Pros

Pros

Chessington is set in lovely themed areas and it's size means (relatively small) getting around is easy even with a double buggy.

There are LOTS of rides despite it's size and lots of animals. The animals and in particular the Lions, Tigers and Bush Dogs have tonnes of space.

Likewise the Gorillas were content enough to be mating as we saw a baby gorilla

We travelled with a 3 year old and a 18 month old and so there not that many rides for them BUT we already new this would be the case.

Scorpion Express was perfect and lots of fun for our three year old.

Cons

Queue times FOR EVERYTHING were horrendous.

Try waiting for ANYTHING for 1 hour with a three year old.

Room on a Broom is a brand new 'attraction' for 2019. The best thing about it was the Costa mid way through the queue. It is NOT a ride it is truly terrible. And involves walking around a house with little interactive screens telling a story. This would be better suited to the theming of a long queue than the actual attraction! I thought it might be like Peter Pan at Disneyland. It is NOT a ride. Do not waste your time here.

Zufari has a min height limit of 90cm. As animals is what we love as a family it was crazy we couldn't take our son on our laps or being held (he's 18 months).

Queuing (cont.)

If I had wanted to go on the Vampire/Dragons Fury rides it would have been a 2 hr ride for each.

The park is open 7hrs. So you'd spend >50% of your day WAITING if you wanted to go on these.

Fast Track is more expensive than a ticket itself but is beside the point. Theme parks need a more intelligent way to get people on to and off rides faster in a staged manner.

Food

Is all awful. Assume you will be travelling home having eat a lot of sh*t.

Round up

We did have a good time but with changes it could have been a great time .