 It was the first dark ride at Alton Towers, one of the largest in the UK at the time, and was produced by Keith Sparks for the park's owner John Broome.It was a 4-minute boat ride which followed the adventures of Phileas Fogg and was loosely based on Jules Verne's 1873 novel "Around the World in Eighty Days" and took riders through various different countries from around the world.Each boat could hold 9 people and there were 10 boats with 1,000 guests an hour.