Alton Towers has unveiled a major revamp of their annual Scarefest event, with 2 new scare mazes, 2 new scare zones, and a new extreme escape experience.

Alton Towers Scarefest will return for Halloween 2015 from 17th October to 1st November, with The Haunting of Molly Crowe, Sub Species: The End Games, Nox Infernus, Dark Apocalypse and Terror of the Towers: What Lies Within. There will also be plenty of family frights, including Skelvin’s Spooky Story Time, Phil’s Ghoul School, and Patch’s Trick-Or-Treat Party! 

Alton Towers is making improvements to Air and will add a Food Loop Rollercoaster Restaurant for the 2016 season.

Plans for Air include walls to enclose the station area and create pre-ride sections, a mid-queue photo opportunity, and 2 new themed elements for the ride. The Air Shop will be moving and an unusual new restaurant will be created.

X-Sector at Alton Towers is open again, with the exception of The Smiler which will be closed for the foreseeable future, this means that visitors can once again enjoy popular rides Oblivion and Enterprise.

Sonic Spinball has also now reopened following the introduction of new safety protocols.

Alton Towers theme park will re-open on Monday 8th June. Due to the ongoing investigation into the incident on The Smiler last Tuesday, X-Sector will remain closed until further notice, as will Sonic Spinball.

The theme park has been closed for five days since the crash in which 16 people were injured, four seriously.

Four people have been seriously injured after two trains on The Smiler roller coaster at Alton Towers collided on Tuesday 2nd June.

The theme park has been closed for five days from Wednesday 3rd June until Sunday 7th June.