HighExtreme Posted June 14, 2008 Share Posted June 14, 2008 Just returned from a visit to Scandinavia, we started with an afternoon in Sweden, like you do, before sailing to Denmark for Lynet and Piraten Balder beckoned, so first up was Liseberg, the park opened at 1pm, there were lots of school kids queuing up outside the gates waiting to get in, the park was very crowded, the longest wait was half an hour for Kanonen, which still rides like a small train wreck, the transitions are a little too tight and there are some nasty jolts The log flume was welcoming in the glorious sunshine, the final triple drop of doom is very unnerving, we had just over 4 hours in the park, as we'd visited before it was plenty of time to get on most of the rides at least once, if you've never visited Liseberg before I’d definitely recommend a lot longer in the park Leaving Liseberg behind we sailed across to Frederikshavn in Denmark, up bright and early the next morning we took a train to Lindholm, then the bus to Farup We found using public transport relatively easy to get around, detailed timetables and prices are available on the DSB's Website Farup is a neat collection of well chosen rides set largely amongst the trees, there's also horse riding, shooting, assault courses and a water park included in the admission, the water park was fantastic despite the freezing water and slightly cold temperatures we braved the concrete slides which meandered down the hillside, they also had a bowl slide, insanely fast racing slope down hill thing and a wave pool For the next couple of nights we stayed in Aarhus as it was a nice base for transport to Djurs and the Airport for the return flight back to the UK, Aarhus is home to Tivoli Friheden, unfortunately the park wasn't open on our visit, but they're building a new compact inverted coaster, so definitely worth checking out for anybody who's thinking of visiting the region We stayed in hotels belonging to the Scandic Hotels chain as the rooms were a good standard, all their hotels offer free breakfast buffet and free wireless internet access, they were in convenient locations for using the local transport, as we didn't have a hire car Djurs was the last park we visited, like Farup it had a lot of extras included in the admission price including a water park, dune buggies, go-karts, mini golf and of course a shooting range! Piraten is a great little hyper, the first helix is very forceful, the airtime kicks in from the third hill onwards. Overall I'm really impressed by both parks and would recommend the experience to everyone [Djurs] Like divv and tom we also found the spunk candy - also notice the friendly engineer sat at the top of piraten's lift [Djurs] the wave swinger was running backwards! yes backwards! [Djurs] Tarzanland assault course was like something from a Japanese game show [Djurs] Djurs peddle kart things were crazy [Djurs] the operate yourself racing wet/dry racing slides had no staff anywhere - help yourself to a boat and press the button to lift the raft onto the slide yourself! [Djurs] Piraten is a great coaster for Denmark, sure it'll be very sucessful for the park [Farup] Farup's aqualand featured concrete slides of death down the hillside [Farup] Falken was a wee bit slow though very enjoyable [Farup] Lynet is a very punchy ride, the bunny hill and zero g have insane amounts of airtime [Farup] notice the workman still building the queue line, by the end of the day they'd built a hand rail and added some themeing to the inside parts of the queue and station [Farup] never trust a Squirrel with your chip and pin number the exotic ferry crossing from Gothenburg to Frederikshavn took 3 hours and cost $22 [Liseberg] the corner of joy [Liseberg] Soarin' over Gothenburg [Liseberg] Lisebergbanana was running as fierce as ever [Liseberg] we only had just over 4 hours in Liseberg, despite the busy crowds, we managed to get on everything at least once and a few re-rides on Balder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Calaway Park Posted June 15, 2008 Share Posted June 15, 2008 Great TR- I just lost track between the parks! -Sean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HighExtreme Posted June 15, 2008 Author Share Posted June 15, 2008 Thanks for the heads up Sean, i've labeled each photo to say which park its at, i've also uploaded a short clip of the backwards Wave Swinger at Djurs http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=ygPtvnNYiZY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
viking86 Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 Have Lisebergbanan been repainted recently, or is it just the picture that makes it looks really white?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Edward Posted June 16, 2008 Share Posted June 16, 2008 ^ It has had some new painting done. Sort of started last year, but has a definate new coat this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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