Theme Park Alternatives - Fun/Price Comparison

[Vicky]

When I'm not visiting theme parks I tend to gravitate towards adventure activities and scare attractions. Adventure activities can be quite pricey (£45 for a 90 minute lesson at surf snowdonia) but you're taking a life skill away from it, as well as using specialist equipment.

With scare attractions the value entirely depends on what floats your boat and how expensive you go. As cheap as £2 to £100+ for the likes of Cracked vs Heretic. One off installations can be very good, Seance at Birmingham Rep was around £6/£8 and quite unlike any experience I'd ever tried before. Obviously the big difference with scare attractions is that the experience lasts from a few minutes up to six hours, not a full day.

 

[Rick]

As well as theme parks, i also like going to zoos/wildlife parks, notably Chester Zoo and Yorkshire Wildlife Park.

How would you compare the two?

 

[Skyscraper]

How would you compare the two?

Zoo's are usually bigger, with a wider variety of animals.
(Although Yorkshire Wildlife Park does have the UK's only polar bears!)

 

[Rick]

Zoo's are usually bigger, with a wider variety of animals.

Apologies - I meant which of the two examples is better?

 

[Skyscraper]

Apologies - I meant which of the two examples is better?

To be honest, i can't decide! Chester is bigger though.
When i recently went to YWP, i did all the animals by lunch time!

 

[Rick]

Go Ape are really plugging their new Nets Kingdom at Black Park. Feels like they're really struggling for ways to give people something new, but I'll reserve judgement until I've had a go. It's sort of like Bounce Below but with a less cool venue.

 

[Towerslover]

Go Ape are really plugging their new Nets Kingdom at Black Park. Feels like they're really struggling for ways to give people something new, but I'll reserve judgement until I've had a go. It's sort of like Bounce Below but with a less cool venue.

Looks good but I wouldn't want to pay £20!

Edit: The video on the zip line website looks very interesting