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Ben

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Re: Thorpe Park and Florida

The Happy Valley here was by far the best, really well themed and TWO trains on creds - a total novelty. Extreme Rusher was amazing and Crystal Wing was just fierce. Loves it <3
 

Jake

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Re: Thorpe Park and Florida

OMG, the knock-off SLC at Beijing Shamgishanjanshain amusement park. Omg, the most vile creation on earth.
 

gavin

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Re: Thorpe Park and Florida

I didn't think it was any better or worse than an "average" Vekoma version to be honest. We're going back 4 years now though.
 

Ben

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Re: Thorpe Park and Florida

Oh it was vile, so much worse than any Vekoma... It was gross! The worst major coaster of this trip...
 

Jake

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Ghetto knock-off Soarin and ghetto knock-off Storm Force were fab <3
 

Jake

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First couple of days - Doha, Qatar

I've hardly got any photos from Qatar because we were only there a couple of days, and it was too hot to do ANYTHING, let alone take pictures.

Beach...
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The Cred was in a shopping mall, which had the typical 'fake Italy' theme.

The cred:

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It's a spinner, but they must've given up on that because the cars were locked facing forwards.

It was pretty disgusting...

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It gave ben a shiner <3

Such tack...

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Sunset...

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So yeah, Qatar was interesting, but it was Ramadan so we couldn't eat (or smoke </3) all day. Probably won't go back, but it was a nice stopover and worth it for the country cred!
 

Ben

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Re: Thorpe Park and Florida

Well, I thought I'd start this seeing as how many millions of comments we're obviously going to get... Can't promise I'll finish.

Here's the plane that took us to Doha, Qatar.
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Which has a zone for you to tug xD
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Such middle east
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The dust... the heat!
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So, the first day we minced through the central buisness district...
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It spites Oriol <3
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This one's fierce
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And then we rocked up at the Intercontinental. Nadia lovingly recommended this as cheap (she gets it for like, a tenner?) She NEGLECTED to say that's cause she's cabin crew so we got STUNG for fifty, but, meh, it was fab so fack it. What else are you meant to do in Ramadan in Qatar? Here's the view from the seat <3
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And here's the beach xD
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Various chins
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The Intercontinental, Doha, Qatar
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The CBD <3
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So we had a Next Top Model shoot
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I received the winning frame, obviously
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The next day, we gotacred
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RCDB says it's meant to spin, but, it just didn't BOTHER. Probably because it was Ramadan. No spinning in Qatar during Ramadan.
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It was vulgar
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It gave me the black eye you'll just SEE in the next few updates
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It was in a fab mall that was themed to Venice. It SPITED Vegas...
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Spite the Venetian <3
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Tyra loved this FRAME
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Just like Venice, Italy
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Arabic M&S. Didn't even sell burkas, just IEDs :(
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Fab building near some stadium xD
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Then we wandered around and looked at the skyline
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Then minced to the Souq where they had no Mosque Alarm Clocks, but, they did have these amazing chicks <3
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Le Souq
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OK, that's Doha, Qatar. It was alright, but Ramadan was the biggest burden since Sue. If I can be FACKED it'll be Hong Kong next.
 

gavin

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Re: Thorpe Park and Florida

Great report so far!

It's just such a shame that I'll never be able to go there.
 

Mysterious Sue

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Re: Thorpe Park and Florida

gavin said:
Great report so far!

It's just such a shame that I'll never be able to go there.

Is this an in-joke I just don't get, or are you taking the p out of all the people who post similar things in 'exotic' trip reports?
 

alexr

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Nice Reports, I want to see more as it's not often you see reports of places like this on here. Wish I had read this earlier however I didn't click on it until now as before then I actually though it was a Thorpe report.

Out of Interest how much did this trip cost you overall?
 

Jake

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Re: Thorpe Park and Florida

... Hong Kong <3

Ocean Park

I didn't realise how much I failed to take photos at some of the parks... if i'm on my own I always take loads, but Ben was taking hundreds so I didn't really see the point. I got a few, though!

The day we went to Ocean Park it was BOILING, which didn't help my 'ugh' mood at taking photos.

The cable car gets you from the entrance/zoo bit to the top bit, where the credz are.

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Is that a cred? I think so...

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The mine train thing was fab, if a bit random.

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The location was stunning though...

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The other (open) cred was Dragon, an arrow looper. I wasn't the biggest fan, but Ben seemed to love it.

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Asians and their bloody umbrellas. It was funny at first, but by the end of the trip was VERY irritating. We got stabbed in the head so many times that the phrase 'I just got UMBRELLAD' was born.

