Went to tayto park this afternoon and was bitterly disappointed to see how happy everyone was. Do they not know I have a lot going on at the moment? Does anyone think about me?... besides myself? After queuing up for 2 hours to go to a theme park in IRELAND of all places I was handed a complimentary pack of Tayto on the way in. I could've brought my own supply I thought to myself, but I bit my tongue. After opening up the bag of crisps and scanning my environment I poured the contents onto the floor so the pigeons could have a healthy supper. I heard one of them say "proper feast bro" but it could have been one of the voices in my head. I locked eyes with Mr Tayto. A poor college student trapped in an overheated suit and mask. I couldn't make out his face but I could hear him whimpering: he said under his breath that he would be better quitting the job and sell his grandmothers heart medication on the dark web and to relaunch his onlyfans account. This time he said he'd do it properly. No mistakes this time. At least; I think he said something like that. Probably. This stand off between Mr Tayto and I lasted for far too long and got really awkward so I pretended to choke on a crisp. I gagged and wheezed and in my attempt at looking genuine, everyone just looked at me with contempt and not ONE member of staff offered to honour my delusion by pretending to believe my life was in danger. I felt slighted by their cynical (but correct) assessment of the situation and would have liked some attention off them. So to tayto park i say: Thanks but no thanks! Namaste Your spirit guide , Frankie Instagram: @meditationsfortheanxiousmind read more

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Most people heading here will be bringing along their children for a day out at the theme park/zoo/mini factory tour, but I went on a work trip out. Instead of a pack of noisy school children running round, we were a pack of twenty to thirty somethings, racing round to go on the big rides (personally I thought the rotator was most fun), flying down zipwires, balancing on the skywalk, enjoying huge lunches in the restaurant, ooh-ing at the animals in the zoo and finishing off with huge ice creams before claiming our pack of crisps on leaving the site. A bit expensive to visit (especially if you're in a family group as entrance price plus wristband costs can start to add up), but a fun day out for all (whether you're a kid, or just a kid at heart) read more

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Overrated! TIPS: Take wasp spray with you if visiting in summer. TONS of wasps or bees or whatever those are, getting in your face and everywhere! Wasps start right when you get in line to get in the park and stay with you the entire time pretty much. Don't get discouraged when you see long line at the entrance, moves pretty quick. Took us a little over 30 min to get in and we started at the big roller coaster. Or buy tickets online or through hotel, they specially call those out. To start I'll say if you have kids younger than 5-6, don't bother bringing them there. 8 year olds + will have way more fun there. Younger kids will be VERY limited on what they can do. And it's a total waste of time for kids who are under 3-4 years old. Our 16 month old could not even be brought on to as lame of a ride as "merry go round"! Which she's been on those type of rides many times at different other places when she was even under 12 month. So we wasted €75 just to not see half of the animals and, get lame tea cup ride on "merry go round" with my 3 yo ( with my 1 yo watching us and crying because she wanted a ride too) and 4 small bag of crisps on the way out. Yay what a deal! At least they need to tell when people like us buying admission- your kids are too small so they won't be able to go much so you don't really need to pay extra for wristbands ( that gives you access to all rides) that they can't ride! duh! Zoo is ok. Those animals that we've seen seem to be in good health and happy in their enclosures. So that's good. However because of the glass or acrylic enclosures you barely can see monkeys because of the reflection. And lay out of the zoo is odd. Should have better area for viewing buffalos, instead of that dirt road corner podium. Petting zoo is nice BUT you can't take kids under 3 in there, though I've seen kids there under 3! I suppose parents lied. Oh and the goat food that they ask you to pay extra €1 for, animals don't eat. So if you just want to donate couple € just give it to the petting zoo staff. But food is useless. We bought pizza there for lunch... the place is outside so MORE wasps in your face while you are trying to eat. Pizza itself is... um... well try putting some cheese, tomato sausage and pepperoni on a cardboard and heating it up... that would be the taste. Overall this park is a good idea ( rides, zoo, petting zoo, food, playgrounds ) but poor execution. If you make it a FAMILY PARK make it for the whole family!!! Yes, kids under three have interests and feelings too! And they tend to enjoy doing things not just sit in the stroller! read more

I agree with other reviewer that says it's over rated. I've visited it during a drizzly day and had no fun at all. I was there for the kid, whome had fun, but it was a messy fun time (for us parents). I've seen only one other theme park which was Thorpe park in the UK. read more

What a fantastic place. For €13 per adult and kids between ages 3 - 16 what do you get? You get several very entertaining play grounds, magic shows, a fun educational tour to see how crisps are made, a zoo! With tigers! Yes tigers! Amongst about 80 other animals, a little water park, loads and loads of picnic tables, I could go on. Yes you have to buy tokens for some of the height and weight activities but the prices are reasonable. There's a good few restaurants, pizza, dinners etc. my wife and I were there 5 hours with our youngest 3 kids before we knew it. I would highly recommend the place. Staff are very accommodating and polite and the price for the grubs is reasonable. We brought a picnic though. Toilets are spotless, there are ample facilities for heating baby food and bottles and great changing facilities. Despite the huge crowds queues were small and well managed. Nice day out and just half an hour from the m50. 10 out of 10! Oh and under 3s are free! read more

