The plans include phased development of 150 lodges, associated reception/restaurant and servicing buildings at Alton Towers Resort, along with hard and soft landscaping, disabled car parking, and associated drainage works. Speaking to The Pulse, Mark Kerrigan, Operations and Development Director at Alton Towers Resort, said that "around 30% of our guests [...]
Alton Towers has issued a press release which confirms a few unknown details about the ride. Interesting the ride is now confirmed to feature a new design of ride train with 16 riders positioned in 4 rows of 4. The press release also confirms the opening date to be 16th [...]
Strong rumours and several sources report that the final high street franchise Burger King is set to leave the resort at the end of 2012. Although as yet unconfirmed by the resort. It is believed that the current Burger King venues will be replaced by the in house brand Original [...]
Alton Towers today tweeted that they were launching a special Scarefest app. The Scarefest app is planned to be released within the next couple of days. It's not yet known what devices the app will be available for. As soon as we know more we will let you know. The [...]
Alton Towers are upping their marketing for their Scarefest event by sending an old ambulance full of zombie nurses to the capital to 'Test the minds and bodies of the nation'. The video features members of the public being approached in the street and being asked to take part in [...]
As the Halloween season approaches more details of this years Scarefest event are being unveiled. Today AltonTowers.com updated and revealed that the ever popular Scare Rooms will return this year. From the information posted it would appear that the experience is expanding considerably this year with the theme losely tied to the [...]
Today Alton Towers released information on its new Scarefest attractions: We are now drawing closer to Alton Towers Scarfest 2012 and slowly news items and Tweets are coming to us via various social media sites. Alton Towers released a varied selection of hashtags namely #SW #TMOJ AND #TS - during the [...]
Check out the new TowersTimes SW7 Minisite. Over the next few months we'll be providing the ultimate guide to the latest addition to the Alton Towers Resort. Our first update is just days away so have an explore and check back soon for the latest on SW7. https://www.towerstimes.co.uk/sw7
The Alton Towers Resort Monorail is closed following an incident yesterday. A fault on one of the track switches caused the ride to nearly derail near the Monorail storage depot. The Monorail driver was able to emergency stop the ride preventing any major injuries and Alton Towers staff were quick [...]
The annual halloween themed event, Scarefest is fast approaching and the resort have announced the first bits of information about this years event. Live Action Horror Attractions: Terror Of The Towers Terror of the towers returns once again as the signature attraction for the event. Contained within the towers themselves [...]
The Alton Towers Resort and Picsolve have launched a new online system enabling the download of a digital copy of onride photos purchased at the park. Visitors to the park just need to visit http://www.altontowers.com/photos/ 24 hours after a visit and input the 12 digit code provided on your receipt. Multiple photos [...]
The Alton Towers Resort has announced the winner of the 'Junior Weather Idol' promotion which ran recently. The press release is below: James Liquorish from Leicester has been crowned the winner of Alton Towers Resort’s Ice Age 4D Junior Weather Idol. Beating off competition from 5 other finalists from across [...]
