Thrills and Food

01/11/2024

Happy New Year once again from us here at Thrills and Food!
We kicked off 2024 with a dad and kid visit to Alton Towers Christmas Event!
Watch now - > https://youtu.be/Uz-H5M4cjKo

The Official Alton Towers Resort

01/10/2024

Our top 30 theme parks 💫

14 - Busch Gardens Williamsburg 🇺🇸

This is another real bucketlist park.

After growing up watching legendary rides like Loch Ness monster on telly, it felt surreal to be in this iconic park.

The original b+m hyper apollos chariot has a great layout in a great setting.

It has a massive fun dive coaster in griffon. The enormous invert alpengeist is mega intense and has a really unique layout.

It has all the great theming you expect in a busch gardens park, as you work your way around Europe themed areas.

Sadly, when we went, one of the star attractions verboten was closed, but that gives us a reason to go back, right?!

Is busch gardens, va on your list to visit?

01/09/2024

Our top 30 theme parks 💫

15 - Parc Astérix 🇫🇷

This beautiful park situated just a short distance from disneyland in paris makes it ideal for a road trip.

It's a beautiful, well themed park, and it has the largest family area with rides suitable for younger children i have seen in a park.

It has a fantastic invert in ozirus, but the main attraction is the latest addition, the festival of toutatis with the signature coaster toutatis, which is a record breaker for airtime moments and we love it!

This park has the best theme park hotels I have ever stayed too and Les Quais de Lutèce is the most heavily well themed hotel I have ever been, and that includes Vegas and phantasialand hotels too.

Have you got any plans to hit soon?

01/08/2024

Our top 30 Theme Parks

16 - PortAventura World including ferrari land 🇪🇸

These incredibly well themed pair of parks have some of the best coasters around.

Shambhala, for me, is the best b+m hyper around, delivering airtime like nobodies business.

Although runs rough these days, a front seat on furius baco is immense!

Street mission is one of the best family attractions in Europe, helping grover solve the mission and collect those cookies!

Finally, riding the tallest, fastest coaster in red force is a challenge not to be missed. Just make sure you grab a front row, so you get to wear a pair of snazzy Oakley goggles 😎

Have you visited the incredible yet?

01/08/2024

Could we be getting the legend of nemesis back in the queueline for nemesis reborn?

Tom Baker narrates the Legend of Nemesis An Unwanted Angry Alien that lies dormant under the Staffordshire countryside. That may not be as dormant as once th...

01/08/2024

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Are you excited for this?

01/07/2024

Our top 30 theme parks 💫

17 - Universal Orlando Resort (studios) 🇺🇲

A lot has changed at this park from the days of me growing up, but has moved with the times to maintain its relevance.

I was devastated when amity and the jaws ride were removed, but the potterverse expansion is immense and amongst some of the best theming around.

Rides like the mummy and transformers are so immersive.

I absolutely adore the potter areas at Universal orlando, and the escape from gringots is so beautiful and immersive.

Men in black is one of our favourite interactive rides, and who knows the cheat for a high score? 😉

Have you visited Universal Studios orlando?







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01/06/2024

Our top 30 theme parks 💫

18- Knoebels Amusement Resort 🇺🇸

This is a real bucketlist amusement park, with some of the most unique rides.

The main attraction is flying turns, the built-in house wooden bobsled coaster, and is so much fun.

The wooden coaster phoenix is a multiple award winner for the best woodie at the golden ticket awards and is an absolute airtime machine!

It has such a beautiful historic charm and we loved this park.

01/05/2024

Thank you so much for 5k subs over on our youtube channel 🙏

It absolutely blows my mind 🤯 that our little account for our memories has grown so much.

For those that are new or don't know, I started this as a way of escaping the negativity of the world with no direction or desire for it to be anything more than a photobook of places we have been to look back at fondly and smile.

The positivity and response we got was so overwhelming that I started introducing more positivity to the feed in the hope it might help others whilst also serving as a reminder for me too, before being encouraged to create a channel over on YouTube to share our adventures.

Thrills_and_food is now the only social media that I interact on.

Numbers have never been our focus. We don't have goals or intentions, just a family who loves to travel, share our experiences, and if can help others in the process even better.

The fact that we don't aim for anything more than we are makes it oh sweeter to have achieved so much from just being ourselves in the 2 years of the channel.

I know we are definitely small fry in the scheme of things, but we are massively humbled by the support we receive.

We love travelling, we love theme parks, and we love to share our passion.

Thanks for joining us on our adventures and special thanks to those special friends that inspire us on a daily basis. 💫 ✨️

We are forever humbled and appreciative to anyone who takes time out of the day to watch any of our content

Let the positivity in and ride it out 🫶

01/04/2024

We tried out a festive carvery at The Buccaneer restaurant inside Coral Island after visiting Santa's Grotto! We were impressed with the theming in here -it's better than most theme parks in the UK!

