This weekend we had the privilege of being invited to Alton Towers to sample the first ever Oktoberfest event at the park. Here is my Alton Towers Oktoberfest review.
This family themed festival is running until October 4th as part of the parks 40th Anniversary celebrations.
From a variety of food stalls and a bar there is live german themed entertainment including an oompah-band and other various performances including a dancing dodo, and there was me thinking they were extinct!
From 3pm daily the lawn area by the lake is transformed into this Bavarian wonderland with picnic tables as far as the eye can see and fire pits dotted around the large open field to keep you warm as the night goes on.
Oktoberfest is included within the price of a standard entry ticket but food and drink are charged separate and they’re certainly not cheap.
Whilst I found the drinks to be reasonably priced a staggering £8 for some cheap nacho cheese, a tiny amount of sauerkraut and two mini (and I mean mini) cuts of Bratwurst was a little steep.
I was told that the food vendors are separate from the park entirely and charge their own prices and I can’t help but wonder if they flew in from Dubai or some fancy area as those prices were ludicrous for what looked like £2 slop with zero taste.
Thankfully, the Bratwurst stall looked incredible and the prices were more reasonable.
Shame on you loaded fries stand!
More than 150,000 traditional Bratwurst sausages, 3,000 gallons of ice cream, more than a quarter of a million traditional Belgian chocolates and 200,000 giant marshmallows arrived for Alton Towers Oktoberfest and after an hour of being at the event they had sold out of pretzels!
Other stalls included a hog roast stand, mulled wine and a merchandise stand to purchase a pin badge, T-Shirt and labelled Alton Towers beer stein.
With two stages of entertainment we were tapping our feet and singing along in no time. The reason we knew all the words were that the bands were playing all kinds of music not just German themed songs until a German accordion took to the stage for an authentic german performance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fik3-ftRIDM&t=43s
Fun for all the family and with rides open until 8pm Friday-Sunday there’s certainly lots to celebrate at this wonderful event.
On a much larger scale than that of the Thorpe Park / Blackpool Pleasure Beach equivalent and much better quality too head on down to Alton Towers to enjoy this zehr zehr gut event!
For more on Oktoberfest go to https://www.altontowers.com/explore/events/oktoberfest/
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