Easter Trip 2010 USA Westcoast

[Lamoure]

Hey dear coastercommunity,

i will do a "Westcoasttrip" with my parents on easter 2010, because then i finally got passed my final exams.

We will flight with a plane to "SanFransisco" on the 22th of March 2010.

Then we've booked a bigass camper to drive to "LosAngeles".

The whole trip will last 14 days.

 

Of course, i told my parents that we've to visit btw my first american themeparks !! I'm so excited!!

 

Themeparks, which are planned:

SFMM for sure,

Knott's Berry Farm or DisneyCaliforniaAdventure or UniversalStudiosLA.

 

What are your advices for our first USA-Trip ??

 

Btw. To Meet the big Robb would be of course the best thing of the trip;)

Thank you Lamoure

[hyyyper]

Out of Knott's, Universal or Disney I would pick Universal.

 

Knott's only good coasters are Xcelerator and Silver Bullet, and there's plenty of coasters at Magic Mountain that outrank those.

 

Disney is a very cool park, but since you also have a Disney 'nearby' in Paris, I would go for Universal, as it is something unlike anything in Europe.

[Lamoure]

Hmm, i would only go to DCA because of the "Launchcoastercredit", that looks awesome!!

 

I am worried of Universal, because it looks like it is made for kids.

BUT -> Universal Port Aventura is my favourite park (also because of the Theming), maybe i make a big mistake here.

 

I prefer a little bit Knott's because they have the most "More-Adrenalin-Coasters".

 

What about the waiting queues? I hope i won't get shocked by an six-hour-queue..

[robbalvey]

Universal is quite a small park here in California and doesn't have as much to offer as Disney.

 

It would be great if you could do both, but if you had to choose, I would spend the time at Disney. It's very different from the one in Europe.

 

--Robb

[Lamoure]

Omg, i found another "bigger" themepark in California:

California's Great America .

Could somebody recommend this park ??

 

@robb: Well maybe they will be 3 parks at the trip.

That would be awwwwwesome

[RCFreak]

^Six Flags Discovery Kingdom is also up near San Fransisco and fun if any of your family members like animals more then theme parks and roller coasters as they have a lot on display.

[Lamoure]

So well, I'll push this topic now, because it's time to visit the USA the first time in 2 days (thursday) !!!

 

Parks I'll visit 100%:

Santa Cruz Beach Broadwalk

Six Flags Magic Mountain

Universal Studio's Hollywood

Knott's Berry Farm

 

and maybe Disney's CA or Sea World San Diego

 

I'll post my updates day for day here in this topic (= Hope you will enjoy them; I bought a new cam (Nikon Coolpix S8000) especially for this trip.

[Lamoure]

After a great 12hour-flight, I finally arrived the USA (=

It's that great, even the jetleck feels like i'm drunk, it's so warm here in california

 

I'm now over 30hours awake, after visiting SanFrancisco's famous PIER39 (and his 4D-Simulator, with wasn't worth price..) and get some awesome seafood, i'll take a nip

 

First Sunset-Photo now below in this topic, first "themepark" will be "SantaCruzBroadwalk" at Thursday. (=

See you all soon for an update

PIER 39