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Warner Park uncovered: 'Friends' café, cartoon heroes and cinema stars
11/04/2022
RATHER like tortilla with or without onions or, if you're British, Marmite, hardly anyone is 'neither here nor there' about the late-1990s sitcom Friends.
You either had the telly on and the phone off the hook half an hour beforehand in anticipation and would cancel your own wedding if it clashed with the latest episode, or you'd switch channels in disgust and would happily watch three hours of back-to-back washing powder ads in a minority language from the opposite hemisphere than sit through three minutes of Joey, Chandler, Rachel et al.
Probably more polarised than a general election in any western country, the Friends versus Non-Friends camps would, nevertheless, be hard-pushed to disagree that the Central Perk was the most famous fictional café in the universe.
Even the washing-powder-ad faction would instantly recognise that famous orangey-red sofa and low-slung wooden table with Jennifer Aniston in front of a coffee cup.
Given the chance to take a selfie on that same sofa, Team Detergent would probably give in to the temptation, even if they never admitted to it or pretended the subject of the photo was their hitherto-unintroduced twin.
And now, whether you're a Friends nerd or a channel-switcher-over, you (or your twin) can do just that: In Madrid's Warner Park.
Friends with Perks
We can't promise Phoebe, Monica, Ross and pals will be there, too – which might be a bad or a good thing depending upon which extreme of the Friends spectrum you occupy – but Warner Park in Spain's capital has, however, promised that its very-own Central Perk is a complete clone of the original and that you wouldn't know the difference if nobody told you first.
And as well as lounging around with a cuppa as though you're just another member of Lisa Kudrow's and Courtney Cox's gang, the Friendzone includes a souvenir shop where you can buy authentic, authorised and official memorabilia to show the world that no-one else can ever achieve your dizzy peaks of fan-hood - or as presents for a fellow fan of unachievable peaks of dizziness to ensure they'll be your best Friend forever.
Or perhaps as the perfect gift for your worst enemy, if you happen to know they're more Laundromat than Matt LeBlanc.
Central to a milestone Warner birthday
Madrid's Warner Park turns 20 this year, and the replica Central Perk and tied gift shop is part of its celebrations – along with two new water-park rides in the Warner Beach section, an extra rollercoaster due to open in 2023 and, as one of Warner Bros' cutest characters, Tweety-Pie, will be joining the complex in marking a 'zero' birthday, a huge mural of the big-footed, big-eyed little yellow birdie is now in place, showing he's wearing very well for an 80-year-old.
Not a grey feather in sight, still flapping around looking adorable, he was tweeting away many decades before social media users started doing so and changed the meaning of the verb.
Tinseltown tour
Pop over to Hollywood Boulevard and number the stars – the Walk of Fame is studded with copies of the original ones in California. Julia Roberts, Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Harrison Ford, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Gary Cooper, Jack Lemmon, and Ingrid Bergman are among the legends whose signature plaques are encrusted into the ground.
A clone of Grauman's Chinese Theatre lets you enter a dreamy red chamber and plunge head-first into amazing adventures in 3D, a souvenir store with a massive range of official Warner, Foster's Hollywood and Casablanca merchandise, and a Welcome to Warner show in Hollywood Plaza featuring loveable animals like Sylvester, Bugs Bunny and Tweety along with the park's corps of dancers could easily take up a day – but it's only a tiny part of the whole, so you might want to plan several visits.
On set with Police Academy cop-chases and rafting in Jellystone Park
On one of these visits, you can find out what happens on the opposite side of your TV screen and step into the world occupied by your favourite flicks – replica film sets put you right in the thick of cinema car-chases, police pursuits, showdowns and stunts.
Well, almost a replica. When you find yourself on the set of those legendary comedy cops in Police Academy, you might notice that the coat of arms above the door of the station says 'Madrid' on it, which probably didn't feature in the original series of films.
The souped-up sets of wheels and rattly old bangers in these hilarious law-and-disorder spoofs are identicals, though, and you can check them all out in the Police Academy special effects live demonstration.
Movie World Studios lets you take part in impossible feats of anti-gravity yourself, without having to worry about health and safety, albeit you will need a head for heights – you can experience what it feels like to free-fall 68 metres, plunging through the air, in the Stunt Fall attraction, the only one of its kind in Europe.
Go for a ride through southern California on the Cine Tour, which is also a time-travel experience – you'll be whisked back to the 1930s and taken through Muir Woods National Park, the city of Santa Mónica, Beverly Hills, Palm Beach, and the San Andrés Fault (the one that caused the huge earthquake in San Francisco), weaving in and out of baobab trees along the roadside.
