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Thorpe Park
Score6.5
🇬🇧United KingdomTheme parkEurope
Chertsey, Surrey, United Kingdom
A thrill park on an island lake, about half an hour from London.
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Opened
1979
Size
500 acres (203 ha)
Rides
25 attractions
Avg. visit
6 hours
Ticket range
$43–$89 USD
Thorpe Park overview
Thorpe Park at a glance
A thrill park on an island lake, about half an hour from London.
Thorpe Park was built on former gravel pits, so almost every ride is threaded between lakes and reached over bridges. Stealth still accelerates to 129 km/h in under two seconds, Nemesis Inferno and Colossus deliver ten inversions between them, and Hyperia — the UK's tallest coaster at 72 metres — opened in 2024.
It skews firmly teenage and adult, gets busy on hot weekends, and runs Fright Nights as one of Europe's best Halloween events.
Our editor's recommendation
Worth a day, but build it into a wider trip rather than flying in for it. It ranks #47 of the 50 parks we score, at 6.5/10 with 25 rides and attractions and a typical visit of about 6 hours. Tickets run $43–$89 a day. The strongest reasons to go are its big-ticket thrill rides. The honest catch: tickets are expensive for what you get, and queues average around 21 minutes. Best time to visit: Summer.
Thorpe Park highlights
Rides & attractions at Thorpe Park
These are the top attractions at Thorpe Park — 10 rides and experiences hand-picked and verified by our editorial team, including 6 signature rides you shouldn't miss. Use the filter bar below to narrow the line-up by rider height, zone, category or thrill level.
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Plan your visit to Thorpe Park
- Operating hours
- Typically 10am-5pm, extended to 6pm or later in peak summer and during Fright Nights
- Typical gate times
- Usually 10:00 to 19:00 on August dates.
- Operating calendar
- 2026 season runs 27 March to 1 November, with closures on some off-peak dates.
- Extended hours
- Only the ride queues close at the posted time, so riding can continue past closing.
- Seasonal closures
- Closed November to mid-March apart from selected event dates
- Queue-skip pass
- Fastrack sold per ride or as a bundle; prices climb sharply on busy dates. From about $45 USD.
- How long to stay
- Full day
- Multi-day tickets
- Twice the Fun second-visit ticket and a 2nd Day Free short-break offer; no standard 2-day gate ticket.
- Season pass
- Annual or season pass from about $140 USD.
Thorpe Park map
Official park mapThorpe Park events & shows
Fright Nights
Thorpe Park's Halloween event, one of the UK's best-known, with multiple scare mazes and live actors.
Thorpe Park reviews & ratings
Amusement Park Ranker overall score
6.5
An aggregate of 3 public review platforms, each normalized to a 0–10 scale and weighted by review volume.
Thorpe Park wait times
- Typical day
21
- Crowd & wait score
2.9
Thorpe Park records & achievements
Tallest and fastest roller coaster in the UK (Stealth)
2006Stealth opened in 2006 at 62 metres tall and 128 km/h, and remains the UK's tallest and fastest roller coaster.
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