Is Alton Towers water park worth a trip?

[sofia31]

We will be in the area on holiday, just looking for tips. Is it worth paying £84 for the 4 of us? Are there huge queues for the slides? TIA.

Hi,

We went in June and it was great! My children has an inset day and it wasn’t busy, we weren’t restricted to four hours we stayed all day but I’m not sure if that would be different in school holidays?

The biggest slide queue was for the water roller coaster, around 15 minutes in total everything else had no queue.

I’m not sure I’d make a special trip but if you’re in the area anyway it’s fun.

Yes we preferred it to the center parks pool. Love that the don’t let anyone reserve seats with their towels.

Yes it's worth it if your kids are into it. Mine have played for hours and hours on the big climbing frame dodging water buckets and guns. They like the slides too except the big one that goes round the room (too fast, not keen).

It's not especially clean though and the snack options are poor in the water side cafe. Be prepared to eat elsewhere afterwards.

Overall though its nice, a good day out.

It’s a nice park but when we went there was a group of adults drinking and being aggressive to each other around the pool. Which isn’t AT fault but they didn’t really sort it out.

Thank you all. My DC love Centre Parcs, so would be very happy with a visit I'm sure!

I wouldn't go out of my way to go, we were already staying for the weekend so built it in. There were huge queues for the water rollercoaster and DS got bitten in the lazy river - no accident, full jaw / teeth imprint!