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Continue reading →: Wicker Man and the UK Woodies
There are plenty of rides in the UK offering new and exciting ways to thrill you. The smiler can send you upside down 14 times, Stealth can launch you to 80mph in 1.8 seconds and Odyssey can take you to heights no inverted coaster in the UK gets close to.…
Catagories:Alton Towers, Blog, Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, Oakwood, Pleasure Beach Resort, Reviews, UK Theme Parks
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Continue reading →: 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…
Catagories:Alton Towers, Attractiepark Toverland, Blog, Bobbejaanland, Chessington World of Adventures, Disneyland Paris, Drayton Manor, Efteling, European Theme Parks, Fantasy Island, Flamingo Land, Parc Asterix, Paultons Park, Phantasialand, Pleasure Beach Resort, Plopsaland De Panne, UK Theme Parks, Walibi Belgium
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Continue reading →: Thorpe Park – What I’d do if I were in charge
During the course of the 2022 season, we visited Thorpe Park a lot. Coupled with 2021s visits, I believe it makes it our second most visited park after Alton Towers. So, much like the Alton Towers blog, I think it would be fun to break down Thorpe park as though…
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Continue reading →: Flight of the Sky Lion – A review
Flight of the Sky Lion is a flying theatre that opened at Legoland in 2021 as part of their Mythica expansion. The idea behind the ride is that you board the ride vehicle and are then taken away on a journey by a magical Sky Lion called Maximus into his…
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Continue reading →: Shockwave – The Under Appreciated 3rd
Shockwave. Poor old Shockwave. It lives in a park that has gone through a lot of trouble in the past, had troubles of its own and was even over shadowed (until recently) by another roller coaster in the same area, that being G-Force. The problems Shockwave has faced didn’t start…
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Continue reading →: A Thrill seeker’s guide to Alton Towers
Alton Towers is set well into the Staffordshire countryside amongst the ruins of the famous Alton Towers stately home. In this guide, I aim to give my own tips and suggestions of how to get the most out of a day at Alton Towers, from arriving at the park, to…
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Continue reading →: 2023 resolutions and plans
2023 has come around really fast. The 2022 season only feels like it ended in the past few days but in reality, it’s over a month and a half since we last set foot in a theme park! I thought it might be a good idea to put down some…
Catagories:Blog
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Continue reading →: 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…
Catagories:Alton Towers, Blog, Chessington World of Adventures, Crealy, Drayton Manor, Fantasy Island, Flamingo Land, Funland Hayling Island, Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach, Joyland, Legoland Windsor, Oakwood, Pleasure Beach Resort, Pleasurewood Hills, Reviews, Thorpe Park, UK Theme Parks
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Continue reading →: Alton Towers – Fireworks!
Our final visit for the 2022 season was, of course, to the Alton Towers Fireworks Spectacular! I was very excited for this display as I’d read that it was a celebration of the big 7 coasters and though they did a similar thing last year, I really enjoyed it! The…
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Continue reading →: Legoland – Fireworks!
For our final weekend of the season we decided on a trip to Legoland and Alton Towers to see both of their fireworks displays. I’ll go into Alton Towers’ display in a following blog but for now, here’s my thoughts on Legoland. The park wasn’t that busy throughout the day,…
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Continue reading →: 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.…
Catagories:Alton Towers, Blog, Chessington World of Adventures, Fantasy Island, Paultons Park, Reviews, Thorpe Park, UK Theme Parks
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Continue reading →: Fantasy Island – Fear Island 2022
Our final visit for this trip was Fantasy Island for their Fear Island event. This event is extremely good value as it includes unlimited rides, a round of 18 hole mini golf, access to 4 scare mazes and a digipass for your ride photos too, all for £35! I’ll start…
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Continue reading →: Alton Towers – Scarefest 2022 15th Anniversary
Our next visit was to Alton Towers, stopping on site in one of their Star Gazing Pods for 2 days and nights. We wanted two days to make sure we get the most out of Scarefest as well as ride the great selection of rides! I’ll do a separate little…
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Continue reading →: A farewell to Nemesis…
Remember remember the 5th of November, our last ride of Nemesis 1.0. The ride is set to close on the 6/11/22 for a retrack, encompassing everything between the top of the lift hill right up to the final brake run. I’m a relatively recent first time rider of Nemesis, riding…
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Continue reading →: Legoland – Brick or Treat Presents Monster Party!
Our fourth stop for this adventure was Legoland to revisit them for their Brick or Treat event. This year presenting the Monster Party! Our visit intially felt very rushed. We’d gotten to the park early enough so we were queuing to get in but by the time we were in…
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Continue reading →: Thorpe Park – Fright Nights 2022
Fright Nights is another event that we’ve done before, as we did Fright Nights 20 last year. We really enjoyed last year’s offering so we’re expecting good things from this year! Changes from last year were a lot more noticeable than there were with Chessington. Firstly, Platform 15 has gone…
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Continue reading →: Farewell Apocalypse
I feel like I should write this blog about Drayton Manors Apocalypse. The ride is a 177ft Intamin Drop tower, the first of its kind to feature stand-up gondolas when it opened in 2000, a feat it held onto until 2005. 2 years after opening it was converted to have…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: Stop 1 – The Annex and Paultons Park
The Annex As I mentioned in the previous blog, out first stop was at a homestay called The Annex in Totton, just outside Southampton. Very briefly, the property was excellently finished and there was everything we needed and then some! We had a bed and the usual things, but also…
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Continue reading →: 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…
Catagories:Alton Towers, Blog, Chessington World of Adventures, Fantasy Island, Legoland Windsor, Paultons Park, Thorpe Park, UK Theme Parks
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