Europe Road Trip: Day 10 - Heide Park

Today's blog will be quite difficult to write, as I already described most of the rides here yesterday. It's the first time we've spent more than one day in a park, so entering new territory here!

We started the day the right way, by availing ourselves of the vast breakfast buffet at the hotel. I had some pancakes the size and shape of pikelets, with unidentified jam (there were no labels on the jars), plus a couple of croissants and a bacon and sausage bun. I also had a bit of fun with the fresh juice presses and managed to get myself at least 2/3 of a glass of orange juice that I made all by myself! RJ went more traditional, and made a nice cup of tea to have with his cooked breakfast.

It was chilly as we headed into the park for our early ride time. Our first stop was Krake, which I think I'm safe in saying is RJ's favourite ride in the park. Since it was only hotel guests in the park at this point, we went for the front row as there was little to no queue. Despite it being a quiet day the ride was operating with two trains, so throughput was very good and we got on quickly. In what became a theme for the day, we weren't entirely happy with our first attempt at an on-ride photo, so went round again for a second attempt, which we preferred. The guy manning the photo counter was chatty and told us how there'd been 12,000 guests in the park the day before, whereas today they were only expecting 2,000. This was good news for us - minimal queue time!

Next up was Flug der Damonen, the wing coaster, and my favourite. Unlike yesterday when we rode the left-hand side, today we took the right and ended up in row 5. Again, we wanted a better photo so went round again and once again ended up in the same seats. We still weren't happy with the photos, but the queue had begun to lengthen so we decided to come back a bit later.

Down the hill was the Big Loop, one of the rides we didn't do yesterday. It's a good old fashioned steel coaster by Vekoma, which was built the same year I was born! Oddly it seemed less rough than Limit, the Vekoma SLC we'd ridden the day before! I'd read online that the trains used on it were ones from the old Corkscrew at Alton Towers, though I can't necessarily verify this. They did look similar though (and were just as bumpy and hard!)

It was a fairly chilly morning, and having failed to find a t-shirt that I liked in the Krake shop I decided to pop back and get myself a hoodie instead. This proceeded to keep me warm for much of the day as the weather had begun to turn rather autumnal, rather than the tropical summer of the previous week. It could also be to do with us having travelled several hundred kilometres further north!

Suitably warmed, RJ then managed to chill my spirits by somehow persuading me to go on Scream with him. This is a very high Intamin drop tower. Now, as I may have mentioned, I don't like drop towers. It's not the drop bit I mind, it's the really high bit at the beginning. This is why I don't mind rides like Disney's Tower of Terror or Mystery Castle at Phantasialand - you can't see how high up you are, so it doesn't matter. This ride, however, was built on the top of the tallest hill in the park. You can see for quite a long way, and you can very much tell how high up you are. I didn't like the idea of it at all and it showed. Unfortunately it was a walk-on, so I had no time to protest (though I definitely tried!)

The drop itself wasn't unpleasant - very smooth and fast and over in about 2 seconds. Unused to such a silky smooth ride it was time to head round to the Bobbahn, the bobsled coaster, where after another very short queue we were soon rattling around its rather fun course at some speed. We did this twice in a row as well, eventually coming out with a somewhat odd photo where it looks like I'm fending off an amorous approach from a drunken RJ!

Around the other side of the park, a ride we'd missed the other day was the Grottenblitz - the park's powered mine train ride. It was fairly short, and comprised a few outdoor helixes followed by a quick spin through an indoor cavern with some horse figurines inside, for some reason. It was all right, but the Runaway Mine Train at Alton Towers beats it easily, and the Colorado Adventure at Phantasialand would knock it dead by breathing on it, if rollercoasters could do that.

Another double ride now - Desert Race. We tried a first run at it and didn't manage to get anything decent on camera (RJ's head was chopped off, for a start) so went round again, and with a careful bit of "would you like to go in front?" managed to get ourselves into the front row. It turns out the ride is a whole lot more fun from that viewpoint, and we got a much better photo that time round, despite the sun coming out and making us squint.

We took advantage of the sunshine to go and ride the rapids - the Mountain Rafting ride was a fun experience that reminded me a lot of the Alton Towers rapids. As it was quiet we got a boat to ourselves, and for the first time ever managed to be facing the right way when it came to the photo point! (In every park so far, it's always taken the photo when we've had our backs to the camera. Always.) However, when it came to claiming the photo, the camera had chopped RJ's head off. The operator was able to reposition the photo for the print, but for some reason the online version still has him decapitated.

