themeparkman25 Posted July 19, 2010 Share Posted July 19, 2010 too bad it wasn't as awesome as we had hoped it would be. But at least 3D glasses were involved! I know I am late on posting this, but we got screwed on our ride! Like straight up! I can't believe we waited all that time for a 1 minute spectacula of failure. Gah, I'm still not over the disappointment. As always, great pictures and I look forward to the next update! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
live2tell75 Posted July 20, 2010 Author Share Posted July 20, 2010 ^Thanks Jordan! You are so right. I still don't know what happened in that Terminator thing. It was so weird! It was such an epic fail, so much possibility. I'm not sure what was more disturbing - the shortness of the "show/experience" or at least in our group's pre-show room a dozen school kids started to laugh uncontrollably during the part where the earth gets nuked! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
live2tell75 Posted July 20, 2010 Author Share Posted July 20, 2010 Once arriving in Germany, we stayed at a fantastic resort for 2 nights, the Hotel Colosseo at the Europa Park Resort. It was funny now that I think about it, we left Italy, arrived in Germany and now was staying at a Italian themed hotel! But what a gorgeous hotel to stay at! Every inch of this hotel was gorgeous. Along with Europa Park, this was probably my favorite stop on our tour. This photo update is just for the amazing hotel, next update will include lots of photos from Europa Park. Stay tuned! New country credit, Germany! Our gorgreous hotel for the next 2 nights, the Hotel Colosseo at the Europa Resort. Inside the lobby. Inside the lobby, looking up. The lobby's ceiling. Through the lobby and you enter the main plaza area of the Italian themed hotel. Complete with Roman Colosseum style steps. More of the main plaza. The plaza featured many cafes and bars. A view from Fran and my hotel window. Another view from our window. I loved this hotel! A more secluded area of one of the hotel's cafes. Beautiful flowers lined many areas of the hotel. The children's pool area. The hotel's main pool was located at the base of the backside of the Colosseum. Some of my fellow "Real World Europe" castmates enjoying a swim. The main outside pool had a river that connected into the inside pool/spa area. The indoor pool/spa area. The main restaurant was elegant featuring dozens of lit candles decorating the dinning rooms. Our group enjoyed a delicious meal. As did Derek, Amy and Joey. As the sun set, the hotel really came to life. Enjoying the view from the Colosseum steps with Melissa and Christine. With my awesome roommate and new friend, Fran. Elissa thanks again for pairing us up, I thought we were a great match! The girls enjoying the evening. The Colosseum was gorgeous at night! Some of the Real World Europe cast hanging out in the "Cave" bar. After awhile we then moved to the lounge for a few drinks. Hotel Colosseo was fantastic, a top notch resort! Next up: agazillion photos from our 1 & 1/2 days at my favorite park of the trip, Europa Park. Stay tuned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nursemelis374 Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 As I look through everyone's pictures I remember how much fun we had on this trip. I would do the entire trip again in a heartbeat. Hotel Colosseo is one of the nicest hotels I have ever seen, even if no AC! I loved our time there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 ^You look so great in all of the pictures too!!! Not a sweaty sunburned mess like I resemble in everyone's photos! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themeparkman25 Posted July 20, 2010 Share Posted July 20, 2010 After all these pictures and trip reports, it makes me wish we had more time at all the destinations. I didn't even have time to check out the pool, and I was quite looking forward to this pool and Gardaland's pool. Next time? Regardless, I really liked this hotel! Can't wait for the park update! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
live2tell75 Posted July 23, 2010 Author Share Posted July 23, 2010 (edited) ^ I really wanted to check out the Gardaland Hotel's pool too! I guess it gives another reason to come back someday! When we arrived in Germany, we spent a day and a half at my favorite park of the trip, Europa Park. This park was gigantic! Featured gorgeous gardens and agazillion attractions all themed to many different European countries. I highly recommend this great park and resort. Words can't describe the awesomeness of this place so I'll let the photos do the talking! We have made it to one of my new all-time favorite parks and favorite park of the trip, Europa Park. Entrance plaza/German section of the park. Entrance plaza/German section of the park. Entrance plaza/German section of the park. Colorful arcade in the entrance plaza/German section of the park. Fountain in Germany. Monorail station. Monorail gliding through Germany. Europa Park really rivals in my opinion as being one of the most beautiful parks in the world! The first morning at Europa Park, we had ERT on the awesome Blue Fire coaster. Blue Fire features a small dark ride portion, then an incredible launch, multi inversions and lots of speed! I fell in love with this coaster that morning! Cameron and Renee were excited to ride Blue Fire too! Joey and Amy during ERT on Blue Fire. Blue Fire I miss you Blue Fire =( Along with Blue Fire, the park's newest attraction, Whale Adventures Splash Tours round out the Iceland section of the park. More gorgeous scenery! On the way to the park's wild mouse coaster. "The Real World TPR Europe" In line for the wild mouse coaster, Matterhorn-Blitz. Even the queue for the wild mouse had great theming! Lots of nice animated farm house scenes. Joey and Amy on Matterhorn-Blitz. More flowers! Another coaster credit, The Swiss Bob Run. Looks like Alfredo already won the bobsled race! Amy