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A THEME parkland successful the UK close by the formation is present location to a thrust named the champion successful Europe.
Blackpool Pleasure Beach's Valhalla won the accolade of Europe's Best Water Ride successful the 2024 European Star Awards.
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The ride, which archetypal opened successful 2000, reopened past year aft a £4million revamp which took 4 years.
Claiming to beryllium the UK's "wettest rollercoaster," it won large astatine the yearly awards ceremony.
It comes aft it was besides named the Best Water Ride successful the World astatine the 2023 Golden Ticket Awards past twelvemonth - for the seventh time.
The thrust sees passengers committee a longboat earlier being taken to Valhalla by Ivar the Viking.
The website states: "Brave the escapade arsenic the rider embarks connected a thrilling travel connected the champion h2o thrust successful the world, acquisition each the elements done state-of-the-art peculiar effects and immersive storytelling.
"Those adventurous capable to thrust volition beryllium rewarded with much than 4 minutes of high-speed enactment thrills including aggregate melodramatic drops and existent occurrence arsenic they implicit fractional a mile travel seated successful a Viking longboat."
You tin adjacent bargain merch from the ride, including hoodies, t shirts, socks, cups and belts.
The park's manager of operations Andy Hygate said: "Valhalla is an unthinkable ride, and aft its £4 cardinal re-imagining past play we cognize that guests question from adjacent and acold to acquisition it."
The theme park has won a fig of different awards this twelvemonth too.
It won the golden grant successful the Best Seaside Park class astatine the UK Theme Park awards, arsenic good arsenic a bronze grant for Best Theme Park for Thrills.
UK seaside hotspot named arsenic champion vacation destination connected a fund - with inexpensive hotels, transport and thriving nightlife
And some Big Dipper and the Grand National were awarded Rollercoaster Landmark Plaques, the lone 2 successful the UK.
Also caller this twelvemonth are two caller live-action "scare zones" during their Halloween events.
This includes the Alice successful Wonderland-themed ‘Down the Rabbit Hole’ and an antithetic ‘Cabinet of Curiosities.’
Otherwise the taxable parkland is present location to 10 rollercoasters and the country;'s lone Nickelodeon land.
Having archetypal opened successful Blackpool successful 1896, The Big One rollercoaster was erstwhile the world's tallest rollercoaster.
It is present the UK's 2nd tallest and fastest ride, missing retired to Thorpe Park's caller Hyperia, which opened this year.
One mum has revealed why Blackpool should beryllium connected your staycation bucket list.
And we've rounded up five coastal taxable parks that person caller rides and attractions this year.
What is it similar to thrust Valhalla?
The Sun's Graeme Bryce precocious tried Valhalla - here's his verdict.
After 4 minutes of high-speed thrills connected a Viking longboat, my household and I were perfectly DRENCHED.
I’ll surely vouch for it being the wettest.
As we hurtled towards the finale, we passed done a fiery hellhole – astir blistery capable to melt our integrative ponchos – and adjacent that couldn’t adust america out.
But fun? You amended judge it.
Feeling a small soggy, we were relieved that The Boulevard Hotel was wrong walking, oregon squelching, region of here.
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