London Resort, the UK’s largest theme park could be the 2024 crown jewel
London, is getting a shiny new theme park that’s all set to fire up the area: The London Resort.
This sprawling 2.1 million square metre space is the largest entertainment venue of its kind in the entire of the United Kingdom and would feature Europe’s largest indoor water park, theatres, live music venues, cinemas, restaurants and handsome hotels slated to be opened from 2024.
By then, travel for both domestic and international visitors would’ve resumed to pre-COVID-19 levels.
The city as a destination
While travel may be limited in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, London has long been one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations. In fact, over 20 million visitors make a trip to the UK’s capital every single year — that’s more tourists than New York City and Paris alone.
This means there will certainly be no lack of tourists once travel restarts and a good number of them will be families looking for entertainment beyond Harry Potter and the Big Ben. As the London Resorts theme park is the first entertainment venue of its kind in the city, it will have a global profile and draw visitors from near and far.
The location
The theme park is excellently located in the county of Kent, with train and river access. It will take just 17 minutes by train from central London (St Pancras station) and 40 minutes by boat from Big Ben. It is also located next to the M25, or London Orbital Motorway — the major road that encircles Greater London giving easy access to cabs or Uber.
By the time the London Resorts opens in 2024, it would be well over three decades since a theme park in Europe generated that much buzz. The last was Disneyland’s opening in 1992.