Next to the exit we could see the "How to Train Your Dragon" area (called something unpronounceable in German), which was a nicely themed children's ride area. But we're big kids, so saw no trouble in riding the Himmelsstürmer (the same lie-down roundabout model as the Avatar ride at Movie Park) and then I talked RJ into coming on to the Drachengrotte boat ride. I must admit I've never seen the How to Train Your Dragon film, so had no real idea what was going on, but hey. There were glowing eyes in caves and dragon eggs and stuff, so, you know, dragons, yeah?

On our way towards the park entrance to look in the shops, we passed the Wildwasserbahn (that's Log Flume to you and I) and decided to do that too. It reminded me a lot of the Alton Towers one before it was bathtub-ised and then ultimately closed for demolition, only this one is slightly shorter. Still good fun for a giggle.

We reached the shops and didn't really find anything of interest - we'd wanted some Flug der Damonen t-shirts but at this stage in the season all they seemed to have left was size XL, which was no use at all. Disappointed, we wandered outside to try to find somewhere for lunch. One downside to visiting on quiet days is that not all the food outlets are open. Having eaten a lot of sausages in the past few days we instead made for the Pirate Burger stall in the middle of the park, via a quick swing on the Bounty pirate ship on the way.

The burger place was busy and fairly slow to get served, and the cashier was unsure about taking RJ's staff discount (and got someone in the kitchen to ring a supervisor who told them that yes, Madame Tussaud's is a Merlin attraction...). To be fair for a fast food burger it was reasonably good and especially with the staff discount, not too expensive.

To let the food digest, we had a slow stroll back over to Krake, with the reasoning that it's a smooth and not too twisty ride, so whatever food we'd eaten would probably stay down. (As old hands at this theme park malarkey, we're fairly concrete-stomached as it is). It was a lot of fun - so much so that we ended up getting another photo, despite this now pushing us over our photo-pass limit!

Somehow I persuaded RJ to come back on the Big Loop with me, as I was loving the nostalgic feel to the ride. The ride host spotted RJ's Smiler t-shirt and seemed pretty impressed, which was nice. The staff in general were very friendly (despite our limited German) and the next section showed this.

We'd popped over to the area called "Land der Vergessenen", which Google Translates suggests is something along the lines of "Land of the Forgotten". Other than Colossos (which was hard to forget, being massively tall and disappointingly inoperative), there was a circle of flat rides. I decided we should tackle them in order, going clockwise.

First up was Breakdance, which, as the name suggests, was a Huss Breakdown. Alton Towers used to have one of these, known first as the Astro Dancer, then as the Dino Dancer and finally Dynamo. Either way, you sit in 2-person cars mounted on arms on top of a domed platform, and when the ride spins, so do the arms, and the cars sort of swing/spin. It's fast and quite fun, that's all that matters.

El Sol next door was a bog-standard Enterprise (though it already started on something of a slope), and Aqua Spin we'd already done the previous day. Huracan was a new ride for me, though a very old one in terms of ride technology - the ride is a circular disc with high walls, and you stand against the wall and for some reason put a bit of rope across the front of you, as if that's going to help. The ride begins to spin quite fast, and the centri-whatever forces stick you to the wall as the disc tilts up in the air. It's quite good fun.

Continuing our journey clockwise we would have hit Lady Moon next, but it was mid-cycle and the operator in the cabin pointed over to the next ride - Magic. I'm still not entirely sure what this was meant to do, but it was like one of those fairground rides where you sit in 2-person cars, with 3 or 4 cars on the end of each arm of the ride, and the arms lift you up into the air while they and the cars spin or at least move from side to side. It was quite odd. The operator was friendly, and as we were the only people on the ride, he told us that at the end of the cycle we should signal if we wanted him to send it round again. While my tolerance of spinny rides is pretty good, it just wasn't the most exciting ride in the world, so after two cycles we got off and went back to Lady Moon.

Lady Moon seemed to be the bastard offspring of an Enterprise and the "Magic" ride we'd just done. Similar sized cars were mounted onto a disc, which spun while the cars also part-rotated. It was oddly disorienting, and we managed a double cycle of that as well. Eventually however, we staggered off onto the final ride of the area - La Ola, the chair swing. Pretty much the most universal ride of the trip - nearly every park we've visited so far has had one!

