Alton Towers Hotel

A week ago today I set off on a mini adventure with my fiancé! The mini adventure was a two day, 1 night trip to the Alton Towers Resort. We were staying in the original Alton Towers Hotel (the Splash Landings hotel was around the same price but more child-orientated) and included in our package were tickets for the Alton Towers theme park and Splash Landings water park for the duration of our stay. The Hotel room itself for bed and breakfast was £128 for the two of us for 1 night; we then used a promotional code from The Sun newspaper which cut 50% off this amount. The theme park entry is usually £36 pp per day but if you book in advance ...

It was my pleasure to visit the Splash Landings Hotel in May - what a great concept unique in britain in my opinion. The Splash Landings Hotel opened only a few years ago next to the Alton Towers Hotel and is located inside the Alton Towers theme park - the uks biggest and in my opinion best theme park. Incorporated into the hotel is Cariba Creek the uks first hotel waterpark. I stayed for two nights with park access for three days. The hotel itself is well laid out with reception, restaurant, access to Cariba Creek, bar, shop and games room all centrally ...

This was the sign that greeted us on one of the lifts on a recent trip to the Alton Towers Hotel. Lifts breaking down are not a problem, it can happen to anyone, but normally you get a big Out of Order sign stuck up. Not the Alton towers hotel!! "We're sorry. This lift has temporarily run out of magic" it said. And magic is what you get. These are no ordinary lifts. Get in them, and they go dark, lights flash, loud music plays (it can be the nemesis or oblivion music too). Great, although our baby got a tad scared, but was fine after a second or two. The lifts fit in nicely with what is a great hotel. We stayed in an Explorer room, and ...