Movie World Studios is home to a typical, early-20th-century New York neighbourhood, in 'brownstone' colonial style with classic cars, just as you'd see in films from the period in the Big Apple and which you can pretend you're now starring in as you tour these time-locked streets.
Join in the Wizard of Oz stage musical (spoiler: You don't need to be any good at singing or dancing), then take a refreshing watery trip on a log-raft in Jellystone Park, home of Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo and friends, through the snow and onto the beaches of Polynesia.
After a visit to the Haunted Hotel – the only Mad House in Spain and inspired by Hollywood's Château Marmont - you'll have worked up an appetite; great table-mates straight out of your best-loved films and cartoons will keep you company over lunch at the buffet restaurants.
“That's not all, folks!”
Big kids who remember 2D animated action long before the dawn of Pixar might have more fun in the Cartoon Village than the little ones – you'll be reunited with childhood companions Road-Runner, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy, the Flintstones, Tom and Jerry, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and other Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters.
Carrot-crunching Bugs Bunny (“Eh...What's up, doc?”) in his rabbit-hole, the lisping Daffy (“You're dethpicable!”) putting out flames in a burning building, Wile E. Coyote blowing up sacks of TNT in a bid to trap Road-Runner (which he has never managed in nearly a century of trying) all take the form of children's themed activities they can have a go at themselves, along with the Hanna-Barbera truck convoy cartoon-scene tour, Fred Flintstone and family's 'Yabba-Dabba-Doo' school of (fast-foot-propelled) motoring, cat-and-mouse-chase Tom and Jerry rollercoaster, the Road-Runner big dipper, the Baby Looney Tunes airline pilots' academy, the Marvin the Martian rockets, and roundabouts, dodgems, flying saucers and carousels of varying degrees of thrilling and spilling or just chilling are aimed at young children, older children, and families.
Spinnin' around
Not all super-heroes wear capes and masks.
Those who do, indeed, wear capes and masks include nurses, care workers, cleaners, aid workers, firefighters, paramedics, charity volunteers, pet shelter volunteers, and...you get the picture.
Sometimes coats or tunics rather than actual capes, but definitely masks.
Then there's the other type of super-hero – the ones who go flying around places, saving planets, scaling buildings with their bare hands (okay, with the help of on-demand ultra-sticky and hard-wearing spiders' webs) and making lightning-quick changes of clothing in phone boxes.
It's these who have their own section at Warner Park and, fittingly, given that they spend their lives spinning around and turning upside-down and inside-out at vertiginous altitudes, visitors to the DC Super-Heroes World will be doing plenty of that.
If you'd rather keep your feet on terra firma, though, your best bet is to hang out in The Joker Candy Shop – named after Batman's nemesis and also your teeth's worst enemy, although there are gluten-free ranges of sweets, snacks and ice-creams, too.
Or there's the Gotham City Stunt Show, where you can see Batman himself, with his trusty sidekick Robin, fighting against the Joker's latest malevolent plans (which don't include opening a sweet shop, or we'd be rooting for the wrong side in that case).
For the moderately-brave-but-only-sometimes, the Joker Bumper-Cars and the Mr Freeze Ice Factory – a high, tipping roundabout with swings for seats – take you to the very hinterland between thrilling and just plain frightening.
But if you're someone who thinks fear is something other people feel, and you're not too bothered about what angle your head is to the ground, how fast that angle changes, and how far below your head said ground is, then the Super-Hero World is at your feet.
Or sometimes the sky is at your feet, but you might not realise it if your brain can't keep up with the rest of you.
In any case, if you're not happy at the position your body finds itself in at any point, that doesn't matter, because it'll be in a different one a nanosecond later on the Superman Steel Attraction rollercoaster, the flip-over Lex Luthor Invertatron, the Batman 'Inverted' Arkham Asylum, or shooting up a pylon with its tip in the clouds whilst strapped to the outside in the Superman Enigma's Revenge.
Canyon deep, mountain high: A white-water gold mine
Don your Stetson and leather chaps and gallop into your nearest saloon at the Old West Territory, a complete re-creation of the cowboy-and-Indian epics of the Wild West.
The 'Wild' West of the Mediterranean, that is. In the heyday of cowboy films, half the planet built up its picture of the arid plains of the USA by watching scenes shot in the province of Almería.
Ironically, therefore, Warner Park in central Spain has set up an action-packed zone inspired on western United States movies that were inspired on eastern Spain.
