Honest Review of Thorpe Park's NEW RIDE - Ghost Train

GHOST TRAIN at Thorpe Park is brand new for 2023, and is a re-imagined update of Derren Brown's Ghost Train, which opened in at the park in 2016.

But does this theatrical dark ride experience deliver the chills and thrills, or did it leave me feeling cold for all the wrong reasons? Watch the video to find out!

If you've experienced Ghost Train for yourself, let me know what you thought down in the comments!

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Thorpe Park Resort is a theme park based in Chertsey, Surrey. The amusement park, dubbed 'the island like no other', features a number of adrenalin filled attractions, including roller coasters like The Swarm, Stealth, Saw - The Ride, Colossus and Nemesis Inferno, along with thrilling flat rides such as Samurai, Rush and Vortex!

Thorpe Park is part of the Merlin Entertainments chain, which features other attractions such as Alton Towers, Chessington World Of Adventures, Legoland Windsor, The London Dungeons and Madame Tussaurds!

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Thanks for watching! Let me know your thoughts on Ghost Train in the comments.

I also noticed that I made a reference to Sinister when I meant The Conjuring. Oops! 🙈

[BobbyJohnson]

Nice review; and it’s great to get some insight on what the actual attraction is, as we have just got back from Thorpe Park and had the last ride of the day, and unfortunately we were stuck in the crypt for 14 minutes whilst they tried to resolve an ‘issue’. We didn’t see any wrath actor, nothing happened with the floor, we were essentially ushered out of there by another actor and onto the train. Then, when boarding the train the second time, the fake gift shop was fenced off. We stopped to look at the ride photos thinking they were real, only to be told by a member of staff ‘oh they’re fake keep moving’. So I think we got to experience about 50%, so nice video and great to know what we could have had 😉

[korgscrew]

When we went on, we didn’t even get to go in the gift shop be at the end we just got shuffled through a different exit.

[fgrion]

I have been on the attraction today. I loved derren brown ghost train because it was innovative. The new ghost train is nothing like that, you just have actors shouting and moving with non sense that make make you think this doesn't add up anything to the experience. I guess the change was due to the contract with Derren Brown rather than changing something not really appealing. End verdict: they could have done better.

[Coaster_Crazy]

I hated it before and I hate it now, it’s by far the worlds worst “dark ride” (if you can even call it a ride) for the incredible price it cost to build !! Every time I’ve done it, it seems to breakdown, first time no Wrath’s in the crypt and 2nd time no fake shop so we had to bypass it lol 😂

[CrumpetTV]

I got petrified an got off the ride before you actually got on the train to my group then coming back when the ride was over like 'wth was that'

[hellohaveagoodday]

I went on this on Thursday and i loved it, i thought it was cool if a little cheesy. The story is weird and unclear but the experience itself i liked. The actors did a great job but damn they need a better script writer, most of my group was laughing in second hand embarrassment.

[KaidenGregory-pdrv]

One of the nuns in masks on the train was staring straight at me on the ride for a good 30 seconds😭

[Kishishev]

This cringe fest just drags on and on. The actors get an A for effort but the script and choreography are just embarrassing. Most people were laughing instead of being scared.

[deeve]

Awful. The gift shop thing did not really happen like before. They built it up better when it was Derren Browns Ghost Train.

[MickeyCreole]

Sounds like a yawn-fest where boredom kills! Honestly when you get to my age, all that wasted time queuing up is cutting into my expiry date and isn’t a friend to arthritis, especially if it’s too cold or too hot, (my arthritis is temperature reactive.) Anyway, I’m of the old skool where the Ghost-Train ride is through those rubber doors into a fake darkness with all that cheap Halloween crap and materials brushing over you and that crackling electric frying echoing around you. I remember years ago going to Madame Tussaud in London and also the London Dungeon and both tours ended with this weird slow strange rollercoaster ride in semi-darkness and I swear it was just so brilliant and it had this excellent Ghost-Train experience to it, absolutely brilliant experience, shame it wasn’t longer

[peace]

Oh my days finally a person giving an honest review and not overating 🤣. I liked Darren’s brown ghost train a lot and was actually quite scary. But THIS, never riding it again 😂 like a mismatched theatre performance

[terryarundel]

This ghost train is not worth the waiting time and thorpe park should close it for good

[hannahmorton]

Half of this didn’t even happen when we’ve been today. No Nun, no fake gift shop? Want scary…? My family lost an hour of their lives they’ll never get back

[domi]

What happened to Darren brown? went on today and was just confused and very disappointed.

[sultany]

Went on it today. Really mid, but it was okay.

[thechosenwon]

Ive been to war and ive also been to prison ive also been in hopistal for majour surgery even ive even been to a taylor swift concert and none of those experiences where awful as my few minutes spent on this so called ride if i ever have a terminal disease I'll be sure visit again so it will most likely give me the push for the end of life desion i might need
Oh and the waiting times for ghost train are longer than the nhs

[thrillsandtheming]

I went on it a first time, and it was great, but then I had a second ride, and I found it drags on for way too long. They should just use the building for something else at this point.

[MrStickman]

Being disappointed by a horror attraction once is enough to merit giving it chance for improvement.
Being disappointed by it twice after 1 year of giving it a chance of improvement is enough to give up on any hope, and that's how it was yesterday.
This attraction makes NO SENSE, most of it is just distracting overacting that distracts from the fact that barely anything else goes on in this shitty attraction.
I went on this yesterday and it's still shitty as ever, so much simple things can be done that can scare people and weave a story, such as things outside the windows of the train.
Don't get me wrong, I actually think Thorpe Park is doing a lot better than Alton Towers and will be a true contest against Universal Great Britain, but this attraction sucks so hard.

[reputation]

I rode this for the first time two days ago. I was so excited, loving ghost trains and haunted houses, and being one of the rare fans of Derren Brown's Ghost Train.
What a disappointment. The postes queue time was an hour. This time was accurate to go stand in one of the four outside laodonng areas, and wait another 20 minutes. The actors were giggling and smirking throughout, which ruined any sense of immersion. And there was no fake out gift shop! We just walked straight into the real gift shop. I had been really looking forward to seeing what they would do with the fake gift shop, and this was one of my highlights from the Derren Brown version.
Such a disappointment, especially after riding Curse at Alton Towers last month. Now that was a great ghost trai .