It’s brilliant, you should be looking forward to it.
Even my Alton Towers planning turned out to be complicated.
You won’t be entirely shocked to discover that within a couple of hours of booking the trip I cancelled it. And rebooked.
I decided to take a risk. I’m now going within a couple of days of the reopening. I was really drawn to these sentences on their website: “We will open the theme park from 4th July with a very small number of guests. That number will gradually increase.”
I’ve grown increasingly bitter about the awesome time current visitors to UOR are having. I figured that if the Alton Towers people can get their sh*t together, I could have an equally awesome time there.
It’s a risk going so close to opening, but if it’s genuinely really quiet, it could be amazing.
There is one downer: the opening hours are terrible — 10am to 4pm. But that should be enough to do everything. And we have two full days.
But there is a compensatory upside. In rebooking I was able to book a much better room. I’m now in the slightly more upscale Alton Towers Hotel and in a premium themed room — one which features air-conditioning (the others don’t) and an Xbox 360. Oh — and my point is that this package was actually marginally cheaper than my original one, so I saved money!
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That room looks fun. Your clickbaity title worked on me but I wish you an excellent time at the Disney World of the UK anyway.
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My husband is British and grew up close enough to Alton Towers that he talks about having gone on a regular basis - these pictures make it look much more impressive than I was imagining! Looks like we might have to work this into the agenda on the next trip to the in-laws…
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That room looks SO much fun! That death drop thing on the other hand looks horrifying. Go on the trip, enjoy yourself, post lots of pictures when you get back.
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I think it’s smart to go in the beginning… less chance of employees being infected, and smaller crowds.
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I’m hoping I’ve been a genius. I’m skipping the opening weekend, which might get a little crazy. And that gives the staff an opportunity to mess things up a bit and figure out better ways to do things.
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That’s exactly our plan for Cedar Point… give them long enough to work out major issues and also long enough to see if people hate it.
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