Showing posts with label Funfair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Funfair. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 25, 2019

Dizzy Land

It's no Disney Land.

Dizzy Land ride in Rhyl
Spotted in Rhyl

Sunday, June 23, 2019

The Simpsons Dodgems in Great Yarmouth

The Homer with no nose we saw in Great Yarmouth wasn't the only sighting of The Simpsons back in the summer of 2016. We also spotted the family on the dodgems.

The Simpsons Dodgems in Great Yarmouth

Thursday, November 02, 2017

The smallest miniature railway?

This train ride at Pensarn Pleasure Beach in Abergele could be a contender for the title of smallest miniature railway!

Miniature railway at the Pensarn Pleasure Beach in Abergele
The train is half the length of the track!

Sunday, October 09, 2016

A visit to Southport Pleasureland

Southport Pleasureland, the 'Happy Halloween Capital of the UK!'


We recently returned to Southport for the first time since September 2009 and we were pleasantly surprised to see that the Pleasureland theme park had reopened. Not only that, but it looked to be doing very well and they had really gone to town on the Halloween theming.

At Southport Pleasureland - the Happy Halloween Capital of the UK!
We survived the haunted maze at Southport Pleasureland

In fact they've gone so far as to declare themselves the 'Happy Halloween Capital of the UK!'

Southport Pleasureland - the Happy Halloween Capital of the UK!

I don't think I have ever seen so many pumpkins in one place before. There are thousands of them there!

Southport Pleasureland - the Happy Halloween Capital of the UK!
The pumpkins came in all shapes and sizes

Southport Pleasureland - the Happy Halloween Capital of the UK!
Plenty of characters too

Southport Pleasureland - the Happy Halloween Capital of the UK!
Some were ominously congregating

Others were on their own

Southport Pleasureland - the Happy Halloween Capital of the UK!
There were clowns

Halloween pumpkin at Southport Pleasureland
'Sleeping' ones

Halloween pumpkin at Southport Pleasureland
And more traditional Jack-o'-lanterns

Unfortunately since our previous visit the Moroccan Adventure Golf course has been removed as the park has had extensive changes made. The area that was once home to the minigolf course is now a pathway. A shame really.

The Adventure Golf course at Pleasureland Southport as it was just after the theme park had been left abandoned in 2009
The Adventure Golf course at Pleasureland Southport as it was just after the theme park had been left abandoned in 2009

Southport Pleasureland
What the same area looks like now

However, the rest of Pleasureland is great. We really enjoyed our wander round - especially the walk through the haunted maze.

The maze at Southport Pleasureland
We dared to enter the haunted maze

The maze at Southport Pleasureland
A view of the outside world from within the maze

The maze at Southport Pleasureland
We escaped - as did our shadows

The maze at Southport Pleasureland

Check out the Southport Pleasureland website for more information and opening times.

Southport Pleasureland

You can see the blog post from our visit to Pleasure Land in 2009 in our Crazy World of Minigolf Tour archives.

Southport is still home to plenty of other Crazy Golf options and a lot of other things to keep you entertained. We're looking forward to our next visit and keep 'em peeled for more blog posts from our trip to Southport that are coming up.

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Saturday, July 16, 2016

Monorail, Monorail, Monorail

Riding the rail at Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach.

The home straight of the monorail at Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach

On our recent trip to Great Yarmouth I had a very pleasure surprise and a real treat as I got to ride a monorail!



I'm a big fan of monorails and the one at the Pleasure Beach in Great Yarmouth is one of the few examples still operating in the UK.

At the Mono thingy

The pair of us on the monorail

The Pleasure Beach monorail crosses over the roller coaster track

And actually cuts through the middle of it

Into some sort of monorail wash!
 
The Pleasure Beach Monorail gets the thumbs up from me

I've got great memories of riding the monorail at Butlin's Minehead back in the 1980's and 90's. We also played the Pirate Flyer Laser Shooting Monorail ride at Coral Island in Blackpool a few years ago.

Links:
- Great Yarmouth Pleasure Beach website

Video:
- Monorail in Great Yarmouth

Related blog posts:
- Monorail
- The Pirate Flyer - Laser game monorail at Coral Island in Blackpool
- Great Yarmouth

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Monday, September 07, 2015

A visit to Bridlington

Blog from a couple of hours in Bridlington.

In July we had a fun, albeit short, trip to Bridlington. The seaside town has long been on our to-visit list and it did not disappoint. We're already really looking forward to going back for longer next summer.

By the Crazy Golf course on the Foreshore
By the Crazy Golf course on the Foreshore

Well be posting more pics and videos from the minigolf, crazy golf and adventure golf courses we played there, but before we get to that I had to post a snap of this great inflatable that we saw at the Bayside Fun Park on the seafront!

Photo of Bayside Fun Park in Bridlington
'Homer' in Bridlington. Notice the little Frog bin too

Photo of Bayside Fun Park in Bridlington
A view of the Bayside Fun park in Bridlington. I picked up some great amusement park tokens for my collection of seaside exonumia there as well

I'm always on the lookout for quirky and fun stuff to spot on our travels. We see quite a few Wacky Waving Arm-Flailing Inflatable Tube Men aka Airdancers. And next door-but-one to the Treasure Island Adventure Golf course there was one sat atop the Tidal Treats shop!

Photo of a Wacky Waving Arm-Flailing Inflatable Tube Man in Bridlington

Videos:
- Crazy Mini Golf Hole-in-One at Treasure Island Adventure Golf in Bridlington
- Mini Golf Hole in One at Treasure Island Adventure Golf in Bridlington
- Foreshore Sands Crazy Golf course in Bridlington

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Sunday, May 18, 2014

Margate Funpark Crazy Golf

Hearing about a Crazy Golf course at a mobile Funpark in Margate.


During the BMGA British Minigolf Championships in Margate our fellow competitors and minigolf explorers Matt and Helen Dodd let me know they'd spotted that the there was a Crazy Golf course in town as part of the Funpark set-up in Dreamland's car park.

Unfortunately we didn't have time to go into the park to explore and make good use of the entry fee (which give you access to 'unlimited riding' inside). We'll have to keep an eye out for the Funpark in the future as we're intrigued as to what the Crazy Golf course is like.

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