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Parque Warner Madrid: General Discussion

It is difficult to get to with public transport, as the metro line to the park was mothballed around a decade ago due to low attendance/use.

If I recall from my visit some years back, you take a metro to Pinto and then a shuttle bus runs to the park, infrequently. We took a taxi back to central Madrid for ease, as it was late and there was no bus at that time.

The park is a moderate size, easily do-able in 1 day.
 
As long as you time things well, it's no harder getting to via public transport than Thorpe...

Train to Pinto, then bus to park... Times are all listed on respective websites...
 
Exciting news! It would appear that Parque Warner may be getting a new thrill coaster in the near future, as markers have now appeared spanning a large area within the DC Comics portion of the park. Currently, the rumour mill suggests:
  • Intamin Blitz Coaster similar to Taron.
  • Will feature a pre-show.
  • Originally intended to open in 2022, but now delayed to 2023, presumably due to the pandemic.
  • Track is already being fabricated.
Source for this info: https://lamardeparques.es/foro/viewtopic.php?f=30387&t=66921&start=225

Exciting times are ahead for Parque Warner Madrid by the sounds of things! An Intamin Blitz should be a phenomenal addition to complement their already pretty strong-looking coaster selection!
 
It's a really nice park so nice to see it's potentially getting a new ride.

Gives them a few years to try and get the queue jumping under control as well.
 
A new coaster would be a very welcome surprise for Parque Warner. I really enjoyed the time that I spent in the park, but a lack of recent new additions means that it often goes very much under the radar. However any park with a Batman clone, a good B&M Floorless and a GIB is a park worth visiting!
 
Such a great park, I haven't visited often enough to be troubled by the lack of additions.

When we visited late last year, it did feel like it needed a bit of a kick, a lot of it feels like it's been sat their largely untouched, cracking in the sunshine. They've had a number of challenges over its fairly short existence. Still crazy to think they built a railway to the park, only for that to be 'SBNO' after such a short period of time.

Suspect this could be going where the former simulator ride building is currently? Not a huge site, though.
 
I was meant to visit the park in June and while this will won't justify a 3 year delay, it's brilliant to see them get a new investment! Should fit it snuggly with the B&Ms.
 
Matt N said:
Exciting news! It would appear that Parque Warner may be getting a new thrill coaster in the near future, as markers have now appeared spanning a large area within the DC Comics portion of the park. Currently, the rumour mill suggests:
  • Intamin Blitz Coaster similar to Taron.
  • Will feature a pre-show.
  • Originally intended to open in 2022, but now delayed to 2023, presumably due to the pandemic.
  • Track is already being fabricated.
Source for this info: https://lamardeparques.es/foro/viewtopic.php?f=30387&t=66921&start=225

Exciting times are ahead for Parque Warner Madrid by the sounds of things! An Intamin Blitz should be a phenomenal addition to complement their already pretty strong-looking coaster selection!
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Well i hope to visit the park in 2023 meaning i'll hopefully get on this for it's opening year!
 
It is a good park this - but as Rick says, it feels like it opened all those years back and has just sat there decaying very slowly.

Investment in a coaster? About bleedin' time.
 
Thoughts on Parque Warner having visited today:

- A nice base for a park with some solid themed areas. I was actually really impressed with the teeming of the DC area, which I had low expectations for, along with the Studios and Western areas. Very nice.

- The park suffers from many of the same issues as PortAventura does. Some of the operations are very poor. It seems to be park policy not to fill the airgates on rides until they are parked in the station causing significant stacking. Enigma has three shot towers but today operated on one.

- Stunt Fall is amazing. Really the stand out coaster in the park. Superman and Batman are both pretty average B&Ms but have nice queue lines.

- The water rides attracted by far the biggest queues, and were some of the most impressive that I have done, really good fun! The hot weather of course helped but it's a real shame we don't have more like this in the UK as they were extremely popular

- Lex Luther was fun, great to get back on a Top Spin I missed them!

- Sadly didn't find time for any shows but it's worth noting how popular they were. Huge lines waiting for them to start over half an hour in advance. Another thing the UK is sadly missing.

- As discussed above, it feels like the park was built in 2002 and has since not been improved. Basically everything built after 2002 is complete gash.

- Coaster Express is abandoned. It supposedly closed for a retrack in 2020. It isn't being retracked. It's hugely overgrown. A shame as I was looking forward to riding such an infamous beast.


Hopefully the rumoured new coaster materialises. I'd like an excuse to go back but at present I couldn't justify it.
 
I went to Uni in Madrid for 5 months as part of my uni course so naturally I know this park very well. I got a season pass and visited frequently.

This was in 2005 and it doesn't seem it's been invested in almost at all since. Such a shame.

Parque de Atracciones is the other park situated in the city centre. That's a really fun little park. It's more on the size of Drayton Manor but it has some really good stuff there.
 
I went in 2018 - comparable to Terra Mitica in quite a few ways. Huge investment at the start but what seems like dwindling popularity - no major ride additions and poor operations. I think the Spanish market prefer water parks - in the morning Superman was a walk on because the crowds had gone towards the water park. The shows seemed good though - we caught the car stunt show which was very popular. Apart from Port Aventura (which I can’t comment on having not been), it seems Spanish theme parks are problematic
 
I wouldn’t say Parque Warner’s popularity is dwindling by any means; quite the opposite, in fact!

Pre-COVID, it was shooting up the TEA report, hitting 2,232,000 visitors in 2019 (more than Alton Towers)! This puts it ahead of every UK park bar Legoland Windsor (just as a point of reference), ahead of every Spanish park bar PortAventura, and 12th in Europe: https://aecom.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/Theme-Index-2019.pdf

By comparison, 5 years prior in 2014 saw the park only just making the top 25 in Europe, with 1,460,000 visiting (and that was a 26% increase on the year before, when the park got 1,160,000 visitors!). This placed the park behind PortAventura in Spain, behind Alton Towers, Legoland Windsor, Thorpe Park and Chessington when compared to the UK parks (as a point of reference), and 25th in Europe: https://aecom.com/content/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/2014_Theme_Index.pdf

I know the TEA report’s accuracy is sometimes questioned, but the park must surely be doing something right for this report to calculate that it’s gained over a million additional visitors and has risen 13 places within the European visitor league table in the last 5-10 years? Certainly doesn’t strike me as though visitor numbers to Parque Warner are dwindling, or at least were pre-COVID.
 
Considering it operates almost year round, being ahead of Towers and Legoland in the attendance report should be a given. It certainly feels quiet compared to Towers this summer.
 
D4n said:
Considering it operates almost year round, being ahead of Towers and Legoland in the attendance report should be a given. It certainly feels quiet compared to Towers this summer.
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Wait, it’s a year-round park? Well, that makes their 2.2 million seem comparatively lower… I dread to think how quiet they might have been when they only used to get 1 million or so a year!
 
There's certainly something "wrong" with Spain and Theme Parks.

On Paper it looks like one of the best places in Europe; Great weather and a very popular tourist destination. I think that's why they've had a lot of international interest. Disney, Universal and Paramount all considered Spain. And when a park has been built its usually been a masterplanned park on virgin land.

But once they open all interest and investment dires up fairly quickly. Even Port Aventura, (the most successful of them) was meant to be Europe's own Universal. Its a popular park but its not that.

Merlin seem to have spotted this trend because besides one Sea Life they've not attempted to open anything over there. Did Tussauds learn from PA?
 
Parque Warner could really do with an onsite hotel. Stayed in Pinto when I visited so it was either a bus or a taxi to the park each day.
 
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