Haha no excuse necessary - I'm 24 and I went with my friend who's 28 and we had a blast! Admittedly we were the oldest ones there, aside from parents of course but who cares it was fun as!
We were a bit surprised by the staff constantly saying "back again?" Surely they experience re-riders all the time.
But yeah I will definitely make a return visit for the flume ride later this year.
Yeah, I really hope the tower gets the go ahead as well - it'd finish it off nicely. It is certainly a needed ride, we were there on Sunday and it was hot as - would have been great to be able to cool off on something like this.
Although it's not the biggest flume ride, it fits in to AW nicely. The reason I enjoyed AW so much is that you don't have to wait for rides so even if it's the lamest thing you've ever been on you still enjoy it because you know you didn't wait 30mins to hr to ride it.
I wonder if they'll move the water wars attraction near this flume ride when it's complete.