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Just a little info request for those in the know. Me and my Girlfriend have just booked a trip to Madrid for June and I was hoping somebody could give me some information on traveling to Parque de Atracciones and Parque Warner. I have searched for other Madrid posts and found some previous PTR's but was looking for some specific info as both parks sites are only in spanish. Firsty I have been to Madrid previously in 2003 and visited the warner park and I think we got a combined train and entry ticket. Can anyone confirm if this is still available and how much it is? Also is their any deals for entry to Parque de Atracctiones or is metro ride + full park entry the only option? Many Thanks

When I went to Port Aventura back in 2003 I have to say i thought it was one of the nicer parks id been to. Very good themeing and rides all around. I do remember graffiti in the Stampida que as well tho, ud think they would clean it up!! Went to WBMW Madrid the same year and it was also very quiet, almost like a ghost town for half the day but a bit busier in the afternoon. I also thought Superman was a great floorless although I think I preferred Dragon Kahn at the time. I counted myself lucky getting on Stunt Fall at the time and even more since missing Deja Vue at SFGA on my recent US trip (Too big a que, it was actually WORKING!!) Glad you enjoyed your trip and great photos. James p.s Did you take the overnight train from Barcelona from Madrid? We did and it was a killer!!

Went to both parks on my US trip a couple of weeks ago and to be honest I prefferred the coasters at Marine World but prefferred the park experience at PGA. Although Top Gun was the best coaster of the two parks by far I really enjoyed Kong and and although tamer than it should have been Medusa was still fun. I personally think V2.5 is more fun than the other impulse I have ridden (at SFGA) as I enjoy the slow inversion and it gives a different experience in different seats. Kong isnt too bad for an SLC and if you like animal shows then maybe it would be a good choice although be warned the animal shows are not in the same league as Sea Worlds (Orlando anyway!). Still enjoyable though. PGA is fun to be there, but apart from Top Gun and the great Intamin Drop Tower there isnt much else I really enjoyed coaster wise. Grizzly was my most boring and worst wooden coaster (Id prefer to be shaken to hell and be fast than have a woddy that slow and uneventful) and the Inverted boomerand and Demon were nothing special. Vortex is smoother than Iron Wolf at SFGA (the only other standup ive ridden) but still slightly painful and quite short. Overall though as others have said it depends what your looking for and what coasters you prefer.

Took a trip to Chessington today so me and my girlfriend could take her nephew and while riding Vampire with the new(ish) Vekoma trains I thought about the horrible restraints on the SLC's id ridden and I wondered why Vekoma hasnt put a better restraint on newer SLC's. On my recent US trip I rode several SLC's and these all had the bulkier restraints. The newest one ive ridden is Tizona at Terra Mitica in Spain and this had them also. I just wondered if anyone had any thoughts on why they dont change them since they can obviously build less restrictive ones as on the Vampire and the Junior SLC's. My guess would be that either they need to be restrictive as Vekoma know the rides and gonna beat you to sh** or that they just dont want to spend the ££$$ to redesign the trains. Anyway onto my day. Got to the park before opening and parked in the grass car park that has its entry right by Dragons Fury (Great!!) Unfortunately it wasnt open straight away so we took my girlfriends nephew into Beanoland for a quick bumper car ride and when we got back there was a que. Did the single rider que since her nephew was just too short to ride (he was nervous anyway). Had a good first ride but had a better one later. Still a great little family ride though, I really like these Maurer Sonne (sp?) spinners. Anyway the rest of the day was spent doing all the kids and adult attractions and the coasters were all pretty much good fun. The powered Mine Train was good fun and better than the one at alton I think. Rattlesnake, the wild mouse was really fun and better than any mice i rode in the states. It seemed to have more good sized drops with little braking. Vampire was much better than I remembered from last year. Not intense or anything just a really good, fun, family ride. Back to Dragons Fury and my second ride was really great as a good distribution of weight led to it spinning crazily all the way round. Rode it a third time before leaving. Gotta love single rider q's. Having been to Chessington twice now since they turned all 'family orientated' I think it was a great idea as the park had a great atmosphere now and the child goes free with full paying adult was a really good move by Tussauds. Anyway a fun day was had and if anybody has any thoughts on the vekoma restraint thing that would be cool (Stupid SLC restraints annoy me, as if they arnt bad enough already) Heres a (very few) photos

Hi Guys, Im heading to the US for five weeks tommorrow hitting a load of parks and I plan on getting a Six Flags Season Pass at Six Flags America on Tuesday. The Question I wanted to ask was how do i go about using the season pass at different Six Flags parks? Does it just work at the turnstiles or do I have to go to guest relations? Thanks In Advance. James

Hi Guys, Ive posted a couple of topics asking for specific park advice for my upcoming trip but i thought id post my entire trip schedule to see if anyone had any other tips for anything else to do while in these cities. Were leaving on Sunday and are visiting the following places. Washington - Sighseeing & SFA Orlando - Everything we can in 12 Days Chicago - Sightseeing and SFGA San Francisco - Sightseeing, SFMV and PGA NYC - A little sightseeing & Gadv Were mostly travelling using public transport except in Orlando where we have a car for a week and ive found ways to get to all the other parks using public transportation. Any other ideas or tips for how to get the best out of our trip would be great. Thanks In advance.

