Theme Park Roadtrip - Coasters, castles & other adventures

Alton Towers – Early Ride Time, August 2025

Early Ride Time - A bonus at Alton Towers for Platinum Passholders. But was it worth getting out of bed early for?

Falcons, Trebuchets, Archers, Dungeons & more on our first family visit to Warwick Castle

Universal's Stella Nova Resort - Our home for the week whilst we explored Epic Universe.

A busy and rainy afternoon put a dampener on our trip to the National History Museum in London, but we still saw some amazing and cool things!

A Rollercoaster? In the middle of Camden? Madness. We visited London's Babylon Park.

A new Lego event came to town, so we had to check it out. We visited Wrexham Brick Festival.

The finale of our Merlin Annual Pass London excursion was a ride on the world famous London Eye.

We're still in London's South Bank area, visiting Shrek's Adventure. Hopefully we'll see Donkey on our third Merlin Annual Pass stop of the trip.

We found ourselves in the ocean at Sea Life London Aquarium on stop 2 of our Merlin Pass London trip.

Stop 1 on our Merlin Annual Pass London Tour was to see the waxworks at Madame Tussauds.