Anyway, you don't have to choose – you can 'do' both the original film sets in the Almería desert of Tabernas, taking a guided tour of Fort Bravo Texas Hollywood, Oasys MiniHollywood and Western Leone, and also the 20 acres of fictional Wild West villages at Warner Park, with their saloon bars, shops, houses, and even a dentist's surgery.
Naturally, the on-site restaurants are built to match and serve the likes of West Texas barbecue and Tex-Mex.
If you can handle 'scary' that doesn't involve heights and speeds, take a tour of the 'Warren Hall of Terror' – a spooky clone of the house featuring in The Conjuring, otherwise known as The Warren Files, the 2013 gothic drama based upon the true story of paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren.
Europe's tallest and longest wooden rollercoaster, running flat-out for 1.25 kilometres (about three-quarters of a mile), the Coaster Express is visible from anywhere in Warner Park – 45 metres high, dipping and diving at speeds of up to 95 kilometres per hour (about 60mph) and taking up to 1,200 riders at a time on a tour of the Wild West zone, this daredevil attraction is one of the most-visited in the entire complex.
Perfect copies of the original wooden mine-carts that ran along mechanical trails in the Gold Rush days, the Warner Park versions spin around in all directions, apparently out of control (they're not really, though) and, as long as you don't suffer motion sickness, they're not overly terrifying.
And at least you stay dry, which isn't the case with the Old West Territory's other two rides – highly recommended in summer, when their wonderfully-refreshing, splashy nature comes as sublime relief, the Wild Waterfalls takes you plunging down gushing cataracts in a near-vertical fast-moving boat ride.
So does the Río Bravo, except this one also twists and turns through a rocky red river canyon, gold mine and Indian reservation on wooden boats that come to a screeching, splattering halt at a giant billboard reading 'The End'.
If you've ever seen the Howard Hawks 1959 film of the same name, starring John Wayne, you'll have an idea as to what the scenery whizzing past in a damp blur behind the misty spray will look like.
Is it expensive?
Well, it's an official theme park tied to an international brand, part of the whole Hollywood experience, so it's going to set you back a little bit more than hopping on the Big Wheel at your local patron saint fiesta fairground. But as this type of theme park goes, the prices are not too prohibitive at all.
It could work out pricey if you have several children, if you buy your tickets on the door on the day rather than pre-booking online, but for a single person, a couple, or an adult with one child – especially a small child – it's not much more than the cost of a three-course family lunch.
Children's tickets work by height rather than age, since height is used as a guideline for which rides are suitable for them; technically, the same applies to adults, so the full cost of €52.90 on the door or €29.90 online is for any visitor of over 1.4 metres (4'7”) tall.
'Junior' tickets, for anyone between one metre and 1.4 metres (3'3” to 4'7”) and concessions are €49.90 on the gate or €29.90 for advance bookings online, and children under a metre (3'3”) in height get in free.
These are day rates, or two-day passes cost €35.90 online for everyone over a metre tall, or €55.90 on the day at the gate for juniors and concessions and €58.90 for those over 1.4 metres tall.
'Combined' tickets allow you to visit Warner Park and Warner Beach together, spread over one, two or three days, or VIP passes range from €105 to €149.
Warner Park opens at noon, over weekends, long weekends and school holidays, with closing times ranging from 18.00 to midnight depending upon time of year and whether it's a public holiday – the latter normally involving later closures.
Check days and times of opening before booking by clicking on the Horarios y Precios ('Times and Prices') link on the Parquewarner.com website.
Through it, you can also book hotel accommodation at varying prices and distances.
If you're travelling to Warner Park by car, take the A-4 motorway, come off at Junction 22, and follow the signs, of which there are plenty.
Public transport runs to the complex, too. Once in Madrid city, take the C-3 Cercanías, or outer-suburban train line – you'll find it on a metro map – and get off at Pinto, then hop on the shuttle-bus. Known as La Veloz ('The Speedy'), it's number 413 and drops you right at the entrance.
Both the train and the bus are covered by blanket day-passes for Madrid's urban transport network – when visiting the capital, unless you only plan to make one return journey for a specific purpose, it's always better to buy a travel card so you can use all modes of conveyance as often as you want.
The nearest town is San Martín de la Vega, about three kilometres away; Pinto town is 11 kilometres from the park, Getafe is 21 kilometres away and Fuenlabrada 24 kilometres.
