Sooo, first time back in 4 years, a really good day had by all 6 of us. Aged 31,26,27,26,7,6.

Arrived at 09:30, booths opened to purchase bands at 9:45, gates then opened at 10:00...

A screen in the booth showed cannonball express as closed as we know (saw no work on it all day though) and the mini dodgems (the facias of this are half removed and the track area piled with timber presumably from eggspress refurb... I have a feeling these wont return as the others were running well, 6 or 7 cars i think, and yes the middle section is now usable...) and...... wipeout.... This was repeatidly testing though and was ready to go by 10am and removed from closure list.

Sooo moby dick first with the kids, seemed ok, filmed like 3 seconds of pirate ship.

Wave swinger next... Very nice, clean, good landscaping in that middle area. Old themeing boat from the aladdins cave still lay in the bushes and some of the waterway still present.

Rootin tootin next and problem number one..... It was PITCH BLACK throughout, told ride opp at the end and came back later and all UV lighting was then on. All enjoyed this though and good throughput, counted 3 carts.

We headed down to baloon rays and eggspress next, ok they look ok from a distance but both the baloons and eggspress train seem to have been done in matt paint, train already beginning to mark up and scuff! Train only running max of 18 people as it cant get up the hill. Felt rougher than i ever remember in the low middle section. Inside of tunnel needs paint, and the track has defo not been fully painted, the supports for the rest of the old tunnel just rusty coloured and that stray chunk of old tunnel still left on the steels.

Chair lift looking tidy and opened at 12 but looked slow, every one was filled though.

Paddle boats looked tidy, about 4 on the lake, saw some old ones scattered in maintenence area.

Fireball had its flashback up not just blue, got a good cycle first go, up beyond 90 degreed twice, 5 more goes through the day this was only repeated once more, most cycles very low and slow. Odd. Same opp all day too.

Wipeout has an issue ive never experienced before but did it every time, it wasnt releasing properly from the second lift hill. Ill upload a video but it would unlatch then grab then unlatch properly... Not nice and defo not right. Hopefully vid will appear later.

Dingy slide thing had water on 2 lanes but was running only 1. Needs a paint.

Soft play looked ok. Land behind it messy.

Little train ok... Remnants of the second station that never was are still there.

Big train stank of burning oil all day... Apparantly had a recent hydraulic leak....

Lighthouse broke down early but a tower scaffold was soon up and it was running by early arvo. All rides in kids area looking ok, kids enjoyed them.

Kids twister had maintenence also working on it believe this was also fixed.

Go kart area seriously looking run down. Price still £4 per car which i think is reasonable.

Jolly roger down for 2hrs in the arvo but then i got on it at 5pm... I hate it so much lol

Then the flume broke and maintainence were up top.... Then seconds later marble madness tripped leaving 2 cars stranded but this was quickly running again. Until then it was running 4 cars nicely

Pirate ship.... Not sure what they did to it. Was very slow. See vid.

Parrot and sealionshows good and packed out.

Lesser seen areas of park are looking messy but it seems the team currently have their hands full.

All in all a good day... Bits of music here and there, car park looked like it had been well filled. Vouchers for £16 return were handed out on exit.