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East Anglia/Norfolk (Pleasurewood Hills, Joyland, Pettits Animal Adventure, Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach)

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Itgoeshowhigh

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Sunday - Pleasurewood Hills.

First impressions, nowhere near as run down as expected. Nice and “leafy”, some areas of fairly nice theming, bigger than I expected.

Coasters,

Marble Madness, standard mild mouse experience.

Cannonball express. Daughter was excited to ride this. Looked up the history while waiting in “the very slow” queue. 42 years old, began its life at Plopsaland. Poor thing looks and feels every bit of them 42 years. Still enjoyable though.

You have to take your bags on with you as you exit off a different platform.

Wipeout. I wasn’t sure about this one since I’m quite fragile these days but decided to give it a go as wasn’t feeling too bad on the day. I haven’t done anything big for 9 months. Well it lived up to its name and did almost wipe me out, nearly passed out after the loop. Very very intense. Too much, did not enjoy.

Looked it up afterwards, RCDB says 5.2Gs!

Egg-spress. Delightful. Fun music, cartoony chicken theming, fairly long layout, lifthill tunnel (which makes a great noise), felt surprisingly fast. First drop on the back row was actually decent for a kids ride. What more could you want? Best coaster in the park.

We also did
The log flume.
The chairlift which freaked us out a bit because it gets so close to the tops of the trees that it drags your legs through the branches and makes the chair bounce and rock.
The kiddie zamperla thing with the cages like Hero has.
The wave swinger
The shooting dark ride
Wave breaker (dinghy down a slide thing)

General thoughts. We had a pleasant day. It could just do with a decent family thrill (plenty of space for a little woody) and maybe one other family ride and it would be quite a decent family park.

Monday - Joyland

Joyland bought me no joy. I’m sorry I know it’s aimed at kids, but even if I’d had little ones with me, the place is an absolute rip off at 3 quid per ride. The tub ride pretty much finished me off for the day.

Creds; Spook Express, Tyrolean Tub Twist
(And The Snails)

Did sealift then went home for an afternoon nap.

Tuesday - Pettits animal adventure

2 creds; a wacky worm (which the ride op had to physically push to get going) and another tiny kiddie coaster, Rocky Roller coaster.

Now we are not the target audience for this place but we had a lovely day. Really nice little park. If you have little kids, this place is a gem.

A good selection of rides for little kids. A little train ride. Animals. A really nicely themed dinosaur crazy golf. ( the crazy golf isn’t an up-charge, just grab a club and ball and go for it). The chicken show, a hilarious animatronic band with chickens, a fox, a frog and a farmer who burst into life every half hour to sing a few catchy little tunes. An amazing looking playground.

Theming packed in everywhere and just a general feel of a place which is well loved and well looked after.

A nice chill out day for me.

Had a paddle in the sea last night.

Today Pleasure Beach, really looking forward to the woodie.
Will post later
 
Wednesday
Pleasure Beach
Only spent 4 hours there but managed to do loads.
I think we did Roller Coaster 8 times, all different rows. I don’t think I’ve ever been on a coaster where there’s such a difference between front and back row. Back row actually quite decent with a fair bit of air time. Front row very very tame. Enjoyed watching the break man/woman at work.
Did the other 3 coasters for the creds. (Really getting fed up with wacky worms now)
Did the ghost train which I found really spooky.
Also did the monorail, pirate ship, polar express and snails.

By this point I was exhausted so went back to the caravan for a afternoon lay down.

I actually enjoyed PWH more than pleasure beach but this may have been because by this point, the last few days were really catching up with me and I was beyond knackered.

All in all, really enjoyed my little break in Yarmouth.

Would have like to have done more but still quite limited by current health issues. Still got quite a few new creds though so all good.

Never made it to brittania pier, it looked closed from a distance and I couldn’t face walking a single step further.
 
It's always interesting to hear others' perspectives on these Easy Anglian parks, @Itgoeshowhigh. You had a nice lot of goes on Roller Coaster... Come to think of it, it really is incredible the difference between front and back, isn't it? Glad you managed to do quite a lot of the rides, and wishing you the very best of health.
 
Also recently did a similar first trip to Great Yarmouth & Pleasurewood Hills and had an enjoyable time. The only big downer was Wipeout was out of action for the day of our visit, so we were done with the park within a couple of hours and can’t see us returning anytime soon.
 
That's dead deer dear...

Breeding like crazy with few natural predators...apart from four by fours on the A47.
Real problem for car owners, farmers, foresters and gardeners.
Pretty things though...when not splatted that is.
 
IDB said:
Also recently did a similar first trip to Great Yarmouth & Pleasurewood Hills and had an enjoyable time. The only big downer was Wipeout was out of action for the day of our visit, so we were done with the park within a couple of hours and can’t see us returning anytime soon.
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Even with everything open you're done in a couple of hours.
 
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