Slayed
Hyper Poster
Right now I'm in the middle of my honeymoon, and having spent 6 days gorging ourselves with Italian high culture, it's only fair that we drop into a theme park or two on the way around, purely for balance
.
So yesterday after leaving Florence we drove north and east for a bit, and despite my spastic satnav taking us the wrong way past Bologna (and subsequently getting lost in the middle of nowhere for a bit) we found our way to Mirabilandia!
We arrived at 1pm, which was 2 hours later than we'd planned, so by now it was hot and heaving! There's a water park attached and at least half the people were walking around practically naked, not always to good effect! We were happy to feel British and overdressed
.
The park is nicely laid out with decent theming and nice scenery, and very much aimed at families - there's not a huge amount of thrill to be had, and it gets a little crowded in sections, but that's unavoidable when it's so busy, and it's generally a pleasant place to be.
Catherine's not much of a coaster fan, and we'd only been to Oakwood together before where I'm fairly relaxed. She was therefore rather taken aback when Slayed the CoasterGeek
suddenly emerged and took photos of everything in sight while marching straight in the direction of the nearest B&M like a man posessed! Well what else could I do? :lol:
Look, it's over there! Run!
It's OK, she hasn't divorced me yet
.
Behold the glory that is Katun!
I got Cath a drink and a spot in the shade then made a beeline to the station:-
Having seen how busy the park was, I was expecting a fair queue. But they were running 3 trains with full B&M efficiency, and it was practically a walk-on! I went straight for the back
.
WOW! Full-on airtime down that massive drop, on a B&M! Awesomeness! You get all the usual great force but with added airtime, I loved it
. It's a teeny bit rough occasionally but who cares, it's pretty much the perfect balance for a B&M suspended. I want one!
The theming is great too, even the drop-away floor has been made to resemble tiling. I still think Mamba's overall theming is better but it's nice to see, although I'm not convinced about that Stargate!
Naturally with such a short queue I would normally have whored the beast to death, but we had limited time in the park and I knew there was an Intamin launch waiting that had apparently been down that morning, so we moved on.
I'll type up the rest later on today, we're off for a walk now around the shore of Lake Garda in the summer sun ^_^.
So yesterday after leaving Florence we drove north and east for a bit, and despite my spastic satnav taking us the wrong way past Bologna (and subsequently getting lost in the middle of nowhere for a bit) we found our way to Mirabilandia!
![p1020880n.jpg](http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/8876/p1020880n.jpg)
We arrived at 1pm, which was 2 hours later than we'd planned, so by now it was hot and heaving! There's a water park attached and at least half the people were walking around practically naked, not always to good effect! We were happy to feel British and overdressed
The park is nicely laid out with decent theming and nice scenery, and very much aimed at families - there's not a huge amount of thrill to be had, and it gets a little crowded in sections, but that's unavoidable when it's so busy, and it's generally a pleasant place to be.
![p1020888.jpg](http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/7016/p1020888.jpg)
![p1020955a.jpg](http://img530.imageshack.us/img530/8282/p1020955a.jpg)
Catherine's not much of a coaster fan, and we'd only been to Oakwood together before where I'm fairly relaxed. She was therefore rather taken aback when Slayed the CoasterGeek
suddenly emerged and took photos of everything in sight while marching straight in the direction of the nearest B&M like a man posessed! Well what else could I do? :lol:
Look, it's over there! Run!
![p1020890w.jpg](http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/4729/p1020890w.jpg)
It's OK, she hasn't divorced me yet
Behold the glory that is Katun!
![p1020914.jpg](http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/2195/p1020914.jpg)
I got Cath a drink and a spot in the shade then made a beeline to the station:-
![p1020905.jpg](http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/673/p1020905.jpg)
Having seen how busy the park was, I was expecting a fair queue. But they were running 3 trains with full B&M efficiency, and it was practically a walk-on! I went straight for the back
![p1020909t.jpg](http://img200.imageshack.us/img200/3958/p1020909t.jpg)
WOW! Full-on airtime down that massive drop, on a B&M! Awesomeness! You get all the usual great force but with added airtime, I loved it
![p1020927.jpg](http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/7954/p1020927.jpg)
The theming is great too, even the drop-away floor has been made to resemble tiling. I still think Mamba's overall theming is better but it's nice to see, although I'm not convinced about that Stargate!
Naturally with such a short queue I would normally have whored the beast to death, but we had limited time in the park and I knew there was an Intamin launch waiting that had apparently been down that morning, so we moved on.
I'll type up the rest later on today, we're off for a walk now around the shore of Lake Garda in the summer sun ^_^.