Thorpe Park, 2nd April 2009

An exciting and long day at Thorpe Park.

Me and a friend Max took a trip to Thorpe Park, The Nation's Thrill Capital apparently, as i havent been to Alton Towers i cant realy make a judgement.

Anyways, Me and Max purchased a day return to Staines which includes return bus travel to Thorpe Park and reduced entry to the park, £27.70 instead of £35 and the return was £34, it would have been £15 cheaper if travelled later but this wasnt an option lol

We got the 7.24 First Great Western from Swanwick to Southampton Central, i'll point out at here Max hates First Great Western with a passion, ask him as it can go on forever lol, anyway we got to Southampton Central about 7.45, we then got the 8.00 South West Trains to Clapham Junction, the busiest rail location in the UK and possiably Europe, after navigating its 17 platforms and onstant services we finally got the 9.27 South West Trains to Staines.

We got into Thorpe Park at roughly 10.15 and from here proceeded to Colossus and Nemesis Inferno, to our amazement, we queued for only about 10 mins for each one, with both of these rides we purhcased ride photos, we got the photo pass, 5 photos for £20. We then headed to Burger King for Lunch and then proceeded to find SAW.

SAW Is near Colossus but can be easily missed, we queued for about 90 mins and its an awesome ride, 2 110' drops, one being 100ft high, the ride photo was purhcased also, unfortionatly we both became very desperate for the toliet in the queue and had to hold, which was very unconfortable lol.

We would have riden Stelath earlier but was closed for testing until we got there about 3PM, this queue was about 40 mins and both of us were watching for a rollback, which sadly didnt happen, we got into the front row, and experienced Stealth once again, but forgetting just how powerful it realy is lol.

We also did X No Way Out, the worlds only backwards in the dark coaster, as time passed on we then rode Colossus and Nemesis once again, and were amazed as both of these rides were faster than the first time, so full power is at the end of the day ladies and gentleman.

It was a very hot day with no clouds in site and amaingly no burns were recieved by both of us, we left Thorpe Park a little after 5 and got the bus back to Staines, we gt the 5.38 South West Trains i think lol to Clapham Junction, we waited here and became annoyed as Max lost money on the vending machine as his drink became trapped, we then got the 6.27 South West Trains to Basingstoke, but was full of people going to the West Country, we got to Basingstoke at 7.10 and ran onto the CrossCountry service to Southampton Central, arriving at 7.42 we ran onto the South West Trains service back to Swanwick getting there at 8.10.

We got a chippy which unfortionatly didnt do well in my stomack lol, but anyways we had a great day and will most likely do it again at some point this year, There are photos on Facebook, the link is at the bottom of this blog, or you can click on the link in the Potos section on the right side banner.

Thorpe Park Ride Photos

Until Next Time