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All in Theme Parks
One of our favorite places to celebrate the holiday season is Busch Gardens Williamsburg, and we were thrilled to make our return to this award-winning park for Christmas Town 2024. The park boasts over 10 million twinkling lights on display, nearly a dozen live performances, character meets including the jolly ol’ elf himself, all in addition to world-class rides, coasters and experiences!
Season’s Greetings from the Sweetest Place on Earth! We’ve taken to formally kicking off our holiday season with a late November visit to Hersheypark for their annual Christmas Candylane event, and we were excited to continue that tradition this year. Normally, we plan a “snack crawl” that takes us all over the park for both sweet and savory seasonal treats. This year, however, the savory offerings seemed to be more limited…so we instead built an itinerary around the events, the characters and the experiences offered throughout the park.
When we were planning our itinerary for our summer trip to Orlando, Disney’s Hollywood Studios was not on our radar. Although Disney’s Hollywood Studios isn’t our favorite of the four Walt Disney World parks, it does have some of our favorite attractions - including MuppetVision 3D, Tower of Terror, Rise of the Resistance and more…so we were excited to be able to spend an impromptu day at the park!
If you’re a fan of the spooky, the scary or the darkest side of dark chocolate…look no further for your Halloween fix than Hersheypark Dark Nights! This park-hosted scare event delivers a thrilling, immersive experience that has only grown in scale and intensity since its debut. With five haunted houses, including the highly anticipated Estate of Evil, three scare zones and a wide array of seasonal snacks and merchandise, Dark Nights continued to expand and impress in 2024!
For nearly three decades, banners saying ‘Halloween Horror Nights’ have been raised at not one but two different theme parks in North America - one in Orlando, FL, and the other in Hollywood, CA. So, which campus puts on the best version of Halloween Horror Nights? To make that determination, let’s take a look at the seven deadly things that make HHN the event that it is on both coasts.
A trip to central Florida is not complete without a visit to our favorite Walt Disney World park, Disney’s Animal Kingdom. This visit, we decided to splurge on one of our bucket list DAK experiences…the Wild Africa Trek! This add-on, extra magical VIP experience is a 3-hour behind-the-scenes tour that includes lunch, complimentary experience photos and so much more!
Each year brings new treats, sweets and savory food items to Hersheypark, and it’s become a tradition of ours to take a little stroll through our home park and pick up some of the new and interesting culinary creations to see what we think. This year, we also upgraded to the brand new Giant Size passholder tier, so we had a one-time fast track to use on any eligible ride as well as the new Giant Size lounge to check out!
We recently made our glorious return to Water Country USA in Williamsburg, VA to see what was new and improved for the 2024 season! Naturally, we had to invest in Quick Queue so that we could make the most of our day. Join us for a wet and wild day as we take on Aquazoid Amped, Nitro Racer: Supercharged, Colossal Curl and so much more!
It’s become an annual tradition of ours to make our way to Busch Gardens Williamsburg at least once every summer towards the end of Food & Wine season to check out all the delectable dishes that the event offers! In our opinion, this is one of the best festivals at the park, because the variety of food and entertainment offerings increases exponentially! So, what’s new for 2024?
This year, we made our glorious return to Dorney Park, home of the new-for-2024 B&M dive coaster Iron Menace! The park’s latest addition is its first new coaster in almost twenty years, and stands at 160 feet with a 95-degree drop all but consuming the skyline. Naturally, a coaster of this make, scale and reputation drew coaster enthusiasts from all over the country, and we were proud to be among them!
Universal Destinations & Experiences has just announced titles and details about all five of the themed lands throughout the brand new ‘Epic Universe’ theme park coming to Orlando in 2025! We’re diving into each one of these lands in as much detail as we can offer, and suffice it to say, we have never been more excited to see these ‘portals’ open next year!
The holiday season brings some of the merriest, cheeriest and most festive fun of our November and December to Busch Gardens Williamsburg in Virginia, and we chose to fight the holiday crowds in order to experience Christmas Town early on!
We are doing a massive holiday giveaway featuring almost $500’s worth of holiday merchandise from some of our favorite local and semi-local theme parks! Let’s dive into rules, terms of entry, draw date and - of course - the magnificent grand prize pack!
The holiday offerings at Hersheypark’s 2023 Christmas Candylane Event included seasonal snacks, ride overlays, Santa’s reindeer, festive shows, and 5 million twinkling lights on display, just to name a few - and you know that we weren’t about to miss out on the first-ever meet and greet with Ms. Claus and her hardworking elves!
Our scary busy 2023 Haunt Season continues with our first ever visit to Kings Dominion’s Halloween Haunt. Joined by our friends Chad and Venessa from Two Tickets to Adventure, we are taking on every house, maze and scare zone that the event has to offer - and most of the shows, as well!
Dark Nights return to Hersheypark in 2023, bringing with it a host of new and exciting show elements, character dining experiences and even a brand new haunted house and scare zone! Join us as we take on Hershey’s dark side for the park’s second annual Halloween event!
After literal years of wondering what the Hoop-Dee-Doo Musical Revue was all about, we finally decided to book this elusive dining reservation during our Spring 2023 visit to Central Florida and the Walt Disney World resort!
We had a wild three hours full of characters, rides, performances, snacks and shows at Disney’s Hollywood Studios After Hours! Was the expensive price tag worth paying for this very short park event?
Located in rural Sevenum, just a few short minutes from the German border, Attractiepark Toverland has it all - including coasters, shows, water rides and immersive theming that transports you to a world of magic and fantasy.
The Efteling Hotel was truly a magical place to stay during our four summer nights in Kaatsheuvel, and we highly recommend it to any travelers seeking a place to rest their heads after a day of fantasy and adventure at Efteling. Check out our vlog to see a complete room tour!