on the The Swiss Bob Run. Next up, another favorite coaster of the trip, the awesome Euro-Mir! Euro-Mir is this weird but amazing spinning coaster like no other I have ever ridden. The techno Euro-Mir song stays with you long after you get off the ride! I see you Blue Fire! The French area of the park. More of the gorgeous French area. Next up was Eurostat, the park's space themed indoor coaster in the dark. Another highlight of our time at Europa was on the second morning at the park, we had ERT with the lights on Eurostat, it was great! The queue for Eurostat was pretty trippy. The park even had a dinosaur themed ride named Universe of Energy. Sound familiar? It was actually pretty good. We grabbed lunch at a cheese counter. Even though the cheese shop/counter smelled absolutely gross, it was really good. And the best part was that they had ice for the drinks! Heading over to the Greek section. This area featured a Atlantis themed shooting dark ride. But the main draw for most people in the Greek section is Poseidon, a pretty good water coaster. Poseidon's entrance. Andrew and I in line for Poseidon. Loading area. Poseidon was fun, a little rough. Splash! Since it was really hot out, I wish we could have gotten more wet. Another awesome perk of our time at Europa was on the second morning we had unexpected ERT on Silver Star. It was great! Thanks again to Robb for aranging this fantastic surprise! Silver Star in the distance. Some of the group on SIlver Star. I know some people thought Silver Star wasn't that thrilling, but I actually enjoyed it quite a bit. The mine train coaster. The mine train coaster, Alpine Coaster "Enizian" was actually a lot of fun. The mine train coaster, Alpine Coaster "Enizian". An animated scene in Alpine Coaster Enizian's queue. A surprise of the mine train was the indoor section that traveled through "The World of Diamonds" walk through. The Flume traveling through the World of Diamonds. World of Diamonds featured a mining group of trolls. To exit the World of Diamonds, you walked through this underground street. Featuring lots of little buildings as Amy trys to explore. Lots of animated windows. The mine train and flume. Log Flume. Andrew as always, was overjoyed to have a slushie or ice cream. Edited July 23, 2010 by live2tell75 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
live2tell75 Posted July 23, 2010 Author Share Posted July 23, 2010 Europa Park Continued. We now head over to Portugal for Atlantica Supersplash. Animated scene in Atlantica's queue. The drop was pretty cool. Other than the drop and the little backwards part, I guess this and Journey to Atlantis at SWT aren't that exciting to me. The theming on Atlantic was nice, just wish there was more to the ride. Pirates in Batavia was a great Pirates knock off boat ride. Pirates in Batavia was well done, but I got to give it to Gardaland's Pirate boat ride for being my favorite. Real Worlders on Pirate's. The Jungle Rafts were nice. The Jungle Rafts featured a few animated village scenes. In the Italian section of the park. More gorgeous theming. Ghost Castle was the park's version of the Haunted Mansion. Ghost Castle was pretty elaborate. Am I the only one that swears they saw 3 KKK figures in one of the scenes during the ride? Ciao Bambimi is a cute small world like dark ride. Andrew met some new friends while in Russia. Riding "Bench the Ride". Actually it's called Sleigh Ride "Snowflake", a animated children's ride. Check out that slide! Car ride. On a relaxing boat cruise. This boat ride was very calming. The Puppet Boat Ride was nice. But featured creepy clowns! Alfredo and I survived the creepy puppet boat ride. As did Amy. More creepy puppets. I was surprised by how much the boats spun! Gorgeous! In England. Usually I don't care that much about riding bumper cars, but how cool are these! Football Scooter was awesome! These are the coolest themed bumper cars I have ever riden! We ended our day on the Fjord-Rafting river rapids ride in the Scandinavia section of the park. Fjord-Rafting river rapids ride - will Larry and Andrew get soaked on this ride? Or will this side of the boat get it? Actually none of us got too drenched. Unfortunately this concludes our stay at the Europa Park and Hotel Colesso. What an amazing time! Time to get back on the road. Next stop a traditional German Fair - stay tuned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedimaster1227 Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 As always Eric, you've delivered another fantastic trip report. It is great to see so many familiar, friendly faces from the TPR trips, and truthfully, the report has only made my jealousy that you all did this trip even greater! But I guess there's always next time! Keep up the great work with this awesome report, and hopefully we'll catch up state side sooner or later! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SharkTums Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 Europa Park is awesome, despite what some terrible Brit Kids may try to tell you! Is it time to go back yet?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cfc Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 Europa Park is awesome, despite what some terrible Brit Kids may try to tell you! Is it time to go back yet?? Quoted for truth! I love this park! That walkthrough cave that interacts with the powered coaster and the log ride is one my favorite spots there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Godwyn Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 Europa Park is awesome, despite what some terrible Brit Kids may try to tell you! After looking at pictures, I can see why you loved it so much. The place looks beautiful. Nice trip report! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TPDave Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 Awesome TR Eric!! Great pictures of a great park! Dave Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Divv3k Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 Fantastic photos of Europa Park, Eric! I'm so gutted I wasn't able to join you guys for this leg of the trip as it really is the most amazing park in Europe! Looking forward to the next installment! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nay Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 Great photos, Eric! I absolutely loved Europa Park and it's definitely on my list of parks that I would visit again in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moose Posted July 25, 2010 Share Posted July 25, 2010 I was a bit hesitant to tell you and all my UK trip buddies how much I loved Europa since I was afraid I would overhype the park. I am glad that everyone that I know seems to have loved it as much as I loved it in 08! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
