Jordanovichy
Credit Whore 2016
What better way to spend the Easter break than getting creds? That's exactly what 9 of us decided to do.
Friday 3rd April: Day One, Heide Park
I had met up with Stone Cold the night before and we picked Nealbie and Ploddish up from Cambridge station. We had dinner at the Lucky Star Chinese buffet and then went back to Stone Cold's ready for a very early start the next morning.
Our alarms rang at the ludicrous time of 4.30am and by 5am the 4 of us were en route to Stansted Airport. As it was so early, the roads were clear and we were soon making our way to the mid-stay car park, JetParks. There was a bus already at the car park's bus stop so we parked the car, grabbed our bags and legged it for the bus...which we just caught. Phew.
Half way to the terminal, Stone Cold realised he didn't have his phone...he'd left it in the **** car. He'd have to go back and get it, the cretin. He asked the driver if he would take him back to the car park to get it, he also asked me to go with him to hold the bus and stop it driving off. I, grudgingly agreed. Bare in mind we had less than 90 minutes before the plane took off, Stansted was rammed due to people getting away for Easter, and the round trip to the carpark and back takes 30 minutes, but we made it...and even had time for Stone Cold to buy my breakfast for the trouble of running around.
We met up with Peep and Nic and boarded our plane to Bremen. An hour and an uneventful flight later and we arrived. We were meeting Mysterious Sue at the airport who had driven to Germany the night before...when she arrived, I don't know as I had joined John and Nic in their hire car as I was getting a German Merlin Pass and didn't know how burdenous it would be in terms of queues.
The Vadge Mobile!
The front entrance is a little lacklustre.
The dull weather probably didn't help
I got my Merlin Pass and we entered the park. As we had no idea how long the others would be, we thought it best to start the day with getting a cred so we headed over to Indy Blitz.
It was good fun, but, as you'd expect, not a great amount to it, we were pleased for the plus one.
Nic had received a text saying the others had arrived and were waiting by the entrance so we hurried back over there. Obviously, others needed the Indy Blitz cred so we went back over to it. I loved the toilet sign theming.
I rode the cred again because LoG points.
Next we decided to get some B&M action so went over to Krake.
You can get some fantastic images of the park as a whole from the edge of the lake, I found Heide Park, in the most part at least, beautiful.
But anyway, Krake. Happily it was walk on and I was really looking forward to riding.
The 'mouth' the drop goes into is fantastic, and really intimidating.
We queued for front which took around 10 minutes but soon we were climbing the lift hill. It holds you at the top for quite a while, looking straight down into the mouth which is full of mist and suddenly you whoosh through it, it's just amazing, out the other side just in time to get splashed by water from the water brake. It is such a good coaster, it isn't up to the standards of Sheikra which is more intense and a better ride over all, but I still loved Krake, and it looks stunning.
Peep bought an ORP, but as he bought it, I'll wait for him to post
We then headed over to Transilvania to ride Heide's newest B&M, Flug der Dämonen, a wing rider. I was looking forward to riding.
The queue line seemed never ending...going on, and on, and on, but it meant I could take some good photos.
I queued for right side as that is my favourite on The Swarm. I sat back row.
It starts off excellently, the first half is fantastic, but after that it all goes down hill, it might just be because we sat back row but it was rough, too intense and uncomfortable. There was one part where it felt as if the whole train was slipping, I hated the end bit. I was so disappointed because I love The Swarm and was expecting, purely because of this rides amazing setting, this to be much better, but it wasn't.
We rode again straight away, I had the intension of riding front on the same side. I queued at the front row but a ride op tried to move me on, I was like, no, I want to ride front but they refused point blank. I was not impressed so ended up second from back. Ugh. I had exactly the same experience as last time. Ughhh.
We went to get the Big Loop cred over and done with. It looked vile and it apparently was vile.