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Booked into hotel no more than 10 minutes from Tayto Park which included day passes to Tayto Park. We were here the previous year and absolutely loved it. This time round it was even better. With the recent addition of some new rides the Park has received a bit of a makeover which includes a new entrance. The new roller coaster, 'Cuchulainn' can be viewed on arrival adjacent to the new entrance and it is a sight to see. Being constructed from wood it is an architectural beauty which has to be seen to be believed. The smell of fresh new wood and the roar of the coaster as it plunges from a hight let's visitor know, this is going to be a great experience. My wife and I took our 11 year old son and 3 year old daughter for the day and both had plenty to keep them busy for the day from complimentary train ride, which is a new addition which we all loved to zip lines and pony track rides. The park has a number of rides to suit all ages and will keep the pickiest of kids happy. There are plenty if free attractions within the park such as the animal reserve to paid which require tokens purchased at 1 euro per token. Most rides require 2 or 3 to tokens per person. The young kids rides which may need a parent to accompany the child are charged for the child only and the accompanying adult goes free which was great. Some attractions like the crispy Creek mining attraction require 4 tokens and the roller coaster 5 tokens but they are all very reasonably priced. There is also an option of purchasing a wrist band for 15 euro which gets you onto all rides. We went on a Friday and found the park to be busy but not packed which was brilliant. Some of the rides had very short ques which was great. The park is staffed really well and all were very well trained and very friendly. It was great to see the staff interacting with the kids and be generally interested in ensuring the kids had the best experience possible. The owners and managers should be proud of their top notch professionalism in everything they do, I couldn't fast them. This was a great day out and it stood out that this theme park really wants to give the best possible experience to each visitor. It is great to see an Irish business getting everything right and it could easily match many European theme parks. What a gem to have right on our doorstep. read more

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We were so excited to go to Tayto Park tonight to visit the House of Horrors! We were in the que for 2 hours!!! We were nearly at the entrance to the haunted house, climbed up the last bit of the stairs when the stairs COLLAPSED!!! WE COULD HAVE BEEN KILLED! We all told the attendant to let us through the house because it was the only way of exiting the mess as the stairs behind us had fallen down with us on it and we were told to wait. Wait for what?? Nothing was stopping the floor beneath us from collapsing too as there were too many of us crammed together and we were told to just stand there..... That was awful...... If a stairs collapsed in that place imagine the state of the rollercoasters......... read more

Tayto Park is a great place and has come a long way since it has opened! If you are interested in reading an in depth review check out my article on the place on my blog here http://www.thegentshub.com/lifestyle/tayto-park-its-come-a-long-way Have a great day :) read more

Tayto Park - Cu Chulainn roller coaster at Tayto Park, - Playgrounds Near Me - Curragha, MH

Where do I start with tayto park... Firstly the price... 2 adults & 2 children for €44... Doesn't seem too bad does it? What you don't realise until you arrive is that all that money entitles you to do is go into their playground & see some animals (which to be fair if you wanted to see animals you'd have gone to the zoo). If you want to get on anything other than the stuff in the playground you have to pay. The cheapest thing I saw was 3 tokens (1 token = €1). The tokens are not available in many places and are non-refundable, so you can either buy loads & risk having loads over which they won't give you money back for, or buy just a few & risk having to leave where all the rides are & get back on the queue for tokens. Along with this the queues are endless, so prepare yourself for that. Things like the zip wire requires tokens to get to one side of the line and more tokens once you get to the other side to get back. There's a climbing frame with three levels which requires separate tokens for each level. I couldn't believe how much everything was! It honestly astounded me. But if you're taking children there, you can't then limit the stuff they go on... Really not impressed! read more