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RATHER like tortilla with or without onions or, if you're British, Marmite, hardly anyone is 'neither here nor there' about the late-1990s sitcom Friends.
You either had the telly on and the phone off the hook half an hour beforehand in anticipation and would cancel your own wedding if it clashed with the latest episode, or you'd switch channels in disgust and would happily watch three hours of back-to-back washing powder ads in a minority language from the opposite hemisphere than sit through three minutes of Joey, Chandler, Rachel et al.
Probably more polarised than a general election in any western country, the Friends versus Non-Friends camps would, nevertheless, be hard-pushed to disagree that the Central Perk was the most famous fictional café in the universe.
Even the washing-powder-ad faction would instantly recognise that famous orangey-red sofa and low-slung wooden table with Jennifer Aniston in front of a coffee cup.
Given the chance to take a selfie on that same sofa, Team Detergent would probably give in to the temptation, even if they never admitted to it or pretended the subject of the photo was their hitherto-unintroduced twin.
And now, whether you're a Friends nerd or a channel-switcher-over, you (or your twin) can do just that: In Madrid's Warner Park.
Friends with Perks
We can't promise Phoebe, Monica, Ross and pals will be there, too – which might be a bad or a good thing depending upon which extreme of the Friends spectrum you occupy – but Warner Park in Spain's capital has, however, promised that its very-own Central Perk is a complete clone of the original and that you wouldn't know the difference if nobody told you first.
And as well as lounging around with a cuppa as though you're just another member of Lisa Kudrow's and Courtney Cox's gang, the Friendzone includes a souvenir shop where you can buy authentic, authorised and official memorabilia to show the world that no-one else can ever achieve your dizzy peaks of fan-hood - or as presents for a fellow fan of unachievable peaks of dizziness to ensure they'll be your best Friend forever.
Or perhaps as the perfect gift for your worst enemy, if you happen to know they're more Laundromat than Matt LeBlanc.
Central to a milestone Warner birthday
Madrid's Warner Park turns 20 this year, and the replica Central Perk and tied gift shop is part of its celebrations – along with two new water-park rides in the Warner Beach section, an extra rollercoaster due to open in 2023 and, as one of Warner Bros' cutest characters, Tweety-Pie, will be joining the complex in marking a 'zero' birthday, a huge mural of the big-footed, big-eyed little yellow birdie is now in place, showing he's wearing very well for an 80-year-old.
Not a grey feather in sight, still flapping around looking adorable, he was tweeting away many decades before social media users started doing so and changed the meaning of the verb.
Tinseltown tour
Pop over to Hollywood Boulevard and number the stars – the Walk of Fame is studded with copies of the original ones in California. Julia Roberts, Kevin Costner, Morgan Freeman, Harrison Ford, Natalie Wood, Sal Mineo, Gary Cooper, Jack Lemmon, and Ingrid Bergman are among the legends whose signature plaques are encrusted into the ground.
A clone of Grauman's Chinese Theatre lets you enter a dreamy red chamber and plunge head-first into amazing adventures in 3D, a souvenir store with a massive range of official Warner, Foster's Hollywood and Casablanca merchandise, and a Welcome to Warner show in Hollywood Plaza featuring loveable animals like Sylvester, Bugs Bunny and Tweety along with the park's corps of dancers could easily take up a day – but it's only a tiny part of the whole, so you might want to plan several visits.
On set with Police Academy cop-chases and rafting in Jellystone Park
On one of these visits, you can find out what happens on the opposite side of your TV screen and step into the world occupied by your favourite flicks – replica film sets put you right in the thick of cinema car-chases, police pursuits, showdowns and stunts.
Well, almost a replica. When you find yourself on the set of those legendary comedy cops in Police Academy, you might notice that the coat of arms above the door of the station says 'Madrid' on it, which probably didn't feature in the original series of films.
The souped-up sets of wheels and rattly old bangers in these hilarious law-and-disorder spoofs are identicals, though, and you can check them all out in the Police Academy special effects live demonstration.
Movie World Studios lets you take part in impossible feats of anti-gravity yourself, without having to worry about health and safety, albeit you will need a head for heights – you can experience what it feels like to free-fall 68 metres, plunging through the air, in the Stunt Fall attraction, the only one of its kind in Europe.
Go for a ride through southern California on the Cine Tour, which is also a time-travel experience – you'll be whisked back to the 1930s and taken through Muir Woods National Park, the city of Santa Mónica, Beverly Hills, Palm Beach, and the San Andrés Fault (the one that caused the huge earthquake in San Francisco), weaving in and out of baobab trees along the roadside.