Just look at those seats </3
The restraints were awful. The cred....surprisingly not awful. I was expecting much worse but it never really got painful at all, it was almost enjoyable! The helix at the end wasn't really needed as it was quite painful..and intense, but it was a surprisingly good ride.
We went to the Dämonen Grill for lunch, you have to fill in a sheet for your order. It's a great system and eliminates any error that might arise with the language barrier...but that doesn't really occur in Germany as everyone speaks English anyway
I had a burger with salad and amazing chips, it was a delicious meal.
After lunch we headed over to Bobbhan as it had just opened after being down all morning but, as it had just opened, it had attracted quite a crowd and a half hour queue so we bailed on that one.
The ride building looks fab...especially with the dark clouds overhead.
We walked over to the Colossos side of the park. Dark clouds loomed.
Unfortunately Limit was down during the two days we were there, no big loss as it didn't look good (and it is a Vekoma SLC) but that extra cred was missing :/
We had a go on the slides, they were good fun.
I particularly enjoyed the roller one which created good vibrations.
Grottenblitz was next.
Just a mine train...at first sight at least. You enter a tunnel which has two massive animatronic horses flighting to loud thunder and flashing light. It's fantastic. The coaster itself? Meh. It was alright but just another mine train really.
Next up was Colossos, the coaster I was probably most looking forward to on this trip.
Just look at how intimidating it looks.
There was literally no queue for it. Peep and I queued for back. We were excited for the cred!
Stone Cold and Nic rode back first, Nealbie and Ploddish were further forward.
And finally we were on. The lift hill went on and on, I couldn't wait to go over the top, suddenly the train sped up and we were flung over and down. OMG THE AIRTIME. We raced down and up, I was flung from my seat, I flung my arms in the air, screaming with joy at the airtime, up and down, up and down, it slowed as we turned to come racing back the other way, it picks up even more pace, racing through the airtime hills. This thing is **** amazing. We enter the helix, it's intense but not too intense, rough but not painful, it's (almost) perfect. The ride coasts round to the end and back into the station.
I was speechless, it is just brilliant. It's a little rough towards the end but apart from that, it's just amazing. Apparently it is better in the front so I couldn't wait for that.
I took a selfie with it because I'm weird like that.
We headed over to the land of the flat rides, there was theming in the toilets!
There was a statue themed to Angry Vadge.
First up, Stone Cold, Sue and I rode Huracan.
I'd ridden a Graviton before but this was different as it actually lifted up. I have rarely laughed so hard. Stone Cold's bad back got the better of him and in slow motion he fell to the ground, it was just hilarious. He proceeded to crawl off the ride on his hands and knees whilst everyone else was struggling to stand up from laughing.
Next Sue and I rode El Sol which is simply an Enterprise. I'd never ridden one of these with two people in a car...Sue and I had never been so well acquainted.
But now we needed more creds so headed back over to Bobbhan in the hope the queue had died down which it had.
I'd only ever ridden one Bobsleigh, Avalanche at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, which really took me by surprise so I was looking forward to riding this one.
Peep took his seat
Nic took her seat
Stone Cold took his seat
I took mine. I sat front row. It is a good coaster but it just doesn't really get going, there seems to be a lack of speed and it just drags on and on. I was left feeling quite disappointed to be honest.
The exit was near a great view point for Flug so I had to take some shots.
We then headed over to the back of the park to ride Desert Race, the Rita clone. I took some photos of the park on the way.
Desert Race was right out of the way, in a run down, drab, unkempt part of the park, it was just a **** looking area.
This ride had an amazing control booth, inside a helicopter!
As expected the ride was meh. I believe it is identical to Rita, the launch certainly is but surprisingly, the launch felt a little but mediocre in comparison to Rita's...and the launch on that is hardly amazing. It wasn't as rough as Rita though which I was happy about.
Rides close at 18:00 and it was around 17:50 now so we headed over to the two little boat rides that go into poncy greenhouses and ****. We rode Einfahrt. With all of us in it, the water level was literally a couple of inches away from pouring into the boat, we could have tilted it far enough to create problems. Have some photos of this extortionately weird ride.
