The schools have broken up, and Alton Towers is set for the peak summer season! With theme park rides open daily until 7:00pm throughout the end of July and all of August, day visitors will have plenty of time to soak up the summer atmosphere at the UK's most popular [...]
Alton Towers will soon submit a long term plan to the local authorities after a consultation event was held for the public to see the "vision" for the resort over the next decade. Some of the things we are likely to see are as follows, but it must be stressed [...]
Whether you are a local resident, avid theme park go-er or just a little curious, Alton Towers will welcome everyone as they give the public a rare glimpse into the future of the resort this weekend. Over the past year or so, the resort management team and Merlin Entertainments have [...]
After we first reported the fire which took place on Tuesday evening a little after 10.30pm, fire crews spent several hours getting the blaze under control. Several rides were unavailable early on Wednesday, but most have since re-opened with the obvious exception to Skyride which, Alton Towers claim, will be [...]
The famous Skyride system at Alton Towers, which has been fully revamped for the 2009 season with a multi-million pound investment in new gondola's, has finally regained its tunes after an absence of several months. When the brand new "Poma" gondola's were brought in at the end of March 2009, [...]
It has emerged that Intamin will be the manufacturer for the 2010 coaster project. Intamin were responsible for 2005 success Rita - Queen of Speed, and have also brought the classic Congo River Rapids to the park. It marks a departure for the park, after Nemesis, Oblivion and Air were [...]
The cost of single on ride photographs has risen at Alton Towers Resort. That picture of you hanging over the edge on Oblivion, or as you accelerate to 100km/h in 2.5 seconds on Rita will now cost £7.00 - up from £6.00. The most recent price rise for photographs was [...]
Alton Towers suffered a large power cut that affected rides and operations in certain areas of the park late on Saturday morning for around 90 minutes. Some of the park's top rides including Nemesis, Air, Ripsaw, Duel, Congo River Rapids and Runaway Mine Train were reported to be affected by [...]
When Alton Towers re-opened for the 2009 season with Cloud Cuckoo Land, it became apparant that the parks newest play facility had infact turned out as nothing more than the original Tweenies play area with a new name. After some investigating, and an announcement from the park, it was made [...]
Complaints regarding increased noise from Nemesis, the parks oldest and most celebrated thrill rollercoaster, began a fortnight ago when the famous "roar" suddenly got louder. As reported previously, a number of calls had been made to Staffordshire Moorlands District Council in Leek calling for the park to reduce the noise. [...]
Nemesis, probably Alton Towers' most famous rollercoaster, is well known to have a "roar" as it goes around the track. This is one of the unique features of the ride and partly why it has such a well regarded reputation. However, it appears that something has happened on the trains, [...]
Rita - Queen of Speed was closed on Monday (13th April) for the whole day as technical services attempted to get the ride operating again. Spinball Whizzer was also unavailable for some hours as the park saw one of it's worst days for downtime in some time. The park opened [...]
