Chessington World of Adventures

We spent Saturday morning at Chessington World of Adventures. It's less than an hour's drive away and a good destination for families with small children (not too small though less they cannot get on any of the rides). As usual, we picked and chose those that seems interesting but with relatively short queues.

Having been here and the Legoland, there's a concensus within the family that the Chessington WoA is a better destination. Generally, a lot more attractions including a small zoo and Sealife where apart from theme-park style rides, there are also animal shows for the kids. It was also less crowded compared to the Legoland and we attribute this to the fact the Legoland seems to be better known. Distance-wise, this is also closer from London.



As with Legoland, no problem of bringing in food and drinks and having had the experience before, we were better prepared. For lunch, we had a picnic with packed home-made Nasi Lemak. That must have been one of the highlights of the trip.

There's a climbing wall that's about 20 feet tall invinting people to climb to the top and press the buzzer a-la X-Game event. Our son tried it and he got to the top.

They seems to like water a lot and most of their rides have water featured in them. The flying chairs above have sudden jets of water sprayed upwards and depending on the timing, you may get wet. Similarly, in the Rameses Nemesis (video below), they really splash your face with water. And the way it's done where you are slowly brought to the water spray was really neat. Not to mention that your whole body was basically facing the ground and the only thing keeping you from falling is the harness.



An interesting (and quite terrifying ride) that's new to us is the Rameses' Revenge. Check out the video. Can you spot us? As the ride is only for those taller than 1.4M, the boys couldn't join and of course their Ummi have to be their chaperone (and therefore operates the camera). If you listen carefully you can surely hear the ear-piercing scream of our daughter. This is actually the second part of the ride. After the first round, the operator asked if anyone would like to step down before they continue. It was a polite gesture, but nobody takes the offer, of course.





And we came across an interesting Sign as well. For a change, it's not from non-English speaking countries especially in the Far East that usually appear on the Net but from England itself.