25 Sept 2013

White Knuckles at Thorpe Park

To truly understand the map you have to get into it. Wearing - Armor-Lux t-shirt, Levi's, Nike Powerlines.

The guy with the frogs on his head.


This is what Hollie looks like after five roller coaster, she loves it! Wearing - H&M Dress + Cycling Shorts, Nike Free Run

On what ended up being one of the hottest days of the year, Hollie and I set off at 7am on the mammoth drive down to Thorpe Park in Surrey. We'd been planning this trip for ages, both of us love the thrill of being hurtled around in all sorts of crazy directions at 60mph, so we'd been counting down the days since early summer.

But there was one major flaw, we hadn't realised we'd booked our tickets on one of the busiest Bank Holidays of the year. Luckily for us we had the pleasure of upgrading our regular tickets for the exclusive "fast-track" tickets, which cut each queue down to about 10 minutes! To queue for an hour for each ride after a 6-hour drive to the park would have been a major blow, but that wasn't the case as we managed to ride five of the most extreme roller coasters I've ever been on!

We hadn't expected Thorpe Park's rides to be so epic, expecting them not to come close to some of the extreme ones we've been on in America, but we were proven wrong in spectacular fashion. From the quite frankly ridiculous 10 loop-the-loops of Colossus and 100ft vertical incline of the SAW to being launched to 80mph in under two seconds with Stealth, this place is flipping crazy! 

A big thank you to Thorpe Park for providing us with fast-track tickets and looking after us for the day. If you're into a bit of the old white knuckle extreme roller coasters I definitely recommend visiting, just look at Hollie's face above to remind you how much fun you could be having! Have you guys been to Thorpe Park or any other theme parks, where do you recommend?