The 1st stop - Holiday World May 18

[matt112986]

Going to get this out there as its already almost time to go on my second trip. Me and my brother left around 7am (taking into account the time zone change) and arrived around 10 minutes after they opened. We parked in the Legend lot since I saw the huge sign for it and didn't even notice the parking was free till the park was almost closed. The lines to get in were short and it only took a few min, they had bag checks (that you could easily pass) but no metal detectors. 

 

We immediately went to the left for the Raven which was closed, an employee said it would probably open around 3:30 (it didn't till after 4:30 at least), then went on toward the Legend. Their scrambler was in pieces so the first impression wasn't too great. The Legend only had a 5 min wait and we started going up and down the park hitting Legend, Voyage and Thunderbird. Longest wait all day was around 25 min for the Voyage. We stopped to get lunch around 11:30 at the Goblin Burgers. Having just watched Trolls 2 the night before made this funnier than it should have been. The food was decent and a burger and fries was about $10. 

 

After this we rode the antique cars once then headed back to the parking lot for my camera. We decided to hit up the water park as it had reached 63 and was getting a bit sunny out. The water was freezing so we just got in a ride on Mammoth and a couple on Wildebeast. I had never been on anything like them and both were awesome. We got changed and headed back into the park around 4:30 (most of the water park wasn't open) and shortly later Raven opened so we finally got to ride it. At this point the park was getting empty (most of the crowd was from an education day) and everything was a walk on. We headed back toward Thunderbird and ended there since we weren't sure if we would make it back to the Voyage for one last ride.

 

We got in the front left seats and stayed on for 4 rides before the park closed.

 

Final count -

 

Raven - 1

Legend - 4

Voyage - 5

Thunderbird - 8

Antique Cars - 1

Mammoth - 1

Wildebeast - 2

 

Best Ride for me - The Voyage (an amazing ride that won by a mile for me, runner up Thunderbird)

My Bros pick - Thunderbird (I think, he kept wanting to ride that one)

 

Final thoughts - The Voyage is amazing and one of the best coaster I have ever ridden. Thunderbird is awesome as well and The Legend is very good. Raven is the weakest of them and I don't feel it earned it's Golden Ticket awards. Fun ride that is way too short, kinda like The Beast in layout but not nearly as good. The park has a very solid lineup of coasters and a nice charm to it. The day after at Kings Island I actually got a little wordplay on Diamondback kinda like what Holiday Worlds coasters do. "Sit back and hold on tight this snake is ready to strike!" or something like that. We will definitely return at some point.

 

Up next is Six Flags Great America.