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Name Sara Mai Griffiths. Best friend Celyn Nia Evans.

Hello my name is Sara and I live in Wales.I'm in year 5 and go to Ysgol Gymraeg Gwenllian.I've been to Florida 5 times and in Febuary 2008 I'm going to Disney Land Paris with my class. Here are some of the  rides and shows I like in the Disney and Universal parks:

Magic Kingdom: Jungle Cruise, Pirates of the Caribbean, Big Thunder Mountain, The Hey and Universalaunted Mansion, Mickeys Philarmagic, Space Mountain, Buzz Lightyear's Space Ranger Spin, TomorrowLand Transit Authority.

Epcot: Test Track, Soarin, Honey I Shrunk The Audience, World Showcase, Imagination

MGM: The Great Movie Ride.

 

Hello, I'm Daniel. I'm 13 years old and live in Wales (UK). I'm in Year 8 and go to Bro Myrddin, a welsh school in Carmarthen.  I have been to Florida a few times, and have been on most of the rides at least once.  I like all sorts of rides.  My favourites are rollercoasters, but I like most other rides too.  Here are some of my favourites - and the rides I hate!

Magic Kingdom

I really like most rides and shows here, but the best ones are:  Thunder Mountain (rollercoaster), Splash Mountain (log flume), Country Bear Jamboree(show), Jungle Cruise (boat tour through the jungle), Pirates Of The Caribbean (boat trip through a Pirate - infested island), Haunted Mansion (ghost train), PhilharMagic (3 - D show), Space Mountain (rollercoaster), Buzz Lightyear (laser shooting ride) and the Transit Authority (a slow moving ride that circles TommorrowLand).                                      

Now for the worst ones:  Hall Of Presidents (show of America's  presidents), Dumbo (flying elephant ride) and Indy Speedway (a go - kart ride that goes about 2mph at the most!).       My favourite restaurant is Pinocchio's Village Haus.

Epcot

Epcot is split into two parts: World Showcase and FutureWorld.  Most of the main rides are in FutureWorld, but here's a list of all the best rides in the park.  Test Track (rollercoaster), Soarin' (simulator), Honey I Shrunk the Audience (3 - D show) and Ellen's Energy Adventure (show with moving seats).

The worst ones are: Mission Space (simulator that spins you round until you feel sick) and Maelstrom (a boat trip through a viking village).  My favourite restaurant is te Electric Umbrella.

Hollywood Studios

Lots of cool rides here - Tower of Terror (drop lift ride), Rock 'n' rollercoaster (rollercoaster obviously), Toy Story Mania (arcade shooting 3 - D ride) and Lights Motors Action! (car and motorbike stunt show) are a few.

Then there's the rubbish ones - Sounds Dangerous (show which is mostly in pitch black darkness) and Journey into Narnia (boring clips of Prince Caspian) mainly.  50's Prime Time Cafe is the best restaurant here, but you need to book.

Animal Kingdom  

This is a quieter park with less rides, but there are still some thrill rides here. Some of them are DINOSAUR! (scary ride to rescue the 'last dinosaur' from the meteor), Kali River Rapids (wet ride) and the best one, Expedition Everest (rollercoaster to find the yeti in the Himalayan Mountains). But the best show is Lion King - a show that tells the story while interacting with people in the audience, and also brilliant is It's Tough To Be A Bug! ( 3 - D show about Bug's Life characters).

There aren't many bad rides here, but the 'fair' takes a lot of your time and money for ordinary carnival style games.  I like eating in Pizzafari.

Blizzard Beach

This is the best water park in Orlando. It has loads of slides, the tallest slide in Orlando, and kids things too. Everyone has something to do, and there's a cool crazy golf course outside it.

Summit Plummet is the best slide here - really steep, and you go about 60mph down it (cross your legs!) Then there's other slides there, like Slush Gusher, which is about half the size of Summit Plummet and bumpy not steep. There's a ski lift that goes up to the slide mountain, too. There are then other good slides about the place, and a lazy river which is a bit slow and cold. But it's still the best water park I've ever been to.

