15 May 2010

40. Surfers Paradise – Dreamworld - 20th Jan 2010

Starting off my top 40 days and experiences of my trip is a day out at one of Surfers Paradises top theme Parks, Dreamworld. It’s always good fun to have a good day out at a theme park especially as the queues were minimal and Dreamworld has a good combination of rides, shows and wildlife.

They even do weddings and take your wedding photos with the natives.


But weddings all get a bit too much for Koalas!



Now for something to wake you up, the Tiger show!
Even big cats can climb trees

And if the tigers didn’t wake you up this will!
The Giant Drop is the worlds tallest tower freefall ride at 390ft tall, you are slowly winched to the top and left to admire the view for almost a whole minute, which when your suspended that high with your legs dangling off the edge feels forever, but what stunning views of the Gold Coasts beaches while you wait to plunge the 390ft to earth in just 7 seconds!

No doubt to me this is as good as it gets for Theme park Freefall ride’s

If the freefall ride isn’t enough on the other side is a Rollercoaster called the Tower of Terror that launches from 0-100mph in 7 seconds and goes up the tower before freefalling backwards!

And if all that’s not scary enough then look at this!

The fact that I was bitten by one the previous week meant the Spider was much scarier than the freefall ride or the Rollercoaster!

Another rollercoaster, Mick Doohan’s Motocoaster was themed around a motorbike race!


After a hectic day out there went back to my apartment hotel to chill out for a while, it was a bargain at just £33 per night, it was so nice to stay here after weeks of staying in hostels with upto 10 people to a room.

The only bad thing about the hotel was on my first night there the fire alarms went off. Twice, once at 10pm and once at 6 in the morning, I was not happy about the 6 in the morning one!

I wonder if the person who set it off made some toast, expensive toast if so!!
So I decided against making toast for dinner and went out and ate at the Hard Rock Café & had a nice evening out to end a good day.

Press Play for a video of the 430ft Giant Drop & the 100mph Tower of Terror rollercoaster!










1 comment:

  1. A hostel will obviously charge you more if you book a private room, as they have to compensate themselves for the fact they can’t fill that room with any other people.

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