Movie World Studios is home to a typical, early-20th-century New York neighbourhood, in 'brownstone' colonial style with classic cars, just as you'd see in films from the period in the Big Apple and which you can pretend you're now starring in as you tour these time-locked streets.
Join in the Wizard of Oz stage musical (spoiler: You don't need to be any good at singing or dancing), then take a refreshing watery trip on a log-raft in Jellystone Park, home of Yogi Bear, Boo-Boo and friends, through the snow and onto the beaches of Polynesia.
After a visit to the Haunted Hotel – the only Mad House in Spain and inspired by Hollywood's Château Marmont - you'll have worked up an appetite; great table-mates straight out of your best-loved films and cartoons will keep you company over lunch at the buffet restaurants.
“That's not all, folks!”
Big kids who remember 2D animated action long before the dawn of Pixar might have more fun in the Cartoon Village than the little ones – you'll be reunited with childhood companions Road-Runner, Scooby-Doo and Shaggy, the Flintstones, Tom and Jerry, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig and other Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies characters.
Carrot-crunching Bugs Bunny (“Eh...What's up, doc?”) in his rabbit-hole, the lisping Daffy (“You're dethpicable!”) putting out flames in a burning building, Wile E. Coyote blowing up sacks of TNT in a bid to trap Road-Runner (which he has never managed in nearly a century of trying) all take the form of children's themed activities they can have a go at themselves, along with the Hanna-Barbera truck convoy cartoon-scene tour, Fred Flintstone and family's 'Yabba-Dabba-Doo' school of (fast-foot-propelled) motoring, cat-and-mouse-chase Tom and Jerry rollercoaster, the Road-Runner big dipper, the Baby Looney Tunes airline pilots' academy, the Marvin the Martian rockets, and roundabouts, dodgems, flying saucers and carousels of varying degrees of thrilling and spilling or just chilling are aimed at young children, older children, and families.
Spinnin' around
Not all super-heroes wear capes and masks.
Those who do, indeed, wear capes and masks include nurses, care workers, cleaners, aid workers, firefighters, paramedics, charity volunteers, pet shelter volunteers, and...you get the picture.
Sometimes coats or tunics rather than actual capes, but definitely masks.
Then there's the other type of super-hero – the ones who go flying around places, saving planets, scaling buildings with their bare hands (okay, with the help of on-demand ultra-sticky and hard-wearing spiders' webs) and making lightning-quick changes of clothing in phone boxes.
It's these who have their own section at Warner Park and, fittingly, given that they spend their lives spinning around and turning upside-down and inside-out at vertiginous altitudes, visitors to the DC Super-Heroes World will be doing plenty of that.
If you'd rather keep your feet on terra firma, though, your best bet is to hang out in The Joker Candy Shop – named after Batman's nemesis and also your teeth's worst enemy, although there are gluten-free ranges of sweets, snacks and ice-creams, too.
Or there's the Gotham City Stunt Show, where you can see Batman himself, with his trusty sidekick Robin, fighting against the Joker's latest malevolent plans (which don't include opening a sweet shop, or we'd be rooting for the wrong side in that case).
For the moderately-brave-but-only-sometimes, the Joker Bumper-Cars and the Mr Freeze Ice Factory – a high, tipping roundabout with swings for seats – take you to the very hinterland between thrilling and just plain frightening.
But if you're someone who thinks fear is something other people feel, and you're not too bothered about what angle your head is to the ground, how fast that angle changes, and how far below your head said ground is, then the Super-Hero World is at your feet.
Or sometimes the sky is at your feet, but you might not realise it if your brain can't keep up with the rest of you.
In any case, if you're not happy at the position your body finds itself in at any point, that doesn't matter, because it'll be in a different one a nanosecond later on the Superman Steel Attraction rollercoaster, the flip-over Lex Luthor Invertatron, the Batman 'Inverted' Arkham Asylum, or shooting up a pylon with its tip in the clouds whilst strapped to the outside in the Superman Enigma's Revenge.
Canyon deep, mountain high: A white-water gold mine
Don your Stetson and leather chaps and gallop into your nearest saloon at the Old West Territory, a complete re-creation of the cowboy-and-Indian epics of the Wild West.
The 'Wild' West of the Mediterranean, that is. In the heyday of cowboy films, half the planet built up its picture of the arid plains of the USA by watching scenes shot in the province of Almería.
