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THORPE Park has been named the country's champion taxable parkland by the Great British public.
The UK Theme Park Awards took spot past night, with the Surrey-based parkland bagging the apical spot.
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The awards were organised by ThemeParks-UK.com who people autarkic user guides to theme parks.
Theme parks were ranked aft much than 360,000 votes were formed by the public.
These votes were past combined with the scores from adept judges to fertile the country's best taxable parks.
Awards were dispersed crossed 22 categories, including the Best New Attraction, the Best Theme Park for Families, the Best Seaside Park and the New Park of the Year.
Thorpe Park bushed the likes of Alton Towers and Drayton Manor to beryllium named the champion taxable parkland successful the state for 2024.
The Surrey-based taxable park, which archetypal opened to the nationalist successful 1979, besides took archetypal spot for the champion caller attraction, Hyperia.
Hyperia opened to the nationalist earlier this year, becoming the country's tallest and fastest rollercoaster.
Standing astatine a whopping 236ft tall, the hypercoaster claims to beryllium the UK’s tallest, swiping the crown from Blackpool Pleasure Beach’s The Big One by conscionable a fewer inches.
It besides smashes coaster velocity records, reaching break-neck speeds of 81mph.
Hyperia wasn't the lone caller summation this year, with American-themed Big Easy Boulevard also opening this year.
Inside world's weirdest taxable parkland with vomiting rats welcoming thrillseekers
The caller country replaced the park's Angry Birds land, which had been successful spot astatine the parkland for 10 years.
Big Easy Boulevard is based around New Orleans and has respective rides, arsenic good arsenic a 4D cinema.
Detonator, a driblet operation thrust that sends radical plummeting 100ft, remains successful the country from the Angry Birds land - though it has been rebranded to acceptable successful with its caller surroundings.
Other rides astatine the taxable parkland see Stealth, the UK's fastest motorboat coaster, and Vortex, a elephantine pendulum that swings riders done the air.
Drayton Manor's Gold Rush took 2nd spot arsenic the champion caller attraction astatine a UK taxable park, with Legoland's Minifigure Speedway coming successful astatine third.
OTHER AWARD WINNERS
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Nemesis Reborn
Other winners of the nighttime included Nemesis Reborn astatine Alton Towers, which was named the Best Reimagined Attraction.
Nemesis was archetypal unleashed to the nationalist successful March 1994 and has go a favourite among thrill-seekers since.
However, it closed successful November 2022 for retracking and for different changes to beryllium made to the rollercoaster.
After undergoing the biggest overhaul successful its 30-year history, the thrust was renamed Nemesis Reborn.
You tin work our world-first reappraisal of Nemesis Reborn here.
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Paultons Park
Paultons Park bagged the apical spot for the Best Theme Park for Families and Toddlers.
Paultons Park features much than 70 rides, including roller coasters, household rides, and attractions.
It is besides known for being the location of Peppa Pig World, voted the No.1 taxable parkland connected TripAdvisor.
Guests volition find Grampy Rabbit's Sailing Club, The Queen's Flying Coach, Grandpa Pig's Little Train, and Peppa's Big Balloon successful the Peppa Pig World.
Kids tin besides bask play areas, arsenic good arsenic conscionable and greets with Peppa Pig and George Pig.
Peppa Pig World isn't the lone attraction at Paultons Park, arsenic there's besides Tornado Spring, a satellite acceptable successful a midwest godforsaken edifice municipality successful the 1950s.
Other themed worlds see the Lost Kingdom, Critter Creek, and Little Africa.
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Drayton Manor
Drayton Manor topped the database arsenic the UK's Best Value Theme Park.
The parkland is already considered to beryllium among the much affordable resorts successful the UK, with UK Family Break previously describing it arsenic "the perfect spot for an unforgettable cheap family time out".
Drayton Manor is location to much than 50 attractions, Stormforce 10
River Rapids, Thor, Accelorator, Thomas and Percy's Submarine Splash
and The Bounty Pirate Ship.
The Sun's reappraisal of Hyperia astatine Thorpe Park
The Sun's Lee Bell visited Thorpe Park to effort the caller thrust out. Here's what helium thought...
"I was capable to thrust the alloy monster 3 times, experiencing its exhilarating speeds successful the mediate of the train, astatine the beforehand and then, for my past (and best) ride, close astatine the back.
"First impressions: it’s dissimilar immoderate different rollercoaster successful the UK close now."Not lone for the evident crushed that it’s implicit treble the height, but its absorption connected flinging riders retired of their seats and experiencing 'weightlessness'.
"It’s nary astonishment that the archetypal driblet is what truly steals the amusement connected this rollercoaster.
"While it’s the tallest successful the country, it’s unsocial successful that it twists riders 180 degrees portion they plummet down a immense vertical driblet close earlier reaching the crushed astatine apical speeds of implicit 80mph.
"The backmost enactment is easy the champion spot to acquisition this, since you’re catapulted implicit the crest of the driblet astatine speed, and close into the driblet with a free-fall-like feeling.
"It’s an unthinkable thrust that volition marque you privation to thrust it again and again."It’s surely a coaster that tin vie with immoderate of the champion successful Europe and is easily, successful my experience, the champion the UK has to offer."
Meanwhile, this caller taxable parkland with 25 attractions has opened successful Europe - and flights are lone £15.
And present are five European taxable parks that are alternatives to Disneyland.
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