Recent content by Gavin

Pretty much. Some of them are quite clearly trying to push tourism to the country, some are "look how amazing our country is!" and others don't seem to know what they are. So, when I said I’d get this finished “tomorrow”, I meant in 5 days’ time. I’d been to Universal Japan twice before and...

One of the reasons to head to Osaka was for the Expo. Honestly, it’s not something I would’ve made an effort for myself, but it’s not like I was opposed to the idea. It was really busy; it took us over half an hour just to get in thanks to airport-style security, and then there were also long...

I had most of the next day free as well since the boyfriend wasn’t arriving until early evening, so I moved my crap 10 minutes down the road from my cheaper hotel to the nicer one we were staying at for a few nights. I decided to check out Nara – another old temples and palace area – with a...

I had a couple of days to kill in Osaka and decided to use them to finally hit up a couple of the “must do” tourist areas not too far away, starting with Kyoto. It’s only around an hour away from Osaka, but I’d never given myself enough time to head out there on previous visits. If I’d thought...

I think I was there on April 19th, so not too long after you. Was the stand-up train also closed for you? How about Chupy Coaster, or whatever it's called?

As mentioned earlier, the plan was to get the train to Okayama (not very far) and hit up the park in the area the next day. This changed into “It’s still early, so I’ll check into the hotel and head back out to the perk this afternoon” which then changed into “Hold on; we’re just about to pass...

Yeah, I'd say that one of the reasons that we never got another Aquatrax is that it basically evolved into those tire-launch straddle things, which are more family friendly and a lot cheaper I guess. The seating is pretty much identical. The drop tower never used to have the shields. They were...

I had an early flight from Seoul to Takamatsu. There was a direct bus option from the airport to the nearby theme park, but a flight delay coupled with a fairly long immigration queue meant that I missed it by about 5 minutes. The next one wasn’t until about an hour and a half later, so I took a...

Who else has been at this long enough to remember when Adlabs Imajica opened and everyone thought it would be the start of a massive park/coaster boom for India?

I wasn't a fan of this place, I couldn't see any conceivable reason why I'd ever go back, and if any of their parks were up for the chopping block, it's not surprising that it was this one, but it's still a bit s**t to lose a pretty major park.

Absolutely. It wasn't the best rapids ride, but it was themed really well, and the fact that the whole thing was near the top of that huge building was really impressive.

I wasn’t going to hit up any of the parks in Seoul seeing as there were no new coasters at any of them. Then I remembered that there was a new Legoland park, which wasn’t particularly close, but doable as a day trip. Luckily, I looked into the opening hours before just getting on a train. Unlike...

I remember even the lift hill being rough. Awful, awful thing.

As previously mentioned, I was done at Lotte World much earlier than expected. I thought about doing some sightseeing in Busan, but I’d been a couple of times before and couldn’t be bothered to look into whether there was anything new worth seeing. Instead, I just headed to Gyeongju a few...

I checked out of the hotel, but left my s**t there and headed out to Lotte World Busan. The original Lotte World used to be my home park and was partly responsible for getting me into this stupid hobby in the first place, so I was interested to see what they’d do with a new park. It’s all very...