Back to the park today, and we started with the water rides!
There are quite a lot of them, and we rode several water slides, a lazy river, and an insane log flume with a massive drop that created a gigantic plume of water when it reached the bottom.
Since we hit the water rides first the waits weren’t lengthy, and we were able to ride everything we wanted in about 3 hours. If you had kids with you this part of the park could easily fill an entire day, since there’s loads of kiddie friendly rides for them to play around in.
Probably due to the reduced heat and lack of rain, the park was much busier today, and by the time we had dried off and had some lunch some of the attractions had lines as long as two hours. We wandered around a bit squashing pennies for Bernard’s collection before it was time to tackle a few of the rides we hadn’t managed yesterday.
We both rode the Ferris wheel and a historically significant single-loop coaster (the first of its kind on the east coast!). Kristin was a bit anxious in line for each, but had fun on both 🙂
Even though the line was longish, I then decided to wait for the newest coaster in the park, Candymonium. It was about a half hour wait, and I chose to wait a few more minutes for a front seat. The ride was incredible: super smooth with astonishing amounts of air time. Despite being enormously high and fast (>120 km/hr) there was only a lap bar (albeit a robust one) and on every hill you felt yourself lifting up from your seat for a second or two. For a ride with no inversions it was surprisingly exhilarating and so much fun to ride I would have gone right back on if there wasn’t a line. For me, this was the best coaster in the park.
Afterwards we did one more quick ride on the bonkers log flume we rode yesterday before calling it a day (it was nearly 6 o’clock). Another 7 hour park day, and over the two days 9 of 14 roller coasters rode (this would have been higher but two were closed today). We deem our Hershey Park visit a big success!