Set in a stunning 375-acre site within the North Yorkshire countryside, Flamingo Land Resort provides a spectacular combination of a high-thrill theme park, a traditional family zoo, and a fully featured holiday resort village. It is the perfect destination for memorable family days out, weekend staycations, and extended UK holidays.
Attraction Highlights
Flamingo Land Resort stands out as one of the most comprehensive multi-attraction destinations in the UK. Combining over 50 theme park rides with Yorkshire’s favourite traditional zoo, the resort allows families to effortlessly switch between adrenaline-pumping roller coasters and fascinating animal enclosures. With ten incredible roller coasters, extensive indoor and outdoor play zones, and an action-packed daily entertainment programme, the park provides an unmatched variety of entertainment all on a single site.
Family Friendly Fun at Flamingo Land
Flamingo Land is specifically tailored to cater to all age groups, from toddlers experiencing their very first gentle rides to thrill-seeking teens and adults. For younger children, the park features specialised, heavily themed lands such as Muddy Duck Farm, which includes a delightful children’s tractor ride, and Mischief Mansion.
The dedicated Peter Rabbit Adventure Playground and the Children’s Planet exhibit provide fantastic, secure spaces where younger guests can burn off energy in climbing zones that sit alongside interactive animal enclosures. Best of all, children aged 3 and under enjoy completely free entry into the entire resort!
Featured Attractions
The park boasts an incredible lineup of world-class roller coasters and signature thrill rides:
- Sik: A sensational £18m thrill ride created in collaboration with the local Yorkshire streetwear fashion brand, SikSilk. This high-octane coaster features a record-matching 10 inversions, a high-velocity cable lift hill, intense heartline rolls, and utilises state-of-the-art lap bars for maximum upper-body freedom.
- Velocity: The UK’s first and only motorbike launch coaster. This high-speed thrill ride utilises a powerful hydraulic launch to accelerate riders from 0 to 60mph in a breathtaking 2.8 seconds, racing through over 2,000 feet of hairpin turns and dramatic drops with a unique, open upper-body restraint design.
- Kumali: A custom-designed suspended looping coaster named after the alpha male of the park’s lion pride that reaches speeds of up to 56mph. Riders experience a staggering 4.7G across four inversions, including an 87-foot tall loop and a dramatic cobra roll suspended directly over a lake.
- Mumbo Jumbo: Celebrated for defying gravity, this coaster features a stunning, beyond-vertical 112-degree drop and a series of unique outer-banked turns that push ride physics to the absolute limit.
- Hero: A unique flying coaster where riders step into a specialised standing harness before being tilted forward into a horizontal position, delivering the true sensation of soaring high above the park layout.
- Cliff Hanger: Standing proud as the highest drop tower in the country, this is the UK’s only S&S Combo Tower, launching riders skyward before plunging them back down in a thrilling free-fall sequence.
Additional Points to Note
While Flamingo Land is primarily an expansive outdoor attraction, it is well-equipped for wet-weather conditions. The park features major indoor spaces including exotic animal houses, the hub, and the covered Riverside One entertainment arena. If you are planning a multi-attraction trip to North Yorkshire, the park is ideally located near the historic market town of Malton, the stunning North Yorkshire Moors Railway in Pickering, and sits less than an hour’s drive from the historic city of York.
The Flamingo Land Zoo
As the UK’s most visited traditional zoo, this award-winning wildlife park is home to over 140 unique species of mammals, reptiles, and exotic birds. Visitors can enjoy a spectacular bird’s-eye view of the expansive animal enclosures via the park’s internal monorail system, or enjoy a walk along the elevated pathways overlooking the popular Penguin Coast pool. Signature residents include majestic Sumatran tigers, African lions, giraffes, black rhinos, and hippos. The zoo runs a daily schedule of educational zookeeper talks, live animal feeds, and close-up handling encounters.
Live Shows & Daily Entertainment
Flamingo Land hosts a popular collection of live family shows and performances that run throughout the main season. On standard operating days, live street entertainment and character meet-and-greets take place out in the Main Plaza, creating a fantastic feel-good atmosphere.
The spectacular Pirates of Zanzibar live show features breathtaking stunts, acrobatics, and sword-fight scenes on an outdoor set. Regular educational flight demonstrations and animal talks also take place inside the dedicated Bird Show Arena, making it a firm family favourite.
Riverside One Arena
Featuring an all-weather covered stage and giant digital screens, Riverside One is a vibrant entertainment area packed with family seating, food options, and live sports coverage. On selected dates throughout the peak summer season, it plays host to Flamingo Land’s popular Party in the Park music concerts, featuring live sets from celebrity pop stars, with admission included in your standard entry tickets.