Ironically, therefore, Warner Park in central Spain has set up an action-packed zone inspired on western United States movies that were inspired on eastern Spain.
Anyway, you don't have to choose – you can 'do' both the original film sets in the Almería desert of Tabernas, taking a guided tour of Fort Bravo Texas Hollywood, Oasys MiniHollywood and Western Leone, and also the 20 acres of fictional Wild West villages at Warner Park, with their saloon bars, shops, houses, and even a dentist's surgery.
Naturally, the on-site restaurants are built to match and serve the likes of West Texas barbecue and Tex-Mex.
If you can handle 'scary' that doesn't involve heights and speeds, take a tour of the 'Warren Hall of Terror' – a spooky clone of the house featuring in The Conjuring, otherwise known as The Warren Files, the 2013 gothic drama based upon the true story of paranormal investigators Lorraine and Ed Warren.
Europe's tallest and longest wooden rollercoaster, running flat-out for 1.25 kilometres (about three-quarters of a mile), the Coaster Express is visible from anywhere in Warner Park – 45 metres high, dipping and diving at speeds of up to 95 kilometres per hour (about 60mph) and taking up to 1,200 riders at a time on a tour of the Wild West zone, this daredevil attraction is one of the most-visited in the entire complex.
Perfect copies of the original wooden mine-carts that ran along mechanical trails in the Gold Rush days, the Warner Park versions spin around in all directions, apparently out of control (they're not really, though) and, as long as you don't suffer motion sickness, they're not overly terrifying.
And at least you stay dry, which isn't the case with the Old West Territory's other two rides – highly recommended in summer, when their wonderfully-refreshing, splashy nature comes as sublime relief, the Wild Waterfalls takes you plunging down gushing cataracts in a near-vertical fast-moving boat ride.
So does the Río Bravo, except this one also twists and turns through a rocky red river canyon, gold mine and Indian reservation on wooden boats that come to a screeching, splattering halt at a giant billboard reading 'The End'.
If you've ever seen the Howard Hawks 1959 film of the same name, starring John Wayne, you'll have an idea as to what the scenery whizzing past in a damp blur behind the misty spray will look like.
Is it expensive?
Well, it's an official theme park tied to an international brand, part of the whole Hollywood experience, so it's going to set you back a little bit more than hopping on the Big Wheel at your local patron saint fiesta fairground. But as this type of theme park goes, the prices are not too prohibitive at all.
It could work out pricey if you have several children, if you buy your tickets on the door on the day rather than pre-booking online, but for a single person, a couple, or an adult with one child – especially a small child – it's not much more than the cost of a three-course family lunch.
Children's tickets work by height rather than age, since height is used as a guideline for which rides are suitable for them; technically, the same applies to adults, so the full cost of €52.90 on the door or €29.90 online is for any visitor of over 1.4 metres (4'7”) tall.
'Junior' tickets, for anyone between one metre and 1.4 metres (3'3” to 4'7”) and concessions are €49.90 on the gate or €29.90 for advance bookings online, and children under a metre (3'3”) in height get in free.
These are day rates, or two-day passes cost €35.90 online for everyone over a metre tall, or €55.90 on the day at the gate for juniors and concessions and €58.90 for those over 1.4 metres tall.
'Combined' tickets allow you to visit Warner Park and Warner Beach together, spread over one, two or three days, or VIP passes range from €105 to €149.
Warner Park opens at noon, over weekends, long weekends and school holidays, with closing times ranging from 18.00 to midnight depending upon time of year and whether it's a public holiday – the latter normally involving later closures.
Check days and times of opening before booking by clicking on the Horarios y Precios ('Times and Prices') link on the Parquewarner.com website.
Through it, you can also book hotel accommodation at varying prices and distances.
If you're travelling to Warner Park by car, take the A-4 motorway, come off at Junction 22, and follow the signs, of which there are plenty.
Public transport runs to the complex, too. Once in Madrid city, take the C-3 Cercanías, or outer-suburban train line – you'll find it on a metro map – and get off at Pinto, then hop on the shuttle-bus. Known as La Veloz ('The Speedy'), it's number 413 and drops you right at the entrance.
Both the train and the bus are covered by blanket day-passes for Madrid's urban transport network – when visiting the capital, unless you only plan to make one return journey for a specific purpose, it's always better to buy a travel card so you can use all modes of conveyance as often as you want.
The nearest town is San Martín de la Vega, about three kilometres away; Pinto town is 11 kilometres from the park, Getafe is 21 kilometres away and Fuenlabrada 24 kilometres.
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