Mattgwise

Cheers. Thats made me relax a little, as I did think it would be a nightmare.

I originally searched combined flights and hotels through Expedia, but it was only bringing up hotels in Europa park itself or Freiburg and Offenburg which are the two nearest larger towns, this would have worked out expensive getting trains and buses to Europa park each day (visiting the theme park twice). So I found a hotel on booking.com in Grafenhausen which is a 10 minute drive away - http://www.booking.c...131cb59e;dcid=1 that had fairly good reviews. I then searched how I would get to the particular location by train on http://www.bahn.de/p/view/index.shtml and realised it was quite simple with a train from Basel to Freiburg, followed by a change of train to Orschweier which is about 10 minutes from the hotel. This is the first time I have personally booked flights and hotels separately, and definitely the first time I will have to personally find my way to a hotel on a transport system in a country of which I cannot speak ANY of the language in. Lets hope I don't get lost.

Just booked my hotel and flights to Europa park and cannot wait! Sadly couldn't afford to stay in the parks hotels but am staying nearby in Grafenhausen. I booked the hotel for 16th July and it has cost £192 for a triple room for three nights, which I thought was great value at £64 a person.

Chessington is £2 this year, well it was two weeks ago unless they have recently changed theirs too. If the price increases carry on like this In five years time the car park will cost like £10 and admission £50. Very expensive day out.

Seems to be a season of theme park closures this year do far. Three closures by Merlin in a month (2 Alton Towers and now this). Knowing what Merlin are like, they will probably put ticket prices up again to make up for lost money!

Very out of place and seems strange accessing it from next to the medical centre. Looks very rushed as on top of the poor state of the ride, they haven't even removed part of the old railway line.

Sorry if I wasn't clear (after re-reading it, it is poorly written) What I meant was it was doing it with the track empty and it was making the noise every 10 seconds or so, obviously a problem with it.

Vampire really needs its third train back. Takes forever to load and queue seems to hardly move on two train operation.

Good day today, park opened at 9:30 (on Vampire at 9:45) and was very quiet until 11:30-12 when it suddenly got fairly busy and Vampire, Rattlesnake, Tomb Blaster, Dragon Falls, Dragon's Fury, Kobra all had queues of at least 45 mins. Jumbos, TTT (Dodgem's), Bubbleworks, Buccannear and Rameses had 25 - 30 minute queues most of the afternoon. Dragon's Fury went down at about 1:30/2pm. Black Buccannear has the most ridiculous batching system ever.does it have balance issues as they kept faffing about asking people to swap seats and he was counting people quite often before giving thumbs up to the operator? Rameses Revenge seemed to invert 6 times in a row on the second of its two cycles it gives. I have never seen it do more than 4 and it seemed to soak people for longer than usual too.

Just for anyone going tomorrow the ride might be down as it went down about half way through today, second MCBR making constant noises as if it was slowing down a train. From about 3pm onwards, two mechanics were present but It did not reopen by end of day.

Wonder what made them change it back? Maybe they do read these forums and take into account all the whining and moaning we do.

As much as I agree the jumbos look awful dont forget the planning application for the africa area went in very last minute, so I believe they ran out of time to retheme them, its not something that can be done in a very short amount of time. Lets just hope they are sent off at the end of the season for a retheme and refurb.

Great! Lets just hope this isn't a temporary thing due to a problem with link or something.

And what about Neptunes Kingdom? Is it playing chart or Its old music (the tracks that were originally in ranger county/ on banana boat)

Private schools have already broken up. Other schools break up the end of this week. I Expect Friday will be busier than the rest of the week as many schools will have an inset day.

There are currently 2for1 vouchers to Merlin attractions on bottles of Tesco's own lemonade.

And it confirms you dont fully stop on the break run before the final turn around!!!! Great!

Funny how in that picture showing the train full of riders that not a single person has their hands up, maybe they all thought they would lose them if they did!

Despite me visiting the park at least 5 times last year, I can safely say on all my visits I have heard No audio whatsoever play on Storm Surge. Personally I think they should just have the Tidal side WWTP playlist playing there.

I would imagine it is just that they haven't confirmed the dates for October just yet. I can't imagine it being closed. Maybe they are in the process of changing the halloween event slightly seeing as the event isn't mentioned on the website yet.

Would they need to rip up the surface under the ride itself? As far as I can remember the gas piping is still there in the actual splash pool itself so they would probably follow it around under the drop/queue line/lift hill area of the ride and up towards The Swarm's wing. If you look carefully in the northwest corner of the following image you can see two lines which I believe is the piping.http://www.thorpeparkmania.co.uk/viewphoto/3063

Just saw the testing pics on TPM Facebook/News page! Looks amazing!

Give them a chance peeps....http://maps.kingston...282&strHeader=Y No documents attached to it yet.

Oops, what a twit. Completely misread it as CCR. Guess I need to go to Specsavers!Canada Creek railway (5)Colossus (5)Depth Charge (5)Flying Fish (4)Logger's Leap (5)Mr Monkey's Banana Ride (5)Nemesis Inferno (5)Quantum (5)Rocky Express (5)Rumba Rapids (5)Rush (5)Samurai (5)Saw Alive (5)Slammer (5)Stealth (6)Storm In A teacup (5)Tidal Wave (5)Vortex (5)x:/No Way Out (5)Samurai (+)Flying Fish (-)

Lots of people have added and took away from CCR although the number hasn't changed from 6 for several posts! Could a moderator correct them ?