Place your reviews of the Scarefest event here. These may include Terror of the Towers, Room 13, Field of 1000 Screams, Haunted Hollow: Live, Fright Lights, Pumpkin Patch, ATTV, Park atmosphere, Halloween Zoo, Scare Rooms or anything relating to the park/resort between 13th October and 4th November 2007.

I think it is disappointing to be honest, i was expecting some real effort on the place, but it seems to be focusing on if you pay you get the good stuff.

Terror of the Towers is good, but graded wrong and badly planned if you ask me. throughput needs to be higher and queueing i hope now is resolved.

The park in general is a disappointment, lighting is not scary in the slightest, it's generator after generator which sound horrible and ruin the mood even more.

It's not hard to add a bit of colour on your lights. the place looked like a training ground at night, not really scary if you ask me.

Haunted Hollow is good and creepy and Duel is running to 100% as i could see. But the area lacks scare as does Nemmie, you've got this great big creature of a ride and you do nothing to make it stand out even further. Duel needs live actors aswell.

Rita has a few rats and spiders on the netting, now i know its ugland themed but what about some prehistoric dinosaur bones a bit of blood some scary music and again not so bright lighting.

Hex could have done with some actors in there octagon and maybe leading you into the vault or something.

I see nothing wrong with opening the Flume or Rapids for the evening to be honest the tunnels on both rides could be done up and themed and if there reason for there closure is due to water and getting cold then why is Ripsaw allowed to operate with water, you get much wetter on that than on any other ride.

Skyride should be open in the dark as it could be used to scare very easily. No need for it to be shut. If the reason is evac in the dark then why close at dusk, by the time you evac it will be dark anyways.

Overall i'm disappointed to be honest, Alton are trying to make the park stand out and for people to visit a new kind of experience which is far from what they have achieved, all the have managed to do is light the park and open later with a few pumpkins and converted the towers into a walk through. If i wanted that i would go to the Pleasure Beach for the day and night and ride Pasaj Del Terror.

Gimme your budget and i will give you a scarefest worthy of that name as all Alton has is a well lit park and veg and plastic bats all around it.

disappointing.

EDIT, The later the event went on the better it did become, TOTT was excellent and the place felt a bit more alive. The lights need to be sorted though as they really spoil the mood.

This is very long, sorry! My fingers just got carried away, they’ve got a mind of there own…

So I got back from my weekend away yesterday, well 12:30am this morning actually. It was such an amazing weekend and I was very impressed! As soon as we checked into splash on the Friday about 3ish we had a brew and our half eaten complimentary biscuits and then went straight into the park and spent the rest of the night in there until 9pm! It was just like I expected it to be on a Friday, very dead! Especially after 6-7pm-ish. I’ve been on quiet days before, mainly when it’s been chucking it down with rain though. But this was definitely a night I went forget. There was a point when I was on Oblivion and I couldn’t see anybody on the ground around X-Sector at all. Needless to say we did the whole ride whoring thing around the park. But anyway, I thought the park itself although not ‘heavily’ Halloween themed was done nicely. Lots of pumpkins about the place, and the fact it seemed to be very nippy all weekend and quite dark wherever we walked, despite the lighting – I think just added to the spooky atmosphere I think Towers where aiming for. We walked down haunted hollow a couple of times throughout our stay. It was very good! As we were walking by that carriage with the coffin in the back some guy jumped off it and my cousin literally stumbled and tripped over my foot. What a laugh, it was brilliant! We did Terror Of The Towers about 7ish and I was very impressed. It walks all over Thorpe’s mazes. The fact it’s been done in the towers just makes it better. The smells in there are awful, I wouldn’t like to know how they create such smells. After we came out, fright lights were just starting so we stood and watched that for about 10 minutes. I wouldn’t say it was anything spectacular from what we seen, but it certainly pulled a lot of people in to watch it. So we thought whilst this was sucking up the little crowds that were there we’d go and get some more coaster action before the park closed at 9pm!

When we got back to the hotel that evening we met up with some friends who had just checked in and ended up blowing about 90 quid between us at the bar. I think our friends where hoping to do an ‘all day-er’ in the park on the Saturday. But we decided we should just chill out in Cariba Creek since well walking around the park like Zombies with some cracking hangovers (although good for Halloween) wasn’t the best of idea’s. We all decided that we would go and watch Rugby later on that evening in the Conference Centre but I couldn’t bear the thought that Nemmy was so close in the dark just waiting. So me and my cousin decided to leave our mates and go back into the park that evening from around 5ish. I few anadin tablets sorted out my bad head. It was pretty much a repeat of the previous night. I was expecting it to be a lot busier since well it was half term. But it was more a less the same as Friday evening. There was one thing however while we was queuing up for Rita. So there we were queuing up, and there was this nice looking dark haired bird in front of us. She was patching up her makeup by the looks of things, looking in the mirror, just being a typical woman I suppose!!! I looked again and thought to myself I’m sure I’ve seen this person before, possibly from a picture. She happened to be with a group of lads and one of them said something to her and said her name, ‘Kaycee’. I thought ‘No-h-h’, surely that’s just some random bizarre coincidence. I thought nothing else of it. But then as I was tab hanging into their conversation I heard her mention a post which had been posted by another member on TTF (in the tavern actually). Before I could freakily introduce myself she was halfway around Rita. There was one of the guys however, who was on his Rodney getting strapped in waiting to go. But I thought it would be far too random to just shout “hello, aren’t you the guy of t’internet, my names rah rah rah etc”. Such a small world, and so bizarre! I doubt they would remember me, but I was literally right behind them wearing my yellow and grey stripey hoody.

