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I just got back from Spain where I visited Parque Warner and Parque De Atracciones!
I'll try and keep it short and sweet with some pictures to keepin interesting. I'll post about Parque Warner now and Parque De Actracciones a bit later, maybe tomorrow.
Parque Warner
We spent two days in the park, the Sunday and a holiday Monday. The park was definatly busier on the Sunday and seemed to have a large number of individual families. We went straight to Superman, which turned out to be a mistake. We didn't yet know anything about the park but we queued for 50 minues as the ride was (unknown to us) the only one of the big rides open in the first hour and (more known to us) was only running one train. I wouldn't worry about queuing an hour for this fantastic ride but only an hour or so later it became a walk-on as it gained a 2nd train and other rides opened.
The ride itself goes right up there as one of my favourites! I loved Dragon Khan and this feels pretty similar. It's also my first floorless coaster which I found to be an amazing open experience. The first drop provides a plethora of airtime for the back rows and the Zero G was great in the middle and front of the train. The ride had two trims that seemed to kill potential airtime for the back rows on the zero-g and airtime hill. I didn't notice the trims on the front row (my first ride) and they don't spoil the experience too much.
Next up was Batman: La Fuga. My first batman clone and my first B&M Inverted outside of the UK. I'm sure you guys know the score with this coaster already. I just want to say that I found it to be a very forceful ride, especially on the back rows. On the left hand side of the train I really enjoyed the interaction with the station as a couple of the elements seemed to cut it very close on that side! The station themeing was pretty good and atmospheric. We entered the station building with no-one else around and we were genuinly unsure as to wether we were supposed to proceed into Arkham Asylum!
By now the queues had started to magically disapear and waits became short to nothing. It occured to us that Stunt Fallwasn't going to open that day and unfortunatly it remained closed throughout Monday too. So that's one coaster missed!
Coaster Express, the big woody, was quite disapointing. It was very fierce and very quick but just consisted of banked turns and sweeping drops, some of which were thrilling, but without any airtime hills (that worked) it fell short of my expectations from a woody.
There were two other coasteres to ride, Tom and Jerry (pretty average kids thing with amusingly oversized themeing) and the newish Bip Bip Coaster (now CF page) which was a joy! Really smooth, quite quick and high and a good pop of air from the first drop. Themed on Roadrunner there were props and things from likely Wile E Coyote traps around the area.
Park Warner is also home to an extremely impressive stunt show! Where my girlfriend was hopped around by a mad spaniard on a bike in the warm up. The show itself has explosions and great stunt driving in cars, on motorbikes and quads... and a golf cart. There was also a storyline, but y'know, it was in Spannish! Something to do with a bad gang and a rare bottle of Jack Daniels.
I found the whole park to be a really pleasent place to be. It was really well themed and easy to navigate. Food options were limited, but of a good quality. My main gripe is with the very Spannish attitude towards ride loading, i.e, slow! Every ride seemed to take an age to load and dispatch. The ops were slowly doing this and that and then maybe having a chat, a sip of water, then maybe they'll let you on. Then, you'd wait about 4 minutes on the train before the restraints would lock. Then a guy (one guy) would check the whole train... then maybe he'd stand around for a bit. Then they might, just might lauch the train. At one point I calculated they were running one train every 10 minues! That's two out on track and 8 in the station! Still... as the park was empty they got away with it. They were also not helped by drastic under-staffing. Two members of staff for Batman on Monday. Still... better than the one guy per coaster at Atracciones!
I'll try and keep it short and sweet with some pictures to keepin interesting. I'll post about Parque Warner now and Parque De Actracciones a bit later, maybe tomorrow.
Parque Warner
We spent two days in the park, the Sunday and a holiday Monday. The park was definatly busier on the Sunday and seemed to have a large number of individual families. We went straight to Superman, which turned out to be a mistake. We didn't yet know anything about the park but we queued for 50 minues as the ride was (unknown to us) the only one of the big rides open in the first hour and (more known to us) was only running one train. I wouldn't worry about queuing an hour for this fantastic ride but only an hour or so later it became a walk-on as it gained a 2nd train and other rides opened.
The ride itself goes right up there as one of my favourites! I loved Dragon Khan and this feels pretty similar. It's also my first floorless coaster which I found to be an amazing open experience. The first drop provides a plethora of airtime for the back rows and the Zero G was great in the middle and front of the train. The ride had two trims that seemed to kill potential airtime for the back rows on the zero-g and airtime hill. I didn't notice the trims on the front row (my first ride) and they don't spoil the experience too much.
Next up was Batman: La Fuga. My first batman clone and my first B&M Inverted outside of the UK. I'm sure you guys know the score with this coaster already. I just want to say that I found it to be a very forceful ride, especially on the back rows. On the left hand side of the train I really enjoyed the interaction with the station as a couple of the elements seemed to cut it very close on that side! The station themeing was pretty good and atmospheric. We entered the station building with no-one else around and we were genuinly unsure as to wether we were supposed to proceed into Arkham Asylum!
By now the queues had started to magically disapear and waits became short to nothing. It occured to us that Stunt Fallwasn't going to open that day and unfortunatly it remained closed throughout Monday too. So that's one coaster missed!
Coaster Express, the big woody, was quite disapointing. It was very fierce and very quick but just consisted of banked turns and sweeping drops, some of which were thrilling, but without any airtime hills (that worked) it fell short of my expectations from a woody.
There were two other coasteres to ride, Tom and Jerry (pretty average kids thing with amusingly oversized themeing) and the newish Bip Bip Coaster (now CF page) which was a joy! Really smooth, quite quick and high and a good pop of air from the first drop. Themed on Roadrunner there were props and things from likely Wile E Coyote traps around the area.
Park Warner is also home to an extremely impressive stunt show! Where my girlfriend was hopped around by a mad spaniard on a bike in the warm up. The show itself has explosions and great stunt driving in cars, on motorbikes and quads... and a golf cart. There was also a storyline, but y'know, it was in Spannish! Something to do with a bad gang and a rare bottle of Jack Daniels.
I found the whole park to be a really pleasent place to be. It was really well themed and easy to navigate. Food options were limited, but of a good quality. My main gripe is with the very Spannish attitude towards ride loading, i.e, slow! Every ride seemed to take an age to load and dispatch. The ops were slowly doing this and that and then maybe having a chat, a sip of water, then maybe they'll let you on. Then, you'd wait about 4 minutes on the train before the restraints would lock. Then a guy (one guy) would check the whole train... then maybe he'd stand around for a bit. Then they might, just might lauch the train. At one point I calculated they were running one train every 10 minues! That's two out on track and 8 in the station! Still... as the park was empty they got away with it. They were also not helped by drastic under-staffing. Two members of staff for Batman on Monday. Still... better than the one guy per coaster at Atracciones!
