An Englishman in the Orient: Part 10) Lotte World

[roomraider]

Hey Guys

Over the last few weeks I have been travelling through some of China and South Korea visiting a number of theme parks and tourist attractions as well as the world renowned Harbin Ice Festival. I got to visit some of the worlds best as well as some of the worlds least know parks and experience parts of a culture that is so wonderfully different to my own that It will leave a lasting impression on me for some time.

I travelled with my good friend and long time world travelling partner Oli, Our first stop was the aforementioned Harbin International Snow and Ice Festival, The Ice Festival takes place in China's most northerly city during the months of January and February and consists mainly of three pay to enter parks each with a different style and theme. However throughout the city during the festival there are an incredible number of ice and snow sculptures just positioned for everyone to see and enjoy. The average temperature during our visit was around -12°C (10.4°F) during the day and -25°C (-13°F) at night, So wrapping up warm is imperative.
For the thrill seekers there are a multitude of huge ice slides and ice themed rides (Bumper cars, zip lines, tanks) to keep people entertained but more on those later.

I will start this report with the smallest of the parks. Zhaolin Park is not only the smallest of the three parks but also the most intimate. We saw many Chinese couples wandering the grounds and enjoying the scenery and it seems a popular spot for the locals. Although arguably the least impressive of the three parks it was a nice gentle start to the almost unbelievable things we would see in the next few days.

Anyhow for the most part i shall let the pictures do the talking.

Here you can see one of the main sculptures just found around the city, this is at the Flood Control monument.

The river through the city is completely frozen and there are gritted paths across for walkers (I was worried about the ice cracking under my weight until a taxi stopped on the ice and offered us a lift)

Oli shows off how to keep warm when it's -23°C

Zhaolin Park is the smallest but perhaps most relaxing of the three parks.

The little bridges and buildings across the park are mesmerising.

Not to mention beautifully lit.

There are plenty of places to sit and have a drink if you can handle sitting on the ice stools

We were consistently amazed by the sculptures across harbin.

In the summer this is a small lake running through the park

A view across a small part of Zhaolin Park

Oli takes in the view.

Oli recreates a scene from star wars.... but with more ice and less stars..... and wookies.

The giant dragon near the entrance, while not made of Ice was anamatronic to some degree.

Most of the sculptures are lit up from within using neon? tubes.

A wider view of the temple sculpture

A road sweeper made from Ice. It'll never catch on.

There are literally hundreds of these smaller sculptures around.

Towards the back of the park there was a stage with a woman in a box singing. Probably good she was in the box, that outfit doesn't look too warm.

Included at Zhaolin Park is this huge ice slide

Although not entirely made of ice like some of the ones we will see later, the ice surface of the drop allowed some serious speed before you hit the bottom.

Copyright infringement was only casual at best here

The bar outside our hotel was made entirely out of ice... Great in theory until you realise you are in face colder than your beer. Tommorow we moved onto the snow sculptures at Sun park and came across our first coaster of the trip.

 

[peep]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 1) Harbin Ice Festival

I've seen this ice festival mentioned on several programs before and it just looks so beautiful. I don't recall them mentioning about the river freezing over and the stupidly low temperatures though. Looks like such a nice place to visit though and I look forward to reading the rest of this report

 

[davidm]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 1) Harbin Ice Festival

^^ A beer to warm up!!!

Some great pix there... look foward to the rest of this!

 

[Martyn B]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 1) Harbin Ice Festival

Yup, I agree. Great start, and I look forward to seeing more!

 

[Lofty]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 1) Harbin Ice Festival

I've always wanted to go to see the Ice Sculptures. Great report!

 

[roomraider]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 2) Sun Island Snow Par

Day 2 saw us visit the second of the three main ice parks in Harbin, the Sun Island International Snow Sculpture Art Fair. Sun Island is essentially a giant recreation area across the frozen river from central Harbin. During the summer the park must look stunning and even includes a small amusement park and zoo. During the winter however it houses the snow sculpture fair.

The snow sculptures are impressive and amazingly well carved, some of them are just on an enormous scale that boggles the mind. However of the three parks i found this one the least impressive. The snow carving is incredible but for me it didn't come close to the insanity of the ice sculptures at the other parks.

Anyway without further ado here's some pictures.

