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Continue reading →: Alton Towers Festival of Thrills!
New for 2022 is Festival of Thrills, where Alton Towers pays homage to their big 7 roller coasters by inviting acts to perform on stages around the resort. Stages were setup in X-Sector, Dark Forest, Mutiny Bay and Forbidden Valley, and hosted a varied range of talent, from 80s rock,…
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Continue reading →: Alton Towers – What I’d do if I were in charge
Here’s a big park to tackle with this blog series. Alton Towers. For me, the park doesn’t really do many things wrong, it has some of the UKs premier attractions such as Nemesis and The Smiler. It’s also been a testing ground for many worlds first attractions such as Air,…
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Continue reading →: Alton Towers March 2022 – With Others!
Alton Towers’ first day of the season. March 19th 2022. The first time since I started this blog that I’ve had the pleasure of visiting a theme park with more than just Tracy! For this very special visit, I was joined by longtime friends Tami, of The Tami Journal and…
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Continue reading →: Hayling Island 2022
While we were down south, we thought we’d visit Funland Hayling Island to see what this park had to offer, and to meet up with some friends for a day out. First thing to note is this isn’t an all day park. You can spend a lot of time here,…
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Continue reading →: Paultons Park – first visit for 2022
Due to work schedules we couldn’t make it to Blackpool Pleasure Beach for the start of the 2022 season, so the season started at Paultons Park for us! We went on Friday 4th March and it was a really quiet day. There were no crowds at all through the day,…
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Continue reading →: First stop of 2022 – Macdonald Botley Park Hotel & Spa
For our first trip (and to start the 2022 season), we headed down south to Paultons Park and to see some friends while we were down there. As It’s a 290 mile drive down there, we stopped at the Macdonald Botley Park Hotel and Spa. I touched on hotel reviews…
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Continue reading →: 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…
Catagories:Alton Towers, Blog, Chessington World of Adventures, Drayton Manor, Flamingo Land, Legoland Windsor, Thorpe Park, UK Theme Parks
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Continue reading →: Nemesis: Inferno or The Original?
This is a pretty big discussion within the theme park community. Which is better, the original Nemesis, or its newer younger sibling, Nemesis Inferno? In this blog I’ll weigh up the pros and cons of both rides, and see which one I think is better overall! To start with, anyone…
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Continue reading →: 10 Rollercoasters I’d like to ride
Here is a list of 10 of the rides I’d most like to experience as soon as I possibly can! They are all from abroad so hopefully I’ll get my passport renewed and get to them soon! Helix- Liseberg Helix looks to be Icons bigger brother. I know simply by…
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Continue reading →: Planet Coaster Review
Like many other enthusiasts out there, I love to play computer games! In particularly theme park simulators of which there have been many great (and not so great ones) over the years, including the Rollercoaster Tycoon series, Parkitect and the Thrillville series. At the time of writing this though, I…
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Continue reading →: Legoland – What I’d do if I were in charge
Following on from my recent post about Flamingo Land, I thought it would be fun to tackle one of the UKs bigger parks this time around, Legoland Windsor! My first ever visit was only last year and I remember being underwhelmed with the overall experience. A subsequent second visit for…
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Continue reading →: Flamingo Land – What I’d do if I were in charge
Welcome to a new series of blogs I’d like to introduce. In these blogs I intend to talk about many of the UK’s parks, what I like and what I don’t. These are purely from a fantasy point of view and more so, just a bit of fun! I’ve been…
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Continue reading →: UK Parks I’d most like to visit
In this blog I’d like to talk about some of the UK parks that I’ve yet to get to. Firstly, we have: In recent years, Lightwater Valley seems to be going down the route of only appealing to younger audiences, which is a shame as they’ve had some decent attractions…
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Continue reading →: 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…
Catagories:Adventure Island, Alton Towers, Blog, Chessington World of Adventures, Drayton Manor, Fantasy Island, Flamingo Land, Legoland Windsor, Oakwood, Paultons Park, Pleasure Beach Resort, Reviews, UK Theme Parks
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Continue reading →: Fireworks Spectacular – Alton Towers
Our final visit for the 2021 season was Alton Towers for their Firework Spectacular event. Our intention was to ride as many rides as we could before the fireworks closed most of them at 5pm, then head to the lawns for a good spot. Our day started like most at…
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Continue reading →: Brick or Treat – Legoland
A bit late, but here’s my blog on Brick or Treat at Legoland Windsor! This was only our second visit to Legoland, as we’d visited earlier in the year and initially we weren’t that impressed overall. However after another visit, my opinion of Legoland has vastly changed for the better,…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: 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…
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Continue reading →: Fright Nights – Thorpe Park
Having tried Scarefest for the first time at Alton Towers in 2020, we made an effort to see what Thorpe Park, Chessington and Legolands events were like, starting with Thorpe Park. We once again stopped at the Ramada at Cobham services for four nights, meaning we could initially do two…
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Continue reading →: Eurofighter showdown – Saw: The Ride, Speed: No Limits & Rage
Similarly to my blog comparing The Smiler to Stealth, I’d like to breakdown 3 very similar yet ultimately different rides. 3 Gerstlauer Eurofighters here in the UK, Speed: No Limits, Saw: The Ride and Rage. The facts All 3 rollercoasters feature similar elements, all have beyond vertical drops, all have…
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