October 2022

Intro Monday’s trip to Alton Towers started sub-optimally, leaving Manchester at 8am we arrived at approximate 9.50am. After parking, we joined the relatively short queue (just outside the station) for the monorail to the main entrance. Monorail operations were incredibly slow, we finally entered the park at 10.40am. The park was only open from 10am […]

Intro We arrived for park opening, on an overcast day with predicted rain for the afternoon. Pre-purchasing tickets, and installed app on phone, allowed us to walk straight in scanning the QR code on our app on the turnstiles at the entrance before the official ride opening time 10am, not sure when they started letting