Tayto Park plans €30m Rollercoasters
The operator of Tayto Park is to spend €30 million on three new rollercoasters for the Co Meath theme park.
Raymond Coyle confirmed that work is currently progressing on a dinosaur-themed rollercoaster – Dino Coaster – that will be complete by February of next year.
Mr Coyle said work would then commence in March or April on the ‘two-in -one’ rollercoaster which is made up of a 31m high and 748m long suspended thrill coaster and a 24.2m high 238m long family boomerang ride.
Mr Coyle secured planning permission for that project after a more than two year planning battle last March. He said on Friday that those two rollercoasters would be complete by the end of 2023.
Mr Coyle confirmed that the investment on the three rollercoasters would “be over €30 million”.
Commenting on the company’s latest accounts, Mr Coyle said the theme park was having “a very good year this year with numbers up on last year”.
Tayto Park was shut for much of last year under Covid restrictions and that, Mr Coyle said, was the chief factor behind revenue more than halving at parent company Ashbourne Visitor Centre Ltd, from €18.83 million to €9.27 million.
The company recorded a pretax loss of €1.72 million compared with a pretax profit of €2.47 million in 2019.
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