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| Value for Money | 6.5/10  |
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| Reviewer Rating | 7.7/10 |
| Overall Rating | 7.9/10  |
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Full review by
largibbon
on 2nd May 2008
User Rating : 9
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Good Points: Great Atmosphere, Fantastic Rides, Good Space and plenty of amenities.
Bad Points: Queue Times, not a structure in place for people who do not want to go on the rides etc.
General comments: I go to Alton Towers every year always about April time mid week when the kids are at school. I cannot get enough of it, when its not busy its fantastic, great value for money and always so much fun. However I have been in the summer holidays before and equally at a weekend and for £35 have only got on 4 rides in the whole day due to queuing for 4 hours on the big rides (not a pleasant experience) I would pay £35 at peak times as I think it is just to much money for what you get. We get the buy 1 get one free tickets so in essence we are only paying £15 each and the park is not busy. The last time I went was (01.05.08) and we went round the park 4 times going on everything 4-6 times...brilliant!!!!! Food is a bit slack and the portions are terrible but you expect that in a park like this, so we just snack rather than eat meals!! Best ride for me has to be Rita, always go on that first just to set you up for the day. Staff are friendly and happy to chat which makes the day so much nicer. Only 1 break down whilst we were there and we happened to be on it (Air) stopped whilst hanging like superman, but nothing to worry about and was resolved within minutes. Overall, love the park and will continue to go back every year and more! I think they need to structure a system that allows people who do not want to go on the rides have a discounted entrance fee etc. Although the Gardens are beautiful I would not warrant paying nearly £40 to look round them!!!
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Review by
jgrillo
on 29th Apr 2008
User Rating : 0
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Fast track sold out by 10.30. We left our home at 7 in the morning its a good 2 and a half hour drive. 55 minutes for each ride Air and Rita kept closing so didn't go on them as turned away 3 times Weather was warm at every queue there was a vending machine on 4 occasions put money in machine got nothing out. Very disappointing day. We were a party of 6 and 2 children cost us well over 400.00 just to go on 5 rides had 2 very upset children all the way back to Hemel Hempstead.......
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Review by
Guest.
on 26th Apr 2008
User Rating : 5
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Rollercoaster rides were good such as Nemesis, childrens features were also great for the kids. The gardens were lovely and the old buildings interesting. price was a bit steep especially when they charge you for the car park also an extra four pounds. Food overpriced. Problem with ramp access around the theme park for prams. Queing up for rides really bad. All in all ok
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Review by
The Barnes family
on 23rd Apr 2008
User Rating : 9
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My fiance and I went to Alton Towers for our Anniversary, we stayed at Splash Landings Hotel. The hotel was nice and clean, the staff helpful. The staff called my fiances car reg plate No.on the tannoy and when he went to see them they said he'd left his boot open! The pool was warm and clean.The park was really good fun and a lot to see, we thought The Willy Wonka ride would be rubbish - we went on it for a laugh but it turned out to be really good.Even though towards the end of the day it ra ...
The Barnes family's full review | 226 words
Review by
Jamie1989
on 10th Apr 2008
User Rating : 10
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We arrived early as the gates opened, and headed for the big rides, nemesis and air in the 'forbidden valley' both rides quite different to anything I have ever experienced before. Also went on Rita (incredibly fast) but my favourite was Oblivion... as your going up the lift hill you start to think why you went on it at all, and as you reach the top and held on the drop the adrenaline is incredible. Managed to get on most rides as went on a weekday so park relatively quiet. Definitely recommend ...
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Review by
xoxhappyashxox
on 6th Apr 2008
User Rating : 10
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Fantastic theme park if it doesn't matter whether you are a white knuckle ride addict or a safe on the ground family ride type there is always something to keep everyone entertained.
The best family rides are Duel, Kali river rapids, mine train, Spinball Whizzer, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and the flume.
The big rides (which are awesome!) Oblivion, Air, Nemisis and Rita.
If you go,have a great time!
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Review by
Murphypig
expert review 
on 30th Mar 2008
User Rating : 8
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I bought some vouchers for Alton Towers with my Tesco clubcards points months ago and was waiting for a chance to take a day of and go during the week (to avoid the queues) but as I decided that this will never happen, I went at the weekend and took the risk.
We went by car. Alton Towers is near Stoke on Trent, in Alton. There are signs everywhere, so it's quite easy to find. You pay either £6 or £4 depending which parking place you take. The first one is £6 so keep going to ...
Murphypig's full review | 1356 words | 1 comment added.
Review by
betty123
on 28th Mar 2008
User Rating : 10
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Alton towers is great for all the family! Rides for young and fast rides for the risk takers! Also for the elderly they have gardens and benches to sit on and cable cars! The only thing is that if it rains there are a few rides inside but most are outside. I suppose this would give an effect to the ride (a good effect) overall alton towers is a great family day out and I have been lots of times so this is from an expert!
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Review by
sammysnake
on 30th Oct 2007
User Rating : 0
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I will never go there again and it was the worst day of my life because I lost my wallet and my daughter broke her arm on rita queen of speed and I tripped over some broken pavement
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Review by
nemesisnut
on 22nd Oct 2007
User Rating : 10
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Great day out, or great mini holiday! I love Alton Towers to bits, the food's great, the rides are amazing and the park has always been clean when I've been there. The two hotels are amazingly themed and are looking great and the food is also good there too.
nemesisnut's full review | 51 words | 3 comments added.