It was all a little weird. The boat travels through the same tunnel that Grottenblitz does with the fighting horse which, in the time it take you to pass through once, will have been set off my the train travelling through twice. Yay.
But it was now time to leave Heide Park, but we'd be back tomorrow. On the way out we straddled elephants and turtles...Stone Cold grazed his inner thighs mounting an elephant...yes it's as weird as it sounds. He also laid down in a chain circle? I don't even know.
We went to the hotel we had booked, the Landhaus Eden.
Soon after we had checked in, Stone Cold, Nealbie, Ploddish, Mysterious Sue and I all crammed into Mysterious Sue's car and made our way north to experience the german fair, Hamburger Dom. Hamburg was an hour away but Germany travelling creds awaited. We arrived, and as we got out the car a creepy guy came up to us and asked 'if we wanted a good time', we can only assume he was trying to sell as drugs. Great start to Hamburg.
It got better.
Hamburger Dom was shut. Apparently, it is open for 2 weeks over Easter, but it is always shut on Good Friday, and only Good Friday, and what was the date? Ahh yes, Good Friday. ****. We could see the creds too, Wilde Maus XXL and TestsTrecke at least. SPITE!
We decided to grab some food as we were here anyway. We went to asiahung as it looked pretty good, and my gosh it was good! I had orange chicken, it was so tasty.
In preparation for my trip to Japan in September I also started using chopsticks for the first time. I eventually got the hang of them and felt quite proud of myself.
We made our way back to the car and then the journey back to Soltau and our hotel. I shared with Peep and Nic who were both asleep when I arrived back (it was after midnight) but I soon woke them up with my clunking around. =D>
And that was it for the first day, it was a great first day in Germany, 8 new creds. Day two would consist of another Day at Heide and a quick trip to Serengeti Park to get their cred(s). Thank you very much for reading, day two of my report up soon, I'm sure others will contribute at some time.
Friday 3rd April: Day One, Heide Park
I had met up with Stone Cold the night before and we picked Nealbie and Ploddish up from Cambridge station. We had dinner at the Lucky Star Chinese buffet and then went back to Stone Cold's ready for a very early start the next morning.
Our alarms rang at the ludicrous time of 4.30am and by 5am the 4 of us were en route to Stansted Airport. As it was so early, the roads were clear and we were soon making our way to the mid-stay car park, JetParks. There was a bus already at the car park's bus stop so we parked the car, grabbed our bags and legged it for the bus...which we just caught. Phew.
Half way to the terminal, Stone Cold realised he didn't have his phone...he'd left it in the **** car. He'd have to go back and get it, the cretin. He asked the driver if he would take him back to the car park to get it, he also asked me to go with him to hold the bus and stop it driving off. I, grudgingly agreed. Bare in mind we had less than 90 minutes before the plane took off, Stansted was rammed due to people getting away for Easter, and the round trip to the carpark and back takes 30 minutes, but we made it...and even had time for Stone Cold to buy my breakfast for the trouble of running around.
We met up with Peep and Nic and boarded our plane to Bremen. An hour and an uneventful flight later and we arrived. We were meeting Mysterious Sue at the airport who had driven to Germany the night before...when she arrived, I don't know as I had joined John and Nic in their hire car as I was getting a German Merlin Pass and didn't know how burdenous it would be in terms of queues.
The Vadge Mobile!
The front entrance is a little lacklustre.
The dull weather probably didn't help
I got my Merlin Pass and we entered the park. As we had no idea how long the others would be, we thought it best to start the day with getting a cred so we headed over to Indy Blitz.
It was good fun, but, as you'd expect, not a great amount to it, we were pleased for the plus one.
Nic had received a text saying the others had arrived and were waiting by the entrance so we hurried back over there. Obviously, others needed the Indy Blitz cred so we went back over to it. I loved the toilet sign theming.
