THORPE PARK Mini Meet: 28th August 2014.
I know it's a bit late, but I haven't had the time to type this up till today!
It was an early start for me as my first train out of three was at 6:25am. Annoyingly the train was packed which I was slightly surprised about being this early in the morning, this meant I had to stand up in the train for around an hour when I finally arrived in London St Pancras. After getting the underground to Vauxhall, I was now on the train to Staines, getting both more nervous and excited to go to my first ever meet . I arrived in Staines at around ten past eight, where a shuttle was waiting. I didn't think the price for it was to bad, could have been much worse. I arrived at Thorpe's gates at around 8:40ish.
After a period of waiting around, the others turned up at around 9:30am. We then entered the park. Quite a few rides were not open straight away ( SWARM, Quantum, Loggers and Slammer (expecting that anyway) but everything except Rumba opened.
We started off with Rush which was walk on and we get swing A, the cycle was quite good just to short
After this we did Colossus, Saw, Loggers and Samurai. Paige and a few others got stuck on Saw, but had a good pod on Samurai, but the rest of us got a good ride on Saw but a bad pod on Samurai.
For the rest of the day we continued to go round the park going on most of the rides. We wanted to go on Stealth but it broke down at around 3:15. We decided to ask the staff standing outside blocking the area if there was a chance of it reopening. As it was around 6pm, it was very unlikely it was going to reopen that day. But at around 6:45pm it opened and we ran straight to the station. We all had a go front row and then another go in the rest of the train. This was definitely the highlight of my day!
After a long day it was time to catch the train back home and I arrived back in Luton at around 9:35pm.
Ride Count:
Rush x1
Colossus x1
Saw x1
Detty x2
Samurai x1
Loggers x1
Slammer x1
X x1
Inferno x1
Stealth x2
Swarm x1
Teacups x1
Vortex x1
Pros:
Slammer in operation
Stealth at the end of the day
Great Park Atmosphere
Really nice to meet new people!
Cons:
Most of the flats on bad cycles
Rumba closed all day
Storm Surge Still Exists
I would like to say thanks to everyone who made my first meet a memorable one and especially to Paige for organizing it all! It has definitely been a highlight to my year and I will be coming to meets more often!