Thorpe Park or Chessington WOA for a near 4 year old

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I'm thinking about whether either of these is any good for us as they are both circa 45 minutes drive from where I live. Obviously our child cannot use any large rides and neither would we but we have some ticket discounts and wonder whether either has sufficient value to go with a 4 year old child ?

Procrastinator333

If you ain't 1.40m, don't bother with Thorpe Park. Once you are 1.40m, don't bother going to Chessington. That is my opinion anyway!

Have a look at Chessington website and the various heigt requirements. Chessington has animals etc as well. So if your kid is tall enough for a few rides (should be, it is aimed at children), combined with the zoo, worth a go imo.

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Thanks.

Yeah, she's under 1.4m, around the 98/102 area. It was just the possibility of a cheap (ish) day out.

Procrastinator333

Have a look through the Chessington site. Ride listing is below.

http://www.chessington.com/explore/full-attraction-listing.aspx

Not going on all the rides, but could get on the pirate ship and runaway mine train plus a few others. After that, all the animals, penguins etc.

If you have it cheap and go on a day that isn't too busy, would be well worth it imo. Just don't got to Thorpe Park, at about 1m, I'm not actually sure there is a single ride they could go on.

susancs

Thorpe Park is really aimed at teenagers and has little there for younger children. In the summer the small beach type pool area is fun and a small selection of rides they can go on, Chessington or Legaolnad are more sutiable for the younger children as have lots to do a both. CHessington is fun because you get the zoo bit and animal shows as well as the rides. Guillivers Theme park at Milton Keynes also has a lot of things for younger children as aimed at the uner 11s-is a lot cheaper and smaller so easy to get a lot of things done.

pineapple123

Chessington is better to take a 4 year old in my opinion.
Thorpe park has much bigger rides but chessington has alot more to offer a 4 year old, legoland is also great for little ones but have to wait longer for rides

Mrs_Arcanum

Chessington is much better as you can see the Tigers and other animals if the rides all get too hectic.

Sharon87

Yeah Thorpe Park has some rides for the younger ones, but the zoo at Chessington is a good idea for a 4 year old. I was there at the weekend and they have loads of animals including ostriches, zebras, tigers, meerkats, lions, monkeys as well as a Sealife. If you go in next few weeks you can see the recently born baby monkeys. We saw them last week they were so cute! A fair few animals were born this month.