A trip to Sun Island involves a trip over the river, today we took the handy cable car rather than walk again.

The view down onto the frozen river is impressive

The entrance to Sun Island

Perhaps the most spherical snowmen ever made?

The park is littered with hundreds of snow carvings

Some large some tiny

There is plenty of other recreational activity around the park but most of it seems more suited to the summer.

Noted!

Some of the sculptures are insanely large

Buggy racing on ice was fun.

Some of the designs were a little odd

or a little creepy

The smurfs make another appearance

Ohhhh i see you hiding through the trees.

another of the larger sculptures.

The amusement park section was closed but you could still walk around it.

The cars for the spillwater

Oli tried to take the money but he was having none of it

The park has a small inverted wild mouse, similar model as can be found around the world but i suspect a Golden Horse version.

The cars are in hibernation until the warmer months

The model is the same one as seen at the Winter Wonderland in London recently

A wider shot of the ride

Another panoramic showing off the mouse

The main 2 rides at sun island

Wandering around a closed park was really quite creepy.

Wandering around a closed park was really quite creepy.

Fake chinese Disko

I have no words for this really.

Double decker carousels are everywhere in China.

Top Scan, this one was real I think

We decided to pop in to the cafe for a beer while they lit up the snow sculptures

The sculptures look even more impressive at night.

The evening finished with another trip to the Ice Bar.

 

[roomraider]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 3) Ice and Snow Park

Day 3 saw a visit to the third and final part of the Harbin Ice Festival, The Ice and Snow world is by far the largest of the three parks and contains the most impressive ice sculptures. The park is choc full of ice slides, zip lines and a selection of amusement rides to keep the thrill seeker entertained as well as a surprising number of small bars and cafes (and a KFC).

The park is a little further away from the town centre than the other two and requires a taxi ride (cost around $2) to get there. Some of the buildings made of Ice are truely staggering towering up to 50m above the surroundings. The pictures really don't do the scale justice but these things are HUGE.

Anyhow on to the pictures.

The park features tons of these ice slides.

Some of the buildings are staggeringly big, you can walk through and up most of them.

They must take months to construct.

There's a selection of amusement rides around including this slingshot.

A set of racing slides.

There's plenty of fun to be had riding rubber tubes down some of the hills, ask the ops to spin you for some serious nausea

As the sun goes down the lights start to turn on.

An ice climber clambers up one of the towers.

He's a braver man than I.

As the night draws in the buildings begin to take on their own auras

There were lots of times in China when i had literally NO idea what was going on.... this was one of them.

There's some advertising found around but not enough to be annoying.

Some of the ice runs, the toboggans on the right were fun but fairly painful as you hit the ice walls on the corners pretty quick.

The festival at night.

Even the slides look prettier at night.

stunning.

This would be me, doing the customary Chinese photo pose.

Even the Disney castle made of Ice is bigger than some

More of the ice temples.

Is that a mickey mouse i spot in there?

The entrance building is one of the most impressive on the site.

The main concourse up to a russian style tower.

There's plenty of these smaller ice sculptures too.

And yet more slides.

Theres even a large show featuring among other things about 1000 people on skis and some furious flag waving.

You can take a ride in one of Cinderellas carriages

Or brave the massive zip line into the dark.

On the back edge of this castle you can see the longest ice slide in the park. you get some serious speed on that thing.

Now THAT is a beer. Harbin beer is actually really quite good.

The evening finished with a spectacular firework show over the entrance buildings.

More pretty shiny things

The whole display is repeated nightly.

And last quite some time.

Anyway it was time to say good bye to the Ice Festival, Tomorrow saw us seek out some of Harbins theme parks and the Harbin Tower.

 

[Martyn B]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 3) Ice and Snow World

That last place looks stunning!

 

[davidm]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 3) Ice and Snow World

OK, all this is rather bonkers....

Good work indeed.

And is that a slide coming out of the left of that tower that the ice-climber is climbing?
Bonkers anyway.

