THE world’s best theme parks have been revealed by Tripadvisor – and one on the English coastline made the cut.
Blackpool Pleasure Beach, which dates back to 1898, just squeezed into 10th place.
The 2026 Travelers’ Choice Awards look at both the quality and quantity of reviews, from February 1, 2025 to January 31, 2026.
Laurel Greatrix, chief communications officer at TripAdvisor Group, said: “There’s a clear theme in this year’s winners: they bring out what makes a destination unique.”
It has won a number of awards, with theme park website Blooloop also praising it: “What makes the Pleasure Beach of today unique among British parks is its surviving collection of vintage rides. Some of these are the last remaining types of their kind worldwide.”
The Blackpool theme park is even set to open an exciting new £8million ride, a gyro-swing called Aviktas which will be the tallest of its kind in the UK.
There is also the Valhalla ride which was named best water ride by the European Star Awards last year.
And it wasn’t just Blackpool Pleasure Beach named one of the UK’s best theme parks.
Other UK entries include Paulton’s Park (14th), Camel Creek Family Adventure Park (16th), The Milky Way Adventure Park (17th) and Twinlakes Family Theme Park (20th).
In first place, however, was Futuroscope in France – here’s what we thought when we went down.
Other UK winners in the Tripadvisor Awards include:
- The Chocolatarium Chocolate Tour Experience in Edinburgh (20th in food and drink)
- Wizard Walk in York (4th in things to do)
- The Best Harry Potter Guided tour (10th in things to do)
- Beatles Magical Mystery tour in Liverpool (2nd in culture)
- London Small Group Tour of Historical Pubs (4th culture)
- Loch Ness, Glencoe, and the Highlands tour (10th in culture)