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At this point, the prestige just seems like such a waste unless you really want to park a little closer and one skip the line each visit. Another reason is if you have a park like Fiesta that might have exclusive events. Other parks most likely aren't going to. These two separate addons, etc are just making me purchase a couple all park gold passes from Canada Wonderland and calling it at day for next year. That's parking and admission and all I really need.2 points
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Hope you have a good after summer weather there. About Snorri's touren, I have not hear anything about a replacement. Would be to soon as it is only opened a year of 4 ago in my opinion. It's just too cute to closed it.1 point
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Definitely worth going to once (do the whole shore, or at least do Ocean City and Seaside for the better coasters). As far as Wildwood, the boardwalk and town are as much fun as the piers themselves. Just wish prices weren't so insane. As far as single riders, I think there was a suicide on a wheel in NJ (it even may have been Morey's IIRC) but it's only a rule at Morey's, no such rule at any of the other shore parks from what I know. One time on the Flume I even tried walking up and asking if I can wait for a party of 2 so that I could ride in the back of their log, and the ops said no. It's frustrating as hell.1 point
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When till the membership add on go on sale? I want to purchase before they change their mind about how cheap that add on is lol.1 point
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It seemed crazy at first but it's really just keeping things in line with CF. Prestige + All Parks and Gold + All Parks are within the ballpark of each other between the chains.1 point
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Road Trip Day 6, Part 1 - Luna Park/Deno's - 7/18/24 If you want to catch up, Day 1 was King's Dominion, Day 2 Busch Gardens Williamsburg, Day 3 was Six Flags America, and Day 4 was Morey's Piers. Day 5 was a quick stop at Sesame Place followed by the rest of the day at Dorney Park. Reports are in their respective threads. The trip was myself and my oldest son, soon to be 14. I have to admit, my approach to Coney Island in general was pretty dumb to start. I had Google Maps route me to the park, naturally, and it did that well enough, though traffic was predictably slow. I then drove along the outside of the park looking for any parking and ended up blocks away, nearly out of gas, with the search entirely fruitless. Eventually I re-directed it to find me gas, which it did, and there while pumping it finally occurred to me to specifically search for Luna Park Parking. That brought us to a big, mostly empty, and surprisingly reasonably priced lot literally right next to the rides. Not my best moments on the trip, that is for sure! Also, this place is well known for being expensive and it was, so I won't bother complaining any more about that going forward. Soarin' Eagle -- After buying our wristbands for the day, we decided to get this one out of the way immediately. To my relief, it was either better than Time Warp or I was much more prepared to hold myself in place this time around. I think it was more the latter, but maybe this one just tracks better too. I am not about to ride either again to find out. "Better" does not equal good. What an uncomfortable monstrosity Zamperla cooked up with this design. I am thankful these never spread further. As easily placed and cheap clones, we could have had a whole bunch more of these than we did. Tony's Express -- Steeplechase was closed and would remain so for the length of our visit. This was a little disappointing as I like the launch on the one at Darien Lake, but it was not some huge loss. We decided to end to the closest far end of the boardwalk, which brought us to this Zamperla junior coaster. It was a predictably uneventful ride. That isn't to say it was bad though or anything. I bet younger riders will like this one a lot. It just isn't for enthusiasts. One note that I thought was funny: There are bins and out of habit I started to throw in the items from my pocket into them before boarding. The older woman running the ride objected and discouraged me from wasting my time with that. She is right, of course, in that a ride like this poses no threat of having stuff fly out of your pockets. At the same time, I have never experienced a ride op insisting I have my pockets full on a ride before! Thunderbolt -- I had heard terrible things about this good looking Zamperla thrill coaster, so my expectations were really low. Sometimes those are the best kind of expectations to have. It isn't that this is a good ride, mind you. It is janky and uncomfortable as hell with a weird and ridiculous restraint system. It is just that I thought it was going to be so terrible that I was pretty pleasantly surprised to find it was only kind of bad! If they could rework those stupid seatbelt sort of vest restraints, this would be a tolerable ride for me. They really dug into my shoulders in a painful way though and it wasn't like the thigh clamps were exactly comfortable either. Bad combo for sure. Circus Coaster -- This is listed as a family coaster, but it is more a kiddie coaster. We did our laps and got our credits. Cyclone -- Ah, the main event. The world famous Coney Island Cyclone. For some reason, this one took us a minute to find the entrance to and we ended up doing a lap basically the wrong way around the big structure before finding it. Oh well. Then, we boarded only to be stuck strapped in for about ten minutes as a maintenance man ran onto the track and did something before we got the all clear. Finally, we rode. I wish I could say I loved it like many do. It was a pretty mid ride for me, but I am on the bigger side for what can fit in this trains and I was pinned down by the restraints to the point that airtime was impossible to feel. Mostly I could just feel the laterals, which I rarely love, and the few really bad rough spots on the coaster. My son, who next to me had all the room in the world beneath the restraint, really loved all the airtime he got. I think this is probably a good ride for most. For me, I got a fun and out of control, but kind of uncomfortable and entirely airtimeless ride personally. Deno's Wonder Wheel -- The only non-coaster I am giving its own section to on the entire trip, I loved this classic ferris wheel. We rode one of the cars that does the drop and it was a wonderfully unnerving experience. I have been riding rollercoasters my entire