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2023 Season plans!
This is quite an exciting blog to write as we’ve somewhat finalised our plans for the coming year This year, as I put down in my 2023 resolutions blog, we were hoping to get across to Europe and thanks to our latest bookings, we now shall be! I’ll go into a little detail later but…
2022 Season review
Though we haven’t had quite as many brand new attractions to ride this year, we’ve visited more parks and done more events than last year. As with last year, I thought it would be fun to look back at the 2022 season, rank the events and new attractions we rode this year and reflect on…
Halloween Holiday 2022 summary
Now that all the individual blogs have been written, I’d like to summarise our holiday and get any last bits out that I may have forgotten! Though each park did a great job of their own respective Halloween events, the standout one for me was Fantasy Island’s Fear Island event. This is followed closely by…
Chessington World of Adventures – Howl’o’ween 2022
Howl’o’ween 2022 will be the first time we’ve been back to a Halloween event for a second year so we can compare it to last year, as well as to other events we’ve been to. Not a lot of big changes have occurred since last year, the same shows in the same locations, but of…
Halloween Holiday!
This year, we thought it would be a good idea to have a week away visiting various parks for their Halloween events. We were impressed with Alton Towers Scarefest in 2020 and last year’s Fright Nights at Thorpe Park, so it makes sense to have a tour of the big parks! The parks we’ve decided…
2022 season
This year, there isn’t as much to be excited about as there was last year in terms of new rides, but there are still plenty of new attractions coming to look forward to! Valhalla and Enso at Blackpool Pleasure Beach are probably the best that we have this year, with Valhalla being regularly rated as…
2021 Season Review
What a season this has been! Starting all the way back in April at Drayton Manor, and finishing at Alton Towers for their incredible fireworks! I thought for this blog I’d do a mock awards ceremony, giving me chance to talk about highlights of specific parks, rides and attractions, and to voice a few opinions…
Vampire – The review
Vampire is an Arrow Dynamics steel suspended rollercoaster opened in April of 1990 at Chessington World of Adventures. The design allows the cars to freely swing below the track and originally had enclosed cars, but was later modified to accept new Vekoma floorless trains in 2001. The ride has a gothic style theme and used…
Howl’o’ween – Chessington World of Adventures
Our third day of Halloween park visits was to Chessington World of Adventures to see what their Howl’o’ween event had to offer! Park entry was a smooth affair this time, no lengthy queues as we’d arrived early so we had plenty of time to do all the things we wanted to do and headed straight…
Attraction soundtracks
One of the things I rarely ever hear anyone talk about are attraction soundtracks. The music that plays in the queue line, station building or themed area. Something that adds ambiance to an area, or builds up excitement for the ride you face! I don’t know why this is as there are some excellent scores…
Chessington World of Adventures – Wilderfest – August 2021
Our visit to Chessington for Wilderfest was a pretty quick decision. I’d thought about it, Tracy mentioned it, and within minutes we’d booked the hotel at Cobham services (again) and prebooked our passholder tickets. We hadn’t planned in for another Chessington until Howl’o’ween later this year but they announced Wilderfest, seemingly out of nowhere so…
Holiday 2021 in Summary
As I stated in my previous blog, I’d like to summarise our trip away and add any advice to others planning on the same sort of trip. The Parks Over the course of the holiday we visited 8 very different parks around the country with our standout favorite of the trip being Paultons Park, with…
Chessington World of Adventures & Margate – Stop 8
Following on from Thorpe Park, we stopped in The Ramada at Cobham services on the M25. This hotel was very cheap, and my exceptions were low because of this but I was pleasantly surprised at how good the hotel actually is. We paid £29 for the night, and it easily kept up with the Holiday…
2021 Summer holiday
Over the summer Tracy and I did an epic 1600 ish mile trip around some of the UKs best theme parks. Over the course of two weeks, we visited: Blackpool Pleasure Beach Alton Towers Oakwood Paultons Park Thorpe Park Chessington World of Adventures Dreamland Adventure Island Fantasy Island As well as the above, we also…
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