 

[roomraider]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 3) Ice and Snow World

Day 4 saw a departure from the Ice Festival and we went in search of some thrills and spills in Harbin. I suspected the amusement park would be shut (Can you even run a coaster in -12?) but we had heard the Harbin Tower had a thrill attraction or two. I knew they still had the edge walk where you walk around the edge of the tower constrained just by a wire attached to a rail above but I was intrigued to see if they still had this

Unfortunately not only was the swing long gone but the edge walk was also shut so after a quick look around the tower we headed to Harbin Amusement Park, the park is a lot larger than Sun Island and features a good collection of rides including 3 coasters. The park as expected was shut but its kept open for visitors and you can just wander the grounds for free. To the extent on some rides you could easily go and sit in the cars if you were so inclined.

The Harbin Tower lobby features a dinosaur museum and a small and frankly amusingly bad science museum

The view from Harbin Tower is somewhat messed up by the omnipresent smog layer.

As shown here. The smog layer is pretty bad in most Chinese Cities i've visited.

You see padlocks attached to towers all over China and are supposed to symbolise a couples love for each other, these are larger than the usual sets

This is what we came for but it was sadly shut

These are the harnesses you use to walk round the outside of the tower.

Oli liked the drums at the top of the tower.

This view shows just how bad the smog layer is in Harbin.

This side was a little clearer.

The tower used to be the tallest in China, but is somewhat lower down the list these days.

The glass floor was a little too scratched to be effective.

The small science museum at the base is best avoided.

They didn't go for aesthetics with the tower.

Unfortunately they didn't go for aesthetics with Oli's jacket either.

Our next location was the interesting Harbin Amusement Park located right in the city centre. The parks main ride is this BSA SLC. This was the only Fake SLC i saw on the trip and was just a little (but only a little) sad it was shut.

One for you lift hill enthusiasts.

Some of the transitions look fairly evil.

Ride trains keeping warm for the winter.

This transition looks horrendous.

The rides first inversion.

The rides final helix.

You can wander the queue line and the exit path if you please.

The park like many Asian parks features a super sized Ferris Wheel.

Oli hides among the plentiful trees in the park. I bet this looks really nice in the summer.

The parks golden horse wild mouse. There's a fair few of these in China.

Another double decker merry go round. Also everywhere in China.

The cycle ride's track seemed somewhat lower than I would have expected to be classed as safe.

The park has a fairly good selection of flat rides.

The parks looping coaster has recently received a new mine theme.

The ride entrance. With new name Express... Original.

A panoramic of the back side of Express.

The parks lake was rather frozen.

This guy didn't look to happy about it.

The parks drop tower was a decent size.

Another shot of the looper

And a shot of the spinning coaster for good measure.

Back out in Harbin we had a look at some of the more random ice structures on the shopping street.

This rather lovely lounge set up was quite nice.

Oli takes a relaxing moment on the ice couch in the ice lounge.

Many of the buildings are nicely lit in Harbin

I love you too Harbin, Unfortunately this was our last evening in Harbin

Our hotel featured this lovely half naked women in the shower room.... Tomorrow we move on to some proper coaster action at Happy Valley in Shanghai.

 

[roomraider]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 5) Happy Valley Shangh

Day 5 was mostly taken up with flying back to Shanghai from Harbin and settling in to the excellent new Hostel. Shanghai is a wonderful city but it takes forever to get anywhere on the Metro due to the sheer size of the place. The Metro is also being built unbelievably quickly with 10 new lines being built in 20 years.

Day 6 we decided to head to Happy Valley Shanghai. Happy Valley is really easy to get to from almost anywhere in Shanghai and just involves a trip on the Metro Line 9 to Sheshan (circled below)

It takes a little while to get there but the metro at this point is on raised stilts and you can see the park from miles away. Once at Sheshan station you just pop over the pedestrian bridge to the other side of the main road where you can get a free shuttle bus to the parks front gate (the bus is coloured in bright Happy Valley logos so it's impossible to miss).

Now Happy Valley Shanghai is an interesting beast. They have some world class coasters and some interesting flat rides but they let themselves down with some of the worst operations I have ever experienced at a park, The ops on the Dive Machine for example would require a certain number of people to ride, I don't think there were more than 100 people in the park that day so it often involved a 20 minute wait in a nearly empty station to ride just once, This was park wide and true of flat rides and coasters alike. The only coaster running more than one train was the Zamperla spinning coaster. I don't mind 1 train operations if there's so few people there but getting guests to wait for 20mins for no obvious reason is ridiculous.
As for the rides

Fireball: This is an excellent GC woodie but it's beginning to suffer from some shuffling on the train, The first half especially is getting pretty rough. Don't get me wrong it's still a superb ride and easily in my top 3 wooden rides, its nowhere near ghostrider rough, but it is noticeable. The ride experience other wise is superb, it just doesn't let up the whole way round and there is some good airtime and quick changes in direction. The Ride Ops asking you to do exercises is pretty funny too. The queue here was constantly about 2 trains long but the ride ops still managed to take a good 10-15mins a time to despatch a train.

