Jordanovichy
Credit Whore 2016
A couple of weekends ago a few of us decided to mop up the creds in Lincolnshire (Dune's Leisure & Fantasy Island) and Norfolk (Hunstanton, Yarmouth, Pleasurewood Hills) with a few places in between. For me, the weekend promised a pretty 10 creds so I was up for it, I really wanted to finally ride Odyssey plus get to Pleasuewood hills, one of only 3 'major' UK parks left for me to visit.
Originally I was going to get the train down to London to stay with Jordan and Conor on the Friday night but work overrun so I got up stupidly early and got to their's for 9am. I was greeted at the door by a naked Conor. Excellent. Before long we piled into their Fiat and made our way north. First stop, Dune's Lesiure, Mablethorpe.
I had already got the cred, Miner Mike, in April last year but riding it meant 26 LoG points so I had to do it...and got back row. I'm going to steal Gavin's photo as I'm assuming he probably won't bother trip reporting
It even went backwards! Yay for +1. We then headed south to Fantasy Island. Again, I'd already been but needed to ride Odyssey as it was closed last time I was here. This was the cred I was most looking forward to. Shame the **** spited. I was watching it as we walked from the car park to the park and it didn't go around at all...Millennium only went around every 7 minutes. I asked a member of staff and apparently it was too windy, despite it being a warm, sunny day...something I didn't think 'the north' experienced. Spite. Ugh.
On the way around the park someone spotted a travelling Runaway Train. To make up for the Odyssey spite I had to ride it.
Initially I was refused but no way was I letting that happen. A little pleading later and the ride op gave in and let me on. MouseAT, the cheeky sod, crept in behind and joined me for the plus one.
Back in the park, the majority of people needed the other creds so they went off to ride Millennium. We stopped at Beast, the top scan, because MouseAT and I wanted to ride it (it was the only thing I rode). It's so much more relentless than Samurai at Thorpe, it goes on 3x longer and really throws you around. I don't often come off theme park rides feeling nauseous but I really did with this.
The other's then rode the other creds in the park. Once they'd ticked off the +1s, we all went to an inside area which is behind spiteful Jellykins. I'd never been in here before and it was, for the **** that is Fantasy Island, reasonably impressive. Just imagine a really really bad Wüze Town at Phantasialand, like really bad, and that's what it is.
There was a water slide thing in the middle, as people came down, they were moving with lots of pace and getting really splashed. Conor and I looked at each other...we knew what needed to be done. It was £2.50 each. Conor went first and got soaked, nearly stacked it at the end. Then it was my turn. It starts off reasonably slow but soon gathers pace. The penultimate corner you really fly up the side and soak yourself, but the final turn I flew right up and came so close to flipping it over. I was soaked. Everyone found it hilarious. :roll:
Conor posted a video to Instagram.
https://instagram.com/p/5SEs0CwDUN/?tak ... lfastconor (I don't know how to embed Instagram videos...or even if you can!)
It was good fun. Afterwards we said a quick goodbye to the others, they were heading off to Botton's Amusements but Conor, Jordan and I had the creds so didn't bother and went straight to Hunstanton...two hours away even though, in a straight line, they're 16 miles apart -_-
We arrived half hour before everyone else so we had a quick look at the beach...
And then wasted a few quid on the 2p machines. I won an awful sweet, a keyring and some skateboard thing...
The other's arrived and rode Sea Dragon which was my first ever cred, where all this began. Bloody thing.
We went back to the car and met up at a nearby Brewer's Fayre. I'd never been to one (despite living 10 minutes away from one in Portsmouth) but it was pretty bleak. Conor bought an Olaf balloon which was fun. We had a great evening just chatting at the table for a couple of hours before leaving. Before setting off for the Travelodge, Conor attached Olaf to the back of the car, we turned one corner and it flew out wide. Olaf was brought inside for being dangerous.
Small amount of faff occurred at the Lodge before Jordan, Conor, Gavin and myself settled in for the night with many alcohols.
