Recent content by Burniel

Never understood the age restrictions at Paultons. Makes sense as an advisory for something like Ghostly, but it being on all the rides is a bit silly. Some weird requirement from an insurer maybe? The only check they seem to do is asking the kid how old they are, so it just becomes an exercise...

Paultons Park - 5th May 2025 Last visited: September 2023 18 months ago, Paultons Park became the second new-to-me park of my revived coaster journey. Despite the smaller-scale ride hardware, I had a lovely time on a completely deserted off-peak weekday and vowed to return within a couple of...

Not much I can say that hasn't already been mentioned, besides thanks everyone for making me feel so welcome as a newcomer! Was a great day at the park and I'm sure I'll be back for future lives.

Just confirmed plans, I'll be there for my first live!

All from 1 visit (and in many cases 1 ride), so take with plenty of salt. Looks like I have fairly generic opinions on this though. 1. Icon - perhaps a bit too harsh to say "by default", but it's fundamentally of a different calibre to everything else there. 2. Big One - I really like how it...

Never tracked/tried for it, but almost certainly managed this at Thorpe in August 2023. Park was open until 7 but was pretty much empty thanks to forecast torrential rain. It did rain, but only properly stormed enough to shut rides for about an hour, so I ended up getting about 40 rides in...

Of your listed four, I've only done Adventure Island (hoping to improve that this year, perhaps I'll post an update). I went in the height of summer and thought it had a great vibe and made for a pleasant and surprisingly affordable day out. The staff are friendly and high energy to a...

The 2025 Season Dawns Having fallen fully off the coaster addiction wagon two summers ago and enjoying by my strongest year to date in 2024, the recent closed season has been my sparsest for riding since my return. Between other hobbies picking up and pouring a majority of my disposable income...

Great to see some much-needed investment at Chessington, though I must say it's sad to see such a sudden loss of Wild Asia. It's definitely one of the park's better themed areas, one of the few remaining to be untouched by IP or gimmicks, and has a great soundtrack to boot. 15 seasons isn't a...

I've travelled on a fair few and have far too many opinions on the subject: South Western Railway (Best): By far my most used operator and, probably through bias, my favourite. The class 444s (the ones down the mainline to Southampton/Weymouth) are my favourite class of train for overall design...

I was in the queue for both of the tech delays last night! Some tense moments wondering whether we'd get our ride in the dark, fair play to the park for persevering and running it well into the night. It was a fantastic night ride, but waited 3 hours including the downtime! Busiest I've ever...

I did 24 on Mandrill Mayhem last December when it (bizarrely) opened during Winter's Tail. Was desperate for some off-season rides and only planned to pop in for a few laps, but it was empty and I got talking to a staff member who said the most they'd ever seen someone do in a day was 23, which...

Thanks! I definitely have fonder memories looking back on it than I did at the time, though an odd sense of satisfaction is a good way of describing the feeling of arriving at park #3. About 4mph I guess :p Pre-pandemic I used to work somewhere a similar distance away, so to avoid getting buses...

Completely forgot I did this a month ago and left the report in draft. So wonder no more! 3 Merlin parks by public transport - 1st September 2024 With the calendar quickly filling up for the final couple of months of the season, I wasn't sure whether I’d get around to testing this ridiculous...

Finally managed to get this into a stable enough state to put my name to it. At least until I change my mind again tomorrow... (Contextual info: CC 130, UK based, age 23) 1. Iron Gwazi, Busch Gardens Tampa Not a lot I can say about this ride that others haven't. I'm kind of in that honeymoon...