UK’s wettest rollercoaster trip is again with a bang at Blackpool Pleasure Beach
Visitors to Blackpool Pleasure Beach can lastly benefit from the UK’s wettest rollercoaster once more – after ‘Valhalla‘ lastly welcomed again daring riders following a four-year revamp.
And in addition to Viking spills, guests to the Lancashire seaside resort may absorb some icy thrills too as 2023’s skating, glittering spectacular ‘Hot Ice – Amore Amor Amour‘ is now entertaining visitors till ninth September.
The Daily Express rode the revamped Valhalla trip to see what the fuss was all about and after drying off can affirm its standing as one of many darkest, wettest, flame-throwing experiences round!
It was final open pre-Covid again in 2019 when it was one of many resort’s hottest rides, because it takes you out and in of the legendary Norse heavenly corridor of heroes – whereas plunging you down right into a watery hell.
There are a number of lifts and drops and moments when you find yourself nearly flattened by rolling logs, arrows, tunnels of fireplace and an unbelievable waterfall tunnel – like a surfer using via a wave.
While one gigantic tree trunk hammer crash is certain to go away you soaked to the bone – as will a number of the quick, fearsome descents – and the four-minute trip leaves you actually on the top of your damp seat.
After our trip we clambered out of our Viking longboat drenched however joyous and its reopening has already captured the eye of thrill-seekers throughout the UK, because the expertise is so distinctive.
It has value the park £4m to clean up the trip and modernise it earlier than it reopened in the midst of May.
The trip reminds riders “You will get wet, you may get soaked”, and boasts a reservoir holding over one and a half million gallons of water – sufficient to fill greater than two Olympic sized swimming swimming pools.
Amanda Thompson OBE, CEO of Blackpool Pleasure Beach, stated: “We’re delighted to finally be able to share a glimpse into all our hard work. The new ride is absolutely sensational and will definitely leave riders wanting more.
“Those who remember the original ride may recognise some of its best-loved features, but this reimagining of Valhalla offers a totally new immersive experience that will leave riders eager to return!”
Adam Slevin, Director of Creative, Design & Experience at Blackpool Pleasure Beach provides: “We’ve worked so hard to find the perfect balance between maintaining nostalgia, giving the ride some much-needed TLC and adding in a few surprises for fans.
“Valhalla will test even the most confident rollercoaster rider’s limits, with plummeting temperatures, fiery furnaces and torrents of water.”
Meanwhile from flames and water to Hot Ice – which is the world’s longest-running skating present, set within the Pleasure Beach’s personal ice Arena, constructed again in 1936, and famend annually for contemporary, new exhibits and a number of the world’s finest skaters.
Performed to authentic songs, the handfuls of performers from all around the globe convey us musical dance numbers, back-flips, spins and twirls – with now small quantity of glitter, sequins and feathers thrown in.
James Bond-style numbers, a Bolero and Romeo and Juliet are simply a number of the themes touched on on this unbelievable household present produced and directed by Pleasure Beach proprietor Amanda Thompson OBE – a prolific former skater herself.
The present is choreographed by Oula Jaaskelainen a former Olympic athlete and Hot Ice forged member, working along with former dancer and assistant choreographer Lynsey Brown.
After a day thrills on the rollercoasters, Hot Ice is the right solution to unwind and dream via your summer season – no matter climate is battering Britain!
To e book your tickets for the Hot Ice present or a day on the Pleasure Beach, go to www.blackpoolpleasurebeach.