All the blogs from our European travels!
Slagharen – Bellewaerde – Bobbejaanland – Disneyland Paris – Drievliet – Duinrell – Efteling – Emerald Park – Europa Park – Hansa Park – Movie Park Germany – Parc Asterix – Phantasialand – Plopsaland De Panne – Portaventura World – Toverland – Walibi Parks
Portaventura World – The rough edges need smoothening out
Portaventura World. A great park, but it does have some issues that really need looking into!
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
Bobbejaanland – Cars, coasters and the old west?
Bobbejaanland, the second stop on our European Trip 2025. This time featuring cars! Read about it here…
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!
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 not going to get Islands…
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 Park for the first time.…
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 on our European road trip…
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 the new additions to the…
Uncharted: El Enigma de Penitence Review
While we were at Portaventura we obviously had to try the new Intamin built Uncharted ride. This is a collaboration of my favourite ride manufacturer and favourite game franchise so what’s not to love? I’ll be going into everything that we saw and felt so please don’t read on if you don’t want spoilers! Overall,…
Portaventura, hotel, getting there and day 1
Once we’d gotten back from our European road trip, I had the travel bug so almost immediately we started talking about our next visit. We eyed up Legoland Billund, Tivoli Gardens and Liseberg but settled on Portaventura World. This is the first time we’ve flown to a park and my first experience with Ryanair. I…
Our Eurotrip – Summary
I wanted To write this blog to not only summarise our trip, but also give a bit of advice where I can about travelling around Europe. The highlights Thinking about things that stuck out on our trip, I’d have to say that most of Efteling, Rookburgh and the Charles Lindbergh, most of Toverland and The…
Walibi Belgium – The first visit
I’ll preface this blog by saying that the only things I knew of Walibi Belgium was that it was a Six Flags park and featured on Roller Coaster Tycoon, a game I grew up playing (and still play to this day), and Kondaa. That was it! We arrived at the park nice and early as…
Phantasialand – The first visit
Phantasialand was the park I was looking forward to the most out of all the parks we’d lined up to visit. I’ve heard rave reviews for Taron and F.L.Y. as well as the Rookburgh and Klugheim themed areas, so I was quite excited! Coupled with he fact we were staying in site at the Charles…
Efteling – The wonderful Efteling
I’m going to start this blog by being very forward and saying that Efteling is phenomenal. It has some of the best themed rides and experiences I’ve ever had and even Tracy was impressed by the care and attention to detail put into the park, restaurants and, well, everything! We were staying in the Loonsche…
Bobaajaanland – First visit
I knew nothing of Bobbejaanland before we visited. I knew of it and that it was a somewhat notable park, but other than few attractions, I didn’t know what the park was like. This made it quite fun to explore and find attractions that I’d actually heard about but didn’t realise they were here, I’ll…
Plopsaland De Panne – First visit
I hadn’t heard much of Plopsaland De Panne before The Ride to Happiness came into being, but that ride definitely put it on the map for us. In my last blog, I mentioned about the parks we’re visiting on our European road trip and Plopsaland was the first to go on the list. Turning up…
Euro Road Trip 2023
This is going to be a very quick blog just to outline our first ever European Road Trip! As I’m writing this I’m sat in Tracy’s front room eager to get on the road, but can’t as I’ll be far too early for our Euro Tunnel connection to Calais tomorrow! This will be our first…
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…
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 looking at it that it’ll…
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