live2tell75 Posted July 26, 2010 Author Share Posted July 26, 2010 Thanks guys for all the nice comments! Europa Park is awesome, despite what some terrible Brit Kids may try to tell you! Is it time to go back yet?? - I hope so, soon! Quoted for truth! I love this park! That walkthrough cave that interacts with the powered coaster and the log ride is one my favorite spots there. The World of Diamonds walkthrough was a true "gem" attraction. There is so much to explore in this park, I probably could spend 2 full days there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Erik Johnson Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 Awesome so far. I really should have tried to sneak onto this trip using your name. Maybe next time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ginzo Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 There is so much to explore in this park, I probably could spend 2 full days there! I agree. Two open-to-close days at Europa would be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
live2tell75 Posted July 26, 2010 Author Share Posted July 26, 2010 Our next day Robb & Elissa, arranged for our group to visit The Wurzburg Fair in a small German town. The main perk was that we had ERT (extra ride time) on Olympia Looping. Olympia Looping is one of the largest traveling coasters to ever travel in the fair circuit. Never in my wildest dreams did I think I would ever ride this coaster, so it was a great surprise to have this added to our tour! After ERT, we enjoyed a couple of hours in the festhaus-beer tent. Lots of yummy German food and entertainment. This was opening day of the fair so the town's mayor was on hand to kick off the opening ceremonies. It was a lot of fun and it was nice experiencing a true German activity. Onto the photos! On our journey through Germany to The Wurzburg Fair. There she is, Olympia Looping! It was pretty to cool to ride the rare Olympia Looping. 5 loops to represent the Olympic rings. A worker "lubing" up Olympia Looping for a smoother ride. With Christine and Olympia. After ERT on Olympia Looping it was time to spend a few hours in the festhaus beer tent for some festivities. Inside the beer tent. Since this was opening night of the fair, the mayor of the town was on hand to help kick-off the festivities. Christine and Melissa get into the spirit! As do Amy and Joey. TPR tour members enjoying the atmosphere. These were giant pretzels! There was so much food! This was for 2 people! Part of the kick-off tradition was to give away free beer from a keg. There were lots of TPR takers! Larry tries to climb the famous pole and ring the bell. As does Josh. Then Elissa tries. And then Ben. Then some of the locals decided to show us how it's done. They formed a human ladder. That's what I call teamwork! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
live2tell75 Posted July 26, 2010 Author Share Posted July 26, 2010 Continued: After the beer tent, we decided to check out the rest of the fair. The Real World Europe conquers the Wurzburg Fair! Oh and the fair had amazing food that I didn't get to enjoy from being stuffed from the festhaus tent. =( The fair had a pretty elaborately themed log flume. A gem of the fair, the Psychodelic House! The Psychodelic House was a fun-house 3D walk through where you got to where these fun groovy glasses! More groovy peeps! Everyone got in on the fun. The girls breaking it down in the The Psychodelic House. It was pretty trippy. I'm trying to make it through the spinning tunnel. Get down with you're bad self, Christine! Melissa met some new Austin Powers friends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
live2tell75 Posted July 26, 2010 Author Share Posted July 26, 2010 Strike a pose Christine! The fair had a great ghost ride. On the haunted house dark ride, looks like Andrew and Alfredo enjoyed the last scare by a live actor at the end of the ride. Haven't forgotten you Olympia Looping! Christine and Melissa met some new German boys. Our group rocked! The fair was so much fun! Thanks to Robb and Elissa for arranging this special treat! Next up another favorite park on the trip, Phantasialand! Stay tuned! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
live2tell75 Posted July 26, 2010 Author Share Posted July 26, 2010 Awesome so far. I really should have tried to sneak onto this trip using your name. Maybe next time! That reminds me of the time when we were going into Universal right after each other and the Universal team member did a double take after reading our annual passes. She gave us a look like are we trying scam her! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
larrygator Posted July 26, 2010 Share Posted July 26, 2010 For the record: Eric Johnson is the new "Eric Johnson" Erik Johnson is now to be referred to as the "other Erik Johnson" Sorry Erik Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
live2tell75 Posted July 26, 2010 Author Share Posted July 26, 2010 ^ That's awesome Larry! I like your way of thinking! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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