Tres días en Madrid: Day Three, More Sightseeing then Home
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Re: Tres días en Madrid: Day Two Part One, Parque Warner Mad
Nice report Jordan. Your hostel sounded horrific, although at that price I suppose you get what you pay for
I really like Warner, not sure if if say it's better than Port Aventura. I think they have a great ride selection, two brilliant water rides and some great coasters (though their woodie needs to burn to the ground). I think you're right that it needs a new big dark ride, I think that or another signature coaster is what they should get next.
Intrigued to read your thoughts on the other park.
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Nice report Jordan. Your hostel sounded horrific, although at that price I suppose you get what you pay for
I really like Warner, not sure if if say it's better than Port Aventura. I think they have a great ride selection, two brilliant water rides and some great coasters (though their woodie needs to burn to the ground). I think you're right that it needs a new big dark ride, I think that or another signature coaster is what they should get next.
Intrigued to read your thoughts on the other park.
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Jordanovichy
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Re: Tres días en Madrid: Day Two Part One, Parque Warner Mad
Ugh I don't get the love for PA. It has Shambhala and Dragon Kahn, that's where the 'good rides' stop. Hmmm Baco is great too but it just isn't as nice a park as Warner. Sorry but that's my opinion.
Plus it has the excluse GIB
Ugh I don't get the love for PA. It has Shambhala and Dragon Kahn, that's where the 'good rides' stop. Hmmm Baco is great too but it just isn't as nice a park as Warner. Sorry but that's my opinion.
Plus it has the excluse GIB
CookieCoasters
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Re: Tres días en Madrid: Day Two Part One, Parque Warner Mad
Parque Warner with Batman, Superman and Stunt Fall does have a better coaster selection than Port Aventura I think. Yes, Shambhala is amazing, but after that, the aforementioned Warner coasters beat everything else at Port Aventura, including Khan, which isn't as great as it used to be. I would also agree with Jordan that Parque Warner is a very nice park. It's in my top 10 parks, but PA is just above it because every area is stunningly beautiful and I believe the non-coaster ride selection there is slightly better.
I'm shocked you didn't find much force on Batman. I personally think Batman clones are the most forceful inverts, almost too much so on occasions. Maybe it's because you rode the front, when inverts are always more forceful at the back :wink:
Parque Warner with Batman, Superman and Stunt Fall does have a better coaster selection than Port Aventura I think. Yes, Shambhala is amazing, but after that, the aforementioned Warner coasters beat everything else at Port Aventura, including Khan, which isn't as great as it used to be. I would also agree with Jordan that Parque Warner is a very nice park. It's in my top 10 parks, but PA is just above it because every area is stunningly beautiful and I believe the non-coaster ride selection there is slightly better.
Jordanovichy said:
I'm shocked you didn't find much force on Batman. I personally think Batman clones are the most forceful inverts, almost too much so on occasions. Maybe it's because you rode the front, when inverts are always more forceful at the back :wink:
caffeine_demon
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Re: Tres días en Madrid: Day Two Part One, Parque Warner Mad
From my visit about 5 years ago, based on:
1 - The excelent rapids
2 - The 2 great flume rides (both better than tutuki)
3 - Prefering batman and superman to Khan
4 - Stunt fall being fab
I prefer Warner too - although they have been somewhat quiet on the new rides front!!
From my visit about 5 years ago, based on:
1 - The excelent rapids
2 - The 2 great flume rides (both better than tutuki)
3 - Prefering batman and superman to Khan
4 - Stunt fall being fab
I prefer Warner too - although they have been somewhat quiet on the new rides front!!
Re: Tres días en Madrid: Day Two Part One, Parque Warner Mad
That GIB is the least excluse one there is! It's the dirty slut of the GIB World, everyone has it (apart from bae). JJ23W's mum probably has it. Get the one in Sochi or Jin Jiang Action Park if you want an excluse one.
And considering Khan and Shambhala alone are better than all of Warner's rides combined I think you'll find you're WRONG.
Jordanovichy said:Ugh I don't get the love for PA. It has Shambhala and Dragon Kahn, that's where the 'good rides' stop. Hmmm Baco is great too but it just isn't as nice a park as Warner. Sorry but that's my opinion.
Plus it has the excluse GIB
That GIB is the least excluse one there is! It's the dirty slut of the GIB World, everyone has it (apart from bae). JJ23W's mum probably has it. Get the one in Sochi or Jin Jiang Action Park if you want an excluse one.
And considering Khan and Shambhala alone are better than all of Warner's rides combined I think you'll find you're WRONG.
