Photo TR: My first ever visit to Phantasialand!

[Norwegian coasterfan]

I have just returned from a wonderful trip to Phantasialand

 

I have wanted to visit Phantasialand for many years and I finally got the chance

 

I stayed at the Hotel Ling Bao for 3 nights and I got a 3-day pass when i ordered the hotel. Since my flight home was in the evening i could spend half of that day in the park so I had a total of 2,5 days in the park

 

In october the park opens up the new Klugheim area half an hour after the park closes for the hotel guest, the area looked fantastic at night and allowed for loads of re-rides

 

I was really lucky because no rides had more than a 15 minute wait. Only Taron had a queue of 45-80 minutes all day but I had the ERT in the evening so it didn`t bother me

 

So here come my thoughts and reviews of the park and loads of photos

Hotel Ling Bao

The hotel was fantastic! Great room, great food and great service!

My room

Beautiful garden

I thought this was cool

Since it was my first visit i wanted to use the main entrance instead of the entrance in the garden of the hotel

Such a beautiful carousel

After all these years I am finally here

Black Mamba would be my first ride

And what a ride! Way more intense than I thought it would be. I have only ridden one other B&M invert and that is Nemesis Inferno and I thought Black Mamba was much better. Some great footchoppers and quite a long layout with some fantastic helixes at the end. And the whole area is just beautiful and really immersive.

Track everywhere

Colorado Adventure

And holy crap this is a wild ride! I was not expecting airtime on a mine train this is definitely a back row ride!

River quest

I have heard great things about this ride. Let me just say it did not disappoint This must be the weirdest and most awesome rapids ride ever!

Guess what happened to me...

Mystery castle

I loved this! Great queue with a creepy atmosphere, not very intense but so much fun

They even had actors in the queue!

Creepy professor

Good madhouse but the preshow was weird. I also rode Gheister Rikscha which was really weird and in need of an update.

This was really fun and it smells delicious inside here

Two great spinning coasters, quite different though, the trick track was a nice twist to make the rides a bit more interesting, I personally think fear is the best, it had more airtime, a bigger drop and a longer section at the end with some good forces.

Up the hill to two of the strangest rides I have ever been on...

Hollywood tour started out great with a surprisingly nice "cave" but then everything after was really outdated, uninteresting and boring. Worst ride in the park by far!

Really forceless and boring coaster in complete darkness that lasted forever. At least it was smooth...

Temple of the Nighthawk`s VERY green station.

I am not usually a big fan of flatrides, but Talocan was AWESOME! So much fun!

This Is the best log flume i have ever been on! I loved it, great music, great theming and Intamin`s new log flume system is GREAT! More parks should install these.

Let`s talk about Raik first. I was surprised at how tall it is, looks huge for a family ride. The trains are really comfortable and much wider than they appear on photos. The ride was actually quite forceful and thanks to the trench it feels really fast. Overall a great ride and wonderful for families.

So much detail

Station of...

TARON! Holy crap what a ride! The anticipation when slowly creeping around the corner out of the station with the music playing is unreal. The first launch is quite forceful and the first airtime hill is fantastic and coming out of the hill was some surprising laterals before being whipped trough the fastest direction change on the entire ride. After this is a nice slightly calmer section around the Klugheim area with some tunnels and interaction with the different buildings. Then the second launch kicks in and this is when things get crazy. You gain some serious speed before you fly past some waterfalls which might get you a bit wet. Then comes a serious of direction changes and a really intense overbank into more airtime-packed direction changes until you fly into the brakes. This is definitely a top 5 ride for me! And i have to talk about the restraints. I think they are even better than Macks lapbars. They are really comfortable and they don`t tighten at all during the ride. And they are really roomy so you get some nice floater air like you would with the B&M clamshells.

Sexy Intamin track

In the hotel ERT there was no line at all so i had loads of re-rides

I hope you enjoyed my trip report

[viking86]

Awesome trip report! Phantasialand is such a beautiful park. The hotel looks fantastic as well. Loved the photos with the mist, creates a nice atmosphere! I really need to get my ass down to Germany and check out some of the parks there.

 

Thank you for sharing!

[Nrthwnd]

Great trip report. And awesome to see a lot of the theming and architecture

of the attractions. So much detail to see. Thanks for sharing your First Time Ever, there!

[ThemeParkJunkie51290]

Amazing! Glad you had a blast! I always found this theme park breathtaking and fascinating!

[alexinla]

I am glad you liked Phantasialand, not the biggest park on earth, but beautiful.

Hollywood Tour is so bad that it is actually cult. Kinda like the Rocky Horror Picture Show, which is a bad movie, but awsome.

I've stayed at the Hotel Matamba, which I loved, so it was great to see pictures of the other Hotel

[valentinio]

Very beautiful photo, some of them take themselves on a wall