Considering this park charges the going rate for theme parks the rides are broken and out-of-date. 3 out of 9 of the thrill rides were out of order at one time leaving my family very disappointed. Apart from 3 rides on the park they all need a facelift - if not scrapped! It was very difficult knowing where queues started and where ride's exits were. Needs a modern rollercoaster for the price they are charging. Overpriced sweets/goods. Toilet facilities very poor - lacking in number, cleanliness and clear signage. 'New for 2015' Light Show nothing to write home about apart from somewhere to shelter from the rain. Overall definitely not worth the money - go elsewhere and have a good day!!

we had a fab day out with our very young kids, the new angry birds sections were great, and there are so many rides even the tiny ones can go on. then when we got home i won 5 free season tickets in a competition! so obviously i'm one very happy customer! :)

Have not yet seen this years new attractions, but Lightwater Valley is one place where you are bored after 2pm, I have visited most years since before I could walk and its still just as boring after a while. Food is very expensive too.

Lightwater Valley is a very small theme park mainly suited for kids/teens with the exception of some of the big scary rides. ive been 7 times but i still prefer flamingo land alton towers. but lightwater is still a very good theme park for little ones and they have a new area with 6 new rides this year which is a bonus

A huge disappointment. It was grotty, dirty, and not very well maintained. There was a shortage of staff (we went on a sunday - and one employer said not many attend work if they have been out drinking on the sat!). The toilets were absolutely disgusting and unclean. I'm only glad I didn't have a baby that needed changing. I went with my nephew a four year old. We frequently go out for days at flamingo land and have a fun packed day. Light water valley was however the place I favoured as a child, so I decided to make the hour drive.. Big mistake. It's has just gone considerably down hill, and has been poorly maintained. The magic show was advertised on talloys and posters. After struggling to find the hut that it was in as half the sign was missing.. The missing part being 'magic'! It looked shut, we asked a ride attended who then told us to enquire as the visitor information. We walked there only to find that it "was closed for the afternoon" this was before 12pm. We then asked another attendant who told us show times were on the board, we walked back to double check.. incase we had missed it, no board outside, asked another attendent who told us to go and ask at tickets. So we had to leave the park and get our hand stamped in order to get back in. We were then told at tickets, 'oh we are not sure if Mark is in today, he's probably to buey playing with his White rabbit, haha. Then he said to the other man 'Is Pete in?' To which the other one said 'i don't think he does 'magic'' - disorganised chaos the whole place, this was with a 4 year old in tow who was wanting to see a magic slow and was tired of walking back and forth.

I wouldn't take children under a meter as although advertised the rides are limited. They were hard to find plonked in the middle of all the bigger rides and also scattered all over the site. It was frustrating trying to find the kids ride, whilst at the sometime trying to explain to my nephew that all the rides he can see he can't go on. And because they were scattered everywhere you'd have a 2 min ride and a half hour walk to the next ride. A four year olds legs aren't very long and I had to end up trying to piggy back him (I'm only a 5ft2 petit female).

The gift shops were terrible too. At flamingoland I always allow him to buy a toy, a compass, or magnifier or torch etc. But the shops were full of fake kids guns, and little dolls you squeeze and their fake guts pop out of a hole. Just trash.

I could go on. But I'm sure you get the picture. I'm just so disheartened aa I had such wonderful childhood memories there.

My advise to any family with all age groups, to to flamingoland. They have things for the under 1 meters in all areas, but also have a designated area full of rides for them, with the zoo and safari ride over the top right next to it. They also have lots of colourful parrots and a frequent seal show. They have an indoor section with soft play which is always a bonus having shelter from the rain or even blazing hot sun if you are lucky! They have an out side water park too. The rides for teenagers are also much more plentiful and exciting. There is really only the ultimate at light water valley. Flamingoland is also clean and well maintained and the toilet facilities are hygienic. I first started taking my nephew when he was still in nappies, so for those with babies you'll appreciate what I mean!

Hope you have a fun day out where ever you go.. Just make sure it's not light water valley! Or you'll be terribly disappointed!

Dirty smelt like a fam yard when the only animals where ducks.The rides are VERY dissapointing,VERY exspensive to buy things £2.50 for chips. Wated far to long for rides.overall VERY dissapointing would never go back even if you pay me!!!

The surroundings can be described as ok, that,s the best bit.

All the staff are miserable and unfriendly one turned my son away from the river rapids he was quite abruct and rude leaving my son in tears,

I queued for thirty minuets to ride the ultimate before reaching the front it broke down, no announcement was made by the staff and people were left wandering what was happening.

It says somthing about a theme park when the best family ride was the swans.

We paid via Tesco club card vouchers and still felt it was poor value. All in all the worst theme park that we have visited.

Had a realy good time apart from one thing, raptor attack was advertised as a new ride, it was not, it was just the rat an old ride which has had a makeover

Thought it was reasonably okayy. Staff i must say were extremely poor, we went on the swans which were very good once you had got in them and as far away from the man as possible. He was, lets just say 'not at all interested'. The other problem is queuing as it takes forever. My advice is to get there early and get on as many rides as possible. Best ride in my opinion is 'The Wave', Get on there if you can!(Queues a bit of a wait though as i have allready metioned). Otherwise a great day out! :)

We had been to Lightwater Valley before (2 years ago) and had a great time. So this year we went along with other family members, but what a disapointment, we first went on the big wheel, it went round once and we had to get off, then on to the eagles claw, had to wait for 45min, The falls of terror, the ultimate, and the river rapids all broke down after standing in the line for 40 plus mins. There was no information when rides were down. We went to the information to make a complaint. After spending £87 for my family of 6 to get in, these things should not be happening.

We went last week to Lightwater valley and i can honestly say i have never seen so many wasps in my life!!!, i was stung twice and my daughter was stung, i have 3 children 2 of which are special needs and we were all terrified, we had been to flamingo land just a couple of days before so we are not normally OTT as far as wasps are concerned but we are now!, we had our photos took with the owls and we just could not stand it, they were in peoples hair, on their clothes, there must have been 20-30 near every "open" bin, you just could not get away from them!, they had sweet stalls outside with tons of wasps just crawling all over the sugar coated candy, open pop corn stands inside which i personally think is a bit silly, lightwater valley definatly needs to review the wasp situation as to me they just seem to be encouraging them with there policies on the situation of uncovered bins and having uncovered food outside, it cost us £60 to get in, there was 1 poster which i did not see until after i had paid saying"watch out wasps are about" lol understatement of the year, but would still not have imagined it to be as bad as it was in my wildest nightmares and we left within 1 hour, we did not go on 1 ride and i for one will be happy if i never seen frightwater valley again! we will stick with flamingo land TYVM!

Just returned from beautiful sunny day at Lightwater Valley with my 3 boys. It was so much better than the reviews I have read on various internet sites. It was clean, the staff were lovely, there was a good variety of rides for all ages and it is set in beautiful countryside. Meal deals were reasonable.