Wow. Let me say it again......Wow!! Talking to Guy on the way home last night, I told him I needed a short review for today since I knew we would be suffering from a "coaster hangover" following our late night jaunt through Indiana. However, after thinking about it today, I had to write up the first ever Coaster Reviews Trip Report following the greatest weekend of coaster riding we have had in our three years of being OCD coaster nerds.
We spent Saturday night in a local Comfort Inn placing us approximately 10 minutes from the park on Sunday morning. We arrived about 10 minutes before opening time to an empty parking lot. There
were maybe 20 cars there. We walked to guest services to pick up our tickets (there were problems with our online order but it was fixed very easiy) and entered the park to a walk-on ride on the back seat (our favorite spot) on The Raven. We then eased on around and took two front seat rides on The Legend. I was for hanging out there for a while since these are two of my favorite coasters in the world and they were totally empty. Ho
wever, Guy was seriously in need of riding The Voyage.
The station was empty. We proceeded to spend the next hour riding the top ranked wooden coaster in the world 10 consecutive times without leaving the station. The ride ops were nice enough to allow people to re-ride if no one was in their line waiting for a seat or move to a different
seat that was empty. This fact allowed us to never leave the train for a solid hour.
To make a long story short, we did the same thing with 8 straight rides on the Legend, 11 straight on The Raven, and finished off with two more on the Voyage following a Goblin Burger and some free drinks at the Pepsi Oasis. We finished with 35 rides on three of the top woodies in the world in under 3 hours of ride time. We obviously did not want to leave the park, but with a five hour driving awaiting, we had to go home from one of our greatest days at a theme park ever.
Holiday World in general is a great place to visit with unlimited free drinks, friendly operators, and a wonderful family atmosphere. The owners and operators have not forgotten that theme parks are supposed to be ralaxing and enjoyable experiences that friends and families should cherish. There is no sense of hurrying (except when sending out the next coaster train). And those fact are not even taking into account the world class rides that are located there. There are very few negatives on any tip to Holiday World. They well deserve their Golden Ticket Award for the World's Most Friendly Park. Next year should be even better with the addition of the all new Pilgrim's Plunge. I am sure that at some point next year, I will find myself walking through the front gate excited about a great day of amusement park fun. It is simply put one of the best theme parks in the nation. It is right there with Cedar Point and Knoebels as parks at which I have enjoyed myself the most. I expect it to stay that way. We may have great experiences at parks in the years to come, but topping this half-day will be tough.
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