Mushroom
Goon of the Year
Saturday 25th June
I was hoping to stay in bed longer than normal, but found myself waking up at 8am =/ Not great, knowing I had work that evening which was finishing at midnight, and I had a 6:20am flight to catch the next morning. So I went to work, bag almost packed ready for the trip to Stansted airport straight after work. I ended up getting back to Leeds at around 0030, not good! Luckily while on-board I had a 5 hour energy shot which perked me up big time and made me bounce about a lot.
Sunday 26th June
A very quick 3 hour drive down to Stansted airport, arriving at about 4am at the long stay car park, still slightly buzzing, got into the airport, met up with William. We headed to the ticket desk (me knowing full well the flight was full, and we were on my staff travel to get there and back) and told to check in later. So we headed for a nice breakfast. I was still looking bright for no sleep!
We managed to get on the flight luckily and off we went! About 80mins in the air, we landed in Memmingem airport. Quickly through the efficient border control and off to pick the rental car. A nice Opel Meriva. Looking back to the airport, it was tiny!
After about 1/2 hour drive, we were at Skyline Park.
The first port of call was Achterbahn, a Schwarzkopf Wildcat.
It was a fun little coaster, sounded rickity but wasn't bad =] Since we were both quite hungry, we decided to get some brunch, as it was still early in the day. Wolfed down a burger, which was much needed! Very tasty too. Decided to walk around a bit, and we found our next coaster, Sky Rider
Its one of these spinning single rail coasters. The seats were very comfy, and not too bad of a layout. While on ride I spotted a bob-sled type thing, similar to the one at Toverland. The ride itself was very quick, and had a decent enough circuit too =]
I decided by this point I wanted by first Butterfly credit, it took us a while to figure out how to get it to work, but we managed to, there will be a video of that soon =] Now it was over towards Sky Wheel
All the paths were confusing, we ended up riding the log flume, which was alright, not brilliant. And found some Dodgems, with a strange track layout.
The better news was, there were no rules, you could drive forward, backwards, go clockwise or anti-clockwise, was a lot of fun! Eventually we found the entrance of Sky Wheel
We managed to get front row, and was allowed to do a POV for myself =] The coaster itself wasn't great, and not worth the while.
As I was feeling extremely tired, I needed to lay down for about 10 mins to recover having been on the go for well over 24 hours. Once I rested up, we headed for their rapids ride which was fun. Now it was back to the other-side of the park to do their 2nd Butterfly coaster
We walked around a bit, found that they have some Go-Karts, but they were heaving, and also a reverse bungee which was for FREE, but that had a epic queue, so we opted to ride Sky Rider and the Bob, but they had longer queues than earlier. So we decided to leave, but as we were leaving we saw the Wildcat had no queue, so a quick ride on that before leaving.
Now it was into our lovely etap hotel, basic and needed with free WiFi. We were both hungry and headed into Munich to find some food, and ended up buying 40 chicken nuggets between us for €10. We ended back at the hotel and relaxed for the rest of the day. I will post part 2 later on today =D
I was hoping to stay in bed longer than normal, but found myself waking up at 8am =/ Not great, knowing I had work that evening which was finishing at midnight, and I had a 6:20am flight to catch the next morning. So I went to work, bag almost packed ready for the trip to Stansted airport straight after work. I ended up getting back to Leeds at around 0030, not good! Luckily while on-board I had a 5 hour energy shot which perked me up big time and made me bounce about a lot.
Sunday 26th June
A very quick 3 hour drive down to Stansted airport, arriving at about 4am at the long stay car park, still slightly buzzing, got into the airport, met up with William. We headed to the ticket desk (me knowing full well the flight was full, and we were on my staff travel to get there and back) and told to check in later. So we headed for a nice breakfast. I was still looking bright for no sleep!
We managed to get on the flight luckily and off we went! About 80mins in the air, we landed in Memmingem airport. Quickly through the efficient border control and off to pick the rental car. A nice Opel Meriva. Looking back to the airport, it was tiny!
After about 1/2 hour drive, we were at Skyline Park.
The first port of call was Achterbahn, a Schwarzkopf Wildcat.
It was a fun little coaster, sounded rickity but wasn't bad =] Since we were both quite hungry, we decided to get some brunch, as it was still early in the day. Wolfed down a burger, which was much needed! Very tasty too. Decided to walk around a bit, and we found our next coaster, Sky Rider
Its one of these spinning single rail coasters. The seats were very comfy, and not too bad of a layout. While on ride I spotted a bob-sled type thing, similar to the one at Toverland. The ride itself was very quick, and had a decent enough circuit too =]
I decided by this point I wanted by first Butterfly credit, it took us a while to figure out how to get it to work, but we managed to, there will be a video of that soon =] Now it was over towards Sky Wheel
All the paths were confusing, we ended up riding the log flume, which was alright, not brilliant. And found some Dodgems, with a strange track layout.
The better news was, there were no rules, you could drive forward, backwards, go clockwise or anti-clockwise, was a lot of fun! Eventually we found the entrance of Sky Wheel
We managed to get front row, and was allowed to do a POV for myself =] The coaster itself wasn't great, and not worth the while.
As I was feeling extremely tired, I needed to lay down for about 10 mins to recover having been on the go for well over 24 hours. Once I rested up, we headed for their rapids ride which was fun. Now it was back to the other-side of the park to do their 2nd Butterfly coaster
We walked around a bit, found that they have some Go-Karts, but they were heaving, and also a reverse bungee which was for FREE, but that had a epic queue, so we opted to ride Sky Rider and the Bob, but they had longer queues than earlier. So we decided to leave, but as we were leaving we saw the Wildcat had no queue, so a quick ride on that before leaving.
Now it was into our lovely etap hotel, basic and needed with free WiFi. We were both hungry and headed into Munich to find some food, and ended up buying 40 chicken nuggets between us for €10. We ended back at the hotel and relaxed for the rest of the day. I will post part 2 later on today =D
