To ask for your tips and pointers for Alton Towers?

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Have just booked a one night stay for the scarefest! staying in the enchanted village. I.AM.SO.EXCITED However I am going with a 2 and a 5 year old so I am looking for some mumsnetters wisdom and tips to keep costs down and have a nice time! thank you all 😁

@gotta people are not being forced to go to Alton Towers. If you don't find it value for money and don't like queuing then I 100% recommend not going Alton Towers 😂

@dontforgetbilly thankyou! all that is very useful 😊

@kittyconcarne you To! reallyngood tips, thank you. I'm not clear thoughthe fridge you requested was that at one of the hotels? could I do the same for a lodge do you think? thay would solve my dilema for lunch on saturday!

dontforgetbilly your post made me smile my DS was the same with the enterprise although he went on with DH not me. The enterprise and oblivion are the only two in the park I don’t like!

Another thing we found is CBeebies quietens down slightly during lunch hours so maybe keep an eye on queue times then.

We had such a lovely couple of days - hope you do too

I love Alton Towers. However at 5 and 2 I think the late opening hours might be wasted a bit for you as the atmosphere changes quite a bit into the night time.

The CBeebies land will probably be your mainstay if the 2 year old is under about a metre tall.

Otherwise sadly quite a few of the good'uns like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, and Wobble World, have closed.

If you can fob off the kids, I'd recommend a go on the new wooden coaster. You can see it shaking like mad as you queue up!

Yes, we had a fridge brought to our room in Splash Landings hotel.
The hotel complex is made up of Enchanted Village, then CBeebies Hotel (which you can't go in unless you're actually staying in that one), and then Alton Towers Hotel and Splash Landings Hotel.
The latter 2 hotels are connected by an internal walkway over the top of the water park, so you can take a nosy at that at night, or use the walkway to get from one disco/ entertainment to the other without walking across the carparks in the dark with little ones in tow.

It was a smallish on the counter fridge with a mini freezer compartment, that customer services brought up 20mins after we requested it.
I'm sure you could have one brought to your lodge- just say you need it for your 2 year old's milk (doesn't matter if that's not strictly true/ but that's what we said and it was immediately rustled up for us).

Have you sorted your theme park tickets already?
If you booked the lodge with tickets as a package, then great as that's quite good value.
Otherwise, buying just 1 of the adults a season pass for £55 lets you buy up to 6x £15 entry tickets per day for friends & family, so might work out cheaper?

It may have been refurbed since we stayed there - but I found Splash Landings was looking a bit tired when we stayed - partly the decor theme accentuating that granted... and also, like all "family" oriented hotels has you at risk of other people's shit parenting (so we had a bit of noisy kids running full pelt down the corridors late at night) but the kids loved it- loved the pit of Duplo down in the lobby and the wandering characters and I've a cracking photo somewhere of DD1 making a Duplo model assisted by Tree Fu Tom.

Keep meaning to go back now the kids are a bit older and I think they'd get more out of the water park particularly but just never got round to it since we went several times the year we did (was the year of the Smiler crash, park reopened the day our holiday was booked to start and they were basically giving free tickets out constantly to return as some of the rides were still closed which didn't affect us as we were with preschoolers so Cbeebies Land only really).

Op have you been yet?
We're going next week. DC are older and loved the rides in the dark last year. They loved the Rollercoaster restaurant and eating in the park meant we could stay later so well worth the money. We were only there for the day though.