HeartlineCoaster
Theme Park Superhero
Korea, Japan, Creds. My dream holiday.
At many times this did feel like a dream as it was very full on, in the best way, and sleep was at an all time low.
Off we go then...
Day 1 – Everland
Had an overnight flight without sleep, landed at dawn and then jumped straight in at the deep end.
Original plan was to hit Lotte World on the day of landing, but website said Atlantis was spiting at the time, so that was put on the back burner. Dumped bags at hotel and grabbed the metro to a relevant bus stop for the park. Resulting journey was about an hour of drifting in and out of consciousness while staring out the window for any sign of T-Express.
It’ll be just round this corner. It’ll be just over this hill. It’ll be just past those trees. That hill must be where Eagle Fortress was (with 15 minutes of driving to go as you pass under an entrance sign for the resort).
Bus dumps you out at some sort of transport hub/lower car park where you have to catch another bus up another hill into the park.
Touristy card gives you at least 30% off entrance tickets during Visit Korea 'Year' (2016-2018). Cheers.
It’ll be just round this corner. It’ll be just over this hill. It’ll be just behind that building. That hill must be where Eagle Fortress was (it wasn’t). Foolishly winging it without the map and expecting to see 200ft of wooden magnificence somewhere, walked round the wrong end of the park which ended up being extremely hard on the legs.
There she is.
Armed with many stories of queuing systems and tickets for this beast, turns out it was just in vanilla mode with a 45 minute wait. Sweet.
The only odd part about the park system as a whole was the need to show your entrance ticket at every attraction, which made for many wasted hours scrabbling about in pockets upon forgetting every single time.
First impressions were generally great. Crazy fun first drop and hill, some ducking, diving and a premature midcourse into Balder 2.0, unfortunately then suffering from the same dead spot cornering.
Be back later.
Hit a couple of dark rides while down the bottom of the hill:
Remember absolutely nothing about the shooting one, so that must have been great.
The mad house was themed to spells and wizards (aren't they all?) and was reasonable fun as always.
Mistakenly wandered into some kids’ walkthrough thing a bit further up the hill. Put that down to a research failure.
Did the powered dragon as it might be the only one on this trip (far from it). Staff sing as you go round which is perfection.
Further up still is a nicely themed area with the tortoise and hare family coaster. Solid stuff.
Still climbing, nearly dieing, made it back to the entrance area. Bought some tickets for the K-Pop hologram show. Oh yes.
Got Rolling X-Train ticked off during the wait. For some reason this ride was almost piss your pants funny to me. The subtle offness to the shaping of the track, the quality of the trains and the way they juddered about and then nearly folded into your face in the loops caused a bit of laughter related internal damage to me. Arrow at their finest.
As an unhealthily obsessed fan, the hologram show was life changing of course. I won’t go into detail.
Pandas next, love the variety on offer at this place. Was meant to be some crappy looking interactive preshow presented by Samsung before getting to the enclosure, but thankfully this was skipped. I imagine something caught fire.
That’s the life for me.
While the pandas looked as content as could be, the polar bear nearby wasn't winning at life for some reason.
Moved swiftly on down to the safari jeep tour thing as time was pressing.
I guess I’ll compare it to Zufari (bad luck).
It doesn’t try and be something it isn’t. Just a truck, live commentary and animals. Obviously a lot better for this, you get right up close and personal with some very impressive creatures and ploughing through the water is deeply satisfying.
On the theme of ploughing through water, jumped aboard the rapids next. Once again I was deeply amused by this ride. Sitting in a little pouchie of a seat with a tarpaulin over me, feeling both cosy and terrified at the same time.
My favourite Hafema boys are back in action and this time there’s nothing you can do for damage limitation. It got me wet in places that weren’t physically possible from the seating arrangement.
Extra point of awesomeness, there’s a free bunch of different style heat lamps at your disposal after crawling out of the boat.
Having done a crafty loop of the park, rapids kick you back out at T-Express, just in time to finish the evening with a couple of night rides.
Ascending the lift in the dark, looking out at the park was one of those magical moments. Moments that remind me why I’m in this hobby.
Wouldn’t say the ride had physically improved in any way by this stage, but the atmosphere was amazing and made it a very standout experience.
Overall I found Everland to be one of those parks that I could just spend the day at doing pretty much nothing, because it’s just a great time regardless. The locals definitely seemed to share that attitude as well.
Christ that was a long day. Fell asleep a few times on the bus back and could have quite easily missed the stop, not that it felt like it mattered at that stage.
