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Continue reading →: Theme Park Closures, Ride Access and Controversy.
How can Merlin better deal with the Ride Access Pass issue they currently face? Lets talk about it.
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Continue reading →: Parque Warner Madrid – Our review
Here are our honest thoughts on Parque Warner Madrid, it has it’s faults but it’s worth a visit!
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Continue reading →: Warner Bros Studio Tour – The Making of Harry Potter
Last weekend we visited the Warner Bros Studio Tour for my birthday and we loved it! We’ve been once before back in 2020 just before COVID hit and though I enjoyed it, I had a lot going on so I wasn’t as immersed as I would have liked, no such…
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Continue reading →: Thorpe Park – Fright Nights
As per previous years, we visited Thorpe Park for their excellent Fright Nights event. This year there wasn’t any new mazes but we had a new scare zone called Purgatory Town to try. We were intending to do all the mazes as we did with Alton Towers, but their packages…
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Continue reading →: Alton Towers – Scarefest 2025
I don’t think I’m alone in thinking that this year’s Scarefest could have been one of the worst we’ve ever had. All the signs pointed towards it, a lack of enthusiasm from the park all year, entertainment cuts and such, but I’m pleased to say that this year’s event is…
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Continue reading →: Portaventura World – The rough edges need smoothening out
Portaventura World. A great park, but it does have some issues that really need looking into!
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Continue reading →: Walibi Belgium – We should be talking about this one more!
I don’t feel we see enough about Walibi Belgium, this is an excellent park and we’ve had 2 great visits here! Here’s my thoughts on the park
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Continue reading →: Bobbejaanland – Cars, coasters and the old west?
Bobbejaanland, the second stop on our European Trip 2025. This time featuring cars! Read about it here…
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Continue reading →: Plopsaqua – Plopsaland De Panne’s Water park
Plopsaqua De Panne is Polpsaland De Pannes water park and althoiugh it is small, it offers plenty to do!
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Continue reading →: Lets talk about Universal Great Britain
So Universal Great Britain has been given the go ahead and I’d like to weigh my thoughts in on this one as I think there’s a lot to discuss! Personally, I’m not as excited as others are, at least at the minute, as I have a small suspension that we’re…
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Continue reading →: What the bloody hell was that?!
I feel like that title pretty much sums up Alton Towers opening day. For it’s first day of full operations as well as the opening of Toxicator, the park has been severely lacking. Let’s just go through our visit starting with Friday night and our arrival at the hotel. The…
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Continue reading →: The Loops & lapbars 2025 Season Plans
The past few years we’ve had some incredible trips around the UK and abroad. From visiting Plopsaland De Panne for the first time, to driving all the way to Dortmund in one day for Movie Park Germany, being there on the grand reopening of Nemesis, or flying out to Emerald…
Catagories:Alton Towers, Chessington World of Adventures, Drayton Manor, Europa Park, Fantasy Island, Flamingo Land, Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, Legoland Windsor, Parc Asterix, Paultons Park, Pleasure Beach Resort, Pleasurewood Hills, Plopsaland De Panne, Portaventura World, Thorpe Park, Tripsdrill
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Continue reading →: The Merlin post
Let’s talk about Merlin. are they as bad as all that or are they making the right decisions?
Catagories:Alton Towers, Blog, Chessington World of Adventures, Heide Park, Legoland Windsor, Thorpe Park
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Continue reading →: My thoughts on Alton Towers 2024 Season
Here are my honest thoughts on Alton Towers throughout the 2024 season…
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Continue reading →: Movie Park Germany – A Review
Blimey, it’s been a while since I’ve written one of these! What with visiting parks and doing the videos for them as well as having to change video editor, I have been putting off writing these for far too long! So, Movie Park Germany then! This was the first stop…
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Continue reading →: Nemesis Reborn – Review
In 2022, Alton Towers closed Nemesis and launched an exceptional marketing campaign, building anticipation for its reopening in 2024. The park’s attention to detail in revamping the Forbidden Valley area with new features and effects has been praised. Despite some minor issues with the ride, the improvements are evident, solidifying…
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Continue reading →: The Loops & Lapbars 2024 Season!
So I feel the blog took a massive back seat last year thanks to YouTube and I hope to get back to writing about our exploits more regularly this year! So what better way to start than by having a brief run through of the season ahead. Starting off, there’s…
Catagories:Alton Towers, Attractiepark Toverland, Bellewaerde, Blog, Drayton Manor, Efteling, European Theme Parks, Hansa Park, Heide Park, Legoland Windsor, Movie Park Germany, Oakwood, Thorpe Park, UK Theme Parks, Walibi Holland
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Continue reading →: Gullivers Kingdom – The first visit
As part of LoveTwoexplores weekend, on the second day we ended up at Gulliver’s Kingdom in Matlock Bath. The first thing that strikes you when you approach the park is the terrain the park is built on. It’s essentially a mountainside! There’s definitely been some creative uses of the land…
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Continue reading →: Gulliver’s Valley – The First visit
The Gullivers family of parks is a group that I wouldn’t normally be able to visit as they have a very strict adult to child ratio which means only adult groups can’t usually go. However, thanks to Love2explore setting up a little event, 29 of us were allowed to visit…
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Continue reading →: Saying goodbye to Shockwave (as we know it!)
It wasn’t so long I was writing a post about Shockwave, how it was an under appreciated gem of the UK coaster line up and how I adore it, even with its faults. Now Drayton Manor have announced that Shockwave, in its current stand up form will be no more…
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