At this point we checked the time and realised it was 4.30pm, and with the park closing at 5 we wanted to ensure we got to re-ride our favourites. So it was a fast walk around the lake to Krake, which thankfully had no queue so we were straight on, followed by Flug der Damonen again. By the time we'd got off all the rides had closed and it was time to head back to the hotel.

After a quick shower and change it was time to pop out on some errands. I'd somehow managed to forget to pack nail clippers, despite going out of my way to get some out before leaving home, and my nails (despite being cut just before we left) had grown into claws which were being annoying and catching on things. So I'd checked and in the nearby town of Soltau there was a drugstore open til 8. Also open til 8 was the Designer Outlet village which we'd originally planned to visit yesterday before remembering it was Sunday and that since German opening times make no sense, it was closed.

On our way into Soltau, however, we hit a problem. The road through the town centre was closed due to a fire (by the amount of smoke, quite a big one). Thankfully we followed a side road and found somewhere to park, and were able to walk in and find the shop I needed. Having made my vital purchase we drove out to the outlet village where I'd been saying I wouldn't buy anything...

Four t-shirts and some trackies later...

Trying to decide where to eat was difficult, neither of us had many ideas, other than RJ mentioning ordering Domino's as a joke. Having ascertained that no, Domino's don't deliver to this area, we did Google some local pizza places, and set off back into Soltau to attempt to find one. We ended up back in town and went for a walk around the high street to find the highest-rated one we'd spotted online. No idea where it was as we never found it - instead we went round a corner to find a large sign saying "pizza", and settled for that place instead. It was a fairly basic restaurant so we decided we'd rather order it to take away and have it back at the hotel instead.

The pizza was actually pretty decent (and much cheaper than the hotel buffet!) and meant we could just relax afterwards. Or indeed, write really long blog posts.

The scores so far
Favourite Coaster	Taron, Phantasialand
Least Favourite Coaster	The Bandit, Movie Park
Favourite Non-Coaster	Tower of Terror, Disney Studios
Least Favourite Non-Coaster	NYC Transformer, Movie Park
Best Food	Europa Park
Worst Food	Disney Explorers Hotel
Most Idiots Smoking	Parc Asterix
Best Theming	Disneyland Park

Europe Road Trip: Day 9 - Heide Park

Today we abandoned our original carefully-made plans and went a bit off piste.

Originally, as part of our hotel booking we had a two-day ticket to Movie Park, which we'd planned to use this morning, but having been somewhat underwhelmed with it decided a better idea might be to make a start for Soltau and get to Heide Park early.

After a deliciously carb-filled breakfast at the hotel (seriously, don't go to Germany if you don't like large quantities of baked goods for breakfast!) then a short detour around the nearby small towns trying to find a petrol station that wasn't charging motorway prices, we set off.

Traffic was alternately light and heavy, with German roadworks still causing slow patches. It seems almost every part of the German motorway network is being resurfaced concurrently, so every 10-20 kilometres you hit a contraflow! There seemed to be a fair bit of congestion around - at one point Google Maps pinged at us and told us it could save us 25 minutes by sending us on a detour through a series of small villages rather than staying on the autobahn!

Thanks to this we eventually arrived at Heide Park at 2.30pm, and despite being earlier than the stated check-in time they had no problem setting us up with our room and some park tickets courtesy of RJ's Magic Pass. The view from our room was spectacular - out across the park, with coasters as far as the eye could see! We couldn't wait to head out...

First stop was Krake, their dive coaster. This was a similar ride type to Oblivion at Alton Towers, where you board short but wide trains (in this case, 3 rows of 6 seats) and are taken up high, then held over the edge of the vertical drop for around 2-3 seconds before plummeting straight down into whatever's below. In this case, the jaws of some horrific sea creature. Coming out the other side you skim across the water, releasing a wave of water via fins on the train, before the ride's inversion - an Immelman - and then a quick hop and turn back to the brakes. Similar to Oblivion it's over pretty quickly, but it's still a fun and forceful ride with nice theming.

Second stop was Flug der Dämonen, the park's wing coaster. The comparison here is with The Swarm at Thorpe Park - you sit in rows of two people on either side of the track, legs dangling. Unlike The Swarm, the space available for this ride is very restricted so the track features tighter corners and inversions than its UK cousin, which is a more swoopy, relaxed ride. I also enjoyed the soundtrack to this ride!


