So, not so long ago it was my daughter’s 18th birthday. As promised to her last year I took her to Alton Towers for two days with the Gold Fast Track for both days.

I picked her up on the Saturday and we headed up to the hotel. When we arrived, I found out I made a huge mistake! I booked a double room and not a twin. Oh shit! I tried everything I could to get us changed, but I was told they had no spare rooms. It is what it is.

We unpacked and headed to the restaurant for dinner. You can usually tell how good a places food is by how good their burgers are, and that’s what I had. Burger and chips. It wasn’t too bad! Headed back to the room and chilled for the evening watching some TV.

Next morning arrives and I had barely any sleep. The room was horrendously hot. I set the air-con to the lowest temperature, no window to open, because why would you put an opening window in the room. It felt like we were in the middle of a heatwave in there!

Funnily enough when I complained about the room being baking hot, they suddenly found a vacant room to switch us into. We each had our own beds and a working air-con with windows that actually opened! We could get a decent nights sleep!

We got ready and headed to the theme park. Below is a mix of both days events.

When we arrived we just had to check to see if she was tall enough to ride the “big” rides. She is a little short bless her!

Thankfully she was tall enough! We picked up our fast track bands and headed straight to the Smiler.

We probably went on the Smiler around 8 times before heading to Oblivion which had a 35 minute wait time, but not for us! Thank god or rather my wallet for the Fast Track!

We went on Oblivion probably another three times, but before heading out of the area we had a few more goes on the Smiler!

Ive been to Alton towers a few times now, but never really been through the garden area. This time we decided to actually explore the garden area a bit. We had two days at the park so why not?

After a long enjoyable walk through the garden area, we headed over to Nemesis Reborn, and yes you guessed it, many many goes on this as well over the two days!

We were famished so had to have some lunch. We headed to the Rollercoaster Restaurant. Great staff and great food. Just be weary of the price! I had a burger, chips and a drink. Chloé had a wrap, chips and a drink. It came to £70. Don’t get me wrong, the food was amazing. I loved it. One of the best burgers I’ve ever had, but so expensive! I mean look at Chloés face, the shock!

We also had to have a go on the latest addition to Alton Towers – The Toxicator. Thankfully the water system was switched off. Probably due to the rain!

We went on that so many times. We loved it!

Day two of our Alton Towers trip, was very wild. We turned up at the park, sky was gloomy and grey. We walked over to the monorail and were told it was closed because of the storm. Storm? What storm? OK. We walked into the park, and in the distance we saw and heard lightning and thunder! Crap, it’s going to be a wet one!

Got into the park, and had to have a go on the Spinball Whizzer. Obviously because of the Fast Track, we had to have several goes on it! Its a simple little ride, but I would say one of the more thrilling ones! By the time we came around for the fourth time, the stares we were getting from everyone who was queuing were hilarious. We pased the same people over and over again! I don’t think they were happy! As they say, you get what you pay for!

Shortly after we decided to come off, the rain started and oh boy it started!

Of course the day of her 18th birthday we had to have a little drink to celebrate at dinner. The staff found out it was her birthday and brought her out a Biscoff Lotus biscuit with pancakes and caramel all over it. Free of charge! Fair play to them!

I’m not really a fan, but she said it was nice!

I had fun and I hope she had fun too. She tells me she did!

I cannot get over the fact that shes 18! Crazy!