Play-and-Stay Blog

Take a look at our special offers bursting out from the Play and Stay treasure chest this Spring. First of all there’s the brilliant Thorpe Park and Chessington World of Adventures double offer - get park entrance tickets to both parks and hotel stay from just £199 for a family of four! If that wasn’t enough then we’re also giving vouchers for kids to eat free at Chessington. You can get a voucher redeemable for 2 child’s meals up to the value of £2.49 per child with every adult meal purchased.

Then there’s our spectacular savings to be had at LEGOLAND® Windsor, where kids can go free! You can now get a LEGOLAND Windsor break from just £94 for a family of four if you book before the 31st May. This fantastic special offer includes 2 day theme park entrance, an overnight hotel stay and breakfast - all from just £94 for a family of 2 adults and 2 children. Compared to normal gate prices kids do go completely free!

Also be sure to check out our Spring sale of Tussaud’s theme parks. In May we’ll be cutting our prices even further by offering £10 savings for families of four at Alton Towers, Chessington and Thorpe Park. Head to Play and Stay for more details and incredible savings!

This guy can’t believe how good our offers are!

If you want to find out what the biggest steel roller coaster (circuit track) drop in the world is then I obtained this list from ultimaterollercoaster.com. Pretty annoying that none of these beasts reside in the UK - or even Europe for that matter! It’s additionally a little bit sad to hear that Stealth cost only about 10% less than Kingda Ka to construct, yet is less than half the height and 48mph slower - we always get ripped off in this country! However, The Pepsi Max Big One and Stealth aren’t far off making the list, about 20 feet off, which isn’t that much considering how huge they are anyway, and their certainly two brilliant roller coasters. I can’t really imagine how big Kingda Ka is to the naked eye, but at one third of the height of The Empire State Building you can predict it to be absolutely huge!

418 feet of…steel. It’s pretty difficult to judge the actual height of Kingda Ka from this photo alone, so I’ll stick a video of the ride on this blog soon. If you can’t wait then head to the Kingda Ka link where there’s one on the Six Flags website. Arthur Levine gives some handy information on Kingda Ka and Six Flags New Jersey.