Review by
alisonbinskin
on 18th Oct 2007
User Rating : 10
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WE stayed at Alton Towers Hotel and the rooms were great, clean (no mold as i have read in other reviews) and cosy.
The atmosphere was also really fab as they had introduced Halloween at the time of our visit.
The Halloween entertainment in the hotel was unsurpassed, including meeting creepy crawlies, pumpkin patch treasure finding and stories for the kids and for the adults quizzes, room 13 and they had actually grown a corn field for th ultimate in Halloween frights., there was loads mor ...
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Review by
britcitchris
on 12th Oct 2007
User Rating : 8
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Our weekend consisted of two half day visits, due to a late departure and road works and also, we wanted to leave early to get home by early evening on the Sunday. We arrived lunchtime Saturday and the car park was only full to car parks E/F. This indicated a quiet park, which was what we were hoping for. The first ride of the day for us (and most people) is of course the Monorail to the main entrance and unfortunately was my only grumble for this visit. This was due to the incredibly stupid ide ...
britcitchris's full review | 1314 words
Review by
AirborneUK
on 22nd Sep 2007
User Rating : 8
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Well what can I say that hasn't already been said.. well here goes:
Alton Towers is a fantastic theme park, not one of the easiest places to get to, but could be worse.
The rides are absolutely fantastic and the atmosphere inside the park is great, plenty to do!
For children there are plenty of rides and attractions to keep them busy all day, for adults there are plenty of slow and fast rides to choose from and for the elderly there are a few things they can do, Gardens, cable cars, some ...
AirborneUK's full review | 995 words
Review by
chrisjordan3755
on 16th Sep 2007
User Rating : 4
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We only managed 4 rides all day mainly due to priority ticket users. As we queued for an hour, youngsters were allowed to queue jump as many times as they wished for a price. This practice is shameful I would just be too embarrassed to do it and I'm so upset that I will not return.
I think this is quite simply a bad way of making more money from customers and in my opinion is another step in encouraging a greedy, self obsessed society.
A day out at a theme park is supposed to be a fun day out! ...
chrisjordan3755's full review | 168 words | 3 comments added.
Review by
ollie1322
on 16th Sep 2007
User Rating : 10
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I went yesterday and went on nearly all of the rides, however couldn't go on Rita or the flume because the queues were too long.
The first one I went on was air and that was my first roller coaster. It was brilliant so I went on Nemesis and that was so fast I couldn't open my eyes! I then went on the runaway mine train which was boring but at one particular moment it goes really fast and it can be quite scary when you go underground because it's pitch black.
The rapids were good but you ...
ollie1322's full review | 166 words
Review by
retford67
on 13th Sep 2007
User Rating : 9
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The price we paid for Alton Towers online was very good for an all inclusive package, including B&B at Splash Landings Hotel, 2-day tickets for 4 and passes to waterpark (GBP160). There was something for everyone including 2 cowardly adults, a 10 year old and a 3 year old. There was even stuff to do when it rained. Queues weren't bad and we got complimentary priority passes, which we used at the end of the day to jump the queues for the last half hour. That was the only time we needed to use the ...
retford67's full review | 256 words
Review by
blackkisses5791
on 1st Sep 2007
User Rating : 8
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I must firstly point out that we only went to the theme park for the day, not to the hotels. We made it onto loads of rides which was good the only rides we didn't go on were the flume and Rita (mainly because the queues were very long for those rides.) We managed to get on oblivion 6 times and corkscrew 3 times, the longest queue we were in was 45 minutes, which wasn't too bad. We got through the gates at around 9:30, so it wasn't too busy in the morning. It got quite busy around midday, we sta ...
blackkisses5791's full review | 303 words | 1 comment added.
Review by
ashrichards16
on 27th Aug 2007
User Rating : 9
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Arrive early if you want to make a day of it!
Head straight to Rita as this is one of the busiest rides in the park during the day. Then move your way around the park otherwise you will lose ridetime by moving across the park alot.
Buy fasttrack! Only use the fasttrack when the queues are big, there is no point in using it when the queue is only 10 minutes or so.
Make use of the ground rides such as ripsaw and subbmission as these have smaller queues but still provide the thrills of many ride ...
ashrichards16's full review | 226 words
Review by
netball53
on 2nd Aug 2007
User Rating : 9
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We may have been better going to the Waterpark on the day of arrival, rather than the theme park. It would have worked better but we still had a great time and everywhere seemed nice and clean.
netball53's full review | 546 words
Review by
walshy200
on 28th Jul 2007
User Rating : 9
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Even though we only got on 4 rides it was a great day out, although if you want to get the most out of your day there go early so you can go on some the main thrill rides in the morning before the queues get big and you spend half of your day there queuing up for them (which I did). These are the 4 rides i went on:
Rita: Great ride, very fast, although for those people who think it goes 0-100mph, sorry to spoil it for u but it is actually 0-100kph in 2.5 seconds, which is only 61 mph but stil ...
walshy200's full review | 446 words
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