The log flume ride at Thorpe park rocks. Well it did when I was younger.

I have been going to Thorpe Park for years and I have to say, although the rides are pretty good, the management of the place is very poor. It's scruffy, the website is complicated and misleading and the queues are simply appalling. The website says you can get in for £26 and than charges £39 when you go through the buying process. It says annual passes are a variety of rates, then charges £75 flat fee. The queue for annual passes this morning was over 2 hours long. If you want an annual pass and a day ticket - you have to join 2 seperate queues - this morning that would have been half the day waiting to get in. I couldn't get through to their call centre at all after waiting for 15 minutes - another £1.50 down the drain on their 0871 number. They come over as mean, money grabbers who care very little about their customers. I certainly won't be going back.

I have Loved thorpe park on the 3 occasions that i have visited on. The rides are all themed excelently and all are fun and thrilling. There was one problem: The Queuing. Maybe it was because i visited in the summer time and there was alot of people there just like me, but waiting 2-3 hours at the most for one ride was murder! especially in the baking hot sun with no breeze haha!
Due to this my friends and I only managed to get on 4-5 rides, but it was enough in the end :)
When I purchased the tickets, there was 4 of us going and it was £39.60 EACH on the day, maybe we should have booked them on the website but we didnt unfortunately! =(
You can pay extra money for a fast track ticket that gets you on the main rides almost instantly, this is good but £4 for 1 ride, it certainly digs a hole in your wallet haha.
The food/drink in the park was fine, it was really well themed with the different lands in the park, and it wasnt to pricey either.
The best rides were - Stealth!, Colossus, Slammer and tidal wave. Tidal wave on a hot day is amazing!
Over all i would defiantly go to this park in the near future; with the new attractions like :Storm surge, Saw alive and saw alive, these will certainly be a winner with me and my friends and i hope you love thorpe park as much as i do! :)

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i did have a great time with my family at thorpe park i cannot really fault the overall day staff were friendly, the food was well prepared in hygenic resturants, the only down side to the day was the que times but going in peak time this would be expected so for my next visit i may go in school term time. also i have three young children under school age who i took last time and would like to on my next visit however it is just very hard as when myself and my friends who also came wanted to go on the big rides we couldnt leave the children and it would be such a shame to leave them at home.

Throp park is alot of fun, easier to get to than alton towers.

Went on 23rd October 2010 for my daughters 13th birthday.

Had a nightmare trying to get in as the Tesco days out vouchers I had were not acceptable. Through no fault of Thorpe Park - however their customer service was excellent and I was offered 2 for 1 entry even though I didn't have any vouchers for this.

We got there at 9:15 and people already queueing to get in - so suggest everyone gets there around 9am to be at the front.

Park actually opened earlier than advertised and we were on our first ride at 9:55am.

Fantastic day. This was one of the Fright Night days and the park was open to 10pm. Absolutely excellent day out for the teenagers. The queues weren't too bad considering the number of people that were there. Don't think you would get around them all in the normal opening hours (normally shuts at 6pm) however the extended opening was perfect and we actually got on our favourite rides twice.


Not that some rides (especially SAW) are stopped if it rains - HOWEVER - here's a tip - don't leave the queue like everyone else - as soon as the rain actually stops falling they open up again.


The food is on par with what you expect to pay at theme parks - does hack me off a bit as it's not cheap to get in and then the food and drink is a lot. We took a back pack of snacks and just bought one main meal in the evening - Noodle Bar is fantastic.


TOP TIP - buy a refillable drink when you get these - only £6 (which sounds a lot) but you can share with your family and not buy another drink all day.

All in all a top day - but wouldn't go unless extended opening times so you get around all the rides.

I thought thorpe park was great for the roller coasters although the saw ride and stealth both broke down whilst we were in the que, I felt the park overall was very run down and scruffy with lots if rubbish just thrown about even though there are bins everywhere, quite a bit of graffity on the fences whilst you wait in the ques, i'm not sure I would go again I much prefer Alton towers.

A great park with fun for all the family. We went during the Halloween season where they have extra attractions which were great fun. I'm glad the park has become more rollercoaster focused since my last visit, there is a nice selection now. I still think Alton Towers is the better park. The only downside was having to wait in queues all day, I understand this is inevitable in a park like this. There should be a solution for that though. More rollercoasters!

WELL THORPE PARK WAT SHALL I SAY IT WAS SO GOOD FIRST OF ALL WHAT I DID WAS BOOK THE TICKETS ONLINE SO YOU DONT HAVE TO WAIT. A HOUR JUST TO GET IN.The first ride i went on was coloussus abousuly brill really good!!!!!!!!!. the queue for saw was 15 minutes so went on that 8 times.
AFTER WE WNT ON TIDAL WAVE AND LOGGERS LEAP AND RAPIDS IT WAS REALLY GOOD .
WE GOT A PIZZA HUT AND THEN HEADED FOR STEALTH QUEUE 4HRSS!!!!!!! WORTH THE WAIT BUT IT WAS 8.00 NOW O WE GOT ACCERATOR FASTRACK AND SAW RIDE ONE SO THEN IT TOOK ONE HOUR FOR 4 WHOLE RIES AND BTW DID I MENTION THT RUSH A 6HR WAIT AT NIGHT 6 HRS AND FASTRACK 2HRS BUT IT WAS BETTER BECAUSE WE STOOPED IN THE HOTEL AND GOT TO STAY TILL MIDNIGHHT AND GO ON THEM 4 HRS EARLY NEXT DAY IT WAS BETTER ALL KIDS SAW-RIDE 1MINUTE

I absolutely loved it at thorpe park;i think it is amazing!! What i hated the most were the queues- we queued up for over an hour just to get into the park (what i would reccomend is to go out of school term times and not on a weekend.)Thorpe Park wasn't as big as i was expecting it to be, but the rides there were some of the best rides i have ever been on !! Tidal wave has to be the wettest log flume i have ever been on aswell- the water is literally never ending!!