Hostel Part III

[Jake]

Hey!

Right... so me and Kir have just got back from our easter trip, which was made up of:


Prague, Czech Republic
Vienna, Austria
Bratislava, Slovakia
Budapest, Hungary


Pretty much all of the photos are by Kir, seeing as when I tried to take my first photo in Prague I realised I'd forgotten a memory card... duh!


On the train to Birmingham airport...

On the fab Intamin monorail thing from Birmingham International station to the airport terminals <3.

Final cig before going through security!!!

Our (Ryanair </3) plane!

Onboard staring-at-camera...

Kir doing the same.

The guy behind Kir on the other side of the aisle had the most PUTRID body odour EVARZ:

Some tossing material for raybould:

Yay!

After epic confusion and getting on a random bus, which got us to a random metro station, we finally made it to the city centre and saw this weird building:

Pwetty...

Even more pwetty....

Prague old town with the castle in the distance:

SPOT THE DIFFERENCE!!!!!

The 'main' bridge, I forget the name...

Kir got all arty and took some pics of our favourite bar....

Random culture

This was just before some random americans asked us to take a photo of them and we pretended to be related to the queen, oh, and some african guy offering us some charlie, LOL!




View from our fav bar, Prague castle...

Grainy shot of us at the bar:

That's it for day 1, as we didn't get into the city untill about 5pm.


Thanks for reading!


Still to come:
Day 2 - Lunapark and more Prague
Day 3 - Vienna and Weiner Prater
Day 4 - More Vienna
Day 5 - Bratislava
Day 6 - Budapest and Vidampark
Day 7 - More Budapest.

 

[marc]

Cool pics its nice to see something different for once, it terms of cities.

 

[Jake]

Day 2


Our hostel was pretty cool, we were allowed to smoke in the reception room and we met some Korean, Norweigian and French people who were staying in our room. I think we all came in late and woke eachother up at some point too!

The aim of today was to head to Lunapark (which was only supposed to have a kiddie coaster and one old Pinfari), and get our train tickets to Vienna booked for the following day. Conveniently, the train station we were using for Vienna was just by the park.

We arrived at the park early (the rides didn't open till 1), so we saw it as an oppertunity to grab a couple of photos and go and get some lunch.

The park had this huge concert hall thing (excuse me for polluting the photo)

Kir in a random street near the park haha...

So we go back to the park, and see this:

(Bonus not-on-RCDB-cred-1)

This was called 'Amazing Drive' and wasn't bad for a kiddie coaster, it had a weird backwards section and we got about 10 circuts. There was a weird launch section in the station too!



And this, which is not-on-rcdb-cred-2:

It's called 'Explosion Speed', which sounds like a load of rubbish but it's actually true! This thing was INSANE for a kiddie coaster, due to all the flywheels being cranked up to almost launch speed (seriously, it comes out of the station and up the lift hill at like 30mph). It was brutal!


Theres also a Pinfari looper, which isn't on RCDB either:

So yeah, the park opened, so we got a few credits and rode the stayflyer, which was one of the tallest i've been on!

The ride op was FIT. Shame we never got a photo. He was a FILF (Foreigner Id like to...), which became a running joke for the holiday (same with FF, meaning fit foreigner), haha.


From the star flyer we saw this little beast, also not on RCDB:

So we rode it.


That's 4 coasters now that we didn't expect to come across, and we still had the 2 that we actually expected to ride!

Which were:

Horska Draka, or whatever it's called:

And Jurassic park, a weird circular coaster with one long train (before you scream at me, it IS on rcdb so ner ner):

So yeah, we had now done our 6 credits, after which we rode the fab portable rapids (which we never took a photo of).

They also had a Topscan, and a slingshot, which re rode because neither of us had done one before...

There were also a few other flats, like a Booster. This pic shows the park once it got busier, and you can also see the enterprise and moveit/powersurge thing too:

So that was it for Lunapark. We headed back to the hostel to freshen up because it was SO hot we were sweating like pigs.



Kir bought some Caffine loaded Coca Cola...

After freshening up we headed up the hill to prague castle, which was a KILLER. God knows what i'm doing here:

The more out of breath we became, the more of the city we were starting to look down on!

And the view from the top:

We purchased fab Czech hot dogs:

We thought UC was coming to euorpe in like, 2 years?

Night fell and we went back to our bar <3 <3. We couldn't be arsed to get someone to take a pic of us (cus they always cock it up) so we just did them seperately.

Beer with a straw <3.


