yeah

Wish Id gone to Towers now... EDIT But at least I don't support Reading hey @Ryan?

Thank you!

On Monday, in the RAP queue for Gruffleworks, I have never heard or seen fastrack misused so much. First, two women and their children, in front of us, didn't actually know what fastrack was and thought it was just some kind of way to skip the queue. Then a man, who had already queued 60 minutes, happily presented his premium Merlin pass to the ride host and said "This means I get fastrack, right?" Then a family pushed through the queue trying to buy fastrack at the photo point. God I don't envy ride hosts sometimes.

I do speak to my parents about it (don't have to most of the time). I'm pretty sure it's insomnia as a symptom more than anything else.

So due to some reasons I won't go into, I cant sleep. At all. Some nights I'll wake up, I woke up at exactly 12:36AM three nights in a row, I woke up every hour one night, and sometimes my body will just decide that 4AM is the time to get up and that I won't be able to go back to sleep until I'm meant to be actually doing something. Some nights, like tonight, I just won't be able to sleep. I either can't get comfortable or simply cant shut my eyes and keep them shut. Some nights I'll get a full nights sleep and wake up feeling more tired than any of the other days. It's honestly the most irritating thing ever. I JUST WANT TO SLEEP AND NOT BE TIRED WHY IS THIS SO IMPOSSIBLE!

Looking at you Alvey.

The new Adventure Point music is pretty bad imo. Could just have kept the entrance music.

I love lighting and most of the ride is lit brilliantly, but some points such as the snake section are very dark, especially the room which is quite literally pitch black. I've heard more reports about kids who love the gruffalo crying the whole way round than enjoying it tbh. The ride is okay but quite alot of kids hate it.

Ah, confused me with the picture

Lucky! Mania is on my birthday next year so we're thinking of going.

I'm gonna be honest, I have very mixed feelings on The Gruffalo. The story is pretty well told, but the ride is far too dark and loud, it had my 8 year old sister hiding behind her hat, and I didnt like it either. Kids wont like this ride.

Ahhh maybe not... Oakwood isn't open... Cardiff to Paultons it is then

Brentford/Oakwood it is! Looking for something to do on the way down now and the trips complete, in the meantime Chessie tommorow!

Shawn Sanbrooke basically explains the entire thing in his last vlog

By the top half I mean the actual tree itself

The new announcements sound like someone a little older than me reading out a script while incredibly bored. Why did they get rid of the old ones?

Does the top half spin or not? Was there any water features?

That, or maybe they'll do some kind of maintenance to keep it alive just a little longer. This is Merlin though so I wouldn't count on that.

As long as they do hot chocolates, with all the add ons, I'm fine. I don't mind having shops from outside the parks come in as long as it's not literally every restaurant/food outlet. In fact, I think a full on COSTA shop would work well in the parks. Plus it would make my mum very, very happy

So I'm not sure whether or not this goes here but basically I have a huge dilemma for my birthday this year. I have three choices, A. Go to Cardiff and see Brentford, who I love, play on my birthday and go to Oakwood after, B. stay near Paultons and go there on my birthday, or C. Stay at Alton Towers and go there. I'm really not sure what to do, my mum and sister aren't too keen on Cardiff but I don't want to pass up on not only a new away ground for me but seeing my Brentford in general. Anyone help?

Oh I wonder why...

Oh I'm simply devastated. Oh well.

Is Oakwood worth a visit? Got a decision to make over a holiday for my birthday, part of me wants to go to Wales to see Brentford play Cardiff but we normally like going to at least one theme park on a holiday and if Oakwood is worth a visit for our family we'll probably go there. If not we'll go to Paultons.

Correction, only Galactica's VR is down, the rest tof the rides I named are closed as well as Nemesis, SkyRide and the Monorail.

Smiler, Rita, Galactica and Thirteen are all shut today. EDIT And now the Rapids. Good first day.