Round the corner was the drop tower, Scream, but I wasn't in the mood so we decided to leave that for tomorrow. Instead something slightly more gentle - their Mack bobsled coaster, Schweizer Bobbahn. Like the ones we'd ridden at Europa Park and Parc Asterix you board your 2-man cars sat one in the other's lap. Unlike the others, this was built on the side of a hill, so as the ride went on you descended further and further, so that the ride ended with a lift hill back to the station. The views were spectacular though. You could also see underneath the preparations for one of the walkthrough attractions for the park's Halloween lineup.

We pressed on down the hill to Limit, another Vekoma SLC. Thankfully, unlike MPExpress from yesterday this appeared to have had at least some maintenance done to it in the past few years. However, being a Vekoma it was still pretty uncomfortable to ride!

To calm down we entered a small area with a number of flat rides, and headed over to the Huss Top Spin, Aqua Spin, which was rather misleadingly named as other than the same pathetic fountains as the awful NYC Transformer at Movie Park, there was no other water and you didn't get at all wet! However, unlike NYC Transformer the ride actually flipped, and during the sequence we got up to 4 flips, which wasn't bad. It wasn't quite Talocan, but it'd have a hard job living up to that.

Having not had any lunch, and it being past 4pm we were looking for somewhere to buy a snack, but unlike the UK parks it seemed the food outlets were either selling full meals or novelty sweets. We couldn't find so much as a doughnut, so instead continued on past Colossos, which was out of action. According to the park's Facebook page they're awaiting spare parts for a repair, and don't expect it to be open for the rest of the season, which is a shame as it looks really good, with an impressively steep first drop!

Instead we went to try Desert Race, an Intamin launch coaster. This turned out to be an almost exact copy of Rita from Alton Towers, only with a different colour scheme and a nifty revolving bag drop. The ride itself was slightly smoother than Rita, with a slightly different amount of banking at the end, and for some reason the race start traffic lights seemed stuck on green, but otherwise, pretty much identical.

We did plan on trying their runaway mine train ride but couldn't find it (it turned out we'd gone in the wrong direction after Desert Race!) so instead headed round towards the park entrance to look at the souvenir shops. I found a shop selling crepes, so got one of those to tide me over til dinner, and we popped back to Krake for a second go.

Back at the hotel we changed and headed to the buffet for dinner. I managed to demolish a heroic amount of rare-ish steak and roast potatoes, followed by some waffles I made (the buffet counter included a waffle iron and a bowl of batter!) and a chocolate mousse, plus a plate of pick'n'mix sweets I nicked from the kids' buffet. We then popped downstairs for the evening's entertainment.

This proved to be the most baffling thing I'd seen so far this trip. It was some sort of musical stage show, and featured a dwarf, a witch (at least, I think she was - she cackled a lot and looked at a crystal ball) and a mad adventurer guy who apparently owned the hotel. It was all in German so I had no real idea what was going on at any given moment. As far as I could tell, the dwarf took some gemstone thing from the witch (who for some reason kept it in a cage), and in fury the witch did some magic and zapped a round thing from the park gates. This was apparently a bad thing.

The dwarf and the explorer guy then had to go round different areas of the park and find four quarters of this round thing, while every now and again the witch would come on and sing a song, while her backing dancers in silver zentai suits and bowler hats did acrobatic things in the background. In the second half, one of them did something with a diabolo (which I've discovered is the proper name for one of those string things where they do tricks with what looks like a solid egg timer on its side), while another two did some aerial acrobatics while hanging from ribbons from the ceiling. What this added to the plot, I've no real idea.

Anyway, once we'd been thoroughly confused, the witch sang about (as far as we could tell from the video in the background) how her childhood was spent being locked in a cupboard and made to sweep the floor. After that the witch's dress lit up with fairy lights, which was apparently a good thing, and then everyone was happy and sang some jolly song. At least I think that's what happened...

The scores so far
Favourite Coaster	Taron, Phantasialand
Least Favourite Coaster	The Bandit, Movie Park
Favourite Non-Coaster	Tower of Terror, Disney Studios
Least Favourite Non-Coaster	NYC Transformer, Movie Park
Best Food	Europa Park
Worst Food	Disney Explorers Hotel
Most Idiots Smoking	Parc Asterix
Best Theming	Disneyland Park

Europe Road Trip: Day 8 - Movie Park

After the nice weather up til now, the sunshine had mostly gone and the temperature had cooled. It had been stormy overnight, and today remained cloudy for the most part.