Diving Coaster: Diving coaster was my first large style B&M diving machine and i thoughrally enjoyed it. The ride is massive and can be seen from everywhere in the park, it's smooth and although not massively forceful it is very good fun. The first drop is the highlight of the ride but the sheer scale of the rides drops and turns keeps it interesting till the end.

Mega-Lite: I had been looking forwards to this ride for some time. Mega-Lites have a great reputation and deservedly so. My first thought upon seeing the ride up close was "Wow it's really small"... However don't let size deceive you, This is the ultimate in good clean coastering fun. I may be more an inversion guy than an airtime one but this ride offers an excellent ride and one I wouldn't mind any UK park picking up "hint hint"

Spinning Coaster: What is there to say about spinning Wild mice? It was pretty standard but didn't really spin very much. I would rate this Zamperla lower than the Golden Horse rides just due to the lack of any real spinning.

Mine Train: This was a nice surprise, This Intamin mine train packs a nice little punch while still being an excellent family coaster, the themeing on the ride is really well done and it keeps up its speed nicely. If you like big swooping turns and speedy little helixes then this is the ride for you.

Other Rides: The Gyro Swing here is excellent and easily the best I've ridden so far. Even if I did have a Chinese guy shouting "I LOVE LONDON" in my ear for the most part, The Soaring Dragon ride is a nice take on the Soaring Rides seen at Disney with a nice flight over many Chinese landmarks.

Storm Travel is a 3D simulator ride not dissimilar to Spiderman at Universal, However this ride is truly terrible. Very few of the effects appeared to be working, One projector was completely off and several didn't line up properly so things jumped between sections of the screen. I wouldn't bother if its anything more than a walk on
The Rapids ride is a decent ride but you will get Soaked, there are a couple of points where the boats travel through unavoidable waterfalls, ponchos are available at the entrance

There is a ride called Jungle Rescue which is the same idea as the Fire Service rides at Legoland, pump the car to the front of the downed plane and put out the fires before pumping back to base, We ended up racing against 3 teams of giggling Chinese girls.... We stuffed them
There was also a nice haunted house walkthrough, It's not the actor type but there's some good scares to be had and some really effective trap door effects.

On to the pictures.

The entrance area to Happy Valley, It wasn't very busy.

These ants are everywhere and are the main characters in the kiddies area "Ants Kingdom"

This is more my sort of character.

The weather wasn't playing ball for good photos but at least all the coasters were running.

Oli tried chatting up this Ant.... But she was having none of it and just stared blankly forwards.. how rude.

The first thing you see at the end of the main street is the excellent Fireball.

Just to the right is the Soaring Dragon ride, similar to the Soaring rides at Disney, Very well done and nicely relaxing.

Just beyond Fireball is the excellent Diving Coaster.

A little panoramic shot of this massive coaster.

the view of the ride across the lake is very impressive.

You won't see the ride cycle very often with their stupid loading policy.

The ride is pretty much a Shiekra clone.

I believe it is one of only 3 B&M coasters to feature just one inversion.

A little further round the park is the superb Intamin Mega Lite.

It's not a big ride but it packs a sweet punch.

Airtime abound on this hill.

There is a lot of nice themeing around the mega-lite, but it doesn't actually seem to have anything to do with the ride itself, the mega-lite is behind this rock face but there's no themeing on the ride itself... odd.

A view across the lake at Fireball on the far side of the park.

There are still some nice touches on the themeing, it just doesn't really seem to interact with any of the rides. It's just kind of there.

LeLes Chariot was a small kiddie coaster with a slightly odd layout, que weird looks as two grown western adults ride the parks smallest coaster.

The spinning mouse, a rare non rip off in China.

Also in the Ants Kingdom is this giant indoor kids area with some nice lighting and a selection of kids rides.

Another view of LeLe's Chariot

And another view of the spinning mouse, I didn't rate this at all and put it lower than the Golden Horse rides.

