Photo TR: Tivoliland and Djurs Sommerland

[Coastinmiller]

Just got back yesterday from our European vaction. 20 parks in 15 days. Overall a great trip, but of course there were a few snags.

 

Nicole and myself started off in England and enjoyed the parks, b&b's and

scenery. We then on Thursday August the 10 had to fly out of Stansted airport to go to Norway. Totally unware of whats was happening from the day before, we got to the airport about 2.5 hrs early. OMG!! What a zoo. People everywhere, police with guns drawn, dogs sniffing everything. Somehow we manage to take off only 3 hrs late, that's after standing in line for 2 hrs, we just made the flight as they were shutting the cabin door.

 

We met up with my Norwegian friend Ivan, his son Marius and Ivan's girlfriend Evette. Ivan picked us up from the airport and we continued our journey.

 

I'll get to the reviews of the parks in a bit, but since TPR has already did reviews on most of the park that I had visited I won't redo as there is no need beating a dead horse.

 

I have a ton of pictures from every park, but like I said TPR has already done them so here's the short park reviews:

 

Oakwood-always a funpark to visit, vertical slide was awesome so

was Speed. Hydro was still not running.

 

Blackpool Pleasure Beach-I loved this place great old rides and

every dark ride was a surprise.

 

South Pier-hey, I got a credit.

 

Pleasureland Southport-We could of stayed on that wheel all day if

we didn't have to run off to another park.

 

Lightwater Valley-Ultimate was fine until the drop after the second

lift. Very Violent.

 

Flamingoland-Nice park, nice rides. Kumali was great, smooth, but

ride ops were very slow and what is the deal with checking your

restraints when you come back into the station? 3 checks total on the

restarints is a little much. Did you guys run into the same thing??

 

Drayton Manor-I should have listen to you guys and skipped it. G-

force was forceless, so was Shockwave, but it was nice to do a zero

g roll standing up. People in the park were just plain as@@@@@@!

Should have went to Fantasy Island instead.

 

Alton-Nothing really to say, Alton=Awesome.

 

Thorpe-Colossus was great. I liked this park, but not much really

to do.

 

Chessington-The surprise of the trip. Vampire was great. The

only bad thing was Dragon's Fury was closed.

 

Tivoliland-see review below

 

Farup Sommerland-What an incredible little park, had a blast

there. Great adventure trail.

 

Djurs Sommerland-see review below

 

Heide Park-Scream was great as was Colossos. The bobsled was

the best I've been on.

 

Hansa-Great Star Flyer and awesome adventure course with

harnesses.

 

BonBon Land-Strange park, but I felt let down. I guess I was

expecting more. Was Definelty strange though.

 

Bakken-Again I felt let down. For being the world's oldest park I

thought it should of had older rides, like an old mill and more dark

rides. Got 3 credits though.

 

Tivloi Gardens-What a treasure in Copenhagen, stayed down the

street at the Selendia. So we were at the park all night.

 

Liseberg-Ok, I guess it's time for me to start a debate. Balder let

me down. You guys pumped it up sooooo much, I was expecting it to

blow me away, it didn't. Now don't get me wrong, it's a good coaster

worthy of a top ten spot, but El Toro, I believe anyway is better.

Balder did have good air, but weak on the turns. They did get the

Liseberganan up and running again.

 

Tusenfryd-Great park. ThunderCoaster was nice in the middle of

the train, but extremely painful, esp off the second drop in the back.

Speed Monster was at least better than the Kanonen.

 

Ok now time for the other parks that haven't been reviewed. Now keep in mind this is my first so take it easy on me.

 

Tivoliland

We arrived there late, but still managed to do everything as no one was in the park. Small park with 3 coasters(a Vekoma Boomerang [named the same], a pinfari death machine [named Looping] and a kidde coaster[named Catepillar]). A few flat rides, a fun house, and 1 dark ride made up the park. Overall a small park in a decent size city of Aalborg. I did not take many pictures because it was just too dark, like I said we were they late.

