Good family day out (Lightwater Valley)

Member Name: lucy1989

Product:	Lightwater Valley
Date:	04/11/08 (226 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Good range of rides

Disadvantages: It was too cold when we went

Light Water Valley is a theme park is north Yorkshire. Its exact address is Light Water Valley North Stainley Ripon North Yorkshire HG4 3HT Tel: 0871 720 0011. The website is also quite useful if you are debating vesting www.lightwatervalley.co.uk.


I visited the park last week with my cousin. Bear in mind it was half term and it was absolutely freeeezziinggg so my opinion might be slightly biased.

We arrived at around 11 o clock with no queue to pay. It was £16.95 each both being over 1.2metres :)

Not a bad price I don't think. We also got a voucher slip for £10.95 entry next time.


You go through the gates and its kind of like a fair with dodgems, games which you pay for (hook a duck etc), swings and a merry go round.

When you pay you get a map so its very easy to find your way around. There's a massive lake with swan peddle boats which I should imagine is gorgeous in summer but at 5 degrees Celsius we didn't fancy it!

The best ride there is the Ultimate, longest roller coaster in Europe. One and 3 quarter miles if I remember correctly. It's great but they only had one train going not even at full capacity so we had to queue for 10/15 minutes. Yes that doesn't seem bad being half term and all but it was flipping' cold remember so it seemed so much longer.

The queue for the go carts was about 20-25 minutes and I nearly said do you want to go on something else instead but we stayed and got on eventually.

The rides are all good fun, I preferred it to Flamingo Land as it seems there's more rides I like at LWV.


I should imagine the queues are worse in summer but at least then there's a bit more of a chance of it being a bit warmer. I went a bought some gloves from the factory shop!

At lunch time there was only the large tent to get food in the park but it was disgusting! The tables (not that there was any avail bile anyway!) were covered in old food and split drinks and soup. Pizza, pasta and hot dogs were all sold out leaving jacket potatoes as the only option and there was massive queues. Didn't fancy that. We weren't out of the park to a nice cafe thing. Very quiet although it was only a 10 minute walk. Good prices, nice traditional hot meals and lovely older ladies serving it. Would highly recommend.


Overall its a nice day out, could be quite expensive as a family but good for teenagers.

Summary: Keep it in mid when planning days out