Adventure island Vs Thorpe park (Adventure Island)

Member Name: benzi89

Product:	Adventure Island
Date:	28/01/09 (46 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Everything

Disadvantages: Nothing

Adventure Island - Southend on Sea

You may think boring typical family sea side fun fair. Im twenty and i go here every year. Every year i been it never let me down. I mean dont get me wrong its not a thorpe park or chessington it not trying to be. But if we compare a couple of statistics the first one would be price. Thorpe park you would pay £35.00 for entry and rides. Here your looking at £22.00 mainly for kids and adults. However entry is FREE which I find is really good for familys when i first went here my mum and dad didnt want to go on the rides and neither did they when we went to thorpe park. However here they could still enjoy the adventure island experience and walk around. At thorpe park no matter what happens you stil have to pay £35 which is very expensive for a lot of familys.

My second point of view and comparision is of course the queues. At thorpe park the average queue line is about 30 - 50 minutes. Here your waiting 10 - 20 minutes per ride. The rides are more family orientated and are designed around kids teenagers and adults. Rage there rollercoaster has been a huge investement this year. I mean for rage the ride restriction that you normally find is 1.4 meters however southend made there rollercoaster 1.3 metres letting more people go on this style of ride.

Restaurants and cafes are reasonable prices as well. I think if you want to go to a great family orientated theme park by the sea where you can spend all day on the beach whilst the kids go on the rides. Or even in the evening when your bored. Southend is the place to be

Summary: All the things a theme park needs to be successful