Poisson
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During the month of April, me and @MattyH realised it had been many months since our really successful trip to Spain and that needed to be rectified. One thing that I had been keeping an eye on every so often was the Chunnel. During mid May, prices were down to £22 each way for the car for a 48 hour trip (under a £ a mile) so a really sensible* plan was hatched which saw me meeting Matt at Ashford Station and grabbing a hotel before an early start.
One for @JAperson
Setting off at an illegal time of morning, we arrived in time to board the 04:20 train, giving us an hour head start over our booked time which was good as neither of us had used the Tunnel before but it was easy enough.
As we were running early, we actually went through France to Belgium (where my phone acting as sat nav had a moment as it had changed networks twice in 45 mins) to Plopsa on a sighting run to see what we were getting in for the next day. This is when, running early, we decided to go for a more scenic route. Great fun, thankfully not meeting traffic on single track roads through fields. Standard fair really, very Misery Trip.
Pulling in to Bellewearde (for the second time, first time we were too early so went and found breakfast) we headed for Dawson Duel, which turned out to open half an hour late so we went on Wakala. Now, this is a weird little coaster as it has everything just thrown at it to make a quite fun layout. Normal lift, launch lift, booster section, spike, the lot but on a family coaster as it works in a very Gerst way. After a ride on this, we hung around and finally entered the queue for Dawson Duel, or Cardio: The Ride.
Very odd alpine but not alpine coaster, using a tower instead of a hill. The problem with this is the queue has an enormous amount of steps and ramps and it has 2 separate tracks which make sense to do back to back...cue 2 fat idiots curling up in a heap. Pretty bag claim lanyard/token though.
Trekking across the park we went to find the last 2 creds. Hurakan was first, with a nice station, a half hearted attempt at themeing and views over the area including a HUSS Topple Tower. Such a weird setup with themeing half there and the other half is tin shed? This was followed by the Vekoma Boomerang, creatively called Boomerang and it was...eh, as expected.
Photo : https://www.hussrides.com/en/family-rides/topple-tower
Finally it was time for our first HUSS Topple Tower and it was....UTTER BALLS. Impressive off ride but dull on ride. It was operating though, which seems like a rarity for a ride of this type. Following this, we headed for lunch and then went for wander and watched a goat try and eat children. 10/10 entertainment. On our wander we saw that the park had Capybaras, the greatest animal to exist, but they were only accessible by boat but the queue was large, so we headed for a dark ride we had no idea about, which turned out as we had guessed from the building shape to be a decent Madhouse.
After this, we headed across to ride the train to learn it went through a lion enclosure. Extra win, extra scary.
Back to the boat and:
Bestest day ever. Also had the bonus of a waterfall at the entrance to a tunnel that actually turns off (Valhalla eat your heart out).
We rounded out the day on park with a couple of relaxed rides on Wakala before heading out. +5 each.
One for @JAperson
Setting off at an illegal time of morning, we arrived in time to board the 04:20 train, giving us an hour head start over our booked time which was good as neither of us had used the Tunnel before but it was easy enough.
As we were running early, we actually went through France to Belgium (where my phone acting as sat nav had a moment as it had changed networks twice in 45 mins) to Plopsa on a sighting run to see what we were getting in for the next day. This is when, running early, we decided to go for a more scenic route. Great fun, thankfully not meeting traffic on single track roads through fields. Standard fair really, very Misery Trip.
Pulling in to Bellewearde (for the second time, first time we were too early so went and found breakfast) we headed for Dawson Duel, which turned out to open half an hour late so we went on Wakala. Now, this is a weird little coaster as it has everything just thrown at it to make a quite fun layout. Normal lift, launch lift, booster section, spike, the lot but on a family coaster as it works in a very Gerst way. After a ride on this, we hung around and finally entered the queue for Dawson Duel, or Cardio: The Ride.
Very odd alpine but not alpine coaster, using a tower instead of a hill. The problem with this is the queue has an enormous amount of steps and ramps and it has 2 separate tracks which make sense to do back to back...cue 2 fat idiots curling up in a heap. Pretty bag claim lanyard/token though.
Trekking across the park we went to find the last 2 creds. Hurakan was first, with a nice station, a half hearted attempt at themeing and views over the area including a HUSS Topple Tower. Such a weird setup with themeing half there and the other half is tin shed? This was followed by the Vekoma Boomerang, creatively called Boomerang and it was...eh, as expected.
Photo : https://www.hussrides.com/en/family-rides/topple-tower
Finally it was time for our first HUSS Topple Tower and it was....UTTER BALLS. Impressive off ride but dull on ride. It was operating though, which seems like a rarity for a ride of this type. Following this, we headed for lunch and then went for wander and watched a goat try and eat children. 10/10 entertainment. On our wander we saw that the park had Capybaras, the greatest animal to exist, but they were only accessible by boat but the queue was large, so we headed for a dark ride we had no idea about, which turned out as we had guessed from the building shape to be a decent Madhouse.
After this, we headed across to ride the train to learn it went through a lion enclosure. Extra win, extra scary.
Back to the boat and:
Bestest day ever. Also had the bonus of a waterfall at the entrance to a tunnel that actually turns off (Valhalla eat your heart out).
We rounded out the day on park with a couple of relaxed rides on Wakala before heading out. +5 each.
