My Christmas London Tourism adventures continue with my next trip to LEGOLAND Windsor, to check out the LEGOLAND at Christmas season! With some attractions closed for the low season, LEGOLAND Windsor celebrates Christmas with special entertainment offerings like Elf Training Academy, the Nutcracker’s Band playing live Christmas music, the chance to meet LEGO Santa and the evening Festival of Flurries Show featuring the friendly LEGO Snowman. I also checked out the Pizza & Pasta Buffet Restaurant – including their Christmas Pizza offering – and attractions like Autumn’s Riding Adventure and the (Ice) Dragon Roller Coaster! Plus, armed with my brand new Camera, I took another look around Mainland to check out its special Christmas decorations and scene changes.Continue reading →
The Parks for the Thirty-Fourth – Tokyo Drift racks up its third theme park with my first ever trip to Universal Studios Japan! As a big time Mario Kart fan, I of course had to get on Mario Kart Koopa’s Challenge again to win the Universal Cup, but there was so much more in this action packed and extra long park day – including my first ride on the brand new Donkey Kong Mine Cart Madness, another first with the sole remaining Jaws: The Ride in the world, Jurassic Park the Ride (also in the dark!), The Flying Dinosaur, Hollywood Dream The Ride, SPY x FAMILY XR Ride, Yoshi’s Adventure and Villain-Con Minion Blast.Continue reading →
The big day arrives as The Parks for the Thirty-Fourth – Tokyo Drift gets properly underway with my first visit to Tokyo Disneyland for my birthday! This celebration includes a Mickey Waffle for breakfast, showstopper E-Ticket attraction The Enchanted Tale of Beauty & the Beast, Walt Disney’s classic The Jungle Cruise, Pooh’s Hunny Hunt – Disney’s first trackless dark ride, Country Bear Vacation Jamboree, buffet lunch at the Crystal Palace Restaurant, Star Tours, Mickey’s Magical Music World, Splash Mountain, Big Thunder Mountain, Mickey’s PhilharMagic, my first time seeing a Disney electrical parade in over a decade with Tokyo Disneyland Electrical Parade Dreamlights and more!Continue reading →
The Parks for the Thirty-Fourth – Tokyo Drift gets underway at last! This trip takes me to Japan to celebrate my 34th birthday by visiting not one, not two, not three but five theme parks – including the bucket list dreams of Tokyo Disneyland and Tokyo DisneySea at the Tokyo Disney Resort! But first, I had to get there! I flew with Turkish Airlines in Economy from London Heathrow to Istanbul Airport aboard an Airbus A321neo and then on to Tokyo Narita on a Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner. You’ll see my lunch at Carl’s Jr in Istanbul, all the food and seat facilities onboard each flight, my lunch the next day at Saizeriya in Ikspiari at Tokyo Disney Resort, a look around my hotel room at the CVS Bay Hotel and all my first day purchases from Bon Voyage, the Disney Store and my first visit to a Japanese konbini (convenience store), Lawson!Continue reading →
A quick taste of what’s to come in my #Japan#Vlog Series, The Parks for the Thirty-Fourth – Tokyo Drift. This trip includes flights between London Heathrow and Tokyo Narita via Istanbul, Tokyo Disneyland, Tokyo DisneySea, Universal Studios Japan, Nakashima Spa Land, Fuji-Q Highland, Tokyo, Osaka, Nagoya, journeys on the Shinkansen, a load of Japanese food and more!Continue reading →
My London Area Theme Park Week concludes with a visit to Chessington World of Adventures, the park I’ve least recently visited previously. I went in without doing much to refresh my memory so I could have an explore and discover some things for myself on the day. It paid off quickly when I stumbled across the World of Jumanji headliner Mandrill Mayhem – an incredible launched shuttle wing coaster.Continue reading →
My #London area Theme Park week continues with a visit to the UK’s most popular Theme Park, LEGOLAND Windsor. Headlining this trip were my first rides on the new duelling (and racing!) family shuttle coasters of Minifigure Speedway – Team Legends and Team All Stars. Other rides on the cards included LEGO Ninjago The Ride, Flight of the Sky Lion – the UK’s first flying theatre ride, The Dragon, Dragon’s Apprentice, Fire and Ice Freefall, Haunted House Monster Party, Laser Raiders, meeting with the fishes at Lego City Deep Sea Adventure, LEGOLAND Express & the Hill Train.Continue reading →
I returned to Thorpe Park later in September following my day riding every roller coaster in the park for a more relaxed mid week visit, figuring I could check out the Ghost Train for the first time while I was there. Did I manage to get it done? Let’s find out! While I was there, I of course also made sure to revisit the major roller coasters again, with spells on Hyperia, Colossus, SAW: The Ride, The Swarm, Nemesis Inferno, Stealth & The Walking Dead: The RideContinue reading →
I’ve joined the Merlin Annual Pass club and to celebrate my newfound freedom to visit theme parks whenever I like, I hit up the UK’s most thrilling theme park – Thorpe Park – with the goal of scratching my roller coaster itch. Would I be able to ride every single roller coaster at the park – all eight of them – in one single day, on my first try? Join me on this vlog to find out the answer.Continue reading →
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