doom1001

I live in South Florida, about 250 miles from the theme park heaven of central Florida.I usually will do about 16-20 seperate visits a year to the Florida parks and 1 or 2 out of state trips( 1-2 weeks each). I'll go to like Cedar point, BGW and other parks in the summer when they're open since this is the time of year I avoid the Florida parks like the plague, just can't deal with the 95 degree heat, sick humidity, daily rain and mobs of people!!So most of those 16-20 trips are between October and May.All these trips add up to a lot of miles on my car, I'm currently looking to replace my 99 Jetta with 210,000 miles.

I second Bomb Bay at Wet n Wild, I remember the attendant telling me to jump up and he would press the button to open the floor, definitely cool!! I've seen that looping waterslide on other forums and people just can't believe it's real, but it definitely appears there was a crack out there who actually built this, I would love to hear from someone who rode this what it felt like, it looks like a slide you would see in a Simpsons go to the waterpark episode.

I second Bomb Bay at Wet n Wild, I remember the attendant telling me to jump up and he would press the button to open the floor, definitely cool!! I've seen that looping waterslide on other forums and people just can't believe it's real, but it definitely appears there was a crack out there who actually built this, I would love to hear from someone who rode this what it felt like, it looks like a slide you would see in a Simpsons go to the waterpark episode.

Country Inn and Suites, Microtel Inn, the Sleep Inn by Universal and the one by Sea World on Westwood Blvd. are hotels by Universal I consider to be inexpensive, pretty new and CLEAN, and I believe all have free breakfast.The Florida travel saver discount guide you find at some McDonalds has coupons for these hotels between $45-$65 depending on the season.

The 3 times I've gone to CP I've always stayed at the Holiday Inn Express over in Port Clinton ( about 10 minutes west ofCP) and I don't have a bad thing to say about this hotel. Breakers Express does sound good, especially for the early entry.

When I head to BGT from Miami I almost always take I -75, I live like 20 miles south of where I-75 starts so it's like 285 miles, since the Fowler ave. exit is 265. It takes me about 4.5 hours. Sometimes I've gone up US 27 to highway 70 and meet up again with 75 by Bradenton, it takes longer but sometimes I can't stand 80 miles of nothing in Alligator Alley.I wouldn't even think of leaving at 8:30 am and taking 95 unless if you want to be by West Palm by 10:00.Taking the turnpike to Yeehaw jct. and 60 across could be alright but I've never tried it. It's a bummer they took out the Tampa Typhoon to replace it with Riptide which better be excellent since I'm not a fan of replacing rides, seems like they could've found space somewhere to add this ride and leave the other ones alone!!

CEdar Point for sure, IOA is a great park, however, I visited this park very often in 2002 and 2003 and I still renew my annual pass but lately I'm barely going cause it's basically the same park from when it opened in 1999.The only things they've opened are the teacup ride and the kiddie coaster Flying unicorn, When I go to Universal lately I find myself more at the Universal park riding the Mummy and MIB.I've been to Cedar Point 3 times and how could you get tired of going from one great coaster to another one all day long, sure it's not themed like IOA, bu CP is in a very unique location surrounded by water on three sides.If I were from Cleveland and went very often to CP and I just recently went to IOA for the 1st time, this post might be completely opposite raving at how awsome IOA is.

Dang it!! I never got a chance to visit VisionLand!! Alabama Adventure does sound better, however it seems like there's just too many parks with the ADVENTURE in the name!

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People seem to be comparing BGW to Cedar Point for some reason, I'm from Florida and visited both these parks the last 2 summers and there's really nothing to compare they're two different things!! I love both of these parks, I'm a theme park goer who appreciates a good park and both these parks are awesome at what they offer, Cedar Point is all about ride, ride, ride in a more amusement park enviroment although it's location being surrounded by water makes it pretty unique. BGW has a couple of great coasters but offers other things like shows, great theming, a couple of dark rides(Darkcastle and Corkscrew Hill), good eats and in my opinion one of the nicest parks in the country, the woody. hilly terrain is awesome.Before BGT opened Sheikra I preferred BGW over BGT but Tampa has 8 coasters to BGW's 4 so now I prefer BGT and do feel that BGW needs another coaster, I'm sure it's in the works and will make a great addition to an already good park!

I heard somewhere Disney was going to finish this back section so when you're coming in the parking lot you're seeing a full mountian and not a buiding with the tip and side of the mountain?

