Ticket holders entering Brean Leisure Park are presented with a fine array of entertainment of all types, from its fairground rides and white-knuckle experiences to Somerset’s leading cabaret entertainment venue, Tavern At Brean, with its nightly music and cabaret acts, and an impressive 18-hole golf course. Among the highlights of the family attraction’s adrenalie-rush rides is the 130-foot ride, Xtreme, which was unveiled in 2005 and is quite literally up there with the country’s most exciting rollercoaster attractions. Just the ticket for a thrill-a-minute family day out.
The family attraction is open from March through to October and is not far from Somerset’s captivating Brean Down coast, with its invigorating ozone-rich sea airs and sandy shores. From the sublime to the ridiculous, the Shock Wave Super Looper rollercoaster is the largest in the region and is guaranteed to blow away the cobwebs after a stroll by the seashore. Just the ticket!
Younger ticket holders can tackle some of Brean Leisure Park’s less vigorous attractions if they wish, while the Laser Quest or Canoe River attractions, which is a children’s river boat ride taking in stunning views of the Park, offer a good deal of thrills without risking a churning tummy!
Animal lovers will be enthralled by the Pony Adventure theme ride, while the spooky Terror Castle is just the ticket for scare fans who want a Hollywood-style ‘haunted house’ with plenty of things that go bump in the night. And the day for that matter.
Another novel aspect of Brean Leisure Park is the fact that entry to it is free and tickets are purchased for each ride or attraction on a pay as you go basis, allowing visitors to tailor-make their family day out and concentrate on the things that they really want to see and do. Among the most popular options for getting the most out of the family attraction are a Tiny Tot’s wristband for smaller children, which grants ticket holders access to the Cups & Saucers, Fantasia, Canoe River, Pony Express, a Giant Slide, the Safari Train and the Caterpillar. A standard wristband also buys into all of the Brean Leisure Park rides, except for the Go-Karts and Laser Quest, which are a nominal additional charge.
Brean Leisure Park additionally has an educational as well as a fun aspect to it, with school parties catered for, while onsite facilities include landscaped self-catering accommodation, the Holiday Resort Unity residential holiday park, and the Tavern at Brean restaurant and club. It presents a Sunday carvery and doubles as an entertainment complex with the Tavern Country Music Club and cabaret acts that have in the past included the likes of Peter Andre, Jason Donovan and The Wurzels.
For those wishing to lower their handicap as part of a family day out, or indeed as a day in itself, the Brean Golf Club offers players a fine 18 hole course, covering some 5715 yards and rated at a par 69 course. It nestles in the Brean Leisure Park and covers some 100 acres of lush and rolling meadows with a marvellous 19th. With numerous tricky water features and sprinklers for every green, the golf course is an open all year round challenge and is just one aspect of the family attraction that the weather cannot put a dampener on. The onshore winds that skirt the course make for an added dimension to account for and, for those looking to hone their game in the most idyllic of settings, Brean Leisure Park’s links are just the ticket.
The family attraction not only draws in hundreds of thousands of visitors a year but featured in an episode of BBC TV’s Casualty in 2007, as well as Brainiac: Science Abuse. Among the more mind-boggling rides that could be seen were the Magic Mouse, which spins around a track at high velocity, and Shockwave, which sends ticket holders hurtling through a loop after a slow acceleration that lulls riders into a false sense of security! Then of course there’s the longest and fastest ride at the family attraction, which lives up to its name and has thrill junkies cooing on a fun family day out – the Xtreme. Rated as one of the UK’s premier rollercoasters, it sends the brave on a slowly accelerating wind-up before breaking like the wind and twisting and turning through a series of G-force pulling bends, before a final climactic charge. Class!
Additionally, the X Factory ride spins ticket holders around while water-jets fire streams of water at them for added effect, and the seats of riders are tilted down so as to give them an untrammelled view of the blurry ground beneath their rushing feet. Similarly gripping, not to say heart-stopping, is the Wipe Out ride, which, like the Vortex ride at Thorpe Park, swings visitors in all directions in a spinning gondola that is suspended at the end of a colossal mechanical arm. Voted the scariest ride at Brean Leisure Park by the presenters of the Brainiac TV programme, it’s a speed freaks’ dream!
Hence, a family day out to Brean Leisure Park can take in relaxation, sporting competition, natural wonders and man-made thrills as dramatic as the nearby ocean and the views around it. Lying within easy reach of south England and the Midlands, Brean Leisure Park is a popular family attraction that has drawn generations of fun seekers, and with new events and developments unveiled on an ongoing basis (detailed at the Brean Leisure Park website), it’s a family attraction that goes from strength to strength, providing a fun family day out for everyone.