The food was reasonably priced (both kids ate free) which would have been brilliant if the drinks were not so eye-wateringly expensive! £8.00 for 2 pints of coke (which were given with ice!) and almost £6 for 2 tiny kids cokes in paper cups, is absolute daylight robbery - if we were to go back we'd be ordering tap water! The bill for 2 adult and 2 children's carvery with 4 soft drinks cost almost £40 - fine for the festive day out we had planned for but not somewhere we would be prepared to go regularly (which is a shame given how often we are in Blackpool!)

01/04/2024

Our top 30 theme parks 💫

19 - disneys Hollywood studios, florida 🇺🇸

At one time, this was my least favourite park. It was light on rides and was mainly made up of shows.

However, slowly, over time, we have seen the implementation of toy story land, and more recently, you can travel to batuu for galaxy's edge to be immersed fully into the star wars universe.

It now has a great mix of rides and attractions, plus 2 of my favourite themed restaurants in sci-fi diner and the prime time diner.

Where does Hollywood studios rank for you?








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01/03/2024

What a soggy day for a belated trip to alton towers for their Christmas event 🎄

As always, memories have been made 💫✨️

01/02/2024

Our top 30 Theme Parks 💫

20 - Animal Kingdom

At one time, I considered this park a half day park. This is geographically the biggest of all disney parks, but it did not have too many attractions.

This all changed in 2017 when opened Pandora, the world of avatar.

Expedition everest is a great family coaster with incredible theming.

Dinosaur is a great ride that I actually preferred to indiana jones in california, but with the latest news, we will have to wait to see what happens with it.

Pandora is a beautiful, thematic, immersive masterpiece that really comes to life at night when bioluminescent fawna comes to life.

The beautiful river boat ride is so well themed, with the best animatronics I have ever seen, but definitely would benefit from being longer and maybe include a drop too.

Flight of passage is one of, if not the best dark ride you will find anywhere, the most amazing immersive theming and breath taking of rides.

What are your thoughts on animal kingdom?

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Disney Parks

01/02/2024

For us, the Rollercoaster Restaurant at Alton Towers isn't somewhere we visit often as it's very expensive and the food options are a bit limited/not the best quality. We also never want to take time out of the very short opening hours of the park to eat here! But we have been to try out the experience a few times over the years (usually when staying over), with this latest visit happening during the Run Alton Towers weekend for Casper's birthday.

The restaurant was almost empty, and our food came out pretty quickly (our drink orders, not so much!). The kids meals were really very basic and neither of them ate much, the adults ones were marginally better but not worth the price tag in any scenario and small portions (the kids portions were bigger than ours!). The bill for 2 adult meals, 2 kids meals, an extra side, 2 kids drinks, 2 alcoholic drinks, 3 desserts and a bear+dessert combo came to around £85 (with passholder discount used).

It is really fun to watch the food come down the tracks as a novelty, and Casper absolutely loved getting his birthday bear via the rollercoaster... even if EVERY SINGLE TABLE in there had ordered one before we did his, which kind of ruined the surprise!! 😂

01/01/2024

Our top 30 Theme Parks 🎉🎉

21 - Plopsaland De Panne 🇧🇪

This delightfully themed park in Belgium is home to some really nice rides.

The theming and family rides are beautiful, and the mild thrill of Heidi is such an enjoyable GCI.

The food is great too, but if you only go for one reason, go for the absolutely stunning Ride to Happiness by Tomorrowland. Its extreme spinner cars are insane, the onboard audio is beautiful and is more than a coaster - it's a whole experience, which is why it's our number 1 coaster!

Will you be visiting soon?

12/31/2023

With 2023 drawing to a close, we just want to share the reasons why we do what we do. ✨️

Through all the invites, collaborations and invites we have received which we are immensely grateful for, all the friends we have made and bucketlists we have ticked off the reason that we travel, the reason we are enthusiasts is to make memories for the family that a lifetime.

I want to extend an enormous gratitude to anyone who interacts with us. We are incredibly humbled that anyone takes time out of the day to interact with us.

I can't possibly list the people who have helped make this year the most memorable, but you know who you are 🫶

We are so appreciative of every opportunity to help share our passion.

Happy new year 🎉 and we wish you all the happiness 😊

Finally, tell us what your highlights of the year are?


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12/31/2023

Our top 30 Theme Parks 💫

22 - Parque Warner, Madrid 🇪🇸

This nicely themed park has a great collection of coasters, family rides, and meet and greets available.

The Superman floorless coaster is the best floorless b+m I have experienced, and I am not usually over keen on floorless coasters.

The Batman Clone is probably my favourite batman clone I have experienced due to the great theming in the queueline, which is themed around the Arkham series.

And of course, Gotham City escape, which wasn't open when went, but gives us a great reason to go back, right?!

Is this park on your list?

12/31/2023

Have you had an included breakfast at one of the Alton Towers resort hotels? What do you think of them?

This photo was taken at Splash Landings and this was actually a better offering than our last visit there (which was quite frankly, awful) but we do actually think that the Cbeebies Land Hotel has the best selection of hot and cold foods and a good layout of buffet restaurant in general. Although it goes give me 'school hall' vibes, It never feels crowded, chaotic or like you have the 'M6 of people' constantly streaming past your table like the others, which is quite the feat given it's aimed at families with toddlers!!

