Great value entertainment! (Adventure Island)

Member Name: smuj83

Product:	Adventure Island
Date:	26/02/01 (99 review reads)
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Advantages: rides aren't bad, reasonable priced food

Disadvantages: expensive without discount

I went to Adventure Island a few days ago with my family. They had an offer for the half term school holidays, the wristbands were half price (£7.50). I think that £7.50 is just the right price, I would consider the full price of £15 to be a bit of a rip off. These wristbands give you access to any ride except the dodgems and go-karts. The rides perhaps aren't up to the standards of leading themeparks like Chessington or Alton Towers, but they are good considering the price you pay for the wristband.

There is a reasonable range of rides, although 3 of them are very similar (I forget what their names were all similar to the 'octopus' you get at fair grounds. There is a roller coaster, log flume and other rides that are good not to mention loads of kiddies rides. (There is a list of rides at their website). There is one ride that is a lot faster than the rest and is the only ride that goes upside down, I think it was called the dragons claw. Everyone is sat in a circle facing each other, and the circle spins and goes all over the place, its the best ride in the park!

There are lots of side stalls as well with the normal fair ground games such as ring toss etc. The catering facilities (sorry, I'm starting to speak GNVQ leisure and tourism now!) are pretty limited, there is the odd hotdog and candy floss stand and a restaurant and that's about it, although the prices surprisingly are quite reasonable compared to other theme parks.

The staff are generally quite friendly, although the theory of 'Essex Girls' turned out to be true with one girl running a kiddies ride trying to make a bunch of 5 year olds "shout out bo".

All in all, Adventure Island is a fun day out for the family if you're in the area, but its not the kind of place you should make the journey for specially.

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