I rode the cred again because LoG points.
Next we decided to get some B&M action so went over to Krake.
You can get some fantastic images of the park as a whole from the edge of the lake, I found Heide Park, in the most part at least, beautiful.
But anyway, Krake. Happily it was walk on and I was really looking forward to riding.
The 'mouth' the drop goes into is fantastic, and really intimidating.
We queued for front which took around 10 minutes but soon we were climbing the lift hill. It holds you at the top for quite a while, looking straight down into the mouth which is full of mist and suddenly you whoosh through it, it's just amazing, out the other side just in time to get splashed by water from the water brake. It is such a good coaster, it isn't up to the standards of Sheikra which is more intense and a better ride over all, but I still loved Krake, and it looks stunning.
Peep bought an ORP, but as he bought it, I'll wait for him to post
We then headed over to Transilvania to ride Heide's newest B&M, Flug der Dämonen, a wing rider. I was looking forward to riding.
The queue line seemed never ending...going on, and on, and on, but it meant I could take some good photos.
I queued for right side as that is my favourite on The Swarm. I sat back row.
It starts off excellently, the first half is fantastic, but after that it all goes down hill, it might just be because we sat back row but it was rough, too intense and uncomfortable. There was one part where it felt as if the whole train was slipping, I hated the end bit. I was so disappointed because I love The Swarm and was expecting, purely because of this rides amazing setting, this to be much better, but it wasn't.
We rode again straight away, I had the intension of riding front on the same side. I queued at the front row but a ride op tried to move me on, I was like, no, I want to ride front but they refused point blank. I was not impressed so ended up second from back. Ugh. I had exactly the same experience as last time. Ughhh.
We went to get the Big Loop cred over and done with. It looked vile and it apparently was vile.
Just look at those seats </3
The restraints were awful. The cred....surprisingly not awful. I was expecting much worse but it never really got painful at all, it was almost enjoyable! The helix at the end wasn't really needed as it was quite painful..and intense, but it was a surprisingly good ride.
We went to the Dämonen Grill for lunch, you have to fill in a sheet for your order. It's a great system and eliminates any error that might arise with the language barrier...but that doesn't really occur in Germany as everyone speaks English anyway
I had a burger with salad and amazing chips, it was a delicious meal.
After lunch we headed over to Bobbhan as it had just opened after being down all morning but, as it had just opened, it had attracted quite a crowd and a half hour queue so we bailed on that one.
The ride building looks fab...especially with the dark clouds overhead.
We walked over to the Colossos side of the park. Dark clouds loomed.
Unfortunately Limit was down during the two days we were there, no big loss as it didn't look good (and it is a Vekoma SLC) but that extra cred was missing :/
We had a go on the slides, they were good fun.
I particularly enjoyed the roller one which created good vibrations.
Grottenblitz was next.
Just a mine train...at first sight at least. You enter a tunnel which has two massive animatronic horses flighting to loud thunder and flashing light. It's fantastic. The coaster itself? Meh. It was alright but just another mine train really.
Next up was Colossos, the coaster I was probably most looking forward to on this trip.
Just look at how intimidating it looks.
There was literally no queue for it. Peep and I queued for back. We were excited for the cred!
Stone Cold and Nic rode back first, Nealbie and Ploddish were further forward.
And finally we were on. The lift hill went on and on, I couldn't wait to go over the top, suddenly the train sped up and we were flung over and down. OMG THE AIRTIME. We raced down and up, I was flung from my seat, I flung my arms in the air, screaming with joy at the airtime, up and down, up and down, it slowed as we turned to come racing back the other way, it picks up even more pace, racing through the airtime hills. This thing is **** amazing. We enter the helix, it's intense but not too intense, rough but not painful, it's (almost) perfect. The ride coasts round to the end and back into the station.
I was speechless, it is just brilliant. It's a little rough towards the end but apart from that, it's just amazing. Apparently it is better in the front so I couldn't wait for that.