Hi Guys, Im heading to the USA on Sunday for a five week trip of sightseeing and coaster riding and I wanted to ask if anyone had any tips for a day at Six Flags Marine World or Paramounts Great America. We will be in San Francisco from 5th July - 11th July and will probably be heading to Great America on the Wednesday and Marine World on the Friday. The main things I was wondering are: 1) If we get there at opening where should we head first? 2) How busy do you think it will be on these days? Thanks in advance for your help.

Hi Guys, Me and my girlfriend are heading to the USA on Sunday for a five week trip of sightseeing and coaster riding and I wanted to ask if anyone had any tips for a day at Six Flags America. We will be heading to the park next Tuesday 14th June. The main things I was wondering are: 1) If we get there at opening where should we head first? 2) How busy do you think it will be on this day? Thanks in advance for your help.

Dude whatever you do dont go to Lelystad!!! My girlfriend took me to Walibi in March for my 21st Birthday and looking at the dutch sites and from asking around it seemed that we could take a bus from Lelystad (Which is better as its closer to Schipol.) Since I had heard something about it not running anymore since Six Flags became Walibi I even checked with tourist information in Amsterdam and was told it was still running (Can you guess where this is going) However arriving at Lelystad we saw a sign saying the Walibi bus wasnt running anymore. After asking at the counter we were told we'd have to get a bus to Hardewick and a bus to the park from there which totally blew my well researched plan to get there for opening. Luckily some dutch guy and his kids were talking to the bus driver and although I couldnt understand anything he was saying the odd 'Walibi' told me he obviously had the same problem. Anyway the bus driver was on his radio and told the guy to get off randomly in the middle of nowhere and taking a HUGE risk me any my gf jumped off with them and followed them across the street to the other bus stop (They must have been quite scared) Neway luckily the bus from Hardewick came and the bus driver had obviously helped the guy out by telling the other bus to stop for us and even though we got there a bit after opening the park was so empty that all rides were walk on all day. NEWAY DONT GO TO LELYSTAD UNLESS YOU WANT TO GO THROUGH THAT!!!!! GO TO HARDEWICK Hope this Horror Story Helps James 'and yes we had to do the reverse on the way back' Self

Rob, Ive planned a trip from the UK to the USA this summer and originally the plan was to do a flydrive and drive from boston - washington hitting all the main parks on the way as well as going a bit further south to PKD and BGW. We were going to drop the car off in DC and then take a cheap flight with someone like Airtran to Orlando and then fly back to the UK from there. The cheapest way to do this (for 2 people) I found was to use Virgin Holidays Flydrive because it allowed me to fly in and out of where I wanted and the rental price itself (for a month) was very small. What pushed the cost up considerably was the insurance costs and the extra fees for being an under 25 driver (Im 21 as well and if the person your going with is too almost all the american rental companies will charge you upwards of $20 per day for the privilege). Virgin do a Platinum package for £21 a day on small cars which seems quite expensive but as it is the only package I could find that includes underage drivers its really quite good. I also think they do some free one way drop offs between Boston & DC (Or some companies do). The drawbacks are if you want to have any time without the car they charge you £30 per person to travel indepently and another £30pp to fly out of a different city (Not that bad really) All in all I worked out that on a tight budget we could do a 28 day trip for about £2000 per person all in which I didnt think was too bad but maybe you could do better. In the end my girlfriend convinced me that hitting 10+ parks and not seeing hardly any cities wasnt really that fair so we compromised and now weve ditched the car and are flying between DC, Orlando, Chicago, SF & NYC. This way I get to go too all the parks that have Public Transport links (Joy!!) and we get to see some cities. (We also get to whore a Six Flags pass!) Anyway that was the longest reply ive ever written on any forum ever. Hope this helps (You probably knew half of it already) James "I dont work for Virgin, Honestly!!" Self

Thanks for your replies. Thats not too bad about easter ill probably try to go on the tuesday then. Im definately gonna try and get the bus from Lelysad as its closed to Amsterdam than Hardewick. Does anyone have any idea how long the transfer is from the station as I want to be there at opening? Thanks again for your help James

Hi, Im visiting Amsterdam from the 27th - 29th March and Im looking to go to Walibi World (Six Flags) on either the 28th which is Easter Monday or the 29th Before I fly home. The Park is open an Extra hour on the Monday but im wondering if it will be particuarly busy because its Easter Monday. Is Easter a big thing in Holland? If it is we would have to go to the park on the Tuesday after checking out of our hotel and leave our bags in left luggage in Amsterdam Centraal station but I would much rather do this if the parks going to be a lot less crowded and ill get more rides on Goliath. What do you guys think? Are the Dutch children on holiday that week? Also another problem I have is how to get to the park. We know there are two bus services to the park, Six Flags express from Harderwijk and the Connexxion service from Lelystad. I would rather get the Lelystad bus as its closer by train to Amsterdam but I cant read the website for timetables and a translation isnt working very well. I was also wondering if they do a combined ticket for bus and entrance. Any help would be very much appreciated especially on the Connexxion timetable. Many Thanks James