The latter is certainly not one for right after lunch and nor is neighbouring 65ft pendulum ride Vortex, involving 15 high-speed rotations per minute. But all this ... hit Thorpe Park for coaster ...

Passengers on Hyperia at Thorpe Park, in Surrey, were stranded for an hour as they waited for the ride to be repaired. The £18,000,000 rollercoaster was launched last month but closed just a day ...

YOUR child’s first theme park ride is a big event. But the time your youngest is finally tall enough to ride all the Thorpe Park rollercoasters without an adult to cling to? Priceless.