It was a good day, despite the Odyssey spite, of one expected cred I got one, but a different one to the expected one...
Thank you for reading, I'll add part two soon. If anyone else on the trip decided to report I'll change the title of this so it gets rid of what 'part' I'm on.
Originally I was going to get the train down to London to stay with Jordan and Conor on the Friday night but work overrun so I got up stupidly early and got to their's for 9am. I was greeted at the door by a naked Conor. Excellent. Before long we piled into their Fiat and made our way north. First stop, Dune's Lesiure, Mablethorpe.
I had already got the cred, Miner Mike, in April last year but riding it meant 26 LoG points so I had to do it...and got back row. I'm going to steal Gavin's photo as I'm assuming he probably won't bother trip reporting
It even went backwards! Yay for +1. We then headed south to Fantasy Island. Again, I'd already been but needed to ride Odyssey as it was closed last time I was here. This was the cred I was most looking forward to. Shame the **** spited. I was watching it as we walked from the car park to the park and it didn't go around at all...Millennium only went around every 7 minutes. I asked a member of staff and apparently it was too windy, despite it being a warm, sunny day...something I didn't think 'the north' experienced. Spite. Ugh.
On the way around the park someone spotted a travelling Runaway Train. To make up for the Odyssey spite I had to ride it.
Initially I was refused but no way was I letting that happen. A little pleading later and the ride op gave in and let me on. MouseAT, the cheeky sod, crept in behind and joined me for the plus one.
Back in the park, the majority of people needed the other creds so they went off to ride Millennium. We stopped at Beast, the top scan, because MouseAT and I wanted to ride it (it was the only thing I rode). It's so much more relentless than Samurai at Thorpe, it goes on 3x longer and really throws you around. I don't often come off theme park rides feeling nauseous but I really did with this.
The other's then rode the other creds in the park. Once they'd ticked off the +1s, we all went to an inside area which is behind spiteful Jellykins. I'd never been in here before and it was, for the **** that is Fantasy Island, reasonably impressive. Just imagine a really really bad Wüze Town at Phantasialand, like really bad, and that's what it is.
There was a water slide thing in the middle, as people came down, they were moving with lots of pace and getting really splashed. Conor and I looked at each other...we knew what needed to be done. It was £2.50 each. Conor went first and got soaked, nearly stacked it at the end. Then it was my turn. It starts off reasonably slow but soon gathers pace. The penultimate corner you really fly up the side and soak yourself, but the final turn I flew right up and came so close to flipping it over. I was soaked. Everyone found it hilarious. :roll:
Conor posted a video to Instagram.
https://instagram.com/p/5SEs0CwDUN/?tak ... lfastconor (I don't know how to embed Instagram videos...or even if you can!)
It was good fun. Afterwards we said a quick goodbye to the others, they were heading off to Botton's Amusements but Conor, Jordan and I had the creds so didn't bother and went straight to Hunstanton...two hours away even though, in a straight line, they're 16 miles apart -_-
We arrived half hour before everyone else so we had a quick look at the beach...
And then wasted a few quid on the 2p machines. I won an awful sweet, a keyring and some skateboard thing...
The other's arrived and rode Sea Dragon which was my first ever cred, where all this began. Bloody thing.
We went back to the car and met up at a nearby Brewer's Fayre. I'd never been to one (despite living 10 minutes away from one in Portsmouth) but it was pretty bleak. Conor bought an Olaf balloon which was fun. We had a great evening just chatting at the table for a couple of hours before leaving. Before setting off for the Travelodge, Conor attached Olaf to the back of the car, we turned one corner and it flew out wide. Olaf was brought inside for being dangerous.
Small amount of faff occurred at the Lodge before Jordan, Conor, Gavin and myself settled in for the night with many alcohols.
It was a good day, despite the Odyssey spite, of one expected cred I got one, but a different one to the expected one...
Thank you for reading, I'll add part two soon. If anyone else on the trip decided to report I'll change the title of this so it gets rid of what 'part' I'm on.