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don't do it. don't go there. after quing for hours as they have no way of reading credit cards and every transaction was confirmed by telephone we entered an impressive looking Dickensian street. we were the some of the 1st in so headed straight for a very dissapointing boat ride around and through Dickensian rooftops. Not a lot to look at, no animatronics, no nothing really. still we were 1st on, no queue. Next the Haunted house. i can only call this experience, "dire". Walk through a labyrinth of unfinished corridors watching films of Dickens ghosts in story form. 2 five year old children in tow now nearly bored. Next the Dickensian school where you sit in front of a computer "schooldesk" playing computer snakes and ladders answering questions on Dickens books. Fine. it is a Dickens park afterall. as you can probably guess i now have 2 bored 5 year olds in tow. I was promised a real experience of the schools of that era and that my 5 year olds would love it. Oh well on to the 4D screen. Wearing 3D glasses (?) we were treated to an educational 5 min 3D film about Dickens life. As you can imagine i now have 2 VERY bored 5 year olds. Still there is always the soft play area. Or not? It was packed with children that found this an oasis in an oytherwise boring sea of Chuzzlewit. we decided to leave and the queues inside for these mundane attractions were worse than outside.
after paying £38 for the four of us , and 2 hours later , we found ourselves an indoor soft play area for 2 (now) excited 5 year olds. £7 and 2 happy hours. we should have gone there from the very beginning.
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