Jordanovichy
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Re: Tres días en Madrid: Day Two Part One, Parque Warner Mad
I rode back too which had lots more force but I was still expecting better
CookieCoasters said:
I rode back too which had lots more force but I was still expecting better
Re: Tres días en Madrid: Day Two Part One, Parque Warner Mad
Hold on, I skipped the part where you thought Batman was meh (which it is) but still think the park is better than PA!
No, no, no.
I just can't get over this. Warner is a Six Flags park masquerading, whereas PA is a gorgeous park, run well, with better coasters.
Hold on, I skipped the part where you thought Batman was meh (which it is) but still think the park is better than PA!
No, no, no.
I just can't get over this. Warner is a Six Flags park masquerading, whereas PA is a gorgeous park, run well, with better coasters.
Jordanovichy
Credit Whore 2016
Re: Tres días en Madrid: Day Two Part One, Parque Warner Mad
Ahh you're all such cretins xD
I'm just not a fan of Port Aventura that's all, Parque Warner isn't exactly a world class park, I just liked it more. OK, Port Aventura is a prettier park, it has some nice greenery to add to the feel and the pretty lake and that's great but the theming of the areas is better at Parque Warner...plus I can't get enough of movie parks, even though I've only done 3, they're fab.
Vadge doesn't have it either
Ahh you're all such cretins xD
I'm just not a fan of Port Aventura that's all, Parque Warner isn't exactly a world class park, I just liked it more. OK, Port Aventura is a prettier park, it has some nice greenery to add to the feel and the pretty lake and that's great but the theming of the areas is better at Parque Warner...plus I can't get enough of movie parks, even though I've only done 3, they're fab.
Ben said:
Vadge doesn't have it either
Jordanovichy
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Re: Tres días en Madrid: Day Two Part One, Parque Warner Mad
Time to finish off day two, with Parque de Atracciones de Madrid.
It's not something I really wanted to do but realistically I had no choice but to cred run this park so if you want to moan about 'oh but you missed this, and you missed that' then just don't bother.
Once back at Atocha Renfe we caught the Metro and changed a couple of times to get to the station Batán and followed the signs for Parque de Atracciones Salida, which is the exit to get to the park, we walked across a dusty car park and arrived at the entrance.
Not the most impressive entrance to a theme park...
We paid the entrance fee (€31.50) and we were in. They had no park maps left at the entrance so I had to work out where the creds were, thankfully it is quite a small park so it wasn't too difficult.
First stop, Nickelodeon Land.
First cred was Padrinos Voladores.
It's a Zamperla Air Force. Having never ridden one before I was quite surprised when all of the cars moved around as a train rather than individually like other suspended 'plane' coasters do like Turbo Drachan at Pott's Park does. It was alright, went round the corners ferociously but I just blame my weight giving me extra momentum round the corners.
It was nothing special, yay +1.
We then came across Vagones Locos and I think it was on this cred that Zoe finally realised the extent we go to just to get that extra +1...
I half expected the ride op to take one look at us and tell us to **** off but he (almost) unquestioningly let us on (he did give us a look that said 'really?'). +1
Next up was TNT Tren de la Mina.
It is set within a fab looking castle. I suppose, given it's close proximity to Madrid in comparison to Parque Warner more people visit this park and the queues reflected that. It took around 20 minutes.
It looked quite impressive actually, pacy and thrilling. I took my seat and it didn't disappoint. For a mine train it was really good! You whip up hills and through buildings. Towards the end is a fab, terrain-hugging section which I really enjoyed. For what it is, it's fab <3 (Not quite Colorado Adventure though).
Zoe was clearly getting fed up with Theme Parking I left her sat in a restaurant and said I'd be back in 10 minutes and I'd run off and ride Vértigo. It had a 40 minute queue and I wasn't waiting that long for a **** Wild Maus. I bailed and decided to come back later. I found Zoe and we made our way to Abismo. Queues would clearly feature in the rest of our day as it was quite busy here. I told Zoe I didn't know how long I'd be and went to queue for Abismo.
I was grateful that the queue line was covered with water spray and large fans as I was feeling hot and bothered and the prospect of a 40 minute queue made me weak at the knees. To pass the time I played Bad Piggies and Solitaire.
I'd never ridden a SkyLoop so was looking forward to it. It has the same restraints as Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit but I stupidly pushed it down way too tight. I don't know what the general consensus is on these things, are they liked? I wasn't impressed to be honest. I know it was my own fault by pinning myself but on the airtime hills at the end I was actually in pain, I was annoyed at myself because it would probably have been alright if I hadn't done this because it wasn't rough and it was reasonably thrilling. I wasn't about to queue another 40 minutes to try it again.