Several years ago maybe 6-7, me and my brother were on the rainbow ride at the Miami-Dade county Fair. We were seated on the top row of the right side and if you know the ride the only thing that keeps you from flying out is two metal bars that go from vertical to horizontal. There was only one operator who started the ride with those bars not vertical or horizontal but somewhere in the middle, luckily we were on the side of the operator and yelled at him from about 15-20 feet in the air that the bars weren't down, He brought it back down and we got off the ride.The fair had just opened and there weren't many people on the ride, I just wonder what would have happened if we were seated on the other side of the ride and there was nobody to yell at him that the bars weren't down.

It's Walt's brother Roy.

This is an easy one for me, I remember the exact moment.The first step I took when I got off Montu at Busch Gardens Tampa I knew I was hooked.I had been to BGT before but Python or Scorpion or BTMR and Space mountain at Disney just didn't do what Montu did.I still think Montu is right up there in my all-time favorite coasters.

It's gotta be a toss up between Busch Gardens Tampa and Universal Orlando and Islands Of Adventure probably somewhere between 50 and 100 visits, don't keep count but it's gotta be in that range. Behind those it's gotta be MK, Epcot,MGM studios and Sea world between 30 and 50 visits.

Acrophobia at SFOG pretty much always makes me nervous every time I ride it.Millenium Force also made me nervous going up the hill the first couple times I rode it,I had never been on a coaster that tall.

Howl o Scream was pretty good but definitely no Horror Nights.Some of the houses were the same as last year( the Mortuary) and some simply changed names(Freaked). Fiends was the same show they had last year, but I agree was worth watching for the pink haired nurses. Haunt me baby one more time, the show at the Desert Grill wasn't as good as the one they had last year that was very funny. Good event but it seemed too much like last year's HOS, but hey I can't complain I got in Free with my Platinum pass for the first two nights!!

I really enjoy the GASM but I think my favorite woodie at SFOG is the Cyclone, to me it seems a little wilder ride, just how I like'm.

I actually enjoy Deja Vu, I love just hanging there before it drops you on the first tower.This is probably why it has all those restraints, probably cause most sane people would fell unsafe in that position.My problems with this ride is that in 5 visits to SFOG I've ridden it twice. It's always either broke or if its running has a minimum 2 hour wait.

Even though I only went to this park once several years ago I will miss it in a sentimental way.However, my realistic side will admit that it was sorta ghetto, small and old and needed to go.They however had that simulated wave machine that you ride on a body board that I couldn't ride it no matter how hard I tried.With Sea World announcing their new waterpark that will be a one of a kind park and Ron Jon surf shop in the Festival Bay mall opening a surf park with huge pools to actually surf, you knew Watermania's days were numbered. If the rumors of Wet nWild closing in a few years due to an increasing lease are true then I will be sad since this is my favorite Orlando waterpark and It's location on International Drive is something that for me has always been there and whatever they were to put there would seem out of place and weird.I've heard rumors Universal would move the park and all the slides to somewhere on their site and that would be great, they would probably theme it and it would be right on property along with IOA and USF. The corner of Universal Blvd. and I-Drive without Wet n wild would still be something I would miss and even moving the park it probably won't have a lake for knee-skying which is my favorite thing at the park.

I've been going to HHN since it opened and have always loved it but last years event was a bit of a let down, it was still good but I expected more with all the hype of it being in two parks. Basically IOA had the entrance, Bill and Ted's and IMHO the worst house in any HHN event, Disorientorium, I think that's what it was called. Then the rest of the houses were in the sound stages between both parks and the furthest one away by earthquake,quite A haul from the IOA side. The scare zones were cool and all but I remember early HHN events were the chainsaw guys and sliders came at you every ten steps, last years event had a lot of walking with very few scareactors except in the scare zones. For the last two years I've also gone to Busch Gardens Howl-o-Scream and I honestly think some of their houses were better than any of the houses at HHN.Escape from insanity in the skyride building in my opinion was the best house in both events. Their 3-d houses especially the one from 2 years ago was also very good.There was also a lot of walking in between scare zones and houses but I expected that from the sheer size of this park, but we took a break and ate dinner at the Desert Grill while watching their version of the Bill and Ted show with a bunch of reality people like Paris Hilton kept getting taken out by a deranged killer. It was pretty funny and gave us a good rest.