A few weeks ago, I woke up with a hangover and a vague recollection of buying something online when I’d got home the night before. Checking my e-mails, I discovered that I’d booked flights to Manila for the following weekend.
I’ve been before, so in terms of parks, culture and general sightseeing, there wasn’t anything on the cards, so it was basically just a cheap piss-up of a weekend. I arrived about 9pm on Friday and just went straight out.
On the Saturday, I dragged my arse out of bed in the early afternoon and decided to grab some creds that I hadn’t got the last time, some of which I hadn’t known about back then.
I started by trying to get a taxi out to a place called Fun Ranch, which just had a crappy kiddy cred, but would have been a good starting point to then hit up a couple of other places. It’s behind a small zoo – not the main Manila Zoo which was really close to where I was staying - but the first couple of taxi drivers didn’t have a clue. To be fair, it was about half an hour away, so they’ve probably never had to head out there.
I gave up and just got them to take me to the second place, a big shopping mall with a cred. The park inside the mall was called World of Fun. There’s not much to actually report, so I’ll just throw in a few pictures. The coaster cost 10 pesos, or about 15p.
I got back in a taxi and headed to the Quezon Memorial Circle, which is basically a recreation area enclosed by a huge ring road, with a bunch of market stalls, food stalls, playgrounds etc. At the north end of it is an amusement park called Circle of Fun, which had the audacity to charge 45p to enter.
Surprisingly, the 45p didn’t include any rides, which all had to be paid for separately. Take a look at the wondrous beauty of this place and book your flights immediately:
Disney could learn a thing or two from this place in the art of immersive theming.
Both of the coasters here had actually been bought from a park in Korea. Luckily, it was one that I haven’t been to, so they’re definitely new creds. Relocations DON’T count. The first cred was a powered dragon, which cost around 25p if I remember correctly.
The second one was this contraption, Wild Wind, costing the princely sum of 45p.
I’ve just checked RCDB, and it’s from Interpark. There are six of them scattered around the world, in other such coaster paradises as Iraq and Tunisia.
The inversion was actually pretty fab, at least in the front of the train. No piss-take now, but there was almost a zero-g style float to it. I imagine that at the back it would be pretty vile though. After that, it turned to ****, rattling its way through the rest of the, thankfully short, course and shaking riders like a British nanny.
After that, if was a taxi back to the hotel and another ridiculously cheap night out. I’d originally thought of maybe trying to get another couple of shopping mall kiddy creds on the Sunday afternoon, but they were ages away, on the complete opposite side of the airport from where I was staying, and I really just couldn’t be arsed with the effort, so I just headed straight to the airport instead (Worst. Airport. Ever), got myself on an earlier flight and f**ked off back to Hong Kong.
I’ve been before, so in terms of parks, culture and general sightseeing, there wasn’t anything on the cards, so it was basically just a cheap piss-up of a weekend. I arrived about 9pm on Friday and just went straight out.
On the Saturday, I dragged my arse out of bed in the early afternoon and decided to grab some creds that I hadn’t got the last time, some of which I hadn’t known about back then.
I started by trying to get a taxi out to a place called Fun Ranch, which just had a crappy kiddy cred, but would have been a good starting point to then hit up a couple of other places. It’s behind a small zoo – not the main Manila Zoo which was really close to where I was staying - but the first couple of taxi drivers didn’t have a clue. To be fair, it was about half an hour away, so they’ve probably never had to head out there.
I gave up and just got them to take me to the second place, a big shopping mall with a cred. The park inside the mall was called World of Fun. There’s not much to actually report, so I’ll just throw in a few pictures. The coaster cost 10 pesos, or about 15p.
I got back in a taxi and headed to the Quezon Memorial Circle, which is basically a recreation area enclosed by a huge ring road, with a bunch of market stalls, food stalls, playgrounds etc. At the north end of it is an amusement park called Circle of Fun, which had the audacity to charge 45p to enter.
Surprisingly, the 45p didn’t include any rides, which all had to be paid for separately. Take a look at the wondrous beauty of this place and book your flights immediately:
Disney could learn a thing or two from this place in the art of immersive theming.
Both of the coasters here had actually been bought from a park in Korea. Luckily, it was one that I haven’t been to, so they’re definitely new creds. Relocations DON’T count. The first cred was a powered dragon, which cost around 25p if I remember correctly.
The second one was this contraption, Wild Wind, costing the princely sum of 45p.
I’ve just checked RCDB, and it’s from Interpark. There are six of them scattered around the world, in other such coaster paradises as Iraq and Tunisia.
The inversion was actually pretty fab, at least in the front of the train. No piss-take now, but there was almost a zero-g style float to it. I imagine that at the back it would be pretty vile though. After that, it turned to ****, rattling its way through the rest of the, thankfully short, course and shaking riders like a British nanny.
After that, if was a taxi back to the hotel and another ridiculously cheap night out. I’d originally thought of maybe trying to get another couple of shopping mall kiddy creds on the Sunday afternoon, but they were ages away, on the complete opposite side of the airport from where I was staying, and I really just couldn’t be arsed with the effort, so I just headed straight to the airport instead (Worst. Airport. Ever), got myself on an earlier flight and f**ked off back to Hong Kong.