Typhoon Lagoon

This is another really good water park, with a huge wave pool and lots of water slides. And, you can even swim with fish and sharks! This costs about $20, but we did it twice and didn't know we had to pay, and we got away without paying! The slides are good, and there's a pirate ship with water guns, and you can squirt other people on the ship!  There aren't any huge thrill water slides, but it's great fun anyway.  

 

Outside Disney, there are loads of other things to do, like Seaworld and Universal, and all the water parks. I haven't been to Wet n Wild before, but I've been everywhere else.

Universal Studios

Like Hollywood Studios, but more teenager rides than kids attractions. This is one of the best parks. There's the Mummy (scary rollercoaster through the film set), Men In Black (shooting ride), Simpsons Ride (simulator), E.T. (children's ride that I still like), Shrek 4 - D (show that comes between the first and second Shrek films), Jaws (ride through Amity where Jaws keeps trying to take a bite out of your boat) and soon, Hollywood Rip Ride Rockit! will open - it will be a huge, upside - down rollercoaster that goes out of the park and back in!

There are'nt really any bad rides here, but some, like Barney, are for 5 and unders only, and are very boring for everyone else.  The best restaurant here by miles is Finnegans. It's an Irish pub, serving Irish food, and at lunchtimes the Blues Brothers play music opposite, so you can have food and listen to them at the same time!

Islands of Adventure

This park is full of thrill rides, but not much else, so it is great for people like me. However, there's a Dr Seuss place as well, and soon there will be a Harry Potter land as well. The best rides are Hulk (rollercoaster that goes from 0 - 40mph in 2 seconds!), Spiderman (3 - D simulator that also moves around the set), Popeye (raft ride), Jurrasic Park (water ride that takes you through the Raptor cages before dropping you down a waterfall), Dueling Dragons (rollercoaster where two cars nearly crash 3 times) and Doctor Doom's Fearfall (where you shoot up, then drop back down at a huge speed).

Poseidon's Fury isn't worth an hour's queue, as it normally takes to get in, and Storm Force Accelatron is just Teacups with an X Men theme. Mythos is the best place to eat, as it was voted best theme park restaurant two years in a row.

Sea World

This is a great park. It's got alligators, manatees, birds, killer whales, dolphins, stingrays, dogs, sharks, cats and turtles, plus thrill rides like Kraken (big inverted rollercoaster) and Atlantis (part rollercoaster part flume ride). Shamu Express is a really good coaster for 6 - 11 year olds, and Believe! is a Shamu show which is brilliant, but not as good as Shamu Rocks! which is on at night. Haven't been on Manta yet, but really want to!

Wild Arctic is OK, but makes you sick, and the carnival rides have huge queues for rides you can get somewhere else, not as busy. I like eating in Shark Underwater Grill, which has sharks swimming around you in tanks as you eat!

Aquatica

Huge crowds here, but good slides. The one where you go through the dolphin pool is rubbish - an ordinary slide where you get 2 seconds or less to see the dolphins, after usually 2 hours or morwe of queuing. But in the evenings, when the crowds have gone, you can run onto all the rides with no wait. Good, but too busy. The lazy river is much better than in Disney, but it's hard to get out because it's so fast. A good water park, though.

Discovery Cove

Not many things to do here apart from the dolphin swim, but that's brilliant! Then there's a lazy river, and a fake reef full of stingrays and fish you can actually swim with! (go underwater with your mask and look in the windows of the wrecked ship - there are sharks in there!) But there isn't much else, and it costs loads to get in - only 1000 people can get in every day. But it's still a good place to go for the dolphhin swim.

Busch Gardens

Wow. Brilliant park, with loads of coasters and safaris. The best things are SheiKra (rollercoaster where you stop at the top of the hill for 7 seconds then fly down at 90 degrees), Montu (really long rollercoaster), Kumba (really fast rollercoaster), the Phoenix (pirate ship that goes full circle), Rhino Rally (safari that also goes in a river) and Gwazi (wooden rollercoaster like Mega fobia in Oakwood but faster, longer and jerkier). Everything is good, nothing is bad here - best theme park ever! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 
 
 



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