Tickets to Lee Valley White Water Centre on Sale

Published on 15 December 2010

Buy your ticket to ride the same rapids as the world’s best athletes.

The wait is over ... you can now book to go white water rafting at Lee Valley White Water Centre - the only brand new London 2012 venue to open to the public before the Games - with tickets on general sale from Monday 13 December 2010.

Rafting tickets start from £49 for this unique, adrenalin pumping rafting experience. Tickets will give you the opportunity to try out the same course that will host five days of intense canoe slalom competition during the Games.

To test your nerves and experience this brand new, custom-built venue visit:

• Visit www.gowhitewater.co.uk website

• or call 08456 770 606 to buy your ticket

Rafters will take on the same wild rapids as the world’s best athletes will face in the London 2012 Olympic Games. Skilled raft guides, including the captain of the Men’s Senior GB rafting team, create a unique experience, pushing rafters to their limits.

Simon Ricketts, Lee Valley White Water Centre Manager, said: “The beauty of white water rafting is that it is open to everyone. Nerves will definitely be put to the test as rafters take on the Olympic Standard Competition Course, navigating 300m of obstacles, drops, waves and fast flowing white water - enough to fill a 25m swimming pool in 30 seconds.”

Lee Valley White Water Centre, located on the northern edge of London, five minutes from the M25, near Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire and 40 minutes door to door from central London, opens to the public in April 2011. It will be a major canoeing and rafting attraction drawing in thousands of visitors.

The Centre is one of four London 2012 venues Lee Valley Regional Park Authority will run after the Games, together with Lee Valley VeloPark and Lee Valley Hockey and Tennis Centres. Lee Valley White Water Centre will join the other regional sports venues the Authority owns to create a chain of sporting excellence along the 26 mile long, 10,000 acre Lee Valley Regional Park.

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