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After some other rides (Rapids, Log Flume, S&S Tower etc) we headed back down to the entrance/zoo area, via the new 'ride' which is basically a train which cuts through the hill back down, and had a date with Pandas <3

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Aww <3

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Hong Kong Disneyland

Again, hardly any photos, but I always find it hard to capture a Disney park in photos anyway...

Disney has its own 'line' on the HK Metro, which is basically an extension line of an existing line, just one station from the main part of the other line.

The trains were fab <3

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The park is quite small, so seemed rather packed, although when the new areas open it'll be a lot better.

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Small World <3

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Tomorrowland...

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BTW, Space Mountain here is AWSOME. I think it's quite similar to Cali's, but seemed so much faster and was just totally insane. Loved it.

Last photo (I really did take like, NONE), of the castle.

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Other stuff we did:

The train, which goes around the edge of the park, which did our OCD in. The seats all face inwards (as in, you're sitting sideways looking in at the park). It sounds like it makes sense, but they've already started building beyond the original boundaries of the park, so you don't see everything. PLUS, all you see for most of the ride is trees anyway. Pointless.

Lion King show <3

Stitch Encounter, which was pretty funny considering I hate Stitch (sorry Mark!)...

Jungle Cruise, which was poo.

Winnie, which was pooh.

The Golden Mickeys show (a compilation of random characters and scenes). This was quite dissapointing due to the fact that it had too many burdenous characters, and hardly any fab ones </3.

Uhhh... yeah. There really wasn't much here, but I still really liked it. Like I said, it'll be fab when the new stuff opens.


Other HK stuff...

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This was fab.

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Getting darker...

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There we go.

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Mincing on the left.

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The towers on the right have had a few fingers <3

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We had cocktails at the International Finance Center:

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Oh, also, Burdenous Sue told us to go and see this Buddha. She forgot to mention how expensive the cable car was, but we'd gone all the way so had to do it. It was ****, fake and touristy. Thanks Sue!

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It did have some fab views of the Airport (built on reclaimed land), though...

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The Burdenous Buddha:

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The last Major thing we did in Hong Kong was go up to Victoria Peak, which we ended up calling 'Vicky Peak', then 'Vicky P', then 'Vicky Pollard', then 'Pollard'. Yeah, it's not funny at all, but it was at the time <3.

Stuff on the way to the Vicky P tram...

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The tram had a burdenous queue, so we ended up sharing a cab with some randomers. I think it was a couple of quid each, so wasn't any more expensive really.

The view <3

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We had to wait a couple of hours for it to get dark, which was burdenous as you wern't allowed to smoke anywhere <//////3.

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It eventually got dark, but my camera sucks at night photos so this is all I could salvage <///3.

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So yeah, that's it. Hong Kong is fabbb <3.
 

Mysterious Sue

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Re: Thorpe Park and Florida

Jake said:
BTW, Space Mountain here is AWSOME. I think it's quite similar to Cali's, but seemed so much faster and was just totally insane. Loved it.
Isn't it AMAZING!!!!! Such a fab little ride <3

Jake said:
Oh, also, Burdenous Sue told us to go and see this Buddha. She forgot to mention how expensive the cable car was, but we'd gone all the way so had to do it. It was ****, fake and touristy. Thanks Sue!
So sorry hun. I swear it was like a tenner last year, which I thought was more than worth it for the stonking view over the bay. It was a bit touristy I guess, but not as bad as the Peak! There were two different types of car, one with a glass bottom (which was like twice the price) and one normal one that was cheaper.

Anyway, sounds like you had lots of fun. Really interested to hear about the rest of your trip, especially Mountain Flier *hint* *hint*
 

Jake

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Re: Thorpe Park and Florida

^ Yeah, the glass bottom thing was ridiculous. We got the normal one, l'obv.

It was about a tenner, but that was more than I expected for what it was...
 

Lain

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Re: Thorpe Park and Florida

I'm bumping this 'cos I wanna see more cool photos and stuff.
 

nadroJ

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Re: Thorpe Park and Florida

Just to let you know guys, I am reading this and really enjoying it, I don't comment because I don't really have anything to say that isn't along the lines of 'wow', 'fab' or 'I'm jealous', not very constructive I know haha XD Anyways, like Lain said, want more, keep the photos and reporting coming =]
 

Hixee

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Re: Thorpe Park and Florida

Here here to the two posts above. I almost didn't read this as I wasn't in the mood for ANOTHER Thorpe report. Lucky I noticed the topic was made by Ben and I remembered what it was.

More photos please... it looks brilliant.
 
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