Somehow made it to the hotel and skipped over the fact the room had under floor heating and it was set to something like 35°C...
At many times this did feel like a dream as it was very full on, in the best way, and sleep was at an all time low.
Off we go then...
Day 1 – Everland
Had an overnight flight without sleep, landed at dawn and then jumped straight in at the deep end.
Original plan was to hit Lotte World on the day of landing, but website said Atlantis was spiting at the time, so that was put on the back burner. Dumped bags at hotel and grabbed the metro to a relevant bus stop for the park. Resulting journey was about an hour of drifting in and out of consciousness while staring out the window for any sign of T-Express.
It’ll be just round this corner. It’ll be just over this hill. It’ll be just past those trees. That hill must be where Eagle Fortress was (with 15 minutes of driving to go as you pass under an entrance sign for the resort).
Bus dumps you out at some sort of transport hub/lower car park where you have to catch another bus up another hill into the park.
Touristy card gives you at least 30% off entrance tickets during Visit Korea 'Year' (2016-2018). Cheers.
It’ll be just round this corner. It’ll be just over this hill. It’ll be just behind that building. That hill must be where Eagle Fortress was (it wasn’t). Foolishly winging it without the map and expecting to see 200ft of wooden magnificence somewhere, walked round the wrong end of the park which ended up being extremely hard on the legs.
There she is.
Armed with many stories of queuing systems and tickets for this beast, turns out it was just in vanilla mode with a 45 minute wait. Sweet.
The only odd part about the park system as a whole was the need to show your entrance ticket at every attraction, which made for many wasted hours scrabbling about in pockets upon forgetting every single time.
First impressions were generally great. Crazy fun first drop and hill, some ducking, diving and a premature midcourse into Balder 2.0, unfortunately then suffering from the same dead spot cornering.
Be back later.
Hit a couple of dark rides while down the bottom of the hill:
Remember absolutely nothing about the shooting one, so that must have been great.
The mad house was themed to spells and wizards (aren't they all?) and was reasonable fun as always.
Mistakenly wandered into some kids’ walkthrough thing a bit further up the hill. Put that down to a research failure.
Did the powered dragon as it might be the only one on this trip (far from it). Staff sing as you go round which is perfection.
Further up still is a nicely themed area with the tortoise and hare family coaster. Solid stuff.
Still climbing, nearly dieing, made it back to the entrance area. Bought some tickets for the K-Pop hologram show. Oh yes.
Got Rolling X-Train ticked off during the wait. For some reason this ride was almost piss your pants funny to me. The subtle offness to the shaping of the track, the quality of the trains and the way they juddered about and then nearly folded into your face in the loops caused a bit of laughter related internal damage to me. Arrow at their finest.
As an unhealthily obsessed fan, the hologram show was life changing of course. I won’t go into detail.
Pandas next, love the variety on offer at this place. Was meant to be some crappy looking interactive preshow presented by Samsung before getting to the enclosure, but thankfully this was skipped. I imagine something caught fire.
That’s the life for me.
While the pandas looked as content as could be, the polar bear nearby wasn't winning at life for some reason.
Moved swiftly on down to the safari jeep tour thing as time was pressing.
I guess I’ll compare it to Zufari (bad luck).
It doesn’t try and be something it isn’t. Just a truck, live commentary and animals. Obviously a lot better for this, you get right up close and personal with some very impressive creatures and ploughing through the water is deeply satisfying.
On the theme of ploughing through water, jumped aboard the rapids next. Once again I was deeply amused by this ride. Sitting in a little pouchie of a seat with a tarpaulin over me, feeling both cosy and terrified at the same time.
My favourite Hafema boys are back in action and this time there’s nothing you can do for damage limitation. It got me wet in places that weren’t physically possible from the seating arrangement.
Extra point of awesomeness, there’s a free bunch of different style heat lamps at your disposal after crawling out of the boat.
Having done a crafty loop of the park, rapids kick you back out at T-Express, just in time to finish the evening with a couple of night rides.
Ascending the lift in the dark, looking out at the park was one of those magical moments. Moments that remind me why I’m in this hobby.
Wouldn’t say the ride had physically improved in any way by this stage, but the atmosphere was amazing and made it a very standout experience.
Overall I found Everland to be one of those parks that I could just spend the day at doing pretty much nothing, because it’s just a great time regardless. The locals definitely seemed to share that attitude as well.
Christ that was a long day. Fell asleep a few times on the bus back and could have quite easily missed the stop, not that it felt like it mattered at that stage.
Somehow made it to the hotel and skipped over the fact the room had under floor heating and it was set to something like 35°C...
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