UK Tourist & Leisure Attractions

Here's the big revolving globe at the entrance that greats you at the Chessington World of Adventures pay booths.  We got there in good time for opening at 10am to get on all the popular rides before they developed long queues.

Here we see Nessie and Neil deciding that we're all going on all the rides in the theme park whatever, even the ones Mike's really scared of!  Arrggghhhh!  As you can see, there are plenty of rides to experience.  Arrggghhhh again.
 

Gaynor and Grant checking the park guide to see what's what and where's where.  Despite being so late in the season, the theme park was pretty busy, probably on account of the lovely warm and sunny weather.  We decided to make for the Vampire Ride!  Ooooeh!

The Vampire Ride soars over our heads at Chessington World of Adventures while we wait for an hour in line.  All the screams above were rather worrying, but it was too late to change our minds now!  Still, everyone seemed to be smiling and no one fell out!
 

At the Vampire Ride exit was an opportunity to buy a picture of yourself screaming!  You can also have the pic e-mailed, or purchase it in a key ring fob, however we rushed off to the next ride at Chessington!

Next up at Chessington World of Adventures was the Banana Boat ride, called the Black Buccaneer.  Mike wimped out of this one, but in the last row you can see Nessie, Neil and Grant 'enjoying' the ride!  Eeeeeeeek!
 

Ah, now this is a really fast ride at the theme park!  The Safari Skyway dates back to when Chessington was a zoo and it trundles all round the park with a speaker commentary telling you all about it.  The Chessington website is on our tourist links page.

Of course, there's plenty of gift shops for the women folk!  Like many modern theme parks, there are different themed areas to explore.  We stopped by KFC for lunch and noted it was a little more pricy than your average High Street KFC!  Bummer!
 

One of the quieter areas at the theme park, away from the frantic queuing and screaming on the rides.  By now we were leaving Pirates Cove and heading to the Forbidden Kingdom to see who would wimp out of the rides there.

This was the Flying Jumbos in Toytown, a Mike sized ride but they wouldn't let him on as it was for the YOUNG adventurers and he was OVER the height restriction.  Another kids area at Chessington World of Adventures was Beanoland.
 

Another ride that Mike wimped out of was the Samurai.  However, Gaynor and Neil showed no fear and queued up for this scary ride.  Samurai spun in all directions and seemed horrendous, but like many rides at Chessington World of Adventures it looked worse than it actually was.

Here we are then on the Dragon Falls ride in the Mystic East, where Neil looks up in anticipation as he contemplates the huge drop ahead.  Up at the top, we got a good view of the theme park, only to be plunged down at terrific speed to a horrendous watery drenching.  Our Chessington adventures continue on page 2!