This is a ride I've skipped quite a few times. The setting this ride is programmed to run on sets it a level below some of the more extreme rides like Slammer and Samaria, but still offers enough thrills for those who want something on the adventurous side. This makes it one of the more popular thrill rides at the park, with proportionately long queues. For me this makes the queue length to ride desirability ratio on the poor side, especially as I've done quite a few other spinning disc style rides, so it's one I tend to skip.

On my last visit though this had an unusually short queue, it was almost a walk on, so I couldn't resist giving it a go. On loading I found out the ride ops had got a little board and had invented a game for the riders to play.

It was basically pass the parcel, only instead of a parcel we were given two cardboard cups of water to pass around. The idea being anyone holding a cup with any water left at the end of the ride got to stay on. We started off pretty successfully, but once the big swings started there was very little hope of keeping any water in the cup.

This is still a good ride when the operators aren't playing games. It's a big circle of seats on the end of a pendulum like structure, that swings back and forth while slowly spinning. It provides some good thrilling moments at the top of each swing where you are lifted out of your seat in a pleasant floaty way.

It's not as major an attraction as it used to be, now Thorpe Park has more major rides, and this ride isn't as exclusive now quite a lot of other similar rides can be found around the country. It's still really popular though, if anything it's too popular with the queues you often get for this ride. It would help to have a few other thrill rides at a similar level of thrills and excitement as Vortex to take some of the pressure off it. If the queue isn't too bad though it's one I couldn't resist a go on.