I took a selfie with it because I'm weird like that.
We headed over to the land of the flat rides, there was theming in the toilets!
There was a statue themed to Angry Vadge.
First up, Stone Cold, Sue and I rode Huracan.
I'd ridden a Graviton before but this was different as it actually lifted up. I have rarely laughed so hard. Stone Cold's bad back got the better of him and in slow motion he fell to the ground, it was just hilarious. He proceeded to crawl off the ride on his hands and knees whilst everyone else was struggling to stand up from laughing.
Next Sue and I rode El Sol which is simply an Enterprise. I'd never ridden one of these with two people in a car...Sue and I had never been so well acquainted.
But now we needed more creds so headed back over to Bobbhan in the hope the queue had died down which it had.
I'd only ever ridden one Bobsleigh, Avalanche at Blackpool Pleasure Beach, which really took me by surprise so I was looking forward to riding this one.
Peep took his seat
Nic took her seat
Stone Cold took his seat
I took mine. I sat front row. It is a good coaster but it just doesn't really get going, there seems to be a lack of speed and it just drags on and on. I was left feeling quite disappointed to be honest.
The exit was near a great view point for Flug so I had to take some shots.
We then headed over to the back of the park to ride Desert Race, the Rita clone. I took some photos of the park on the way.
Desert Race was right out of the way, in a run down, drab, unkempt part of the park, it was just a **** looking area.
This ride had an amazing control booth, inside a helicopter!
As expected the ride was meh. I believe it is identical to Rita, the launch certainly is but surprisingly, the launch felt a little but mediocre in comparison to Rita's...and the launch on that is hardly amazing. It wasn't as rough as Rita though which I was happy about.
Rides close at 18:00 and it was around 17:50 now so we headed over to the two little boat rides that go into poncy greenhouses and ****. We rode Einfahrt. With all of us in it, the water level was literally a couple of inches away from pouring into the boat, we could have tilted it far enough to create problems. Have some photos of this extortionately weird ride.
It was all a little weird. The boat travels through the same tunnel that Grottenblitz does with the fighting horse which, in the time it take you to pass through once, will have been set off my the train travelling through twice. Yay.
But it was now time to leave Heide Park, but we'd be back tomorrow. On the way out we straddled elephants and turtles...Stone Cold grazed his inner thighs mounting an elephant...yes it's as weird as it sounds. He also laid down in a chain circle? I don't even know.
We went to the hotel we had booked, the Landhaus Eden.
Soon after we had checked in, Stone Cold, Nealbie, Ploddish, Mysterious Sue and I all crammed into Mysterious Sue's car and made our way north to experience the german fair, Hamburger Dom. Hamburg was an hour away but Germany travelling creds awaited. We arrived, and as we got out the car a creepy guy came up to us and asked 'if we wanted a good time', we can only assume he was trying to sell as drugs. Great start to Hamburg.
It got better.
Hamburger Dom was shut. Apparently, it is open for 2 weeks over Easter, but it is always shut on Good Friday, and only Good Friday, and what was the date? Ahh yes, Good Friday. ****. We could see the creds too, Wilde Maus XXL and TestsTrecke at least. SPITE!
We decided to grab some food as we were here anyway. We went to asiahung as it looked pretty good, and my gosh it was good! I had orange chicken, it was so tasty.
In preparation for my trip to Japan in September I also started using chopsticks for the first time. I eventually got the hang of them and felt quite proud of myself.
We made our way back to the car and then the journey back to Soltau and our hotel. I shared with Peep and Nic who were both asleep when I arrived back (it was after midnight) but I soon woke them up with my clunking around. =D>
And that was it for the first day, it was a great first day in Germany, 8 new creds. Day two would consist of another Day at Heide and a quick trip to Serengeti Park to get their cred(s). Thank you very much for reading, day two of my report up soon, I'm sure others will contribute at some time.
