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All
the details that you'll need for your day at Thorpe Park:
Opening
Times:
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 days in August, the Park
stays open 'till 8pm, and during the Halloween Fright Nights event it stays
open 'till 10pm! To check the official site for Park opening times, click here.
Prices:
Thorpe Park has
a myriad of options when it comes to tickets and beat-the-queue passes. To
avoid confusion on the day, take a look at these tables:
2010
Entrance Tickets
Ticket
Type |
|
Gate
Price |
Thrill
Seeker
(Day pass for guests aged 12+) |
|
£36 |
Young
Thrill Seeker
(Day pass for guests below age 12) |
|
£22 |
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 |
£96 |
Disabled
/ Helper
(Day Pass for Disabled Guests / Helpers) |
N/A |
£21 |
Senior
(Day Pass for OAPs) |
N/A |
£25 |
VIP
Car Parking
(All other parking free) |
N/A |
£5 |
Fastrack Tickets
Fastrack
Type |
Gate
Price |
Fastrack
Stealth / SAW - The Ride
(Beat the queue on Stealth or SAW) |
£4 |
Fastrack
Stealth Pole Position
(Beat the Front Row queue on Stealth) |
£6 |
Fastrack
Accelerator
(One ride on Stealth, Samurai, Vortex & Rush) |
£9 |
Fastrack
Extreme
(One ride on Colossus, Nemesis Inferno, X:\ No Way Out & Logger's Leap/Tidal
Wave) |
£9 |
Single
Ride Fastrack
(Any ride, aside from Stealth/SAW) |
£3 |
Ultimate
Fastrack
(Unlimited Fastrack entry for all Fastrack rides, all day) |
£60 |
All prices subject
to change - to verify the official prices and ticket options for 2010, click here.
Special
Events:
For 2010, Thorpe
Park will be once again putting on their annual Halloween event, Fright Nights.
Other events are scheduled throughout the year.
How to
Get There:
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.
Weather:
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.
Contact
Thorpe Park:
Thorpe Park's
address is:
Thorpe Park
Staines Road
Chertsey
Surrey
KT16 8PN
For more contact
information, consult the official website, here.
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