Marko Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Dorney Park - This was my second visit to Dorney and my son's first. We hit the park the last hour they were open and managed to ride all their coasters before closing. The place was empty! We stayed at the Holiday Inn Express right across the street and this was our favorite motel of the trip. The run across the road to the park gets a bit thrilling at times but you can't beat the convenience. I went back in the morning solo as my son was beat and wanted to sleep in. I like Dorney, I really do, would like to like it more though. It's arguably one of the few parks where all the coasters are at least ok, I actually started to dig Hydra which surprised me. Knoebels - We pulled into the parking lot just as some sort of Pennsylvania monsoon hit. We watched it pour buckets for a bit and left knowing we'd be back in October for PPP. The upshot is we spent the night at a motel in Clearfield which has a Walmart on top of mountain. Well not really but it's up really, really high, sort of like, Mt Walmart. Anyway we went there to buy blank CDs and yogurt and came out with a Wii and accessories. They've been super hard to find and I was hoping to have one for Father's Day so we just had to snatch it up. Cedar Point - If you're still reading you've made it to the end! We arrived at the park late Wednesday afternoon and enjoyed 2.5 lazy days wandering the park/beach and of course Coastermania on Friday. My first visit to CP was in 1978 and it's where my kids and I first caught on to this whole coaster hobby/thing, it still feels like home. Maverick was obviously the only new coaster to us and we hit that first, waited around an hour. Initial impression was not very positive due entirely to the OTSR's but by Friday night we had warmed up to it. Still probably our least favorite new coaster of the trip, Mystery Mine blows it away imho. Coastermania was certainly interesting and definitely fun, but getting up at 5:00 in the morning is actually not as exciting as it sounds . We were so tired we had to go back to bed before the park opened at 10:00! It would be great to see the ERT all at night, run it until 2:00 AM. Still it's a great event and with a Maxx Pass entirely free. We ended the evening with a midnight ride on Dragster and Magnum, hard to think of a better way to end the day and our trip. Thanks for reading, here are the last of the pictures. Time to say goodnight and goodbye, what a great trip! And night begins to fall. A little walk along the beach. And they were hungry! Amazing the park buys 1700 people lunch, and it was great food. The line for the Coastermania lunch buffet. Another favorite, out of the station for Millennium Force. Miscellaneous Maverick shots. Maverick's evil, evil queue. One it's long and two the music, oh boy. Later one evening they played a little jazz which was wonderful. A little Chick-Fil-A picnic under Maverick. My favorite pic of the trip, taken from the Sky Ride. And finally, we're home (not really, MN is another 700 miles away). The only pic of Dorney, out our motel room window no less! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
christianscoasters Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Ooh I likey those Maverick shots! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asr Posted June 21, 2007 Share Posted June 21, 2007 Nice TR, but please PLEASE next time you do a TR like this, put it all in one thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mj8thehill Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Thats awsome u stayed in clearfield... because thats were i live!! should of stopped and picked me up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FeelTheFORCE Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Great PTR! Maverick's que line isn't that long. You have to admit that it does move very fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bulldogmom Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Great pics. I hated the music in Maverick's queue too. Country music is bad enough, but LOUD country.... Seeing the line for the lunch buffet, I'm glad I didn't go! I was having siesta in the Breakers at that time. I might have even seen you on the beach or in the park- I spent almost all day Sat at the beach (getting burned) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BeemerBoy Posted June 22, 2007 Share Posted June 22, 2007 Nice TR, but please PLEASE next time you do a TR like this, put it all in one thread!I'll have to agree with this. I really enjoyed all your reports, and it looks like you guys had an incredible trip and got some awesome pics! It's just constructive criticism, but this would've worked much better as a long continuing report rather than a fragmented one. Either way, glad you had a great time! EDIT: I LOVE that Raptor pic, and the shot of Maverick's airtime hill! Awesome stuff!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marko Posted June 22, 2007 Author Share Posted June 22, 2007 ^ Next time I'll put it all in one thread, thanks for the suggestion. The only thought was that maybe someday TPR will archive TR's by park? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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