Theme Park Ireland?

Run_to_da_hills · 05-07-2008 04:49PM

The Artist wrote: »

You travel alot!
And yes ive been to
Terra mitca Benidorm
Tivoli world Malaga
Terra mitica is awesome and Portadventura is is one great theme park in Salou,loved it.
Im planning on going to florida in the next few years.
I love the sound of the Universal studios and the theme park.

Most of my long distance travel days were back in the 90's when I left Ireland for 4 years,

Portadventura Solou was only three years ago and enjoyed every bit of it, It was the mid week before Halloween and the place was empty, no waiting for any of the rides!! If you are going to any of these places bring a packed lunch!!

rossie1977 · 05-07-2008 04:56PM

Run_to_da_hills wrote: »

Most of my long distance travel days were back in the 90's when I left Ireland for 4 years,

Portadventura Solou was only three years ago and enjoyed every bit of it, It was the mid week before Halloween and the place was empty, no waiting for any of the rides!! If you are going to any of these places bring a packed lunch!!

i was in portadventura last year just after halloween and had the exact opposite experience, huge 2 hr+ queues for all the big rides and even a 30 minute+ queue just to get into the damn park, masses of people at the restaurants, never been so pissed off in my life :mad:

Run_to_da_hills · 05-07-2008 05:05PM

rossie1977 wrote: »

i was in portadventura last year just after halloween and had the exact opposite experience, huge 2 hr+ queues for all the big rides and even a 30 minute+ queue just to get into the damn park, masses of people at the restaurants, never been so pissed off in my life :mad:

You got there during the mid term break

WoollyRedHat · 05-07-2008 05:28PM

You could have a Bertie type attraction in the them park, with Bertie shouting out bizarre statements during the ride. Comedic and fun.

The Artist · 05-07-2008 06:35PM

theme parks europe.
EuropeAlton Towers (Alton, England)
Attractiepark Slagharen (Slagharen, Netherlands)
Barry's Amusements (Portrush, Northern Ireland)
Blackpool Pleasure Beach (Blackpool, England)
Bobbejaanland (Lichtaart, Belgium)
Bottons Pleasure Beach (Skegness, England)
Disneyland Paris (Marne-la-Vallée, France)
Efteling (Kaatsheuvel, Netherlands)
Europa Park (Rust, Germany)
Fantasy Island (Skegness, England)
Festyland (Bretteville-Sur-Odon, France)
Flamingoland (North Yorkshire, England)
Freizeitpark Klotten (Klotten, Germany)
Funtasia (Bettystown, Ireland)
Gardaland (Veneto, Italy)
Hansa Park (Sierksdorf, Germany)
Lightwater Valley (Ripon, England)
Mirabilandia (Savio, Italy)
Oakwood Theme Park (Pembrokeshire, Wales)
Parc Asterix (Plailly, France)
Parque de Atracciones (Madrid, Spain)
Parque Warner Madrid (Madrid, Spain)
Pleasure Island (Cleethorpes, England)
Pleasureland Southport (Southport, England)
Port Aventura (Salou, Spain)
Rotunda (Folkestone, England)
Schloß Beck Freizeitpark (Bottrop, Germany)
Terra Mítica (Benidorm, Spain)
Tibidabo (Barcelona, Spain)
Tramore Amusement Park (Tramore, Ireland)
Tripsdrill (Cleebronn, Germany)
Vidámpark (Budapest, Hungary)
Walibi Belgium (Wavre, Belgium)
Walibi World (Biddinghuizen, Netherlands)
Wiener Prater (Vienna, Austria)

Ah found 2 in ireland
Funtasia (Bettystown, Ireland)??????
Tramore Amusement Park (Tramore, Ireland)

Wow!
we are in need of a proper theme park in ireland bloody nanny state:mad:

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 05-07-2008 06:50PM

The Artist wrote: »

Wow!
we are in need of a proper theme park in ireland bloody nanny state:mad:

You gets what you votes for.

The Artist · 05-07-2008 06:54PM

Ikky Poo2 wrote: »

You gets what you votes for.

