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this week I have been mostly listening to...

Ministry of Sound - What You Didn't Miss

First off, Ministry of Sound at Thorpe Park was outstanding. I did not have any idea what to expect from it really, was thinking the dome would not make much of a venue and the notorious Thorpe clientèle might make things a bit uncomfortable. I was very wrong on both counts. The evening was run like two different events stuck together, summer nights riding followed by the nightclub separately. I expected them to blend together in some way, having appropriate music pumped around the park maybe,
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SCB's 2013 Theme Park Trips

Up At The O2 + London Dungeons- 16/07/13

Yesterday (16/07/13) I ventured up to London to do something many of my friends had recommended to me, Up At The O2. This is where you climb over the O2 on a walkway that was made and opened up last year. It is expensive at £25 a person (for adults) and is pre book only (well it's not but good luck finding a space on the day). Climbs take place every 20 minutes with groups of up to 15 people. It is a full on experience with a pre show telling you all the safety information and random facts (the
Team Blog

Nemesis Inferno 10th Birthday Celebration ERT Event

It's been a long time coming, but then you have been getting a lot of trips recently However FINALLY the Trip report Part 1 of 5 for the Nemesis Inferno ERT event has come to hit a web page near you! On our 7th Adventure of the year - I wonder what new stories will come about and old stories that make a slight return...... THORPE PARK know we hold events so they have so kindly made a sign for us for a meeting point To Start this event off J.S217 would like to say Hi We start off this
  • AJ
Han30's Blog

TPM, coasters, meet ups, fears, friends and fun

Warning - may WILL contain wafflage!!! Right now I can't sleep - damned insomnia/anxiety grrr. So I thought I would type/waffle for a bit - apologies in advance for rambling but I could cure insomnia with my blog entries (though this is just my second one) - actually - going to read this back once done and maybe it will get me off to sleep A few weeks ago I wanted to leave this site and went through deleting all posts I have made since I joined back in April 2011 - it took a while but the
  • Han30
Han30's Blog

My first trip to Alton Towers - 07/07/13

On Sunday 7th July I took my first trip to Alton Towers - I had the opportunity to go way back in 2002 when Air opened but I chickened out because I was a massive wuss back then and the thought of being miles from home scared me I was REALLY anxious about going - mainly because of my anxiety issues and also, as before, the thought of being so far from home was pretty scary (furthest I have ever been is DLP back in 2000 before my panic attacks began). But I bit the bullet and went and am SO g
  • Han30
SCB's 2013 Theme Park Trips

The Harry Potter Studio Tour- 05/07/13

Whilst this isn't a theme park it is definitely a great tourist attraction and definitely deserves a trip report. The tour is well known globally with people travelling from all over the world to visit. We saw: English, German, Hungarian, Argentinian, South African, Turkish, Japanese and many more people of different origins. So it is certainly a well known tourist attraction! So where do we begin? Well firstly, this may contain spoilers for those of you who haven't been and may like too. You
Team Blog

The Official TPM Legoland Meet

After a major delay to this wonderful world of the Legoland adventurers trip to Windsor from work/social/ and more meet reasons. Part 1 of 5 of the Official Legoland report is finally here Thank you all for your patience. So before the day begins for us to enter the world of Legoland we needed to visit Princess Cornflakes in his pink Tower After he approved us Darkadder312 needed a trip to the crazy Legoland Hotel Toilets But before the adventure could properly begin we were stopped
  • AJ
The Lake View

My First Year at University

First off, I understand that the Blogs feature was introduced with the intention of Trip Reports going here, but I'm still going to continue these sorts of blog entries here and in my other blog from time-to-time (if that's okay of course!) Anyways, as most will know - or have worked out - I'm a university student, and I've just finished my first year (woo!). I decided just to do a quick entry just going through what it's been like, the ups and the downs and such, and just give a small insi
Team Blog

The Official Thorpe Park Opening Meet 2013

Right I've finished my project at work so FINALLY I can give you PART 1 of 5 of the trip report. Kudos To Phill to keep it going whilst I have been busy! There was too much choice regarding photos this time around to narrow it down to 50, which made it very difficult to choose the best one's for the TPM Adventurers story! So I hope we got a few of the best. Sorry for those I may not have included but I have tried my best. So let us begin - what will we find out in the first part of the open m
  • AJ
Team Blog

