do anything about it (mind you this was during the loading where he could easily kick these cutters off.) and he was letting people skip from the back to the front of this line (most notably a man in a white shirt, sunglasses and grey pants just hops VERY obviously in the front and GETS ON.) but me and my friends counted and realized we had enough to get on this ride (first in line too) we were so happy and the people were too but after the operator has the ride going he has the audacity to tell us all NO MORE RIDES even though we only counted 2 rides. And he said “come back tomorrow” and we were all mad cause it was the last day, while his response is “your tickets are valid next year!” What about us with wrist bands? And then we all call out the cutters and he goes about the “I can’t do anything” and then we all leave because the ride was going to be shut down

THE WORST PART IS HERE

Around maybe 10-20 minutes later, me and my friends are sitting near the entrance of the fair and one of my friends are watching the kraken, then they start going crazy and tell us that the guy let the ride go on again after closing time too(this breaks rules of no more rides. He cut us off too? Just to let on people later?)

I really hope something will be done about this employee, I do not look forward to coming back and...

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