Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Amusement Park, Blackpool is Britain's top, tourist attraction and welcomes nearly 6 million visitors annually. It lies in 42 acres, started with just one ride in 1896, and celebrated its Centenary in 1996.
There's something for everyone at Pleasure Beach Theme Park / Amusement Park, Blackpool. There are over 125 rides and attractions.
Get ready to immerse your senses as Pleasure Beach Theme Park / Amusement Park introduces Infusion, the brand new white-knuckle wave. Five incredible loops and rolls plus a double line twist all in one suspended looping coaster. Dare to leave behind dry land and duck and dive around a spectacular starburst fountain, dodge cheeky wet jets and dart through a heart-stopping, curved cascading waterfall as it gushes breathtakingly close to riders.
The theme park / amusement park has everything from thrilling white-knuckle rides - the Big Dipper, Grand National and the Avalanche - to more leisurely cruises around the River Caves and Alice's Wonderland. There's the world's first interactive maze and, especially for kids - Beaver Creek Theme Park, home to Bradley Beaver and his very own Log Flume. Visit the American Ripley's Believe It Or Not! Odditorium and the Ocean Boulevard shopping promenade. You can learn to skate in the Pleasure Beach Theme Park / Amusement Park Arena or try one of the 54 restaurants and catering outlets. There are parent and baby facilities and award-winning loos and disabled visitors are made very welcome to the park with an Accessibility Guide Book, plus there are 30 wheelchair places available for each show in the Pleasure Beach Theme Park / Amusement Park Arena.
Britain's biggest privately funded millennium investment, Valhalla at Pleasure Beach Theme Park / Amusement Park, Blackpool officially opened in June 2000. Costing £15 million to build, Valhalla is the biggest most spectacular dark ride ever to be constructed by mankind. The £12 million Pepsi Max Big One opened in 1994 and is one of the tallest and fastest rollercoaster in any of Europe's theme parks. At 235 feet high and with speeds reaching 85mph, the Big One is certainly head and shoulders above the rest. 1997 saw the opening of yet another UK first, IceBlast; riders are catapulted up a 210 foot tower at 80mph, and thrust back down again for an incredible free-fall descent. And in 2004 the diamond- knuckle experience Bling opened. Riders are lifted a whopping 100 feet above the ground and spun through the air on giant glittering gondolas in three different directions at speeds of over 60mph as the ride pulls 2.5gs.