life and have not found much nervousness and/or fear with any of them in decades at this point. When I find something that brings any amount of that back, I am glad for it. Deno's Wonder Wheel was very much that. It repeatedly felt like we were about to fall clean off that thing in the best way possible. Highly recommended. Phoenix -- This modern Vekoma family suspended coaster was one of the sneaky highlights of the trip. It was a glass smooth and forceful ride within the context of the family coaster category. As a plus, the ride operator sent us again when there was no one else in line upon our return to the station. When individual rides are as expensive as they are at Coney Island, that was a very pleasant surprise. Also, it is worth reminding anyone reading this in anticipation of a future trip, Deno's Wonder Wheel Amusement Park is a separate business pretty much right in the middle of Luna Park. The tickets/wristbands that you buy at Luna Park will not work here. There were also two kiddie coasters here that we decided not to even go see if we could steal credits on. We had bigger plans for the day and didn't want to waste the time. Tickler -- As I like to do, I left the spinning coaster for last just in case it were to make me sick. It didn't. In fact, it didn't really spin much at all. Instead, the rotation sort of took the edge off the normally hard wild mouse turns and didn't do much else at all until we were on the very bottom level. As someone who doesn't like the hairpin wild mouse turns anymore and has never really liked spinning, I was very happy about all of this. I am left with a strange review of the Tickler to give then. As a spinning wild mouse, this thing faired pretty terrible. As I ride I would personally enjoy, it was better for those failures. The last thing worth noting was that there was a good little pop of air time dropping down to the last level that I didn't expect and enjoyed. From here, our plan was adventurous. We wanted to get to Nickelodeon Universe and maybe even Playland Park before it closed. Traffic didn't cooperate, unfortunately, and Playland Park ended up being cut from our trip entirely, so Nickelodeon Universe later in the day would be our last stop in the trip.1 point
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Hopefully, the park takes this time to add a turntable for increased capacity.1 point
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Guys, we all need to forgive the parks for this. Don't be entitled bigots spewing all that hate speech. We need to fiercely defend them and honor/thank them for painting benches. After all.... COVID, right?1 point
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quickie post for day 0 - the welcome day. we all met up at our 1st hotel -- old friends saying hello at seeing each other again, and meeting new friends who were on their 1st TPR trip (ever or in a long while). We had the day to wander around the area (we were staying in Staines-upon-Thames, a "market town" close to Heathrow Airport and Thorpe Park - although that wasn't our 1st park we were going to). wonderful area with lots of shops, pubs, and restaurants. the official trip started tomorrow with our 1st park: Chessington Worlds of Adventure. it was great to see Brad & Jere - it had been a while since I'd seen them. This pic in the lobby of the hotel we were in for a few days: Premier Inn (and loved that we were visiting in June - Pride flags and stuff everywhere). My room at said hotel: and my View from my room: we had a great meal at WagaMama, and some headed out for drinks at one of the many pubs. I was still working on a sleep deficit, so I went back to the room and crashed. full trip starts tomorrow!1 point
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I was actually there, staying in Hotel Colosseo, the night of the same soccer game. Was able to get a decent view from our, which was on the 3rd or 4th floor, just out of frame of your pic.1 point
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great report and loving the pictures. I'm there in just about 6 weeks and can't wait to see what they do for Halloween. I did get something in the mail (email) that mentioned the Snorri dark ride was being removed and replaced with something else. I wonder if that will be up and running for my visit. . i'm very curious about that, Votron, and the re-opened Haunted Mansion type ride and re-done Powered Coaster/Flume. thanks for sharing.1 point
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Jebuland So sometime in the winter, we decided to check out Jebu Island. Originally there was only a single road to the island (more on that later) but to make the island more accessible a cable car was installed and opened. Depending on your ticket, there's a floored or glass-floored version. Notice the mud flats and shore line.... ... this is the single road to and from the island. Depending on the tide times, the road becomes submerged twice a day and you can become stuck on the island for quite a while. The road does have times posted when gates close but it can be very close to tide time, we also weren't sure what the escape route was if any cars had an accident and blocked the road..... we decided not to risk it and opted for the cable-car leaving the car off island. Approaching the island. The whole island is only 1 square km across total. Since we left the car behind we took the paid shuttle to Jebuland. It runs along the main road and is quite scary having traffic pass you by at speed. Some of the many themed overnight stay areas on the island. Notice the Squid Game reference in one of the pictures. So we're 14 pictures in and I haven't got to the amusement park yet.... Well sometimes life is about the journey and not the destination..... .... and sometimes that destination is Jebuland. The park had three main attractions but if you've followed this thread you probably know what two of them are considering somehow despite me only covering 3 parks in this thread there've been 5 of them each. Of course there's a Viking and a tagada. Although there didn't seem many people visiting the island interested in riding them. I didn't know you could have a bad bumper car but the one we rode here was pretty hurtful. You bumped anything and the pedal would disconnect and the steering wheel would spin uncontrollably trying to rip your arms off and give you friction burns at the same time until you released the pedal. The final two attractions was the children's area. And that was Jebuland. Honestly, we were just there to walk on the beaches, eat fresh sea-food and weren't really interested in the theme park but I figured I'd take 5 minutes to quickly pop in and photograph it.1 point