Tuesday 2 July 2024

Universal Studios, Sentosa

 

Today it was all about rides, rides & more rides!
We caught the MRT (underground train) across to Vivo City, which is the gateway to Sentosa Island.


We then caught the Monorail across to Sentosa Island.

We were there at opening, so after the entry mayhem, it was through the streets and straight to the back of the park....

... and into Jurassic Park. We were hoping to knock a few of the rides off before they got too busy. As it turns out, the Jurassic Park rides are for the less adventurous riders so we did each ride once & moved on. The first ride was a rapids ride & we all managed to get soaked which wasn't the worst thing in the heat.

Next door to Jurassoc Park was the Mummy's Revenge. Not for the little ones because of what Harry calls, "Jump Scares". He wasn't about to go back on that one, so we moved on.

Then we moved on to the castle area which had the Puss In Boots ride. That was probably the lamest roller coaster I've been on for a very long time. This theme park just wasn't holding up against Dreamworld...


We were determined to get into some solid adrenaline rides so we made our way over to the roller coaster complex. There are two roller coasters operating in the Battlestar Gallactica complex, one more hectic than the other.

The easier of the two is the Human. You have conventional seating on top of the ride. It's a pretty thrilling ride no matter.

The Cylon is much more agressive. Your seat hangs under the rail which takes you up down around & upside down. Excellent roller coaster & the lines weren't too bad for most of the day (although it got a bit crazy in the middle of the day).

We eventually decided to brave the lines for the Transformers ride. The line up threads through all sorts of situational move shorts in room with a bunch of movie artifacts. The ride itself was decent, but not worth lining up for again.


We managed to make the afternoon Water World stunt show which was pretty epic with heap of acrobatics, boats wetting the front rows & plenty of pyrotechnics.


We were just about had it by 5pm, so we had the last couple of rides on the Battlestar roller coasters before heading for the exit via the mrch shops.


I'm not sure how the Minions would go if WorkSafe did an inspection...

And, just like that, we were done.

Off to the Monorail enroute to the hotel pool before dinner. Another fun day had by all.