Over the nearby bridge is this excellent Intamin mine train.

There's some lovely themeing around the ride too.

This ride swoops and turns among the rocks with a fair amount of pace.

There's plenty of statues around the Wild west area but most rides were closed.

Oli makes some friends.

Again some excellent themeing.

Wandering back to the entrance area we came across the terrible Storm Chaser ride (just off camera on the right here)

Some nice themeing again

This ride was running but due to the cold weather we gave it a miss.

The park has the usual selection of flats too.

We walked back round to the mega-lite and waited 20mins for some more riders, here you can see the 2nd train hiding away.

A panorama from the exit line.

the view from the gift shop.

Where's Oli?

These rapids will soak you, buy a poncho if you are allergic to water rides.

There's something creepy in the bushes.

The themeing on the rapids is nice but not over the top.

This ride can clearly be seen from anywhere in the park

The Disko coaster was closed for the day

Jungle Rescue was good fun though.

We made one last trip back over to Diving Coaster

Another train hide from the cold in the shed.

20mins later we are still standing in the station waiting for more guests.

Track type fail.

The gyro swing in the background here is superb.

There is some weird themeing near Fireball.

Yeah I have no idea either.

We took the chance to have a few more rides on Fireball before leaving

The ride may shake you around a bit but its still forceful and fun.

The space shot was closed... although i did see a maintainance guy stood right on the top with no harness i could see.

And finally a nice panorama of Fireball, Happy Valley you were an odd mix of excellent rides and terrible operations. Next Up a trip to the worlds highest indoor coaster at the Pearl Tower.

 

[gavin]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 5) Happy Valley Shangh

^The crappy operations seems to be a company policy thing. I said the exact same thing about the Happy Valley parks in Shenzhen and Beijing, and Ben and Jake found the exact same problems in the summer as well.

To be honest, I think you should consider yourself lucky that the park was dead and you "only" had to wait 20 minutes for those rides. On a busy day, you'd be looking at huge queues and one-train operations, which is a lot more frustrating.

The only coaster I saw operating more than one train was Crystal Wings in the Beijing park. Even with 90 minute queues in Shenzhen (on both the SLC and the mine train), they were still only running one train.

It really is a shame, as they're really nice parks (well, Beijing is anyway; Shenzhen has some nice areas, but not as impressive overall), but you find yourself really frustrated at the way the rides are run and it kind of puts a dampener on the whole thing.

 

[Ben]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 5) Happy Valley Shangh

Yeah, I was about to say, I'd have KILLED to have to wait twenty minutes in a station at that park! We queued two hours for the Woodie, an hour for the Dive Machine... Did walk on the Mega-Lite cause we got there when it opened <3

I agree with the Woodie, I'm glad I've ridden it now, I feel it might get REALLY rough at some point not too far in the future. I really liked it though, defo top ten woodie if not top five. Jake wasn't as much of a fan as I was though. Wish we could have ridden it more than once though <//3

I pretty much agree with everything else though. The Gyro Swing was AMAZING <3 I liked the park as a whole really, just RUBBISH operations that you were really lucky you didn't see on a busy day!

 

[peep]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 5) Happy Valley Shangh

Loving these PTRs. Look forward to reading the rest.

And what the hell is up with these locks? lol, found loads in Italy too, such a weird thing imo.

That park looks fantastic, so weird that all these Happy valley parks have such weird rules on how to operate the rides. Sounds like you were having a fun trip despite getting spited by the attractions at the top of that tower.

 

[gavin]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 5) Happy Valley Shangh

^ It comes across as if they're trying to reduce maintainance costs: only running one train when busy, waiting for full trains when quiet etc.

It would actually make sense for a smaller park, but not for a chain that has thrown BILLIONS at opening these parks over the last 10 years.

 

[roomraider]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 5) Happy Valley Shangh

Cheers for the comments guys. I did enjoy Happy Valley and i know i was lucky with the quietness, but when compared to other parks like Joyland, Lotte World and Everland its hard not to be frustrated by it all.


