East Coast Driving Trip 2015 - Day 11
She was prepared with a birthday pin from a cruise several years ago. And actually got a few "Happy Birthday!" from strangers... not many, but more than she thought she would.
Anyway. We spent this momentous day at Busch Gardens Williamsburg.
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Busch Gardens Williamsburg is celebrating 40 years... Aww, me to ;) |
Today was 93 here in beautiful Williamsburg, but with humidity etc... it felt like 103. That comes straight from my weather app.. and I agree.. 103 = too hot.
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The park is themed after European Countries... Obviously this section is the UK |
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Horse :) |
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Bridge towards the Ireland area |
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Our official pic... ain't we cute :) |
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Cooling off on the Rapids raid with Dad |
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Le Catapult... or as we Americans call it... the Scrambler |
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Bumper cars are always a hit.. get it ;) |
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That's hubby waving... how is it that I can get this pic... but not the Welcome to sign pictures? |
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Hubby and the birthday girl... on the rapids... again. |
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Woohoo, look at those big rides. |
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enjoying the train around the park |
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See... crowds were fairly light. |
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Apparently this is hubby's ride photo look... our boy wasn't so sure about the drop. |
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Neat view of Loch Ness Monster coaster. |
Happy birthday to our girl, it was a great day!!
Cabana Review - Busch Gardens Williamsburg.
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Walking up to cabana area. Ours was the one directly ahead. |
A extra like this usually seems like a splurge - at $150 for the day, you have to wonder what price to put on a small bit of space to have all to yourself.
Well for us it was well worth it, and here is why.
The obvious things you get... use of a cabana (ie shade!), inside you find a nice teak table and four teak arm chairs. There were two smaller tables (which we didn't use) and a lockable cabinet. Inside the cabinet a shelf and a mini fridge. We got to select 8 bottled drinks to go in the fridge... we picked 6 waters and 2 sprites.
The cabana was made of a brown canvas tenting type material and had two covered sides and two open sides. OH! and the cabana has a fan... A FAN!!! (sorry, it was HOT today)
So, you are thinking, "Really? for $150... 8 drinks and some shade... but wait, there's more!
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In the cabana, cooling off... yes they are sitting in front of the fan :) |
Four Lorikeet feedings were included. So food to feed the birds 4 times - are you still not convinced?
And a PhotoKey for the day...This gives you the opportunity to have all the pics taken of you for the day... by park photographers and ride photos. This value is about $50.
And lastly you get QuickQueue for the whole party... which is front of the passes for 4 people. Good on all the big rides - It would have cost us $100 to buy this... its $25 per person. [Editor's note: we probably wouldn't have bought those for the day, since the crowds were light, but it was a nice bonus to have and saved us a bit of time.]
They have 4 cabanas total. They are located off a small path that has a small barrier to indicate its not a public area. Each cabana has a sign noting if its occupied and a small chain across the front open side.
So all in all it wasn't as big of a splurge as I thought it would be... if you are planning to get the QuickQueue and the PhotoKey.... it's like the Cabana is free ;) (see how I think)
Stats:
Miles today: 30
Miles total: 1093
States Total: 7
[Roller coasters total: 17 (+6 from Busch Gardens)]
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