Alton Towers comes out tops

USING search volume data from Google, travel website, The Tourist Trail has published a list of the top 20 most searched for UK attractions in 2018, and the results may surprise you.

Whilst over half of the top 20 attractions were based in London, the top spot went to an attraction much further outside the capital. In fact, only two out of the top five went to London attractions, with the number one spot going to Alton Towers theme park in Staffordshire.

Since opening in 1980, Alton Towers has evolved into a large resort with a range of attractions, including a theme park, a waterpark, several hotels, and even a spa.

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Splash into Summer Down Under

VICTORIA'S biggest water theme park is ready to bring EPIC to your summer. Adventure Park Geelong, #Australia will open its doors to the public for the season on Saturday 27 October 2018. If you were one of the few who didn’t get out to Geelong to experience the epic new Tornado last year, this is the year to see what everyone has been talking about and brave the Tornado, Victoria’s biggest and only Proslide Tornado waterslide. 

Hugely popular as it launched in November 2017, the Tornado waterslide is a heart stopping, adrenaline pumping thrill ride that got everyone talking in 2017-18. It’s put Adventure Park Geelong on the map, and at just over an hour’s drive from Melbourne on the beautiful Bellarine Peninsula at the start of the Great Ocean Road, makes it the ultimate destination for families in summer.

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How to holiday Texan style

LOCATED mid-way between two other popular Texas vacation destinations –Austin and San Antonio, New Braunfels, Texas is the heart of the Texas Hill Country. Perfect for summer vacation, the #Texas Hill Country already offers clear skies, warm weather, lots of fun things to do, and a head start on summer fun. The Guadalupe, Comal River, Canyon Lake and Texas Ski Ranch make New Braunfels the perfect spot for watersports recreation. The perfect spot for all the family with attractions to keep everyone entertained.

What brings Texans to New Braunfels for summer fun is the rivers – the Comal River and the Guadalupe River. Expert river outfitters guide you to the best places to enjoy the rivers whether you want to tube, fish, or swim – it's still the best place to be on a summer day. Plan your river trip at Tube New Braunfels.

Schlitterbahn Waterpark in New Braunfels has 51 attractions in 70 acres on the banks of the Comal River. Tube chutes, rides, tube slides, and pools plus the continuous wave Boogie Bahn for surfing, a "white-water-like" experience on the Torrent wave river and water coaster rides – including the Master Blaster (voted the best water ride in the United States time and time again.)

Take a guided tour through the spectacular Natural Bridge Caverns. Explore with the Adventure Tours for a taste of raw adventure. Don't miss the Canopy Explorer and Zip Lines for a challenging four-story obstacle course and a spectacular zip line trip over the Texas Hill Country. 

Texas Ski Ranch (TSR) is a 70-acre action sports paradise. Ranked as one of the top wakeboarding and cable park facilities in the world, where you can learn to ski and wakeboard or snowboard, skateboard or stand up paddleboard.

Go "back to the future" in New Braunfels with a brand new three-screen drive in theater. The Stars and Stripes Drive In Theater offers a unique family experience today – first run movies under the stars.

Texas Hill Country dance halls welcome families and feature great entertainers. Gruene Hall in New Braunfels is one of the oldest dance halls in Texas. It has free live music during the day and popular artists entertain in the evenings.

Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch - Ostrich feathers, zebra ears and buffalo noses so close to you, you could touch them – take a safari through the Texas Hill Country. Drive through 450 acres of 500 free roaming animals from 40 exotic, native and endangered animal species


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Make a splash!

RAGING Waves, Illinois' largest #waterpark with 58 acres of slides, a lazy river, wave pool and more, will unveil Quokka-Nut Island and Wild Wallabies in 2018, marking the waterpark's largest expansion to date. Located southwest of Chicago, Raging Waves will open for the summer on May 26. Raging Waves features a wave pool, multiple kiddie areas, private cabanas, a quarter-mile long lazy river, and 26 water slides including the award winning Wonambi slide. Ranked one of the top new water rides in 2016, Wonambi is a must-experience this summer at Raging Waves.

Quokka-Nut Island is the newest addition for Raging Waves littlest mates (ages 2-5). Located within Kiddiebunga Bay, Quokka-Nut Island will include four new kiddie slides and a zero-depth pool which more than doubles the size of the existing kiddie pools. Additional interactive play features will include a coconut rain curtain, palm tree sprayers and a large octopus that spouts water.

Guests can embrace their competitive spirit as they race one another down the Wild Wallabies. The two new slides add more than 600 feet of twists, turns and thrills to Illinois' largest waterpark for guests over 42 inches.

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Aqua play

CAMELBACK Lodge & Aquatopia Indoor Waterpark was ranked among the 30 top indoor waterparks in the world—and #1 in the state of Pennsylvania—by U.S. News & World Report. 

Featuring seven pools, 13 water slides and a multitude of thrilling water attractions, including: Storm Chaser, North America’s longest uphill water coaster; The Great Ka-Na-Gawa Wavepool; an indoor/outdoor hot tub; and Kartrite’s Quest, the world’s first themed “next generation” multi-level aqua play structure equipped with 84 interactive water effects. 

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