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A Dad Review: Gulliver's World Warrington

GULLIVER'S WORLD WARRINGTON

For over a year now the twins have been telling me that they want to ride a rollercoaster. I am a big fan of rollercoasters myself so, naturally, I wanted to make this happen. However, at just 6 years old I knew that they would be too young and too small to ride some of the great roller coasters we have in the UK at various theme parks. Because of that I ruled out trips to Alton Towers and Lightwater Valley and Chessington World of Adventures as, to be frank, I am not paying a shed load of money for the twins to NOT be able to go on the majority of rides.

We then saw adverts for "Gulliver's World" one day and the twins said they would like to go. I have heard of them before but totally forgot that they existed. I did a little research and a visit to the one in Warrington wasn't too far from where we were staying on our summer holiday and the prices weren't extortionate. We decided that we'd go on Tuesday 15th August and spend the day there and I am so, so glad that we did. We had the best day and we will definitely be going back. Here is the scoop...

Location: Gulliver's World have 3 different sites (Warrington, Matlock Bath and Milton Keynes). We visited the one in Warrington and it was really easy to find. It was just a few miles off the M6. We went to Blackpool the day before and we then drove to Warrington and stayed overnight in a hotel so on the day of visiting we were only a mile away. Coming back we drove to Penrith where we were staying and it took us about 1hr 45 minutes to get back with a ten minute pit stop which I, personally, don't think is too bad.

On Arrival: The park is well sign posted and we had no problem finding it. There was ample car parking on site which were all named after characters so you could remember which section you parked in. The park opens at 10:30am but we arrived just before 10am and were able to get parked right next to the entrance. They let everyone in to the grounds at 10am and they had characters from the park on stage to entertain the kids until the gates to the park officially opened. This was a great idea and really pumped the kids up to have a fun-filled day.



The Park: The park is, like most theme parks, split in to different themed sections with a bunch of appropriate rides. The themed area are:

Wonderland - based on Alice in Wonderland and includes "The Joker", "Mad Hatter's Tea Party" and "The Fire Engine Ride" and other rides.

 

The Fire Engine Ride

Mad Hatter's Tea Party
The Joker

 
 

Western World - A cowboy themed area with rides including "Apache Falls" and "Barrel Ride".

Apache Falls
Gully's Cartoon World - A cartoon themed area with rides including "The Wriggler", "Toy Town Ride" and "Gully's Grand Prix".

The Wriggler
Smuggler's Wharf - A pirate themed area with the biggest ride of the park, "Antelope Wooden Coaster", and other rides including "Pirate Ship".

The Pirate Ship - and, yes, I am trying to take a selfie...it's how I roll!
Lilliput Land - A miniature village themed area with rides including "Dodgems", "Ghost House" and "Gully's Crazy Train".

Discovery World - The smallest area with only three rides within a forest theme and included "Log Flume" and "Tractor Ride".

Safari Kingdom - An animal themed area with rides including "Togo Tower", "Flying Raft" and "Runaway Minecart".


Runaway Minecart
Flying Raft
 
Togo Tower 
The Lost World - The newest area which is dinosaur themed and incudes rides such as "Sky Tours Observation Tower" and "Incubation Unit".

Sky Tours Observation Tower
Gully Town - The only area without main rides and more of a shopping village but it did have some teeny rides for tiny, tiny kids within it.

As well as these areas there are also two additional zones which you can pay extra to visit which are "Splash Zone" and "Nerf Zone" but we did not go to these on our trip.

Prices: The cost of admission to "Gulliver's World" on the gate is £19.95 per adult or child, £18.95 for seniors and £14.95 for concessions. Children under 90cm are free. If you pay in advance (at least 2 days) online the cost is £16.95 per adult or child, £15.95 for seniors and £14.95 for concessions. We used a discount code I found online which got us 50% discount on the kids tickets so it cost us just over £50 for all 4 of us to visit. I think, compared to the likes of Alton Towers, that this is a bargain.

Facilities: As with all theme parks there was a whole array of stands and concessions that sold food and drink items as well as loads of gift shops. There was an abundance of toilets, which is a good thing, and everything was clean, tidy and well maintained. We didn't eat anything from the park and chose to take a picnic (actually - we took a Subway, which was a genius idea) and we had no problem finding a table as there were plenty dotted about.

Final Thoughts: We loved "Gulliver's World". The price was spot on for what is essentially a kids theme park and for a theme park that isn't filled with massive, white knuckle style rides. The park itself looks fine. I am not going to lie, it is a tad run down and could do with a bit of TLC but it was clean, well signposted throughout and the staff were friendly and polite. There were hardly any queues and we didn't wait more than 15-20 minutes to go on a ride and some of them we didn't queue at all. What I loved the most about this place was that there were only 2 rides that the twins couldn't go on. There were several that I had to go on with them which I really enjoyed doing. The twins were smiling all day, I was smiling all day and my wife smiled all day even though she isn't a fan of rides and only went on a couple. We created great memories and had loads of fun and for a first theme park experience this was definitely a winner! It has definitely made me consider visiting one of the other parks or even returning to the one in Warrington as we had such a brilliant day.



In a nutshell...LOVED IT!

Here is there website: https://www.gulliversfun.co.uk/

And follow them on Twitter: https://twitter.com/gullymouse

Until next time...

The Twiglet's Dad




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