Valhalla (Blackpool Pleasure Beach)

Valhalla is one of the most love and well sought after ride on the whole of the Pleasure Beach. If I had to rate it compared to all the other rides in the park, it would be up there with the Big One! Valhalla has been open now for 9 years, and is still one of the biggest attractions in the park. So what is it then? Valhalla is a log flume ride with a difference. The theme is set in Viking times, and has a number of rather large drops, and features that will guarantee to get you soaking wet. The ride is all water, and to ride it you must sit in 'Longboats' which seat 8 people in one longboat. The longboats do not stop moving as they all ...  Read the complete review

I absolutely love going to Blackpool, in fact it is one of my favourite places in the UK! Of course it should be no surprise that for somebody who loves theme parks one of the reasons I love Blackpool so much is because of the Pleasure beach located there. I have been going to this theme park since I was a young child and I can easily spend all day there and not be bored! I remember when they opened many of the newer rides there as they of course were helping to make the park more modern and hands down one of my favourite new additions to the park is the Valhalla attraction. Where in the park is it? The Valhalla attraction is located near to ...  Read the complete review

Back in June of the year 2000 Jonathon Ross and his wife officially opened Valhalla, the world's largest dark ride, at Blackpool Pleasure Beach and Dave and I were amongst the invited guests. Now, come on, are you impressed? Okay I can live with that. Seriously I had entered a competition and won the chance, along with a good many others, to be the first people to ride Valhalla. We also won a night in the Norbreck Castle Hotel which was appalling and I will post my review about that as soon as the category has been set up. As it happens we had already booked a two day break in Blackpool at The Imperial and the night in the Norbreck was the night ...  Read the complete review

The anticipation nearly finished us off before we got there. You pass this ride as soon as you arrive at the Pleasure Beach and the queues are phenominal so it goes without saying that it must be worth the wait. Anyway, having put middle aged sensible head on, realised everyone coming off the ride was extremely wet and I didn't want to spend all day looking like a dubious entrant into a wet tee shirt competition. Joint decision to return at the end of the day. Giddy with excitement we joined the queue at 5.30, reached the front of it at 6.25!! and climbed into one of the Viking boat thingys - already got soggy knickers and haven't even set off but I'm sure it'll be ...  Read the complete review

The year 2000 may be famous to most as the start of a new millennium, the year they told us our computers would all crash because they could not handle the date changes or the year they built so many pointless buildings and monuments worldwide but for me and many other Blackpool pleasure beach fans it will always be the year that Valhalla came to town. Valhalla is the world's largest dark ride and it was officially opened on the 14th of June 2000 by Jonathan Ross. As well as being the largest dark ride in the world it was also Britain's biggest privately funded millennium investment, something Blackpool pleasure beach was very proud of. ...  Read the complete review