PAULTONS Park has revealed the official opening date of their new ride next year.
First announced earlier this year, Ghostly Manor will replace the park’s old 4D cinema.
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The theme park has since confirmed it will open on May 17, 2025.
The ride will be both interactive and family-friendly, so good for younger visitors.
Guests will have to capture ghosts that have “escaped the house of renowned ghost hunter Dr Kinley”.
Ghosts will be caught using “phantom phasers”.
Also coming to Paultons Park is a new viking themed land, set to open in 2026.
Little else is known about it currently, but it will replace the log flume and karting track.
The theme park’s marketing and technology director, Lawrence Mancey, told us: “Brace yourselves! Vikings are set to raid England once again and establish a new world for our guests to explore in 2026.”
And the theme park is also one of the best value in the country when it comes to ticket prices and food costs.
Not only that, but it is good value because of the short queue times, meaning you get a chance to go on lots of rides.
Theme Parks Direct’s Michael Dean told Sun Travel this summer: “Paultons Park in Hampshire’s New Forest is the best theme park in terms of value for money.
“It has entry from £68.75 for a family of five if you book ahead.
“The queues are usually short, which means you can get on many rides in one day, and the food is also a reasonable price too.”
Insights from website queue-times.com found that the average ride queue time at Paultons Park is at least half what it is at other UK parks.
Other new rides are opening across the UK, with Chessington revealing plans for a new themed land, rollercoaster and indoor ride.
The Sun’s Head of Travel on why Paulton Park is one of her favourite theme parks
Sun Travel’s Caroline McGuire explains all.
As a mum of a five year old, it’s by far my favourite theme park and the short waits are a massive part of that.
A lot of the time, we’d wait about two minutes to get on a really great attraction – and that was on a weekend too.
The only place in the park where you can expect to wait in line for up
to 40 minutes (although that’s rare) is Peppa Pig World.
It’s undoubtedly the big draw of the park and everyone, myself
included, heads straight there when they first arrive.
But I’d recommend getting out of there after a couple of rides and
checking out the rest of the park where the attractions are just as good and the lines are much, much shorter.
Paultons is still family-owned and aside from queue times, it feels
very much like a park that has been built by parents for parents.
One of my favourite little details is that they have a load of those
very annoying stationary rides that you find outside supermarkets,
which your child will inevitably pester you to spend £3 on – but at
Paultons they’re free!
But if you can wait a bit longer, a new theme park is set to open in the UK.
French theme park, Puy du Fou, revealed its interest in building a UK version of the resort last year.
Read more on the Scottish Sun
And Universal has revealed plans to open in one of their theme parks in Bedford, the first of its kind for the UK.
Little else is known about it, and it wouldn’t open until the 2030s.
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