Dreamworld

A few weeks ago I went to Dreamworld, a theme park on the Gold Coast. It was a lovely sunny Saturday so I took a train, then a bus, then a train, then a bus to get there althought the return ticket I bought cost less than 4 quid. If only the trains and buses in Scotland were as cheap.

I arrived there at about 9:40am and set about trying to go on as many rides as possible before the park got busy and the queues got too long.

As theme parks go Dreamworld is prety decent and reminded me a great deal of Alton Towers although it doesn't have any particularly spectacular rollercoasters. It certainly has nothing as good as Nemesis.

The best rides there were The Claw, The Giant Drop and the Tower of Terror. For explanations of what the rides do you can go to the Dreamworld website. In saying that, The Big Drop is exactly what it sounds like. It's pretty much the same as Ice Blast (formerly Playstation) at Blackpool Pleasure Beach but instead of getting shot into the air before dropping, you get raised slowly and spend about 20 seconds at the top, anticipating the moment when the ride starts to plummet and your stomach ends up in your skull. It was the only really good ride I never made it onto twice because the queue was over an hour long.

The other thing I got to do at Dreamworld was take a wander around the Australian Big Brother house since their version is filmed in a back corner of the park. I'd seen a bit of the recent Big Brother series which only finished 6 days before I went to the park so it was quite cool wandering through the garden, around the bedroom, kitchen and into the diary room. It was quite a strange experience as rooms didn't seem to be where I thought they had been when I was watching the series. Also, Jamie, the winner of this year's BB, was in the house signing autographs when I was their. If there was no queue I might've wandered up to the guy for a photo but the queue was an hour long. An hour of rides was clearly the more sensible option.