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It boasts a huge theme park, a zoo, a dinosaur park and is famously home to Thomas Land - so it's little surprise that Drayton Manor Park is a big hit with families. But it has also just been named in the Top 20 best amusement parks in the WORLD at the 2023 Tripadvisor Traveller's Choice Awards.
The awards are bestowed on the attractions that have consistently had the best reviews from millions of visitors from across the world over the past year. So what better time to check in to the Staffordshire resort - which is just under two hours drive from Manchester - to see what all the fuss is about.
The resort has recently launched a new section to the theme park too - the Vikings themed zone with a host of new rides and a new entrance into the attraction. You can make a fully themed stay of it with a Viking bedroom too.
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I headed along with my seven-year-old and four-year-old boys, staying in one of the new Viking bedrooms at the four-star Drayton Manor Hotel where overnight stays for a family of four cost from £306. The hotel itself is the first building you see when you arrive at the resort, and you can park up here if you are staying overnight.
It's then a short walk down a hill to the theme park itself, which spans a vast landscaped site featuring a host of different zones to explore, with features suitable for the youngest members of the family up to the oldest. With two younger children in tow, naturally Thomas Land was one of our eagerly-awaited destinations, as well as the dinosaur park and the zoo.
As soon as we arrived at the hotel I could see the kids' faces light up, with lots of Thomas the Tank Engine theming in
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