USA 2022 Day 10: Kings Island

After a surprisingly early finish at Holiday World, we arrived at our – very conveniently straight across the road from Kings Island – motel early evening. Though we had no further park plans for this day, armed with Cedar Fair annual passes, a couple of hours park time, and an undying love for night rides, […]

USA 2022 Day 9: Holiday World

Passing by the stunning Gateway Arch on our way out of St Louis, and Missouri, the time had come to begin the drive back East, travelling through Illinois on our way to Indiana, and our next stop: Holiday World. Holiday World was something of an anomaly in our road trip line-up, being a medium-sized family-owned […]

USA 2022 Day 8: Six Flags St Louis

Honestly, I might as well just call this blog ‘Mr Freeze & Justice League Were Good’. But for fear of messing up the series, let’s have a chat about our somewhat brief visit to Six Flags St Louis. Earlier in this blog series, I mentioned how the Carowinds car park convinced me that theme park […]

USA 2022 Day 7: Silver Dollar City

I visited Silver Dollar City. I actually visited Silver Dollar City. Excuse me whilst I just sit here and stare at that sentence because oh my god. After stumbling upon a vlog a few years back, this park became a dream for me. One of those dreams you know will never actually happen, but you […]

USA 2022 Day 5: Dollywood & Pigeon Forge

Cinnamon Bread, Jurassic Jungles, Goats on a Roof… this was quite the bucket-list day.

USA 2022 Day 4: Carowinds

Carowinds was without a doubt, one of my most anticipated parks of the trip. I can’t really say why it had such a hold on me, maybe because I’ve heard lots of good things, or maybe it was purely Fury 325. Either way, I was hyped! With a five-hour journey between Kings Dominion and Carowinds, […]

USA 2022 Day 3: Kings Dominion

Just an hour’s drive from Busch Gardens Williamsburg lay our first Cedar Fair park of the trip: Kings Dominion. Home to my second most-feared coaster (after Kingda Ka, of course) as well as a brand-new land, I couldn’t wait to see what the park had to offer. We arrived just in time for park opening […]

USA 2022 Day 2: Busch Gardens Williamsburg

After a… less than ideal start to the trip at Nickelodeon Universe, it was a relief that the next day we visited what would become one of my favourite theme parks: Busch Gardens Williamsburg. It feels silly now, but this wasn’t originally on our itinerary. Infact, aside from it’s ‘most beautiful’ awards, this park wasn’t […]

USA 2022 Day 1: Nickelodeon Universe (American Dream)

Hello hello hello, and welcome to my first-ever blog series! Over the next… wow this is going to take a lot of weeks… I’m going to be talking about the total madness that was my first USA road trip! With a total of twelve parks, somewhere around 3,500 miles and all too many Twizzlers along […]

Falling in Love With Phantasialand

I’m frankly at a loss for where I should start this blog post. How do I even begin to describe my first visit to Phantasialand? Magic. That’ll do. Pure magic, the sort that only a theme park created with such love and intricacy can provide. I’ve got a feeling that this may be a bit […]