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DelPiero

DelPiero

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With the news of Ferrari Land's pricing being announced, I started thinking about what my most expensive cred has been so far.

I think it would be Boulderdash, I paid $25 and only Boulderdash was running, but that did include access to the haunted graveyard, which was fab <3

What's yours? A fairground cred that cost a tenner? A park with just one cred running?
 
I paid £40 for me and the BF to ride one of those catapults at Pickering Traction Engine Rally, but that's not a cred.

Cred wise, it's probably PMBO when I paid £8 to ride it when I didn't want a wristband for the day
 
The most I paid was $14 for my first ride on Manhattan Express at the New York New York Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
I also considered paying to go to Clementon Park to ride Hell Cat, but the online price of $32.99 ($43.99 at the gate) was too much for a single cred. So I was going to get a Twilight ticket (enter after 4pm) for $19.99, but even that was a bit much for such a ghetto park. I finally decided to go when the park offered $10 tickets for customer appreciation day at the end of the season, which they have done for a few years now.
 
^ Bingo - Manhattan Express is well far the most money I have ever paid for a roller coaster. Other attactions that did require some coin, but nowhere near $14 were Iron Shark at Galveston Pier, Boardwalk Bullet at Kemah, and the Santa Monica West Coaster.
 
Last summer, $25 to get the +1 at Kemah, $30 for the +1 in Galveston, but $76 for +1 at Seaworld Texas (already had the others).

I guess anyone paying 1 day entry to Disney Studios in Orlando these days is stumping up $100+ for 1 coaster... (thinking about it, first time I went to Disney Orlando I only did studios & Epcot so would have paid $111 for a 2 park ticket for 1 coaster)
 
This is often something I've thought about, for a pure cred and only cred it was €9 for Olympia Looping at Oktoberfest last year...but it was amazing so I don't really mind.

I did pay €30 to get into Serengetti Park in Germany and only got the one cred, Froschflitzer. I was particularly annoyed because Die! Wilde Maus was also supposed to be there but it had been removed, but we made the most of it but riding other things and going around the safari, they had an amazing animatronic safari which had something that spunked in Nic's face. It was amazing. But still, €30 for one cred! Ugh.
 
The Tivoli in that Amusementspark Tivoli in Netherlands was probably the most expensive ride that was just a hit and run for me. Paid 12,5€ to ride the bloody little cred and get out in less than 30 minutes (I also rode their terrible attempt at a dark ride just not to feel as if I've wasted a bit too much money than needed). Dinopark, Kinderstad Heerlen and Waarbeek go under the same category but were a bit cheaper.

I didn't include Universal Studios Hollywood, which was around 80$ when I visited. It does only have (or had) on coaster, but we did spend a full day there, so it would really be stretching it, saying that all of those 80 bucks were spent just to 'get the cred'.
 
Kingda Ka.
That cred cost me about 2 and a half grand. Beat that! :p

Ok, so I'm taking the topic to the extreme here, but it's kinda true. I may have picked up another 30-odd creds along the way... but they were just bonuses. Literally, the entire holiday was based around the single prospect of getting the 'World's Tallest Coaster' cred, and the holiday cost around £2500, so yeah, definitely my most expensive cred.
It had been at the very top of my bucket list ever since it opened. I didn't care whether it was any good or not, I just needed that cred.
In the end, it was turning 40 yrs old that finally prompted me to do it. Right, you old fart, no more excuses, it's now or never, just frickin' do it.

So I did. And it was awesome! Worth every penny :)

*As a side note, it was on that fateful day that I randomly bumped into 2 bearded goons by the names of Ian and Jerry (and some other guy called Darren).
You may have heard of them...
 
^ Ah! Now I remember you. We met in the smoking area by Bizarro.

I've paid quite a few tenners(ish) to get into parks with one cred - Greenwood Forest Park and Cornwalls Crealy Spring to mind.

And, of course, anything on the Isle of Wight when you take the ferry into consideration.
 
Ian said:
^ Ah! Now I remember you. We met in the smoking area by Bizarro.
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Oo-er - sounds proper dodgy, but yes... that was me. And uhm... it's taken you this long to figure that out? It's only been, like, 18 months since I joined.
Numpty.
 
Trying to avoid the costs of travel in the discussion as it gets a bit silly.
Same with going back to a large park who just got a new cred, sure there's just one new one there but I guarantee you didn't ride it once and leave.
 
Two creds, but Manta and Journey to Atlantis at Seaworld San Diego. $70 for 2 OK creds. Manta was pretty fun but JTA was just meh. Still salty I was not able to visit Magic Mountain while in South Cali. I also skipped the Belmont Park cred.
 
DelPiero said:
Trying to avoid the costs of travel in the discussion as it gets a bit silly.
Same with going back to a large park who just got a new cred, sure there's just one new one there but I guarantee you didn't ride it once and leave.
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In that case, Lightwater Valley. 28 quid to get in, only did 2 creds - Ultimate and Raptor. That's £14 per cred.
And yes, I did pretty much get the creds and leave.

I guess the single most expensive 'pay to ride' has gotta be the Manhattan Express, right? How much is it nowadays? It was $14 when I rode it and that was like, 6 years ago..
 
Dragon at Legoland - Went there on an impulse once, paid full price to get in (£48 at the time - ouch!) and since it was heaving only went on 4 rides including Dragon - so around £12 for the coaster. Dreadful day, ha! :lol:

Other than that probably one of the coasters at Winter Wonderland - I think Wilde Maus was £8 last year?
 
Probably Lightning/Thunder Run at KK. Paid full price, and only got those 2 creds. But they were both very welcome creds, so I'm not complaining too much.
 
28 bucks for Desert Storm (or whatever its called) at Castle's n Coasters is my single most expensive cred.
 
I must've paid about £25-£30 for a bloody Big Apple in a zoo in Shenyang. £20 in taxi fares, £8 entrance and a couple of quid for the cred. There was supposed to be a couple more coasters there, but they'd been removed.

I spent about £50-£60 on a hotel limo for the day when it became clear I wouldn't get to the park otherwise. £20 to get in. There were four coasters, but the Intamin 10-inversion was the only thing of any note.

In terms of just a coaster though, it's probably Manhattan Express. I actually quite liked it though.
 
For me, it's probably one of the smaller parks like Greenwood. Somewhere where I've had to pay full adult park entry to ride the single coaster. I'm sure I've been to a couple of other places that were similar, but most places I've visited for a mere cred run have at least been pay per ride.
 
I think the most expensive for me is still Morgawr at Cornwall Crealy. I can't really remember how much park entry was for the one cred, but it must have been >£20.

The most expensive cred 'I never got' is without a doubt Bullet Coaster in Shenzhen, China. I went through a stage of going to Hong Kong every November for work and every year, for three years, there would be a rumour that it might be opening. So I dutifully purchased a visa, got the burdenous train up to the border and crossed in mainland China. Three years in a row. But nope....Never. Got. The. Cred :(
 
Either Coney Island Cyclone (about $7?) or Wild Maus XXL at Winter Wonderland (also about £7?). Individually pricey but not overly horrific.
 
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