 

Djurs Sommerland]

We left Farup early enough to have ample time here at Djurs. Almost identical to Farup minus no wood coaster and no spinning mouse. They had a nice new Topple Tower named Ornen. Thors Hammer was a nice Gerstlauer wild mouse/bobsled. Everthing was well themed including the Rio Grande Rafting. They even had a small water park(sorry no pictures of it). At the end of the picture review of this parkis a great picture.

 

Well I guess it's Picture time. Hope you enjoy.

[Canobie Fan]

Uh... Isnt it just a hookah....

[Finrock]

Why does'nt you visit the finnish parks anyway good trip report but I can't see the pics...

[pierced_b0i]

Ya the pics arent working..

[jamesdillaman]

No Pics here, either, just question marks in a lovely shade of azure.

-James Dillaman

[Jeezus Juice]

There are 3 dark rides at Tivoliland and they're all screwed up! The two standard ghost trains we're off the wall crazy, one had demonic/suicidal chinese guys and the other one had full frontal zombie nudity!

The best one was definately the "flying bench through the history of time" suspended dark ride, that one blew my mind!

 

The funniest thing though is that there we're three of us "professional ride enthusiests" and none of us even knew about this park! I was kinda driving around lost looking for our hotel and we just drove by by dumb luck!

 

As we were walking to the park I was like, "Vekoma boomerang, Pinfari looper...yeah, GREAT find you guys...thanks..." But the park was totally awesome...and creepy. It was basically empty and open until midnight?!? Really weird for a European park.

 

Anyway, can't wait to see your pictures! Djurs > Farup IMO though we did both in the same day too, along with Tivoli Frihenden.

 

Were you at Bakken at night? After 3 litres of bier that park just came alive at night. Best. Park. Ever.

 

-Don

[Jeezus Juice]

Let me try to upload some Tivoliland pictures.

Really strang/awesome park. Just when you think you really know where they all are...next time double check rcdb!

Best Park Souvenier EVER!

Even magic mountain would be better with plastic lobsters!

(not really)

Some random beach themeing, replete with plastic lobsters.

It actually wasn't that bad!

Really quite weird.

The really weird Rickshaw darkride.

Really weird ride. It goes through all sorts of forest/deserts/mexico/castles. Kinda like a floorless "Peter Pan"

Here's Mike on the weird suspended dark ride through time.

We totally got stuck on this boomerang. We got to the lift chain and heard a ka-CHUNK and just sat for several minutes.

[Yeah 7]

Tivoliland is a dump. The park entrance makes it look like a prison, its the ultimate ghetto park.

 

When I visited, it seemed every ride broke down.

 

The Moser Move It type ride broke down every 5 minutes in weird places leaving people hanging upside down, the drop tower broke down leaving people at the top for about 5 minutes... and we were also evacuated from the Boomerang.

 

The Pinfari had dodgy restraints, only locking outside of the station...

 

The themeing was really weird, with random place plant pots.

 

Unless you really want the credits, I'd avoid this park like the plague.

This girl looks and was, very scared

From the back row, watching the train being evacuated. Never laughed so much, until It was my turn.

[Coastinmiller]

I have no idea why the pics aren't loading. My friend from another state saw them after I posted this forum, but after awhile they stopped loading. Hate to post em again as it was a very long process, but if I have to I will.

 

No we weren't at Bakken at night, we decided to do Tivoli Gardens at night instead.

 

I am actually surprised Tivoliland is still there. With no one in the park all the time it's strange they don't go bankrupt. But I guess when your charging for entrance then charging again for the rides it's easy to make some of that money back.

[ECZenith]

Nice report, sounds like overall you had a great time. I hope the photos get working... Reminds me of how lame I am for never leaving this continent!

[Coastinmiller]

I guess I'll try a few more.

jungle cruise on our Banana boat.

Ivan, Marius and Nicole on the adventure trail.

Thor's Hammer

Complete with a grizzly and giant bird eggs.

here's the topple tower

[Jeezus Juice]

^ WTF?! A hooka and a couch cushion? What kind of picnic is that?

 

Thors Hammer owns my ass! I really love these little Gerstie's. I can't wait until the US gets over it's spinner phase so we can get some good rides for a change.

 

Plus there was a Viking drinking out of a goat in the queue...how cool is that!

 

OH, and Djurs has a pizza buffet! Djurs > Farup x infinity!!

 

-Don