Tömmioh Posted June 21, 2006 Posted June 21, 2006 Holiday Park 5.6.06 Arrived: around 10:40am Departed around 4:30 pm Weather: sunny, around 17-19 degrees celcius. Who went: me and my sister Rides: Queues: 3 x Expedition Geforce 35 min/15 min/ 25 min Super Wirbel 30 min 2 x Burg Falkenstein walk on Teufelsfässer - flume 25min Donnerfluss - rapids 20 mins Free fall tower 3 mins would have been 15, if they hadn't needed a single rider to fill in. Kanalfahrt " Anno tobak" 5 mins Tour des Fleurs 5 mins Tanzender Pavilion walkon The park was more beautiful, better themed at places and bigger than I had expected. The park wasn't so crowded as I expected. I thought that the Germans would go to school on this day (Monday), but my mom had found out later that they've a 2 weeks holiday only in this 'state' in Germany, which was a bit dissapointing, but didn't really bother us in the end, when we still got on the rides we wanted. The highlight of the day was EGF, it was really great or more like fantastic, definately my favourite coaster so far. I can't really find out any part of the ride which they could've done better. They operated one and at times two trains that day, which explains the difference in the queuing times. The logflume, Teufelsfässer, which according to Holiday Park's site means Devil's Barrels, was a good ride and one of my favourite flumes, with an surprising element. Super Wirbel was alright, it was nice that its surrounded by there and that there is trees right next to the track, and you couldn't see what was coming. It was also too shaky, still a bit better than Alton's Corkscrew even though the car hurted my knee more. The Free Fall tower was quite intense, you did really get 'the stomach feeling', it was great. Burg Falkenstein was a random, nice, quite funny middle age themed darkride, but the sounds were too loud, and not really 'well balanced'. Donnerfluss, or 'Thunderriver' was quite lame and boring, one of the worst rapids I've been on. I didn't see a sign of their new 'Lighthouse tower attraction', which should've opened in Spring, maybe I'm blind or then its construction have been delayed for a time. Overall the day was good, it would've been nice to stay longer, unfortunately we couldn't as we had to make it to a train which was going to Freiburg later that evening. Here are some photos: The first drop, The last Double drop and the water, wasn't that poetic? No? Great. Soccer craze in Germany, go ahead see how many goals you pee. Quite cool. Super Wirbel, a yellow thing that makes you go oooch!! Aaargh!!! in the forest, no it's not a Cambodian yellow moose. The world's biggest beer or wine barrel, space for about 77 000 liters ~ 17000 gallons. Here is the Donnerfluss. Lame caption. Lame ride. Now onto something much better... Some banked turns, looking fresh n' cool, shame they didn't want to hang out. "More hills that kills with the airtime it between the seat and the riders a$$ fills." The mis-timed photo which sadly ruined this TR. Airtime hill and the camp kitchen, good combination ? I don't know! The great first drop. Put your hands up if you wanna have a great ride. Shame, rider on the 2nd row, on the right hand side, you'll soon experience our new ride enhancement called ejection seat, because you queue-jumped. The view from the station, orange airtime track, trees and hair, food stalls, what else do you need? This photo is for all the "sideways, a bit from below" lifthill enthusiasts out there. More photos will come soon.
ECZenith Posted June 22, 2006 Posted June 22, 2006 I hope they do get working, I'm looking forward to seeing them.
Tömmioh Posted June 25, 2006 Author Posted June 25, 2006 I'm sorry guys, I don't really know what's the problem, because the photos showed up in the preview window. Anyways I re-uploaded them, I hope you can see them now. If not, please let me know, and I'll upload the photos to webshots or something. Here are more Holiday Park photos: A Limited edition of EGF merchandise, the car 35 000$, a crate 120$, spade 75$, half pound of sand from the expedition 25$. Thanks for reading. Europa Park tripreport should be up soon. The drop tower, which was sadly without any free mint drops. The Holly Kinderland! weee!. not or actually never to be mistaken with the Holy Land. mouthful hairy corns, too corny for me. blue beans, happy mushroom etc. and green stuff. Oh, now I know where he got that wound from! Some strange temporare tattoo thingies in form of wounds, bloody stuff. Nice looking houses. Some tough warriors. One with a badass bloody wound. A mad bear holding up a guy, he's about to throw him on the laydee's, because he didn't get any plastic swiss cheese. The cool two and a half middle aged middle age men. -Aah oink!.. you smell fresh again Rüdiger, now what kind of dirt did you have for dinner? Some nicely themed houses. now onto a few random Burg Falkenstein photos. The entrance to the park, the last shot of Holiday Park I have.
matteocrepaldi Posted June 25, 2006 Posted June 25, 2006 Did you really wait 35 minutes to ride Expedition Geforce? Here's a picture's of my friend SteelPeppe during our longest wait!!!
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