I've been at Alton Towers the past two days for the half term event I can safetly say it's not the best trip to the towers I've been on as queues were very long and some rides featured alot of down time, but Sonic Spinball was defiantly improved from its' previous theme I was in need of a re-paint and also the single rider queue moved quickly for it. Well we started Monday morning waking up later than wanted and then got stuck in traffic on the way to the towers and eventually got out the car at the drop off point five hours after setting off. We started the visit by heading off to Spinball Sonic to see if the new theme had changed the experiance in any way but it hadn't but it was good to try it and you always come off laughing. We then headed off to Twirling Toadstall and then tried to get just any view of Th13teen but very little track was exposed. It then came to the time we had to move towards Forbiddan Valley we went to queue for Nemesis but only seconds after joining the queue we were told the queue was in excess of 45 mins which was far too long to queue for the time we went next to Air and got on front row within 20mins after joining the queue. After being. closed since the time we got to the park we were told Oblivion was open again so we got on it after waiting for 10mins then it broke down again so we couldn't go on it any more. We finished the day with a walk to Sonic Spinball as it was on the way to the exit. After spending the night at a nearby Travelodge we head back to the park for another day, we started the day by doing the one thing I was annoyed about not doing the previous day; Nemesis. We got two quick walk ons before going over to X-Sector to queue for Oblivion we got after 5mins in the SRQ but it would've been a walk on but for it braking down. We then had a go on Spinball Sonic before meeting with Sam; smartguy on here once meeting with him we all had another go on Sonic Spinball. We then walked across to Forbidden Valley we tried to go on Nemesis and Air before deciding the queues were too long to we went on Blade. While walking to lunch we went on Duel where Sam got 46,000 and was first out of the four of us I came second with 21,000. We then went for lunch at the Pizza and Pasta Buffet. After having a filling lunch we went just opisite to the Runaway Mine Train where we got first and second rows. We then went across to Sonic Spinball once again before going to Cloud Cuckoo Land to go on Twirling Toadstall and give Sam a chance to see Th13teen, we then had a go on Hex which is always confusing. We then had to have a quick go on Squirrel Nutty before heading home an hour before the park shut so we could get home.RidecountSonic Spinball x5Oblivion x2Nemesis x2Air x1Runaway Mine Train x1Twirling Toadstall x2Hex x1Blade x1Squirrel Nutty x1Duel x1-------------------------TOTAL - 17-------------------------