Paultons Park - home of Peppa Pig World, has become the first UK amusement park to achieve the title of ‘the UK’s best-rated amusement park’ in TripAdvisor’s Travellers’ Choice Awards, for three consecutive years.

It was also awarded the ninth best-rated amusement park in Europe and 24th in the world. 

On Tuesday, July 24 TripAdvisor announced the winners of its Travellers’ Choice Awards, where the winners were selected based on reviews and star ratings of visitors. An algorithm was used in order to determine the top 10 list, and took into account the quantity and quality of reviews for amusement parks and water parks in the UK, gathered over a 12-month period.

Dreamland Margate has now opened 8 new rides for 2018.

Each of the additions to the park have been supplied by the ride manufacturer Zamperla.

One of the oldest surviving amusement parks in the UK, Dreamland is a world-class visitor attraction offering all the fun of a festival for the whole family. Located opposite the golden sands of rejuvenated Margate, visitors to Dreamland can enjoy vintage, family and thrill rides, pop-up entertainment, live music and art installations, alongside eclectic bars and street food.

Blackpool Pleasure Beach’s new hotel is to be named the Boulevard Hotel.

The new hotel will boast 120 rooms, including 10 suites and family rooms with a mixture of coast and park facing rooms.

In addition to the rooms, the hotel will include stylish dining and conferencing facilities. 

Step back in time to the Ice Age at West Midland Safari Park and walk amongst the magnificent creatures that roamed the Earth millions of years ago.

We recently visited the park to check out the new £1 million attraction, an array of animal encounters and some rides in the Adventure Theme Park.

Blackpool Pleasure Beach is offering eight thrilling nights of late night riding and fireworks in 2018.

On 2nd June, 7th July, 28th July, 11th August, 25th August, 22nd September, 27th October and 3rd November the rides at Blackpool Pleasure Beach will be open until 10pm for some late night riding followed by a spectacular fireworks display.

Blackpool Pleasure Beach was founded in 1896, after 122 years it deserved something iconic to mark the occasion.

ICON is the first roller coaster in the UK to feature a double launch and is their largest ever single investment at a cost of £16.25 million.

The historic theme park invited us to the press and media launch on 23rd May before a public opening on 25th May.

The world’s first Peppa Pig theme park attraction, Peppa Pig World, is now bigger and better, and Paultons Park invited us to the grand preview event.

Fans of the TV series will be snorting with delight when the expansion with 2 new rides, The Queen’s Flying Coach Ride and Grampy Rabbit’s Sailing Club, is available to the public from Wednesday 16th May 2018.

Chessington World of Adventures invited us to the launch of Tiger Rock on 28th April, a water ride set within the multi-million pound Land of the Tiger, featuring an innovative enclosure and Europe’s first overhead trails.

The new attraction is home to four endangered Amur tigers, so we were excited about meeting the 'roar-some foursome' (Kalinka, Kyra, Olga and Tsar) as well as riding the log flume.

Blackpool Pleasure Beach has announced the official opening date of its hotly anticipated new roller coaster – ICON, will be Friday 25th May.

Since construction work on the new £16.25m roller coaster commenced in December 2016, roller coaster fans worldwide have been clamouring for news of when they’ll be able to experience the exciting new ride.

The theme park has confirmed that the wait is almost over, with the roller coaster ready to ride by the Whitsun half term.

Construction starts on the new £37 million Gulliver's Valley family theme park resort in Yorkshire which is due to open in 2020.

The 333-acre site was purchased from Rotherham Council back in 2015 and the first buildings will start appearing from June.

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