When we got back to the hotel we decided to head over to The Field Of 1000 Screams (since well we’d paid for it). I’ve got to admit, this was the longest we’d queued for all weekend, and it was a good 45 minutes! Stood there in the cold in a queue that didn’t seem to be moving took the absolute Shmichael. But it was well worth the wait! I liked this better than Terror Of The Towers. It had more of a story line to it, it was ace! Although I thought it probably could have been a little bit longer, I loved every second of it. More so the last part though. That was pure magic. I was laughing and screaming that much when we ran out that I couldn’t breathe.

Sunday was exactly the same as the previous two evenings only we did an all day-er in the park and also room 13, as well as Terror Of The Towers and Field Of 1000 Screams again. I thought room 13 was good. But not as good as the other two mazes. I also like the fact you come running out into the bar screaming y’tits off! The music’s also a little bit freaky I thought too! The park was dead again that evening and we managed to get a whole train/car to ourselves for about 2-3 times in a row on Blivy. There was nobody on Enterprise except me, my cousin and our other two mates. It was very good! If nobody has been to Scarefest yet, I would definitely recommend going ASAP because I don’t think you will be disappointed in the slightest. Make sure you wrap up warm though!

I went with my college yesterday and I must say I was very disappointed with scarefest. The music in the enterance and the theming was really good but there was nothing else around the park. As we had to leave early we didn't get to see all of the stuff at night but there was nothing really going on in the day which would have made it more exciting esp in the haunted hollow because it was really dull to walk through.

For a halloween without fireworks, it was amazing. I went for two days, the 29th and 30th of October [the day after the Skyride fire] and I have to say, it was probably my best trip to the towers ever, even without the SkyRide. The first thing in the scarefest that I did was Terror of the Towers. This ride was actually a lot more frightening than I ever imagined it would be. The staff in and around the ride were basically the theming, and the did a mighty job.

The ride starts you off in a small entrance lobby, which is dark, but there is still small traces of light. A 'poor, unfed servant of the master' gives you a basic rundown of 'what will be done to you'. It was very well done and it was amazing how a straight face was kept when some rather comical jokes were made. You are then sent into a few long, dark corridors, where there are a few hidden scares. After a slow and cautious stroll through the dark corridors, you arrive at the kitchen, which has a rather putrid smell. You are greeted by what I will loosely call the 'chef' who introduces you to her obscure and outlandish dishes. She sends you right into the oven, which is surprisingly hot and very well lighted. After a nice roasting, some strobe lights disorientate you before you head into a dark maze which several flashes of light and sudden frights as you pass through. You finally arrive in the dining room, where you are greeted by a kind host who threatens you with a knife for a few minutes. He then directs you out but gives you only ten seconds to do so. You then 'escape' out into the courtyard of the towers.

8/10

My second review is the ATTV halloween special. I, as a 15 year old, found this entertaining, as did my 7 year old brother. The show itself was humorous and I especially enjoyed the pre-show mocking of a few of the audience. The show then got underway and I enjoyed it, but my little brother was glued. I found it to be very well carried out and I think it was enjoyed by all the audience, young and old.

8/10

Finally, seeing as there was so much to do, I will move along to the late ride times. Monday's queues weren't too bad. AIR only reached about 45mins so it wasn't extremely busy. Unfortunately, when I arrived on Monday, Forbidden Valley was closed. This blew a hole in my plans, but the haunted hallow then proved to be a timesaver. The first ride that we did was enterprise. It took three circuits for us to get on, so it wasn't too bad. We enjoyed watching Oblivion flying over our heads. Next, we headed for RMT. It was a great ride, and is pretty much self-explanatory. As we made our way down to ME, we decided we were hungry and bought ourselves a cookie each in Jugglers. [Man they are nice cookies] As I was queueing, I turned around to the Q times board to see "The Forbidden Valley Area is now open" So we headed up to FV, did a few rides, went to Rita's Chicken and Ribs for a bit of lunch [AMAZING FOOD!] before I went on Rita and Hex then back up to FV. I stayed in FV for pretty much the entire night before, at 8pm retiring to the Splash Landings hotel and eating in Flambo's. The hotel was comfortable and had a few slam's of decorations around it. All in all, what I got done of the Scarefest was brilliant!

10/10

I arrived at Alton an hour before it opened yesterday and was at the front of the queue to get in the park the atmosphere created by the limited edition halloween music was quality

Headed straight for Nemesis which typically opened late!

Didn't get in any haloween attractions

Room 13= Closed
Field of 1000 screams= £5
Terror of the Towers= 210 min queue

Terrible

Good theming when entering the park shame it isn't contiued throughout. I was impressed by haunted hollow-live as it got darker.

Most rides were better in the dark yet some wern't as good.

Day Night
Nemesis 9/10 6/10
Oblivion 8/10 10/10
Air 8/10 8/10
Spinball 8/10 8/10
Rita 7/10 10/10
RMT 5/10 9/10


Ride Count Brackets number=Rides in dark

Rita x3 (1)
RMT x3 (2)
Nemesis x3 (1)
Air x 2 (1)
Spinball x2 (2)
Oblivion x2 (1)
Corkscrew x1 (0)
Submission x1 (1)
Enterprise x1 (1)
UG Swinger x1 (0)
The Beastie x1 (1)
Ripsaw x1 (0)
The Blade x1 (0)
Hex x1 (0)
The Flume x1 (0)
River Rapids x1 (0)
DUEL x1 (0)

Nemesis had no queue all day but I wanted to get on everything!

Not saying anymore



Don't want to ruin next years