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| - A few days into our vacation, my family was doing what it does best: bicker. So, we thought, let's do something that will make everyone happy and go to a damn amusement park. Cue the big "wa whaaa" sad trombone noise here.
Goliath gets the stars here. If you are a coaster enthusiast, then definitely check it out, though I warn that it is definitely not worth the $35+ entry fee alone. The wooden Monstre is pretty cool as well; too bad I didn't get to ride it a second time because it broke down shortly after.
Little did I know that this would be an ongoing theme.
I've been to plenty of amusement parks before and know that this is the name of the game. Shit breaks down, operators don't know anything about it so they have to call and wait for the mechanic, and you have to move on to something else for a while and come back later. But really, we barely got to go on most of the thrill rides here that we wanted to because they were all broken down at various points in the day or appeared to be completely closed (including the other coasters, Vampire and Cobra). Thus, the other more lame rides had longer lines that didn't feel worth it since we barely wanted to go on them in the first place.
Also, the operators didn't seem to know how to run the lines fairly. They often offered a single-rider line, with the incentive that you will be able to load more quickly than you would while waiting to fit your entire group. However, the employee would often ignore the single line entirely and just pick people out of the other line, so we would be stuck there without the line moving at all. My family and I eventually just gave up. So much for a carefree day.
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