YOU know a ride’s good when your kids are prepared to risk waking up a grumpy triceratops to have another go on it. So there’s no doubt the brand-new Splash Lagoon flume at Paultons Park is going to be a massive hit. As soon as the screams of excitement from cascading down the giant waterfall and getting a welcome soaking had died down from our first go on it, all our kids could say was: “Again!” And I wasn’t going to argue.
The latest addition to the brilliant 130-acre Hampshire amusement park — home to Peppa Pig World — is as fun, thrilling and impressive as the huge variety of attractions already on offer. Surrounding the latest offering in the site’s vast dinosaur-themed Lost Kingdom there’s lush vegetation and several HUGE, scarily life-like Jurassic monsters including a beautiful brontosaurus — and the mighty, if a little bit angry- looking, triceratops. It took a bit of convincing for our three-year-old daughter to queue up next to the fearsome beast, who appeared to eye us up and down like a sleepy prehistoric bouncer as we waited our turn.
Thankfully, she decided if we weren’t too noisy it would let us pass without too much bother. A short queue later — a very acceptable 15 minutes on a hot and busy Sunday afternoon in May — and we were boarding our boat. We were told we would get wet — and they weren’t lying.
The journey starts with a pleasant meander through the wonderfully landscaped rapids — the immaculate greenery throughout Pault.