Make up a thread vote on it ikky?

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 05-07-2008 07:27PM

The Artist wrote: »

Make up a thread vote on it ikky?

I think once every five years is more than enough, don't you?!

rossie1977 · 05-07-2008 07:53PM

lol at barrys amusements in portrush, i was in and out of that place in 2 minutes, it consists of a few video games and one or two small rides that you would find at a local fair, surely leisureland in salthill deserves a mention if barrys is there

kowloon · 05-07-2008 09:02PM

WoollyRedHat wrote: »

You could have a Bertie type attraction in the them park, with Bertie shouting out bizarre statements during the ride. Comedic and fun.

Or an entire FF theme.

They take all your money on the way in, you queue for ages, the rides aren't built when you get in and what is built is rubbish. You leave disappointed, broke and with a sore arse. Then for some inexplicable reason you choose to go back to the same overstaffed ****hole the next year.

challengemaster · 05-07-2008 09:08PM

The ride would be over before bertie actually finishes the statement with all the stuttering..

Krieg · 05-07-2008 09:21PM

*Gets the sudden urge to play rollercoaster tycoon*

I think we should have a theme park
Weather isnt too much of an issue. In fairness, England get slightly more/less rain than us and Alton Towers is quite popular
Water park would be nice too

kowloon · 05-07-2008 09:35PM

Covered rollercoasters exist, no reason why there couldn't be a theme park.

DEmeant0r · 05-07-2008 11:11PM

I agree with a Theme Park in Ireland. It'd save me money from travelling to one. I've only been to a handful though:

Port Aventura in Spain
Walibi World in Netherlands
Disney World
Disney land in France
Blackpool
Ocean Park in Hong Kong

Prob my fave coaster was Dragon Khan, went on that 6 times in one day!!!

Tippex · 05-07-2008 11:58PM

guys this was proposed about 5 years ago.
http://www.google.ie/search?hl=en&q=vega+city&meta=

AFAIR anheuser busch (Busch Gardens) were reported to be one of the stake holders. I think is was eventually rejected by Fingal county council due to lack of infrastructure.

I'll do a bit more digging. I think it ws rumoured to create 10,000 jobs for the area including construction etc.

WoollyRedHat · 06-07-2008 12:02AM

kowloon wrote: »

Or an entire FF theme.

They take all your money on the way in, you queue for ages, the rides aren't built when you get in and what is built is rubbish. You leave disappointed, broke and with a sore arse. Then for some inexplicable reason you choose to go back to the same overstaffed ****hole the next year.

Sounds like a brillant money-maker though, perhaps the answer to our Economic difficulties!

Edit: and who decided funtasia was a theme park? If it falls under a theme for awfulness then maybe. Better no theme parks at all, rather than having to go to th elength of including some non-existant one.

The Artist · 06-07-2008 01:40AM

DEmeant0r wrote: »

Prob my fave coaster was Dragon Khan, went on that 6 times in one day!!!

yes i was on that too absouletly fantantic ride,went on it twice.

lostexpectation · 07-07-2008 04:16PM

isn't there new water park in drogheda? anybody been?

The Artist · 07-07-2008 04:35PM

heres a list of waterparks in ireland.
http://www.waterparks.com/flashaction4.asp?countryname=Ireland

Wertz · 07-07-2008 05:02PM

kowloon wrote: »

Covered rollercoasters exist, no reason why there couldn't be a theme park.

Indeed they do...that Black Hole coaster in Alton Towers was one of the best things I've been on over the years...pity they closed it

Tippex wrote: »

I think is was eventually rejected by Fingal county council due to lack of infrastructure.

lol didn't stop them building a few hundred thousand houses and apartment complexes in similar areas with an identical lack of infrastructure.
Why is that councils never use planning applications like this to force developers into actually building the inrastructure they need, or at least partly pay for it...rather than the current "system" where they just give them carte blanche to build and are then left to pick up the pieces and provide road improvements and social structures after the fact?

j1smithy · 07-07-2008 07:14PM

there was a big one planned for Rush in north Dublin a few years back, but Fingal co co rejected the idea as being unfeasible. Ireland hasn't the weather, population or culture to sustain a major theme park.