Disclaimer: I think myself and my boyfriend were the only people in the place without kids. We went on a bank holiday Monday and the place was PACKED - but it was still really enjoyable. Tayto Park is like a miniature Dublin Zoo with a great selection of animals ranging from tigers and leopards to owls, eagles and porcupines. There's a great little petting farm [OK; exaggeration-you can only pet the goats but there was babies and they.were.adorable!!]. There's also donkeys, pigs, ponies and bison. We really enjoyed walking around and although Tayto Park still have some work to do on the design of some enclosures, overall I was impressed with the size and space given to the wildlife. Adding to this there was the Tayto Factory - a walk through self-guided visit to the operational factory with some interesting facts. It killed 20 minutes and was a laugh if anything. I just wish I actually liked Tayto. Sometimes I question am I even irish [I don't like tea either...] There is a multitude of playgrounds for kids of all ages so definitely enough to keep families entertained for a day. I particularly like how there was speakers with music across the park - it provided background noise for adults while sitting having something to eat or a chat. Lastly, was the the Zip Line and Climbing Wall. There are other activities too - the Sky Walk and the Fairground ride but I didn't try these. It's a great addition to the park for those looking for a bit of an adrenaline rush after sauntering through the park for the afternoon. The only reason this place didn't get 5 stars is the admission fee. Tokens had to be purchased for the height/weight restriction activities , ranging from €2-€4 per activity and I felt this was very high in addition to the €13 entrance. While we didn't mind too much as working adults, we did feel slightly sorry for families bringing a gaggle of children as we could envisage the costs mounting up fairly quickly! Other than this however, Tayto Park is well worth a visit. A genius marketing ploy by the Man in the Red Jacket and I'll definitely be back. I still don't like the crisps though read more

Tayto Park is overall a fun day out for adults and kids, about 30 mins from Dublin city center there are buses available but we went by car. The walk-around petting zoo and the buffalo plains are interesting, also the meerkat enclosure was a highlight. Highlight for bigger kids and adults is definitely the zip lines and the high wire obstacle course, both are very good value for money. For kids I found the food selection a bit limited and a bit on the unhealthy side so best to bring a packed lunch for little ones. Don't forget to claim your free bags of Taytos on the way out of the park, and the factory tour is good also. read more

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A visit to Tayto Park means that you have to officially surrender your "I'm cool" card and own up to the fact that you have officially become a Mom or Dad. Having said that, it is actually a fun day out. Yes it is pricey and yes you do feel a bit gouged when you are forking over euro to buy a bag of tokens so the kiddies can ride the rides, do the zip line and all that - but let's face it, nobody goes to an amusement park hoping to save money! I liked the fact that face painting was fast, well done - and included with the price of admission. I also thought the food at the lodge was decent and the giftshop was cute. The self-guided factory tour is well done - although somewhat anticlimactic on weekends when the factory is not in operation and you are overlooking a deserted assembly line. I only wished a "living" Mr. Tayto were on hand to greet us. Fun stuff - and you are guaranteed to get your fill of Tayto - at least for one day! read more

Great place loved it well looked after only thing is the lodge resterant would want to change there ham and cheese ham is plastic taste and cheese was pour thick but I really love the place not giving out just noting letting people know great place would go anyday read more

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First of all id recommend not going here on warm days days kids are off school or during the summer holidays, some of the rides said time left in que 2 hours and i was just thankfull that we brought the kids on a school day so it wasnt that busy. The prices are a bit on the high side have to pay to get into the park then also have to buy tokens for the kids to go on the rides. Prices aside the kids had a great day they have a small zoo there thats really nice get a close up look at the few animals they have there. Theres plenty of staff around and theyre pretty helpfull. My favorite part of it was the vortex tunnel, the kids loved it all though especially the zip line which on windy days has an 80 kg weight limit :( the restaurant there has average prices and the foods not too bad. read more

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Great day at the Adventure Park. Well organized, great attractions (Rollercoaster a real treat), superb for kids and adults. Food is fine if you like it served in Farmer proportions. Staff very friendly. Exhausted but happy. Certainly worth a day trip. read more

Was a little hesitant before coming as erroneous reviews had suggested it wasn't great. Don't believe these reviews - Tayto Park is a great day out and the kids will love it. Great climbing walls, lots of gentle rides for younger kids and good food options. Huge zip line was the highlight of the day. Park well managed and maintained. Friendly and helpful staff. Overall the park will benefit from maturing a little bit as much of the gardens are still not well established but can see this becoming a staple attraction in the years ahead. Well done team Tayto! Comment from 10 year old son : bring trainers if you want to climb - loved the climbing wall - best ever. read more

It is bigger and better!! The last time i came here it was just a glorified playground.....now it is a glorified playground that has a better layout, more animals and greater adventures. It has expanded and put in some bigger thrills for the older kids and adults!! They even do a tour of the crisp factory (which we missed)...overall a really fun day out. But the loss of the star is for what really grinds my gears about this place is.....1. the adults and kids are the same price, even though there is very little any adult can participate in and 2. you have to pay extra for any of the other activities!! I'm lucky that my 4 year old is not interested in these YET but for older kids it could work out a very expensive day out!! all that aside, a very good family day out...not to be missed!! read more

loved this place,there seems to be more everytime i go,the new swirly tunnel is brilliant.Love the factory tour and the jolly music as you go around.Had a meal there aswell and it was lovely,just stay inside alot of wasps about! the farm has very strange animals i had never seen before.my 6 year old loved it and mr tayto alway wandering sumwer for a picture.havent been brave enough for the huge tunnel slide yet but maybe next time,we will defo be back! read more

Food has much improved since my first visit.good quality now and they don't take advantage of you with their prices!