I made my way over to Tarántula next, a Maurer Spinning Coaster. I love Dragon's Fury so was looking forward to riding.
Such a fab entrance to the ride <3
No shade in this queue line, thankfully the sun was getting weaker as evening was fast approaching but it was still very hot.
So, the coaster. It's really good, not quite Dragon's Fury standards but I really enjoyed it. Pacy and enjoyable. It doesn't spin anywhere as near as much as the CWoA's equivalent but that might be because it was loaded with 2 people on either side, it also doesn't give the feeling of being vertical as well as Fury does. Ah well, still a good, solid ride.
I headed on round towards the back of the park, through Paris...
...and to Tornado.
It's an Intamin Suspended Looping Coaster, one of only 2 in the world, the other's at Särkänniemi in Finland. (Was Euro-Star at Gorky Park, Russia one?)
Yay for another queue but at least it was covered and only around 20 minutes anyway. I took my seat and climbed the lift hill. It's alright, nothing special but a good fun ride, not too rough (although, obviously not the ice-smoothness of a B&M), the inversions were fun with a little hang-time. It's probably the best coaster in the park, having said that it is no where near world class, this park lacks a fantastic, world class coaster.
I met up with Zoe again and we made our way back across the park just to have a walk through the place and get a feel for the area. We bumped into some singing and dancing Spaniards.
That was fun. I did think about riding the sky swing but it has a 30 minute queue and I was shattered and just wanted to go to be honest. Have some pictures of the park and some fountains.
Eat your heart out, Amanda Thompson.
I found a large sausage. Please, no Zoe jokes...
We made our way back over to Vértigo, the queue had dyed down to only 20 minutes. Yay for active theme parking.
In the queue, it suddenly dawned on me that if this didn't spite me last second I'd have gotten all 13 Madrid creds (I'm not including the one at the shopping mall in this obviously). This would also make it my most successful day of creeping to date, the other being in Aug 2013 at Blackpool.
I think it's the same layout as Rattlesnake just back to front (I'm sure someone will rudely correct me if I'm wrong). I had the [strike]pleasure[/strike] burden of sitting next to some [strike]hilarious[/strike] annoying Spanish girls who thought it funny to scream the whole way round. Great. :evil: It was alright, pretty unremarkable but fun.
And that was that! 13 creds in one day, I was quite happy with myself. On the way out we stopped at a shop to find tat and, hopefully, theme park maps. The tat was poor, it's all very well selling Spongebob keyrings but if it doesn't specifically say 'Parque de Atracciones' on it, I'm not interested. I could have won a Spongebob keyring in the Brighton 2p machines. They had also run out of maps. Spite.
Parque de Atracciones disappointed me. I know I rushed my visit and that probably didn't help but it just didn't 'feel' like a good park, it has the Nickelodeon Land and the Mine Train and after that the other creds are basically plonked at the back of the park with no theming of an area. It has a nice selection of coasters, something for the little ones, the big ones and the middle ones but it lacks a really good coaster. I'm glad I went for the creds obviously but it is the worst park (of the four) I've been to in Spain.
We caught the Metro back to our hostel and, being all cultural, grabbed a kebab to take back to the hostel. I was grateful for an ice cold shower and an early night...even if the room was as hot and stuffy as ever.
Thank you very much for reading once again. That's the theme park side of things done, I'll post the final day with more sightseeing and culture when I get a chance. Hope you enjoyed.
Time to finish off day two, with Parque de Atracciones de Madrid.
It's not something I really wanted to do but realistically I had no choice but to cred run this park so if you want to moan about 'oh but you missed this, and you missed that' then just don't bother.
Once back at Atocha Renfe we caught the Metro and changed a couple of times to get to the station Batán and followed the signs for Parque de Atracciones Salida, which is the exit to get to the park, we walked across a dusty car park and arrived at the entrance.
Not the most impressive entrance to a theme park...
We paid the entrance fee (€31.50) and we were in. They had no park maps left at the entrance so I had to work out where the creds were, thankfully it is quite a small park so it wasn't too difficult.
First stop, Nickelodeon Land.
First cred was Padrinos Voladores.
It's a Zamperla Air Force. Having never ridden one before I was quite surprised when all of the cars moved around as a train rather than individually like other suspended 'plane' coasters do like Turbo Drachan at Pott's Park does. It was alright, went round the corners ferociously but I just blame my weight giving me extra momentum round the corners.
It was nothing special, yay +1.
We then came across Vagones Locos and I think it was on this cred that Zoe finally realised the extent we go to just to get that extra +1...
