For the very first time Santa has taken a break from his busy schedule to join Winter at Flamingo Land in 2014. There’ll be a free festive twelve days of Christmas Zoo Trail too, plus delicious seasonal treats and much more!

Flamingo Land’s zoo will be fully open from 10am to 4pm each day, allowing you to enjoy over 140 species of reptiles, mammals and birds. This extends to Children's Planet (including Reptile River), Muddy Duck Farm, Treetop Walkway and the Aquarium, plus the two walkthrough enclosures, providing visitors with a truly unrestricted view and the opportunity for up-close encounters with our lemur and wallaby families.

With so much to do before Christmas Day, Santa has decided to enjoy a well-earned rest in the Mansion House & Tea Room’s majestic private lounge. Younger guests will receive an exclusive opportunity to visit Santa for FREE* with any purchase from the Mansion House children’s menu. And what’s more, they’ll receive a complimentary Christmas gift too, making your visit a truly special day!

Visit Santa's Christmas Wonderland this festive season and step into a magical world of fun and song. Adorable animated characters greet you at your every turn as you make your way through the enchanted snow scene.

On selected dates from 15th November until 23rd December 2014 don't miss Rudolph and Donner the singing reindeer and see the elves working hard to finish all the gifts in time for Christmas Eve in Santa's toy factory! At the end of the journey children meet Santa Claus and receive an exciting present. Plus experience Peppa Pig World at Christmas with twinkling illuminations, Christmas trees and more!

Twinlakes will offer a whole host of spooky and scary attractions for Halloween 2014 with the Family Scream Park for tricksters and the Xtreme Scream Park too.

It's the biggest Halloween ever at Wicksteed Park which becomes 'Wickscream Park’ and hosts two new immersive scare experiences in 2014.

AtmosFEAR Scare Entertainment, Europe’s biggest independent scare entertainment production company, have created Panic Station and Cirque Savage especially for Wickscream Park between 18th-19th and 24th-31st October 2014 at the charity-owned theme park located in Kettering, Northamptonshire.

Several of the park's rides including Rush, Pirate Ship, Dodgems and the Carousel will also be open from 6.30pm until late.

Pleasurewood Hills will become 'Pleasurewood Chills’ over the Halloween season and offer brave guests and families great new experiences for 2014.

Join Count Woody Bear for a spooky fun filled week for the whole family including trick or treat, spooky stories with Woody and shows along with all your favourite rides and attractions. The event takes place between 25th October - 2nd November and the park will remain open every day until 4pm. Don’t forget to wear your favourite Halloween costumes.

With spooky happenings and supernatural goings-on taking place across the theme park, Frightwater Valley is the place to be seen this Halloween.

Between 31st October and 2nd November 2014 from 10am until 6.30pm each day, if you dare, watch light turn to dark as the valley becomes shrouded in a menacing cloak of supernatural delight.

Work has started to restore Britain's oldest surviving rollercoaster at the Dreamland amusement park in Margate.

Built in 1920, the Scenic Railway fell into disrepair when the attraction closed in 2005 and was then badly damaged by an arson attack in 2008. The refurbishment of the Grade II* listed ride is part of an £18m project to reopen the amusement park in 2015. The rollercoaster will be dismantled and gradually re-built over 10 months with all the wooden parts being replaced.

Oakwood in Wales will open a new area at the theme park based on The Legend of Sleepy Hollow in 2015.

The new £2m multi-attraction will replace the former Wild West themed area, which was previously home to popular dark ride Brer Rabbit's Burrow, alongside the current Spooky 3D haunted house ride and Panning for Gold. The new attractions will be themed as The Headless Horseman and The Tree of the Dead but further details are still a secret.

After Dark takes place every Wednesday and Saturday in August at Oakwood Theme Park in Wales. The park is open from 10am-10pm, and from 7pm features a mix of live shows, family entertainment and amazing fireworks.

ThemeParks-UK went to After Dark at Oakwood on Saturday 9th August, here is our review and photos.

Pleasurewood Hills has now opened Marble Madness, it's new and exciting family roller coaster for 2014. 

Marble Madness is the new and exciting family roller coaster that will keep you on the very edge of your seat. The crazy Marble Madness critters propel you around the track like a marble on a board game – on a journey with sudden drops and sharp turns left and right, up and down. Once you have experienced Marble Madness you will want to ride again and again! The ride has a top speed of 28mph, riders experience a g-force of up to 2.5, an there is a mimimum heigh requirement of 2.5m.

Pleasurewood Hiils offers adrenalin fuelled thrills & spills for the bravest adventurers including Wipeout and Enigma, fun rides for all the family from classic coaster The Rattlesnake to swashbuckling old favourite The Pirate Ship, and shows.