The Official Swarm PhotoShoot Event

Righty Ho - It's finally time for me to get on with Part 1 of 5 of the Swarm ERT Photo Event Report. Sorry on the delay - will post one everyday until Saturday which will conclude with the official group photo for this meet So on our 3rd adventure of the year - what situations will we find our TPM members in this time? On arrival to the park Sidders became so overjoyed he bounced around like a kid The morning crew of Sidders, Husky, MattoMoo, Mer, Han30 & Mr. Fish say hello before th
  • AJ
Team Blog

The Official Guildford Trip 2013

The time has come Part 1 of 5 of the Photo Story Trip report is about to be released. What will become of the TPMers this time round and who will win the bowling? All will be revealed over the next 5 days... After our initial introductions, it was most appropiate to get some of us in a cheesy mosaic 'hello' photo... So now that's done it's time to get ready to go onto the ice - From left to right: Dan9, Husky, Tommy, Iannem & Smidget Very Cautious first steps out onto the ice - Quit
  • AJ
Team Blog

The Official TPM London Trip 2013

Hello all, here is my picture story of what happened on the lovely day in London - It was a briliant day and here it is in pictures Part 1 of 5 At the beginning of the day, the group has these wonderful glasses on ready for the London Eye Experience (Talk about first impressions) As the experience with the seagulls has finished Mark9 looks like he has some serious doubts coming onto the London eye! Dan9 thought it would be a good idea to scare Turtle. Because of this Mer thought sh
  • AJ
SCB's 2013 Theme Park Trips

Smile. Always. 16/06/13

Yesterday (16/06/13) was my annual trip to the wonderful place that is Alton Towers. The past few weeks I had been quite worried in hearing that Smiler had kept breaking down, stalling and so on. Luckily, we not only got one chance to smile, but we got two! The park yesterday was fairly quiet with queues ranging from 10-40 minutes for the main coasters with Smiler being between 80 and 120 minutes all day. Everything was working except Oblivion and Enterprise. We had lovely weather all day, not
SCB's 2013 Theme Park Trips

New Pass, New Year!

Today I went to Thorpe for the afternoon mainly to get my new pass for my trip to Towers on Sunday but also to explore what the park has to offer for kids as they try to shift their target market to include families. New pass, check. Drinks capsule, check. And away we go! Flying Fish is always a good start for your family adventure. Storm Surge is always good for families, and well liked. Why I don't know but the customer is always right. Look! Another family coaster and it seems pop
Benin's Bits & Bobs

It's like a fairytale or something... In Bruges - Day 3 - Bagatelle

Day 3 – Parc Bagatelle A very early morning led to the 2 hour drive across half of two separate countries towards the seaside of France towards Bagatelle. This is rather a small park, but recently nabbed a Vekoma Invertigo last year, and was once infamous for having a scary as hell Lion show which is now gone. We arrived at the park to be greeted by a long queue, as out of the 4 cashier desks they had 1 open. And the queue barely moved due to large groups and numerous vouchers. This annoyed
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Benin's Bits & Bobs

It's like a fairytale or something... In Bruges - Day 2 - Bellewaerde

Day 2 – Bellewaerde Park Time for coasters! And with a brand new one it was time to head along to Belle, via several country roads and an awful diversion, we eventually arrived at the destination (N.B. There is an easier route to take to get to the park we discovered on our way back, blergh)… Formerly a safari park, this place certainly shares similarities with both Chessington and Flamingoland, but let’s not set our hopes too low, and go and ride the first coaster of the day (in order t
  • Benin
Benin's Bits & Bobs

It's like a fairytale or something... In Bruges - Day 1 - Bruges

Day 1 – Bruges An early Friday morning greeted us as my car was packed and we set off for the Channel Tunnel, before long however we had reached Calais and the drive to Bruges through 20 million sets of road-works began. About 2 hours after our arrival in Calais, we had arrived at our hotel, on the outskirts of the ‘Old Town’ of Bruges. A quick note about the hotel, it is pretty fab… Not in the way of being amazing, it’s just extremely nice, with great people running it who are very helpful an
  • Benin
SCB's 2013 Theme Park Trips

My TPM TPMM- 25/05/13

Before we start the fun, the boring stuff must be dealt with. Firstly, I don't own any of these photos, they are all from other people who attended. Secondly, this report is an account of my day so the photos are of me, therefore, if you don't like looking at my lovely face stop reading now It was a sunny morning as a day of fun at Thorpe was to be had! The day started with a lovely climb up Volcano Inferno. But at the top I was shocked to hear that this may be better than Nemesis! So

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