Oh and Indoor smoking was such a novelty we just HAD to:

Thanks for reading peeps!



Still to come:
Day 3 - Vienna and Weiner Prater
Day 4 - More Vienna
Day 5 - Bratislava
Day 6 - Budapest and Vidampark
Day 7 - More Budapest.

 

[nadroJ]

Ooh bonus credits! Sneaky =]

I want to go, it looks so cultural even with the added tackiness of the parks. Love it.

 

[Dave]

I've been catching up on the trip via Facebook and looks to have been a great time. I love the look of Prague, such a lovely city, reminds me of Brugge!

 

[Emmett]

Was that purple and yellow Pinfari looper called Speed Loop by any chance? It looks the exact same as the model which does some of the travelling fairs here.

Nice report so far and I'm looking forward to seeing all the upcoming ones especially Wiener Prater.

Also it is easy to access Lunapark from the city centre and are they okay at understanding english? We were thinking of visiting in the summer but thought we may get stuck without the local language and could figure anything out from their website.

 

[Jake]

Yeah, there is a metro station by the park (it's the metro station for the 'praha-holseviche' train station). English isn't really an issue there, you just pay and get the credits haha.

We found the Czech people quite rude though, for the most part... I'd definately reccomend Prague though, it was my favourite city.

It was called Speed Loop, as a matter of fact!


Day 3 should be up soon, although there arnen't that many pics of Prater I don't think... just need Kir to send them to me next time he's on msn...

<3.

 

[Dave]

Have you asked anyone who is Polish what they think of the Czech's? As they laugh, as they have really strange accents.

 

[Jake]

Day 3.


So, we had already booked our tickets to Vienna, Austria the day before, so we hopped straight on the train!

The train was to take 4h30, so I bought two sandwiches!

We nabbed a 6 seat 'room', so we could sleep. I think we got about 2 hours sleep in the end!

When we arrived we went to Mcdonalds to pike their WiFi <3

The arse end of the palace:

People chillan...

Fountain...

We then arrived in the main park - this was the road to Wiener Prater, where there was 10 coasters:

Photos taken at the park are a bit scarce, because we couldn't be arsed haha. Rides missing from the TR:

The main side friction woodie, which was really slow and uneventful, but fab because it was old.
The Giant deathly Pinfari, which was death, but they're on RCDB so you can go look there.

Two coasters were closed:
The Galaxia thing, which looked horrid anyway
The kiddie woodie, which adults aren't allowed to ride anyway.

So yeah, I got my 8 credits in.

Kir made it clear that he didn't want to ride the Wild Mouse, Spinning Mouse or kiddie coaster, due to the park being VERY expensive (it was a rip off).



So firstly I rode these 3 on my own:

Not much to say really, pretty standard stuff...



We then rode the deathly pinfari, superbahn or whatever it's called.


Oh, and this weird Vekoma full of helixes, which was actually awsome!

They had this crazy flat ride (also note the mad rapids in the background!)

And a screamin swing, which was dead:

Then we went to ride the Volare, but it derailed:

It took 10 men, a ladder and a plank of wood to get it back on the tracks again, LMAO!


But alas, it opened, and we got a semi-night-ride. Of course, it hurt like hell.

We then rode the old woodie, which was pretty dull. At least it's another side friction credit though. Again, no photos of this!



They had a GANGSTA breakdance:

And a cool booster...

Last ride of the night, the Boomerang:

Out of the 11 Boomerang's i've ridden, this is my favourite.

The colours, the lights, and the LAP BARS made it actually fun to ride! No headbanging atall <3.


A final photo of the sexy Prater skyline...

Back to the hostel for a bedtime cig in the really cool basement kitchen with a window that screams 'we have no security!' haha:

Powsh for a hostel?

Still to come:
Day 4 - More Vienna
Day 5 - Bratislava
Day 6 - Budapest and Vidampark
Day 7 - More Budapest.

 

[Mike]

Nice report Jake.
I've always wanted to visit somewhere in mainland Europe other than Paris (as I've already done that), but I've never really had the chance to go.

Sorry about being a bit of an arse earlier as well.
My internet was twatting up and I'ld hardly had any sleep last night.

 

[Pierre]

This picture made me LOL ****ing loads... not doing it for the excitement or the thrill, just doing it to get that extra credit and you look so serious/unhappy about it HAHAHA

 

[Jake]

Day 4

This was just a chillout day in Vienna, which was a good thing because it was a SCORCHER.


Statue with tits:

Breaking the law, probably...

Cancer tram!