It was also the day where we realised we'd been spoilt by the gorgeous, well-designed parks we'd visited so far.

After waving goodbye to my cousin and her family we drove out towards Bottrop to Movie Park Germany. There was a bit of traffic so by the time we arrived it was already 10am and there were large numbers of people walking from the car parks into the park. Thankfully we already had our tickets printed so could skip the admissions queues and head straight in.

The main entrance area reminded me a lot of Universal Studios or the Disney Hollywood Studios, as it was made up like an American street of shops. We headed round the back of the park away from the crowds to the first coaster we'd seen from the car - MP Express - a very standard looking Vekoma SLC (Suspended looping coaster). These are basically the budget equivalent of a B&M inverted coaster - generally pretty rough riding, and this was no exception, though I couldn't decide if it was as violent as Infusion at Blackpool Pleasure Beach. It wasn't very interesting though - stuck out on its own surrounded by concrete and gravel, with no theming to speak of. At least we didn't have to queue.

Next to it was something that looked a lot more interesting - Bandit, a wooden coaster. This didn't open til 11am so in the meantime we had a look at what else we could ride. The High Fall, an Intamin drop tower, was not the obvious choice given my usual distaste for the genre, but hey, what harm could it do?

Well. It turned out to be a) floorless, b) one of the ones that tilts outwards when you get to the top, and c) a lot higher than it looked from the ground! It had one hell of a drop on it too! I did it once - I probably wouldn't do it again!

Bandit, the wooden coaster, was next and elicited similar "never again" feelings, but for other reasons. We joined the short queue outside the doors and waited for 11am when the ride would open. As we queued through the rather shonky western-style interior and made our way up to the station with its authentic fluorescent lighting and wood-effect wallpaper., we ruminated on the other wooden coasters we'd ridden over the past week. Most of those had been long and exciting, if a little rattly. We wondered how similar this would be. Or indeed how painful.

The answer came - very painful indeed. The experience of the ride was like being repeatedly punched in the stomach. The restraints tightened once around the first bend, and every time you went over an airtime hill it banged into your belly. The track was incredibly rough and the train screeched around it at quite a pace - but we were being bashed around too much to enjoy it. By the time we returned to the station it felt like we'd been beaten up! We bought an on-ride photo just for the interesting range of faces we were pulling while the ride attacked us. Not recommended!

Next to that, however, was a particularly interesting ride called Sidekick. This was like a pirate ship and an afterburner ride had mated and made something thoroughly odd-looking. You sat inside a round disc facing inwards, and lowered your overhead restraints. Then the ride began. Kicker wheels underneath swung the disc from side to side in the same way as a pirate ship ride works. However, once this had got up to speed, the disc began to spin like an afterburner ride (think Vortex at Thorpe Park). Midway through the ride the spinning stopped - then reversed direction! Just when we thought the ride was almost over, it sped up and spun at quite a fast rate - at this point it made it my favourite ride of the day so far!

Heading back into the main part of the park we had a quick go on the Top Spin ride, NYC Transformer. Watching from the cattlepen queue line, we noticed something unusual. The ride sequence was oddly long - usually it performs a pre-set list of movements and finishes, but in this case the park seemed to operate it with around 3 different sequences one after the other, most of which managed to not-quite flip the gondola. With this sort of ride you really want the gondola to flip over - Talocan at Phantasialand the day before did very well at this with around 8 flips per ride, but this example at Movie Park managed a pitiful one. We almost considered leaving the queue in disappointment but decided to stick with it. I can't honestly say it was worth the wait - ok there was some airtime in the parts where it flew us over the top, but otherwise it was sub-par in every way.

Thankfully around the corner was some light. Or indeed dark, as the next ride was horror coaster Van Helsing's Factory. In comparison to the basic theming of the previous rides, this had a well-designed building themed around a 1960s US petrol station and garage. You queued in a room with a video of the Van Helsing chap doing something to a car and explaining how he builds cars to hunt monsters (or something), and then every now and again a model machine gun at the end of the room would go off with the appropriate loud sound effects, though I'm not sure why. After this room you moved into a corridor where occasionally to an accompaniment of screaming, UV lights would illuminate warnings scrawled on the wall, such as "You are doomed!", which was a nice touch, and would have been nicer had it not gone off every 30 seconds or so.

