Comments on: Busch Gardens Williamsburg Trip Report

By: CoasterCritic

CoasterCritic — Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:33:35 +0000

Awesome! Good to know that I'm not alone

By: @mattmcirvin

@mattmcirvin — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 16:41:27 +0000

This is about how my park visits usually go: the Dad Experience. Hooray for reviewing the kid stuff!

By: Mike M.

Mike M. — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 18:45:43 +0000

I used to think we had the better Busch Gardens experience down here in Central Florida due to having all of the animals to go along with the African theme. But after finally traveling to BGW this summer, I have to give the edge to “The Old Country”. The scenery and European theming was fantastic, as well as the many types of food you can have (especially enjoyed the sausage platters in Das Festhaus!). On the other hand, I don’t think there is much distinction between the different locales at BGT, besides maybe Egypt. Whether you’re in Nairobi, Stanleyville, or the Congo, you just know the scenery is tropical, and that it’s hot.

As far as rides go, I used to think it was a wash between the two parks since many of the coasters are sisters to each other. However, there is absolutely NO equivalent to Apollo’s Chariot anywhere in Florida. That ride alone gives BGW the edge. On top of that, I don’t think there’s a coaster at BGT that easily trumps its counterpart. Yes, Kumba > Drachen Fire, but the latter is gone. And yes BGT has Gwazi but now that I’ve actually ridden some of the higher rated woodies in the country, it isn’t much of an addition. Let’s just say that I would easily trade Kumba, Cheetah Hunt, and Gwazi for Apollo’s Chariot and Verbolten.

By: DRU

DRU — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 14:41:50 +0000

I went again on Friday for my wife's first ride on Verbolten. She had no idea about, and was totally surprised by the vertical track drop section. How lucky! It scared the crap out of her! Also they finally have Verbolten's on-ride video system working. It was great to see myself riding, but even better to see my wife cringing in fear! The video has a ton of extra story integrated with the ride footage, It's good high production value CGI like from the early teaser videos. It was only like 15 bucks more than a regular photo package and came with the regular photo package, an internet based downloadable copy of your pic, a frame for the pic, and a dvd of your ride. All for $35
It was great to be at Busch Gardens on a rare late season midweek day. They ban the children after 6pm and then it gets very creepy! They had the Halloween thing in full swing. Lots of Fog and ghouls running around freaking out the guests. Very cool!
It was raining off and on that day so we were lucky to walk onto the old favorites and only had a 10 minute wait for Verbolten.
Such a sweet park!