Alton Towers Resort have today announced their theme park opening hours for the 2017 season, confirming some significant changes to the operational times of the theme park. Opening for the new season on 25th March, the most significant change made has been to the opening time, with the theme park [...]
2016 marked a new start for Alton Towers Resort following a difficult 2015. With the promise of a transformation for Air, an exciting new food and beverage offering, a programme of refreshes across the Resort in the form of Towers Loving Care, plus the unveiling of plans for Secret Weapon [...]
Whilst work is underway over on the site of SW8, back at the Resort Hotels construction is rapidly progressing on Alton Towers Resort’s new accommodation offering for 2017 – the CBeebies Land Hotel. The exterior skeleton of the hotel is now complete meaning the full scale of the development can [...]
With work having commenced on the future site of Secret Weapon 8 at Alton Towers Resort, the area where The Flume once stood has undergone some substantial changes from the derelict site which could be seen at the end of the 2016 season. We take a look at the progress [...]
Further details have today come to light surrounding Secret Weapon 8, Alton Towers Resort’s wooden rollercoaster development set to open in 2018. In plans submitted to Staffordshire Moorlands District Council as part of the requirements of the planning permission granted earlier this year, details surrounding the manufacturer, timescale, and cost [...]
Full details about Alton Towers Resort’s newest accommodation offering, the CBeebies Land Hotel, have today been revealed as booking opened for Merlin Annual Passholders. Set to open on July 8th 2017, the CBeebies Land Hotel will feature a range of themed bedrooms alongside a full programme of entertainment – including [...]
Alton Towers Resort have announced that up to a further 70 salaried jobs could be cut across the Resort’s theme park and hotel operations as the Resort looks to continue to cut costs following the events of June 2015. Although business has started to recover, visitor numbers at the Resort [...]
Scarefest returned to Alton Towers Resort this weekend promising a whole range of Halloween entertainment from family frights to extreme scares. With a brand new scare maze, new family maze, and a new scare zone joining this year’s line-up alongside the return of some Scarefest classics TowersTimes takes a look [...]
Whilst the theme park prepares for Scarefest 2016 work has been rapidly progressing on the construction site for the CBeebies Land Hotel which is set to open in 2017. We take a look at all the latest work on the site. Vertical construction has now commenced with steel girders being [...]
The operating company of Alton Towers Resort, Merlin Attractions Operations Limited, have today been given a £5 million fine in relation to the incident on The Smiler which occurred on 2nd June 2016. Following a two day hearing at Stafford Crown Court, Judge Michael Chambers QC described how there was [...]
Merlin Attractions Operations Limited, the company which operate Alton Towers Resort, have today been in court as the two day sentencing hearing for the incident on The Smiler, which occurred on 2nd June 2015, commenced at Stafford Crown Court. During the first day of the hearing Bernard Thorogood, prosecuting barrister [...]
Following the official announcement of the CBeebies Land Hotel at the end of July, construction has started to pick up pace on Alton Towers Resort’s third hotel which is set to open in summer 2017. Tarmac has been laid for what will eventually become the car park for the new [...]