Anyway Day 6 continued: After Happy Valley we headed into the center of Shanghai. When having lunch at a rather nice Thai place I looked up the RCDB and realised the Pearl Tower just over the road actually had a credit in it.
Central Shanghai has some stunning buildings including the worlds 3rd tallest building (at the time of writing) the Shanghai World Financial Center which i think is one of the most beautiful skyscrapers yet constructed. It's simple and sleek and stunningly lit at night. It's not garish like the pearl tower or overly angular like Taipai 101. It also doesn't rely on stupid spires and antennas like the Willis Tower or to a certain extent the epic Burj Khaliffa. In my opinion It's Gorgeous and looks like it could open the world's largest beer bottle.

But enough architecture fetish, We ended up visiting the Pearl Tower which is miles better than the Harbin Tower we did a few days before, if not a little steep for what you get at £16, especially considering the Shanghai World Financial Center is over the road and twice the size.

The view is stunning though and the views of the ships heading up and down the river are breathtaking. On top of that when you descend to the games area (the lowest of the 3 balls) there is a decent sized Vekoma Junior coaster.

Now this coaster will not rock your world, But it is a nice ride with some decent drops and a good low down turn or two. It's good enough that it would fit nicely into any park as a kiddie coaster, Its just a pity you cant see out while riding. There is a small observation area so you can view part of the coaster run its course but when riding there's no way of telling you are hundreds of feet up in the air.

We arrived a little before dark after getting the metro up from Happy Valley, here we had our first glimpse of the massive 492m Shanghai World Financial Center.

The Pearl Tower over the road is only half the height and a lot less aesthetically pleasing but it does house a credit.

After dinner the sun had gone down and down town shanghai came alive.

The Party Bus turned up too Oli likes anything Neon so it was like a moth to a flame.

After drawing Oli away from the pounding techno bus we were immediately drawn to the steps outside the pearl tower. They show adverts on the underside of the step, very clever.

The view from the t op was so much better than the Harbin Tower.

Down town Shanghai is just like nothing in the UK.

These buildings would be among the tallest in the UK, here they seem but minnows.

the Shanghai World Financial Center is lit up with a slowly changing blue green light display.

We spent well over an hour just watching the city go by.

Shanghais smog layer seemed a lot better than Harbin and provided good views.

Oli got stopped by about 100 people today asking for pictures, his fault for looking like something out of braveheart.

This glass floor was much more effective than Harbins and scared the heebie jeebies out of me.

Down in the lower bubble you can find a small arcade with a space museum, 3D theatre and a coaster.

You can win all kinds of tat... such as these slightly creepy mouse thingys.

ET is also hanging around, strangely in a dark unlit corner of the space museum...

much like Russian Roulette or strip Trivia Pursuit , Junior Coaster is a dangerous game....

The Coaster cars for the interestingly named "Space Switchback"

despite what this picture may lead you to believe... this coaster does not go upside down. Also by the sounds of this sign it works well as a contraceptive.

Part of the coaster is viewable through a small window to one side.

Its a decent little ride, especially considering where they've crammed it in. The lifthill here actually comes at the end of the ride.

There was also an outside area here that had even clearer views of the river.

The round about outside the tower, the mall to the right is superb.

You are actually outside here, although behind a large wire net as Oli demonstrates.

But the views are stunning.

It was a tough choice choosing between the pearl tower and the Shanghai World Financial Center but the credit did swing it.

One last shot of the Space Switchback

Thats it for day 6... tomorrow we get to visit my new #1 coaster...

 

[Jake]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 5) Happy Valley Shangh

You should have gone up the bottle opener too, it's fab </3.

We did both, cus of the cred obv, although it took us AGES to find out where it was (we knew which bubble it was in, but it still took an hour to find!). Both towers were overpriced, although we got a huge student discount at the Financial Center. Can't remember how much exactly...

 

[Ben]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 5) Happy Valley Shangh

The Bottle Opener's DISGUSTING <//3 I wasn't a fan, haha. The SWAYING <//3

The discount was about half I think at the WFC? It was a good chunk <3

The Pearl Tower was really spitefully confusing, haha, but, I enjoyed the cred xD

 

[gavin]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 5) Happy Valley Shangh

I've actually been up the Oriental Pearl and notgotthecred! It was before I was into coasters, so didn't bother with it.

 

[Jake]

Re: An Englishman in the Orient: Part 5) Happy Valley Shangh

Oh, and, you must have been lucky with the smog, as it was pretty awful when we went up... you couldn't see much at all!

Shame really, I wish it had been clearer...