I half expected the ride op to take one look at us and tell us to **** off but he (almost) unquestioningly let us on (he did give us a look that said 'really?'). +1
Next up was TNT Tren de la Mina.
It is set within a fab looking castle. I suppose, given it's close proximity to Madrid in comparison to Parque Warner more people visit this park and the queues reflected that. It took around 20 minutes.
It looked quite impressive actually, pacy and thrilling. I took my seat and it didn't disappoint. For a mine train it was really good! You whip up hills and through buildings. Towards the end is a fab, terrain-hugging section which I really enjoyed. For what it is, it's fab <3 (Not quite Colorado Adventure though).
Zoe was clearly getting fed up with Theme Parking
I left her sat in a restaurant and said I'd be back in 10 minutes and I'd run off and ride Vértigo. It had a 40 minute queue and I wasn't waiting that long for a **** Wild Maus. I bailed and decided to come back later. I found Zoe and we made our way to Abismo. Queues would clearly feature in the rest of our day as it was quite busy here. I told Zoe I didn't know how long I'd be and went to queue for Abismo.
I was grateful that the queue line was covered with water spray and large fans as I was feeling hot and bothered and the prospect of a 40 minute queue made me weak at the knees. To pass the time I played Bad Piggies and Solitaire.
I'd never ridden a SkyLoop so was looking forward to it. It has the same restraints as Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit but I stupidly pushed it down way too tight. I don't know what the general consensus is on these things, are they liked? I wasn't impressed to be honest. I know it was my own fault by pinning myself but on the airtime hills at the end I was actually in pain, I was annoyed at myself because it would probably have been alright if I hadn't done this because it wasn't rough and it was reasonably thrilling. I wasn't about to queue another 40 minutes to try it again.
I made my way over to Tarántula next, a Maurer Spinning Coaster. I love Dragon's Fury so was looking forward to riding.
Such a fab entrance to the ride <3
No shade in this queue line, thankfully the sun was getting weaker as evening was fast approaching but it was still very hot.
So, the coaster. It's really good, not quite Dragon's Fury standards but I really enjoyed it. Pacy and enjoyable. It doesn't spin anywhere as near as much as the CWoA's equivalent but that might be because it was loaded with 2 people on either side, it also doesn't give the feeling of being vertical as well as Fury does. Ah well, still a good, solid ride.
I headed on round towards the back of the park, through Paris...
...and to Tornado.
It's an Intamin Suspended Looping Coaster, one of only 2 in the world, the other's at Särkänniemi in Finland. (Was Euro-Star at Gorky Park, Russia one?)
Yay for another queue but at least it was covered and only around 20 minutes anyway. I took my seat and climbed the lift hill. It's alright, nothing special but a good fun ride, not too rough (although, obviously not the ice-smoothness of a B&M), the inversions were fun with a little hang-time. It's probably the best coaster in the park, having said that it is no where near world class, this park lacks a fantastic, world class coaster.
I met up with Zoe again and we made our way back across the park just to have a walk through the place and get a feel for the area. We bumped into some singing and dancing Spaniards.
That was fun. I did think about riding the sky swing but it has a 30 minute queue and I was shattered and just wanted to go to be honest. Have some pictures of the park and some fountains.
Eat your heart out, Amanda Thompson.
I found a large sausage. Please, no Zoe jokes...
We made our way back over to Vértigo, the queue had dyed down to only 20 minutes. Yay for active theme parking.
In the queue, it suddenly dawned on me that if this didn't spite me last second I'd have gotten all 13 Madrid creds (I'm not including the one at the shopping mall in this obviously). This would also make it my most successful day of creeping to date, the other being in Aug 2013 at Blackpool.
I think it's the same layout as Rattlesnake just back to front (I'm sure someone will rudely correct me if I'm wrong). I had the [strike]pleasure[/strike] burden of sitting next to some [strike]hilarious[/strike] annoying Spanish girls who thought it funny to scream the whole way round. Great. :evil: It was alright, pretty unremarkable but fun.
And that was that! 13 creds in one day, I was quite happy with myself. On the way out we stopped at a shop to find tat and, hopefully, theme park maps. The tat was poor, it's all very well selling Spongebob keyrings but if it doesn't specifically say 'Parque de Atracciones' on it, I'm not interested. I could have won a Spongebob keyring in the Brighton 2p machines. They had also run out of maps. Spite.
Parque de Atracciones disappointed me. I know I rushed my visit and that probably didn't help but it just didn't 'feel' like a good park, it has the Nickelodeon Land and the Mine Train and after that the other creds are basically plonked at the back of the park with no theming of an area. It has a nice selection of coasters, something for the little ones, the big ones and the middle ones but it lacks a really good coaster. I'm glad I went for the creds obviously
but it is the worst park (of the four) I've been to in Spain.We caught the Metro back to our hostel and, being all cultural, grabbed a kebab to take back to the hostel. I was grateful for an ice cold shower and an early night...even if the room was as hot and stuffy as ever.