Food and Drink
Whatever your tastes, there is an option to suit every family palette spread throughout the resort grounds. For an elegant sit-down meal, the historic Georgian Mansion House and Tea Rooms offers traditional service alongside Peter Rabbit’s playground.
The Coach House Country Pub serves local Yorkshire ales and comforting home-cooked food adjacent to a children’s play park, while the Metropolis Bar & Grill offers a premium contemporary dining menu. Other great options include The Upper Deck for classic British fish and chips, and Fabrizio’s Pizzeria. Visitors are also welcome to bring along their own picnics to enjoy at the dedicated outdoor picnic benches located throughout the park layout.
Facilities
The resort offers comprehensive facilities to ensure a hassle-free family visit, including:
- Extensive on-site car parking (completely free of charge for ticket holders).
- Clean toilet blocks, dedicated baby changing facilities, and accessible restrooms situated across all main ride and zoo zones.
- A fully staffed First Aid centre located near the main entrance gates.
- Pushchair and wheelchair hire services available at the primary park entry desks.
Flamingo Land Attraction Tickets
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Travelling to the Attraction
Flamingo Land Resort is conveniently located in Kirby Misperton, situated directly off the main A169 Malton to Pickering road.
Travelling by Car: For sat-nav and digital map routing, use the official postcode YO17 6UX. The park is easily accessible from the main A64 highway link. Parking on-site is entirely free.
Travelling by Train: The nearest railway station is located at Malton. Alternatively, visitors can take the train into the central York Railway Station and board the connecting Yorkshire Coastliner bus service, which drops passengers off directly inside the Flamingo Land coach parks. You can quickly plan and secure your rail travel online via Raileasy.
Travelling by Coach: National Express services run regularly into central York, where you can easily connect directly to the incoming Yorkshire Coastliner bus routes straight to the park gates.
Accommodation
With so much to see and do, Flamingo Land is the ideal destination for an extended short break or holiday:
- On-Site Holiday Village: Located directly adjacent to the theme park tracks, the resort village offers an array of luxury self-catering holiday homes, premium log cabins, and the exclusive Riverside Cottages. All staying holiday guests enjoy dedicated evening entertainment venue options at The Club, along with unlimited access to the Run-Gym-Swim Leisure Complex featuring indoor pools, water slides, a sauna, a modern gym, and an on-site 9-hole golf course.
- Local Caravan & Camping: Extensive on-site fields are fully equipped with hook-up facilities for touring caravans, motorhomes, and traditional tents.
- Off-Site Cottages & Hotels: If you prefer to stay in the surrounding countryside, you can find incredible local holiday cottages through Snaptrip, or secure budget-friendly family hotel rooms nearby via Travelodge and Booking.com.
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Flamingoland Park History
Originally opened as The Yorkshire Zoological Gardens in 1959, a colony of Flamingos were among the first animals to be housed on site. A small funfair began to be held on-site in the 1960s. The park was renamed to Flamingo Park Zoo in 1968 and by then both the funfair and zoo had become permanent fixtures. Struggling financially, in 1974 it underwent a major revamp and was renamed Flamingo Land. In an attempt to put more emphasis on the "day out" additional attractions were added. One of the more memorable additions was a Jungle Cruise boat ride on the lake.
Despite regular guest appearances by celebrities and a more professional approach to marketing, Flamingo Land continued to lose money. Robert Gibb purchased the park from Scotia leisure in 1978 and he developed the park as a national, rather than local, tourist attraction. Sadly Robert Gibb died in a car accident in 1995 and his children took over the running of the park.
Pleasure Island
Flamingo Land also operated Pleasure Island Family Theme Park on the former site of Cleethorpes Zoo. They operated this park from its opening on 23 May 1993 until April 2010, when it became independent. Sadly, Pleasure Island closed down at the end of the 2016 season.
Historic Attractions
Over the years Flamingo Land has owned and operated a number of memorable attractions, examples include The Bullet and Magnum Force Rollercoasters. Between 1986 and 1995 they had The Crazy Loop, a roller coaster built by Pinfari that was relocated to Pleasure Island. Since 2003 the Crazy Loop has operated at Brean Theme Park. Other attractions that were re-homed at Pleasure Island include Century 2000, Razzle Dazzle, Gravitron, Sky Flyer and The Terroriser.
Corkscrew
Before coming to Flamingo Land, the very popular Corkscrew Roller coaster spent the first couple of years of its life at Spanish City in Whitley Bay. The ride moved to Flamingo Land in 1983 and in 2011 it was relocated to Luna Park in France.
One of our personal favourite former attractions was the 'Dome of Thrills' where guests stood inside a dome and watched a movie projected across one-half of the dome wall. This was a similar experience to watching a movie at the Imax cinema today, but in this version, guests were standing and you would often see them leaning sideways as the images on screen tilted left and right.
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1 Review on “Flamingo Land Resort”
Much improved in recent years.