Thought I could smell horse ****...

Suck on this buckingham palace!

Kir loving life:

Church...

Rathaus <3

LOLZ

VOGUE.

Lucky Strike!

Still to come:
Day 5 - Bratislava
Day 6 - Budapest and Vidampark
Day 7 - More Budapest.

 

[Snoo]

I bet you loved Kock.

Quite the epic trip you dirty bitch. Missing creds + Kir? Win.

 

[Emmett]

Yeah, there is a metro station by the park (it's the metro station for the 'praha-holseviche' train station). English isn't really an issue there, you just pay and get the credits haha.

We found the Czech people quite rude though, for the most part... I'd definately reccomend Prague though, it was my favourite city.

It was called Speed Loop, as a matter of fact!


Day 3 should be up soon, although there arnen't that many pics of Prater I don't think... just need Kir to send them to me next time he's on msn...

<3.

Nice one, we are definitely going to fit it in.

I can't believe Speed Loop is over there, was it very rough?

Vienna looks great too.

 

[Jake]

^ Speed loop was OK, but I always sit in the front row of the back car and never have roughness on Pinfari loopers... try it!



Day 5


The train from Vienna, Austria to Bratislava, Slovakia is a lot shorter than the others (about an hour and a half), which we got for about £12. We missed the train we wanted to get by about 2 seconds, so we had to wait for an hour... ah well.


Kir by the train we ACTUALLY got:

The Danube river from the train...

Quaint little street:

Apparently the movie 'hostel' outrages the Slovak population, because it makes Bratislava look like a small, quiet town, when it's actually a more vibrant, built up capital city:

The entrance to Bratislava castle (the walk up the hill was death);

Me pondering life at the top...

Scaffolding spite!!!

Old town in the foreground with the new city in the background:

More of the same, but this time with a building with a *GIANT* euro on it (Slovakia started using the euro this january and seem very proud of it!)!

Some statue tourists were creaming over, so we had to get a pic of just incase it was important haha:

New residential areas of Bratislava city, on the other side of the Danube:

We had cheap drink and food next to a stag do from the UK. Spot the groom!!!

Palace...

From behind...

ACTUAL DYKES IN THE PRESIDENTS BACK GARDEN!!!!

Look in amazement at the BRAM (half tram, half bus):

Went out for a drink or two...

Then went back to the Hostel basement bar because of the fab theme:

No ideas? no horror films ever set in Bratislava?

Actual bloodshed on walls.


Haha:

This guy REFUSED to pay in smaller change:

And just incnase you were dumb enough to not realise it was themed after the Hostel movies, heres one more:

Still to come:
Day 6 - Budapest and Vidampark
Day 7 - More Budapest.

 

[furie]

Sorry, quick catch up.

I loved Vienna when I visited (no theme parks though). Great city. I also found that the Danube was far from blue - more a kind of green/grey. Of course, this was in 1986 so it may have become a better colour by now.

Bratislava looks pretty awesome too.

Superb report so far

 

[Gavin]

I'm totally going to steal your itenerary sometime in the future. **** knows when, but always wanted to visit that part of the world.

 

[nadroJ]

Oh my God! Hostel bar! Reminds me of Ben Crouch in London, you're so lucky it looks so cool. And lol at the sad and pathetic single rider pics. =]

 

[ECG]

Love it all Jake! Reminds me so much of the moped trips of my youth that I'm starting to feel half my age again. :wink:
Thanks so much for sharing your travels with us.

 

[Jake]

Day 6


Again, there aren't many pics of the park, but apart from the woodie and a couple of spin&spews there wasn't much there anyway!



Once we crossed the Hungarian border on our 3 hour train journey to Budapest, we saw some cool stuff from the train:

Weird art thing...

!!!Vidampark!!! (last park of the trip!)

The park had a flying circus, which SUCKED:

Yay for a side friction coaster that doesn't suck!

It had actual airtime.

They also had a big apple, which we rode, but have no pictures of </3


They were supposed to have a Schwarzkopf looper and a powered coaster, but these were GONE! So only 2 credits for us </3.

There were also a few spin&spews, standard.



Just outside the park was a weird funfair that had like 4 rides, obv we didn't bother:

Cool bike trick guy:

Culture...

We then walked down here, and saw someone actually die </3:

More culture I guess:

The hostel was cute!

Although the scarecrows were creepy ;(

We found a wine tasting thing <3:

My glass took a tumble...

Night photos...

You can see Parliament on the left:

Bridge:

Still to come:
Day 7 - More Budapest.