At the end of that corridor you went up steps to the station and were put into 4-seater cars. The ride itself is a Gerstlauer bobsled model (not to be confused with the Mack version which actually looks like a bobsled!) - the track was mostly in either complete or semi darkness, with animated props jumping out at you. It was rather nicely done and probably my favourite of the park's attractions.

An unusual attraction that wasn't at any of the other parks was The Walking Dead - a walk-through horror maze. It was an upcharge attraction at €5 but we decided to do it. After queuing through shipping containers it was the sort of thing we'd done at Thorpe Park for Fright Nights several times - lots of scenes, scare actors interacting with you - all good fun (especially if you have scared and squeamish guests with your group!)

Following this it was time for lunch - today we chose pizza, it was fine but nothing to write home about so I won't.

To digest we did our usual trick of heading for the park's rapids ride. "Mystery River" was certainly mysterious. You enter into what looks like a house set against the side of a mountain, and end up in a corridor lined with books, like a small branch of Waterstones. This leads you through into another room filled with slightly larger books (which looked like it used to be used as a batching area), then an even bigger room with a screen (which looked like it used to be used as a pre-show), then into a stuffy airless corridor with various runes painted on the walls. As far as we could tell, this passage used to be lit by UV tubes in the ceiling, but only two of them were still working, and instead the illumination came from the emergency lighting. It seemed that the corridor was not originally designed to be a queue line - merely an exit from the pre-show leading to the station, but instead we had to spend about 20 minutes in what was basically an overlit plastic box.

The station itself was an indoor version of the usual turntable affair, except indoors. The boats were the standard 9-seater rapids boats. The course itself combined indoor and outdoor scenes with witches and dragons and goodness knows what else - if there was a storyline we didn't grasp it. The whole attraction looked like it had had a lot of effort put into it some 15-20 years ago and hadn't been touched since, so it just seemed quite run-down, disappointingly.

In contrast, the Ice Age ride next door was sleek and modern with subtle lighting, almost realistic rock effects and animatronics that worked. OK, so it was more of a kids' ride, but it still beat the rapids hollow for enjoyment.

Having run out of adult rides to go on, we went for the more family end of the market. Ghost Chase was a Mack wild mouse coaster, and kept up the park's general trend of having coasters designed to cause you pain. That being said, you almost expect it from a wild mouse, so can't really complain. We did absolutely have to buy the on-ride photo as it had exquisite expressions of pain from us, coupled with gleeful faces from the girls in the row behind us.

A more sedate ride was next-door at the Avatar ride, where you lay down flat on your front and a harness was closed over you. The ride then rises up like chair-o-planes, and rotates so you swing outwards as if you're flying. It was a good sensation - as RJ said, someone ought to make a rollercoaster like that!

It was getting towards the end of the day, and also beginning to rain, so we took a quick look round the shops and then headed indoors for one more go on Van Helsing's Factory. By this point it was time to go, the rides were closing (like Phantasialand, the park opening and ride opening times seemed to vary wildly) so we headed back to the car. As part of our hotel booking we actually have tickets to return tomorrow, but after being underwhelmed today we decided not to bother.

On the way to tonight's hotel we stopped off at the world's worst-staffed McDonald's (excluding the one at Watford Gap services on the M1) where it took a ridiculously long time to be served, not helped by groups of parents coming in and ordering 20 happy meals in one go. With the aid of Google Translate I tried to ask for a Big Mac with only cheese, but they didn't understand me so I had to go for English, which felt like cheating. I'm really trying to speak the right languages but it's not always easy!

Tonight's hotel is very nice - it's in a village about 10 minutes from the park, in a nice old-fashioned building, but it has (sporadic) wi-fi, plus a pool. One of the first things we did after checking in was go for a quick dip - it was very refreshing!

Tomorrow we have a decent length drive up to Soltau for Heide Park, so that'll be fun... in the meantime, should get an early night!

The scores so far
Favourite Coaster	Taron, Phantasialand
Least Favourite Coaster	The Bandit, Movie Park
Favourite Non-Coaster	Tower of Terror, Disney Studios
Least Favourite Non-Coaster	NYC Transformer, Movie Park
Best Food	Europa Park
Worst Food	Disney Explorers Hotel
Most Idiots Smoking	Parc Asterix
Best Theming	Disneyland Park