Have any of you been to Alton Towers with your children?

[chuffinalong]

Hi, I am thinking of going to Alton Towers with my mum and my 10 year old daughter who has severe learning difficulties, possible PDA and has incontinence issues.
I've read that she can have a red wrist band if I take her documents, then she won't have to queue as long. She'll only be going on things like the Cbeebies rides, run away train etc as the big rides are far too scary for her.
I was wondering what I'd do about waiting for the big rides though, as she won't be going on, I'd have to queue a long time. This might not be possible if my mum's with my daughter and she say, has an accident or a massive tantrum etc. I'd feel bad leaving my mum to deal with it. Is there any sort of card, where by you get a time to come back? Even if I have to pay for this, it'd be worth it.
Thank you.

Also, do you know if the AT Splash landings hotel has a baby sitting service.

Not sure about for you, I guess you could maybe pay extra for a fast track ticket but you may still have to queue.

For your Dd you need a diagnosis letter, they no longer accept DLA letters and yes your daughter can get a red wristband which allows her and 3 family members to use the ride exit instead of queuing.
You still have to wait a short time but nothing like the normal queues and sometimes barely anything.

Dont' know anything about the hotel sorry but I hope that helps

We went a few years ago, we took a letter from DS2s Paed confirming DX and that queuing wasn't suitable and he got a wristband allowing him fast tracking with one carer, although some of the smaller rides we could get three or four on.

You can pay extra to fast track for the bigger rides - you can do this in the park and there are options as to how many rides you want to fast track on, which ones and how much you want to spend so you can think about this when you are there and see the queues. The other option is the queues for single riders where they squeeze you into spaces on the rides. This can be a lot quicker; I got straight on the oblivion ride as a single rider when the main queue was 45 minutes long! The big rides are also in their own areas so you need to factor in the extra walking for them.

I know they have a system for people who can't queue but I think it does have limits for some rides (probably the big very popular rides); you can go on them without queuing but there may be a limit to how many times or how soon you can go on the next.

Depending of the length of the queue, some rides won't put a time restriction on your ride access pass, but more popular rides will put a time when you are able to access another ride (at the exit, thus skipping the normal queue).

You need to go to Guest services at the beginning of the day to organise the wristband and ride access pass card. I can't imagine you would have to pay for a fast access pass...

As far as I am aware, you could also go to the ride exit at rides you are wanting to go on with your child and if your child doesn't want to go on, they will let you on so the child doesn't have to wait too long for you to return (obviously only because your mum will be her Carer when you are riding). Worth double checking with their Guest Services, but this is what we did when DD decided at the last minute she wasn't going to ride!!

Hope you enjoy your visit - it is green and well spaced out compared to other theme parks we have visited and DD loved it!!

Thank you all, that's brilliant.