Anybody know about alton towers..is it really expensive?

Question

Tickets on http://www.365tickets.com

is great to get in..but i us need to know if prices inside the complex are expensive??

any ideas

Answer 1

They do these huge bottles of coke for about £3 which you can re-fill all day.  You could take disposable cups with you and share a bottle. Just a thought.

Have a great time!

Answer 2

Its reasonable to get in if you manage to get on all the rides, all the food on the park is vastly overpriced, and it becomes a really expensive day if you dont zip your coat pockets up and your £150 mobile phone flies out when your whizzing round on the Enterprise and smashes itself into a million pieces and you wish you had paid that little bit more for insurance, will i never learn!

Answer 3

is like all theme parks c**p food at REALLY expensive prices they know they have a captive audience so everything not covered by the park ticket is dear

ps - bring a picnic basket ;-)

Answer 4

i thought u paid by door and everything was free take ur own food and drink if u go to myvouchers.co.uk then theres a discount thing on there 50% discount i dont know if it be any good to you xx

Answer 5

inside it has a macdonalds and stuff its a little bit more expensive but its not crazy amount just about 50p more.  And gifts are not really too expensive

Answer 6

In my opinion, the food isn't as expensive as you'd expect for a theme park.

There's KFC, Burger King or Pizza Hut, where the prices are pretty much the same as you'd pay normally. Or, you can get something from one of Towers' own outlets, which isn't all that expensive. You can get sandwiches or a hot pastie/panini or something for a couple of quid from a lot of places (Corner Coffee on Towers Street, Caffe Express in Cred Street, etc), or there's Towers Restaurant (also on Towers Street) if you want some proper food. There are hot dog stands, Mexican Cantina (Mutiny Bay), Rita's Chicken and Ribs (near Ug Land), etc, etc, and you're not gonna get totally ripped off in any of them.

As Bag sort of said, for drinks you can buy a Quencher, which is a huge plastic cup/bottle type thing which is £4.99, and you can get it filled up for free (coke/sprite/etc) for the whole day at the majority of the food outlets (apart from the places like Burger King). Not bad when you consider a small bottle of Coke normally costs about £1 anyway :P

Obviously, you could take your own food. There are deck-chairs out on the huge grassy bit near the park entrance on Towers Street now that the weather's good, so you could eat it there looking out over the lake at the towers. Aaah, how lovely :P

Other-stuff-wise, everything is free once you're in. There are no rides which you pay for (apart from the trampolines in Forbidden Valley and Towers Square, although they're run seperately), so if you take your own food, you can have a completely free day (excluding the tickets, of course). There are tonnes of gift shops and stuff around the park, and the prices aren't extortionate, although they're what you'd expect.