12/30/2023

Our top 30 Theme Parks 💫

23 - Walibi Belgium

This is such an up and coming park, with some really well themed areas too.

Popcorn revenge is a really fun interactive ride in a well themed area too.

Tiki waka is another great family coaster from gerstlaur, and it looks beautiful too 😍

Challenge of tutankhamen is one of the best themed interactive rides around, with its trackless system and alternative endings make it so special.

Finally, their latest thrill addition kondaa is a wonder intamin mega coaster that just keeps giving airtime and we love it, and this coaster alone is a great reason to come here!

Have you got any plans to visit?

12/29/2023

Vlogging comes with many occupational hazards and plenty of mishaps and reshoots along the way! We don't have quite as many clangers saved up as we did last year, but still plenty for us to have a chuckle about!🤪

12/29/2023

Our top 30 Theme Parks 💫

24 - EPCOT

Or experimental prototype community of tomorrow is a beautiful park.

Probably the most nostalgic of the disney parks for me, seeing the amazing innovation of rides like test track, mission space, and soarin' is so special.

Tour the world and ride the iconic spaceship earth, and it's a changing park that is evolving, and we can't wait to see the changes.

Where does epcot rank for you?

12/28/2023

Our top 30 Theme Parks 💫

25 - Walibi Holland

We love this beautiful coaster park, with the amazing RMC untamed, despite its relatively low height, which is a mega intense top-tier RMC.

Goliath is such an underrated intamin, and lost gravity is one of the most crazy coasters I have ever ridden.

Have you visited this park, or is it on your list?

12/27/2023

Our festive vlog from Blackpool is now up on our YT channel!
Featuring Coral Island Blackpool's Santa experience, a tasty festive carvery at The Buccaneer restaurant, and our first ever time visiting Peter Rabbit : Explore and Play Blackpool!

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of our followers, and stay tuned for our annual bloopers reel coming up soon!!!

12/27/2023

For anyone that needs this,

Christmas isn't defined by what presents you did or didn't get, nor is being a creator defined by if you have the latest gadget.

Christmas is a time for family and to appreciate those around us.

Our channel is and always will be about making memories and helping others along the way.

Let's all spare a thought for those less fortunate.

For anyone struggling at this time of year, our inbox is open, so please don't struggle in silence.

Keep being you, let the positivity in and ride it out 🫶

12/27/2023

Our top 30 Theme Parks 💫

26 - Dorney Park & Wildwater Kingdom

We love cedar parks, and dorney is no exception.

This is a park I grew up watching on extreme rides on the Discovery Channel.

With amazing rides like hydra the revenge, which was a real bucket list coaster for me, along with the legendary Morgan coaster steel force.

They have some of the best ride signs around and a great water park, too.

I am over the moon to see the park get investment for iron menace, and we can't wait to come back and experience it!

12/26/2023

Our top 30 Theme Parks 💫

27 - Movie Park Germany

This incredible park is situated in bottrop 🇩🇪 ,

It was founded in 1996 as a warner park and really reminded me of what universal studios were like in the 90s.

The park has production and immersion into film at the heart of the park, and we love this.

Newer rides like the movie tour are amazing and so immersive.

Star trek: Operation enterprise has an amazingly themed queue line and very much has the feel icon with those same mack restraints.

Bandit, however, is the most painful coaster ever experienced and steer well clear 😬

They have amazing an amazing show here that really harks bsxk to the old stool days of universal.

The fast pass system works well, too.

It has the most amazing nickelodeon land we have seen. It was so huge and the kids loved it. We loved our visit here, and if you want to see what we thought, check out our youtube channel.

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12/24/2023

Merry Christmas to you all!
Lots of love from all of us at ❤️❤️❤️❤️

P. S. We will have a short vlog from Santa's Grotto coming in the next few days... Things have been a bit hectic around these parts recently 😂

Ho Ho Ho!!
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12/24/2023

All the way from my family to yours, I wish you a very merry Christmas!

We are so blessed to have been able to make so many amazing memories and make so many friends this year!

Thank you so much for being part of our adventures, May your house be filled with happiness, love and laughter 🥰

Let the positivity in and ride it out 🫶

12/24/2023

Our top 30 Theme Parks continues 💫

At 28 is belgiums answer to dollywood, the western themed Bobbejaanland

Named after the parks founder, Bobbejaan schoepen.

It has a great mix of rides from the mega intense fury to family rides.

Have you visited

12/23/2023

Top 30 Theme Parks 💫

At 29 is Six Flags Magic Mountain

This park is the coaster capital and has 20 coasters.

This is a really iconic park with some absolute bucket list coasters.

We absolutely love x2, one the most intense rides around and tatsu, which gives such a massive feeling of height, with the best pretzel loop I have ever experienced.

It's definitely a bucketlist Park, is it on your list, and if you have been, what is your favourite coaster there?