rossie1977 · 07-07-2008 07:23PM

j1smithy wrote: »

there was a big one planned for Rush in north Dublin a few years back, but Fingal co co rejected the idea as being unfeasible. Ireland hasn't the weather, population or culture to sustain a major theme park.

weather - but north west england has weather similar to dublin and yet they have two world class theme parks in pleasure beach blackpool and alton towers

population - thats where international visitors would come in handy, do you think orlando population 220,000 has enough people to support 6 disney parks, 2 universal parks, 3 seaworld parks, wet and wild plus loads of smaller parks like gatorland, cyprus gardens??

culture - explain??

j1smithy · 07-07-2008 07:45PM

Culture, well Ireland doesn't have a history of good theme parks, funtasia mosney and trabolgan are hardly world leaders in the field. Orlando is so successful because americans, many of whom dont have passports come from all over the country to visit. For a theme park to work here it would simply have to be the very best in the world, and even then it would struggle. It would also require a complete shift in mindset of the tourist industry to market ireland as fun, not a place for retired couples to relax. Irish people don't holiday at home any more and that is a sad fact. A theme park would require the total support of the indiginous population, which I'm afraid it wouldn't get. If the Irish had an appetite for such places at home, the places that already exist would have expanded to capitalise on the untapped market. Their lack of action leads me to believe no market exists.

Its not so much that it rains a lot here, but tourists associate Ireland with rain (look at tourists in Dublin they all stick out because they wear those red wind breakers.) And to be going on rollercoasters in the pouring rain is not my idea of fun

rossie1977 · 07-07-2008 08:06PM

thats true what you say about ireland being marketed as kind of uncool, but there is nothing to stop a complete change in this strategy, it sure worked for las vegas and dubai. Vegas for instance in the 1980s was being marketed as just a gambling town where only blue haired old ladies came to play and listen to wayne newton; then enter steve wynn in 1989 and all of sudden its the hippest place on earth where you have dancing fountains, exploding volcanoes, rollercoasters, huge shopping malls, 5 star restaurants, the best nightclubs and bars in america.......so it can be done.

btw orlando seems to attract british people more than anything else, everyone staying on I-drive seems to be english

The Artist · 08-07-2008 12:59AM

imo weather is not the issue as england,wales,and scotland are having the same weather as us.
Insurance is the main problem as its so high and they think that the theme parks are at risk imo.
They only open in the summer months afaik.

Stephen P · 08-07-2008 04:28PM

Does anyone remember years ago a place somewhere kinda near Dublin called Annamoe(sp?). I used to go there with summer camps when I was really young. There was a lake in the middle that you could walk through and there was contraptions made out of logs of wood that you could swing out of. I can't for the life of me remember where it was???

Ross_Mahon · 08-07-2008 04:32PM

stephen p wrote: »

Does anyone remember years ago a place somewhere kinda near Dublin called Annamoe(sp?). I used to go there with summer camps when I was really young. There was a lake in the middle that you could walk through and there was contraptions made out of logs of wood that you could swing out of. I can't for the life of me remember where it was???

Yes i remember that, The water was always brown and dirty, And the place was full of scangers! But still good craic going around on rafts and attacking them with oars as harpoon's! :mad: It was similar to Clara Lara.

Jigsaw · 08-07-2008 04:49PM

rossie1977 wrote: »

lol at barrys amusements in portrush, i was in and out of that place in 2 minutes, it consists of a few video games and one or two small rides that you would find at a local fair, surely leisureland in salthill deserves a mention if barrys is there

I'll have you know that there was once a time that Barry's was at the forefront of amusement parks worldwide.

There was also once a time when we hunted bison with spears, worshipped many gods and made fire with flint.

Princess Consuela Bananahammock · 08-07-2008 05:03PM

Dawson's in Bray...?

mollydolly271 · 08-07-2008 05:14PM

dawsons in bray is closed now???:mad: yeah defo need a water park and an ice rink we should have a eire disney????

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