Tim
TS Member
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- Air / Blue Fire
Some of us will go really far out of our way for just 1 ride credit. And to great expense as well!
I almost had one of these moments this weekend, when I made my way up to Blackpool purley to ride Icon. It was a tight riding window, made even tighter when the park shortened their hours. And I came to the realisation that I could be paying £30 for entry, another £15 for Enso, £15 for parking and nearly £100* in petrol just for 1 ride. Fortunately I got more than just 1 ride.
* I did have other reasons to be In Blackpool that sort of balance this out, but they could also be classed as going out the way for a hobby.
But I realised I've had other times that I've taken the risk, rolled the dice and not been so lucky. And I'm sure many of you have too!
So I ask, what are your craziest stories just to get 1 elusive credit?
My main story would have to be Atlantis Adventure at Korea's Lotte World. I'd been in Korea for a month at this point and realised that my flight home was approaching and with 1 weekend left I hadn't ridden a single Korean ride. I was staying about 2 hours outside of Seoul, so I convinced a team of work colleagues to spend the day sightseeing in Seoul and both myself and a manager to fork out the ~£30 each to check out Lotte World.
When we got their the ride already had a queue stretching the entire outdoor area of the park. But I was committed at that point so we sat it out, even though it took a big chuck out of our day. 1 ride done I took a look at the similarly massive queue for the other coasters, decided I was happy with the credit I had and after a short check out of anything that didn't have a wait we left.
Can't say it was money well spent but I have no regrets just for the experience!
But I feel both of these are fairly mundane compared to what some of you might of done? And I've been lucky so far that I've never crossed the world just to find a park closed (although I got close once).
I almost had one of these moments this weekend, when I made my way up to Blackpool purley to ride Icon. It was a tight riding window, made even tighter when the park shortened their hours. And I came to the realisation that I could be paying £30 for entry, another £15 for Enso, £15 for parking and nearly £100* in petrol just for 1 ride. Fortunately I got more than just 1 ride.
* I did have other reasons to be In Blackpool that sort of balance this out, but they could also be classed as going out the way for a hobby.
But I realised I've had other times that I've taken the risk, rolled the dice and not been so lucky. And I'm sure many of you have too!
So I ask, what are your craziest stories just to get 1 elusive credit?
My main story would have to be Atlantis Adventure at Korea's Lotte World. I'd been in Korea for a month at this point and realised that my flight home was approaching and with 1 weekend left I hadn't ridden a single Korean ride. I was staying about 2 hours outside of Seoul, so I convinced a team of work colleagues to spend the day sightseeing in Seoul and both myself and a manager to fork out the ~£30 each to check out Lotte World.
When we got their the ride already had a queue stretching the entire outdoor area of the park. But I was committed at that point so we sat it out, even though it took a big chuck out of our day. 1 ride done I took a look at the similarly massive queue for the other coasters, decided I was happy with the credit I had and after a short check out of anything that didn't have a wait we left.
Can't say it was money well spent but I have no regrets just for the experience!
But I feel both of these are fairly mundane compared to what some of you might of done? And I've been lucky so far that I've never crossed the world just to find a park closed (although I got close once).