Thank you very much for reading once again. That's the theme park side of things done, I'll post the final day with more sightseeing and culture when I get a chance. Hope you enjoyed.
Re: Tres días en Madrid: Day Two Part Two, Parque de Atracci
Euro Star isn't I don't think, but Volcano is, so there's three.
ParqueDA is OK I guess, a decent inner city park comparable to whatever that one in Helsinki is called etc
Abismo is fabulous though, you're wrong on that.
Euro Star isn't I don't think, but Volcano is, so there's three.
ParqueDA is OK I guess, a decent inner city park comparable to whatever that one in Helsinki is called etc
Abismo is fabulous though, you're wrong on that.
Darren B
Giga Poster
Re: Tres días en Madrid: Day Two Part Two, Parque de Atracci
At least you didn't claim this was better that PortAventura :roll:
I wouldn't take Zoe to a theme park again, though. She seems like a right burden. I think she only came on the trip with you in the hope of getting laid.
At least you didn't claim this was better that PortAventura :roll:
I wouldn't take Zoe to a theme park again, though. She seems like a right burden. I think she only came on the trip with you in the hope of getting laid.
Jarrett
Most Obnoxious Member 2016
Re: Tres días en Madrid: Day Two Part Two, Parque de Atracci
Parque de Atracciones looks great! However, I do have to correct you in that there's actually three Intamin suspended looping coasters in the world; Kings Dominion has one and it's fab. Really enjoying this, though! Can't wait for more!
And if Zoe sees that first page of comments, I weep for you! :lol:
Parque de Atracciones looks great! However, I do have to correct you in that there's actually three Intamin suspended looping coasters in the world; Kings Dominion has one and it's fab. Really enjoying this, though! Can't wait for more!
And if Zoe sees that first page of comments, I weep for you! :lol:
Jordanovichy
Credit Whore 2016
Re: Tres días en Madrid: Day Two Part Two, Parque de Atracci
Zoe has seen all the comments. She thinks Darren and Ben are, and I quote, 'petulant children'. hehehe
Zoe has seen all the comments. She thinks Darren and Ben are, and I quote, 'petulant children'. hehehe
Re: Tres días en Madrid: Day Two Part Two, Parque de Atracci
^They're literally all the same thing except Volcano is launched, and are widely considered by the enthusiast community to be the same ride type.
It's like saying Thunderbird isn't a Wing Rider.
Intamin also don't list them separately and use a photo of Volcano on their SLC page.
Zoe sounds like a bit of a norse tbh. She has the bantz of a bit of lettuce.
^They're literally all the same thing except Volcano is launched, and are widely considered by the enthusiast community to be the same ride type.
It's like saying Thunderbird isn't a Wing Rider.
Intamin also don't list them separately and use a photo of Volcano on their SLC page.
Zoe sounds like a bit of a norse tbh. She has the bantz of a bit of lettuce.
Nemesis Inferno
Strata Poster
Re: Tres días en Madrid: Day Two Part Two, Parque de Atracci
Ben ruined any part of his argument by saying PA is well run (although if in comparison to other Spanish parks, then fair enough)...
Warner lacks... Something... Soul perhaps, maybe because its always dead? And its pretty much the same as any Movie Park in the world, only with two good B&Ms...
And Jordan, please find some GOOD wooden coasters... First Bandit and now Coaster Express, your opinion on these things are so god awful...
Ben ruined any part of his argument by saying PA is well run (although if in comparison to other Spanish parks, then fair enough)...
Warner lacks... Something... Soul perhaps, maybe because its always dead? And its pretty much the same as any Movie Park in the world, only with two good B&Ms...
And Jordan, please find some GOOD wooden coasters... First Bandit and now Coaster Express, your opinion on these things are so god awful...
nadroJ
CF Legend
Re: Tres días en Madrid: Day Two Part Two, Parque de Atracci
Epic cred run! You're silly about a few things (Batman being forceless and the Wile E Coyote coaster being meh (its fab!)) but I do agree that PA isn't that great of a park. It has Shambz of course and Khan but then everything else is meh. Definitely lacks something.
Epic cred run! You're silly about a few things (Batman being forceless and the Wile E Coyote coaster being meh (its fab!)) but I do agree that PA isn't that great of a park. It has Shambz of course and Khan but then everything else is meh. Definitely lacks something.