Nightmare Valley (Lightwater Valley)

Member Name: chris

Product:	Lightwater Valley
Date:	13/08/09 (48 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: None

Disadvantages: Broken Rides, Long Queues for what was left

Just come back from a day at Lightwater Valley and it was dreadful.

The starting point was that we were advised that the Hornet's Nest ride was out of action due to technical difficulties i.e. it was broken. Never mind there are lots of other rides.

For their first ride, they chose the Eagles Claw and had to wait for one hour twenty minutes, during which the engineer had to be called out twice. They went on rapids ride, which was OK and decided to follow this up with The Ultimate.

Sadly it was only an ultimate waste of 45 minutes. In that time, the queue moved about 30 feet and only just got on to the steps leading up to the building housing the ride. In this time the engineer was called out to the ride twice and while it was still being fixed for the second time, my boys gave up.

We thought about going on the Twister ride, but as we approached it we saw a workman underneath one of the carriages bashing it with a hammer as that had broken down as well.

After managing to get on a couple of rides, the boys decided to go on the Falls of Terror, but while they were in the queue, the mechanism taking the rafts up to the top of the slides broke down and so that ride was out of action.

The number of rides breaking down suggests to me that the maintenance of the rides is not good enough. These people need to remember that if they do not maintain the rides they are playing with people's lives.

If you are thinking about where to go for a day out, do not go to Lightwater Valley. Five years ago, I would have given it a good rating. Now it is rubbish, over-priced and potentially lethal. Please please do not put money in the hands of these jokers.

Summary: It is rubbish