Dark ride. Sparkys al ghurair city

This ride was a bit of a surprise.  

I had been to the sparkys in Dubai a couple of times before to get the coaster credit but it had always been closed.  

This time I was hosting a couple of Dutch enthusiasts who were in town and had contacted the management in advance. 

We were given a guided tour of the Park by the marketing manager. The rollercoaster was working well today, then in the corner I spotted something called simply dark ride. 

I asked the lady if we could ride it and she said yes but it was only really for children. I was quite surprised how well it was the themed for a very small park.

It is a dual level ride vaguely themed around aliens. They were kind enough to let me ride with the lights on so here's a review.

Here is the layout

Once you bored you head straight into a spiral left the car creeks and groans as you make your way to the second level

Halfway up the spiral left your greeted by a large spider that pops up with associated sound and lighting effects

Once at the top of the rather short lift hill there are some left doors one of which opens to reveal an alien. 

You then move on to an operating theatre scene. 

Again the figures move and this is really quite a good scene.
Is a strange large alien metal head with associated lighting and sound effects and computer consoles flashing away

From here the rest of the ride is pretty dark so the photos aren't very good even with the work lights on. However you pass several more scenes mostly alien based all with animatronics figures and lighting and sound effects. 

You then head back down another spiral lift. 

Here's a couple more photos from the rest of the ride

Overall it's a very nice dark ride.  Longer than expected and with a lot more effects than I was expecting.