Alton Towers Trip Report - 23rd June

[jackandylan123]

Hi, if you haven't seen one of my very few posts here, I'm Jack, don't really know why I use this name tbh, but I do, and I hope you enjoy my first TR here!

 

We arrived at the park around 9, to a massive surprise…IT WAS PACKED! I had only ever seen the park this busy at fireworks!

 

So after getting in the park and walking past the ERT barriers, we made our way to Shark-bait Reef. I do like it, although the one tank of sharks is shark less atm.

 

We then walked up Katanga and got onto RMT…this was a brilliant move as on one circuit we went 3 times, and didn't have to leave our seats for a second ride! (it got busy after this so had to leave the ride, still awesome, felt like our own ERT )

 

After RMT, we made out way to Duel. Actually quite a good ride, however I would prefer it to go back to being just a haunted house I know it's not the best score, but I got 23400, the best out of all of us

 

Then came Forbidden Valley and the best ride at Towers and the UK…NEMESIS! it was walk on when we got to it, which was awesome…straight on back row, which is my personal favourite place to sit (dat force <3). As you can probably tell, It was my favourite ride of the day Next came Air, as always it was a fun ride…and the concrete tunnel now has slight theming…A BLUE LIGHT!

 

Next (as Skyride was down) we took a walk through the AMAZING ( ) walkthrough that is Haunted Hollow to get to Mutiny Bay…purely for Marauders Mayhem…which we all love…but this was not the most stupid ride that we had on it…(we also did Heave Ho…which had the worlds grumpiest op! xD)

 

Next came the worst nightmare of one of us who had to face his fears next, we headed to Dark Forest for Rita and 13, all of us absolutely love both of these coasters (not sure about him though ). There isn't much else to say about what else we did here tbh, we just rode them and left the area

 

I then suggested that we met up with me family so I could grab a drink (by this point I was absolutely gasping and had no money on me to buy a drink) only to find that they were stuck on Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, seems that one of the lifts broke and don't know much else After this, we made our way to Hex, this was interesting for one of us, as he had been reading into quite a few ghost stories at Towers, and therefore was incredibly scared, we probably didn't help by breathing down his neck We had a quick look around the towers quickly, it is an amazing place!

 

Then came X-Sector, we were prepared to miss the Smiler and honestly, I wouldn't have cared that much if we did, we came back to it later…everyone got something from Fried Chicken to eat, while I single ride-erd Oblivion which as awesome as ever! (cause I had no money on me )

 

So far it was an amazing day (one of the best trips to Towers I have had, in fact!) and it was only going to get funnier!, first, we went back to Marauders, and after this ride, we all felt genuinely sick! (although it was a lot of fun! ) Then we took a look around Cbeebies, MASSIVE improvement to the farmyard, very well made and well themed! I then spotted that the park keepers were going past and pointed them out to callam…who joined in the dancing…he actually fits in with the park keepers very well

 

As the day was boiling hot, we decided to do all the wet rides in a row…so we started with the rapids, seemed to have a long queue but it moved in no time! we were on a full raft, but only got literal droplets of water on us (the guys who weren't with us got soaked though ). Next was the Flume, and I drew the short straw and was made to sit at the front…got absolutely soaked! (still not as bad as Loggers at Thorpe )

 

That wasn't the end of it though, we then decided it would be a BRILLIANT idea to do Battle Galleons…twice…have a guess in how that ended?

 

not much happened after that, although we did the smiler…on train 3…back row…ouch

 

After that, we met up with the others and made our way out.

 

All in all it was a brilliant day, absolutely loved it! was definitely my favourite trip to Towers so far.

 

Hello Towers Street!

 

Hello sharks!

 

One of my favourite themed rides on park!

 

Some target practice

 

Wanted to do it, but didn't get a chance to

 

Still the king!

 

I don't understand what this coke bottle is trying to say…

 

Us 4 on 13! Brilliant family coaster!

 

why is it only the great rides that go down?

 

WHY?! WHY IS IT NOT OPEN?!

 

Very atmospheric place to be!

 

Headache. Always.

 

Goodbye Towers, look forward to next time