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All
the details that you'll need for your day at Thorpe Park:
Generally, Thorpe
Park will be open from 9:30am to 6pm on weekends and holidays, and from 10:00am
to 5:00pm on weekdays, but this can vary. On special summer event days in August, the Park
stays open 'till 7pm, and during the Halloween Fright Nights event it stays
open 'till 9pm! To check the official site for Park opening times, click here.
Thorpe Park has
a myriad of options when it comes to tickets and beat-the-queue fastrack passes. To
avoid confusion on the day, take a look at these tables:
| Thrill
Seeker
(Day pass for guests aged 12+) |
£33.60 - BUY |
£42.00 |
Young
Thrill Seeker
(Day pass for guests below age 12) |
£27.60 - BUY |
£31.20 |
Child
under 1 metre
(Day pass for guests under 1m) |
FREE |
FREE |
Family
of 4
(Max 2 guests over 12 yrs for both) |
N/A |
£105.60 |
Disabled
/ Helper
(Day Pass for Disabled Guests / Helpers) |
N/A |
£26.40 |
Senior
(Day Pass for OAPs) |
N/A |
£26.40 |
VIP
Car Parking
(All other parking £3) |
N/A |
£5 |
Accelerator Fastrack
(Beat the queues once each on Stealth, Samurai, Vortex & Rush) |
£10.50 |
Extreme Fastrack
(Beat the queues once each on Colossus, Nemesis Inferno, X:\ No Way Out & Logger's Leap/Tidal
Wave) |
£10.50 |
Hydration Fastrack
(Beat the queues once each on Storm Surge, Tidal Wave, Logger's Leap & Rumba Rapids) |
£7.50 |
SAW Fastrack Package
(Beat the queues once each on SAW The Ride & SAW Alive) |
£7.50 |
Stealth Fastrack
(Beat the queue once on Stealth) |
£4.50 |
Ultimate
Fastrack
(Unlimited Fastrack entry for all Fastrack rides, all day) |
£66 |
All prices are subject
to change - for the official word on prices and ticket options for 2012, click here.
Special
Events:
For 2012, Thorpe
Park will be once again putting on their annual Halloween event, Fright Nights, and back for another year is Sun Scream, the Park's summer festival. Also returning for a second year in 2012 is Thorpe Park Blows It Up, Thorpe's fireworks event!
Other events are scheduled throughout the year.
By car, Thorpe
is 20 miles from London, and is signposted from the Junctions 11 and 13 of
the M25 (NOT accessible from Junction 12). Follow signs on the A320 from
there. There are trains from Reading, Guildford and London Waterloo to Staines,
and a shuttle bus can take you from there - they run every 30 minutes. Or,
you can arrive at Chertsey Station on some trains, and take a 5 minute ride
on a bus to Thorpe.
Or, solely by
bus, you can take the 436/437/426 from Woking, the 551 from Staines or the
561 from Chobham (one way). Lastly, there's a Coach Service from Victoria
to Staines. You can plan your car journey using the
RAC Route Planner.
Thorpe Park's
official website gives you more details here.
Plan ahead -
check the weather before you go to Thorpe! A Metcheck accurate 48 hour forecast
for Thorpe Park is here.
Or, you can get a more vague 7 day forecast for Surrey here.
To get in touch with Thorpe Park, write to Guest Services:
Thorpe Park
Staines Road
Chertsey
Surrey
KT16 8PN
For more contact
information, consult the official website, here.
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