Experiencing a milestone moment in the history of Drayton Manor

For a lover of rollercoasters, my exploration of the UK's top theme parks is pretty poor

- writes Aimee Seddon.

One of the parks that I'd not yet had the pleasure of visiting is Staffordshire's Drayton Manor so when they invited me to the launch of their brand new End of Day Show Spectacular I jumped at the chance.

Friday night was the start of the Monsters and Magic event for Halloween, the first to have an end of day show.

As I live a fair while away from Drayton Manor, I secured some park tickets for the day of the display's premiere too.

Due to horrendous delays on the M6, we didn't enter until 1pm, but we still managed to enjoy more rides than I thought before we left at 3:30pm for our Drayton Manor Hotel check in.

The park was more compact than I imagined - I had Alton Towers in my head as a point of comparison.

That's not to say it was too small, there was still a great variety of rides and the park was therefore just much more manageable.

Sometimes you feel like you spend half your time at Alton Towers walking around so Drayton Park is especially easier if you have kidswhich the park does seem more geared towards.