Valhalla (Blackpool Pleasure Beach) Valhalla (Blackpool Pleasure Beach) Valhalla is a large indoor dark ride at Pleasure Beach Blackpool in Lancashire, England. Opened on 14 June 2000 at a cost of £15 million (equivalent to around £24 million in 2017), it is one of the most expensive water rides ever to be built and is the longest indoor dark ride in the world. Both a dark ride and a water ride, Valhalla uses special effects which incorporate fire, water and snow. Valhalla replaced the Fun House, (which burned down in 1991 in its place); Valhalla opened in 2000. Conceived by former park owner Geoffrey
Pleasure Beach Pleasure Beach Pleasure Beach is the Bridgeport portion of a Connecticut barrier beach that extends 2-1/2 miles westerly from Point No Point (the portion in the adjoining town of Stratford is known as Long Beach). Prior to June, 2014, when Pleasure Beach re-opened, the area was Connecticut's largest and most recent ghost town and abandoned recently in the late 1990s after a fire on the bridge connecting it to the mainland. It is surrounded on three sides by water (Lewis Gut to the north, Bridgeport Harbor to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south). From 1892 until 1958,