But first, the arm on Karen’s glasses broke yesterday so we went looking for someone who could repair it. No one had one that would fit, so Karen bought a new pair of non-prescription polarizing sun glasses.
That done, we stopped for lunch at a sandwich shop before boarding a bus for Tivoli at 12:35. (It opened at 11:00 today).
We can't wait to visit this park and see where Walt Disney's inspiration came from. Walt and his friend Art Linkletter visited here in 1951 and Walt went around scribbling notes about the rides, the gardens, food, and anything else he thought was important.
Walking into Tivoli is amazing; everywhere you look are beautiful flowers. I think my mouth was wide open for the first ten minutes, then I had to tell myself to shut it.
We walked in by the new hotel/eating area they are building. The Chinese theater was on the left.
Next came the big white building with the fountain. And flowers are everywhere: hydrangeas, rhododendrons, roses, and the lighted archways over the paths (not lit yet of course).
And the Mountain. I know the Mountain is Rutschebanen, a wooden roller coaster built by Valdemar Lebech in 1914 and has a brakeman riding mid train. Can't wait. But more pictures first.
There's another large stage, the one Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys will be on, on Friday. It had a large grassy area for people to sit and watch concerts on, with lots of sling lawn chairs, not enough for everyone, but a lot.
Then another colorful building with light on it, a fountain in front and flowers and rose gardens.
Ok time to ride Rutschebanen. The line was only about ten minutes.
FUN COASTER, LOTS OF SMALL AIR. We rode the front car first and filmed.
Then, on to the second ride, the kids all knew how to get the back seat, so we rode second to the back. (There are no queue lines on the ground here for seats). In fact, the kids were getting on the coaster before it even stopped in the station!
Cool, the brakeman waves to people out in the park. What a fun job. Riding the coaster all day. It's an easy coaster to ride all day, waving at the guests.
Next it was on to The Mine ride, it's a water ride, themed to a diamond mine and you shoot at lit up diamonds. You shoot with a thing like a short light saber.
Half way through we put down our shooters and just watched the ride, the shooting was too distracting for a first ride and you couldn't tell if you hit anything. There was no score or winner at the end. Later we found the score board at the exit of the ride. It wasn't obvious.
The Pirate ship ride, built in 1937, is kind of like a caterpillar ride, fun and well themed. The waves moving really added to the action. But the pirate ship in the middle was moving at the same speed that you were, so you always saw the same side of it. It fired cannons and there was sound and smoke.
The swings offered a great view of the park, especially the mountain coaster, but we had to empty everything out of our pockets, so no cameras up here. Doesn't go very fast so, it's not like most swing rides, more like a GREAT VIEW of the park and surrounding Copenhagen. Don't miss it.
OdinExpressen is a powered train coaster built by Mack Rides in 1984. We went around three times and it had a double down helix.
Around the corner from the Odin Express is the Hans Christian Anderson ride, The Flying Trunk. This ride was built in 1993 and renovated in 2010. It is a ride with excellent English narration. You ride in a treasure box and the switch on the lid above your head allows you to choose English or Danish narration. It travels through a lot of scenes from his fairy tales; nicely done and tells each story. Most of the stories we knew. Some were new to us.
Next was the Oriental section and the Daemonen coaster with VR option. The VR option cost $4 extra. We did not try this. We have done it on a coaster we know very well, the Revolution at Magic Mountain. This is a B & M floorless coaster built in 2004. It is not as smooth as most B & M's. No re-ride for us because it was too short and no air time.
On to the boats that you get to drive. Fun, no track here. It's a small open pool about the size of Magic Mountain's original bumper boats. The speed on these was about 1 MPH.
The burgers at the Woodhouse were excellent. There are about 50 other places to eat here that we could have chosen from.
We rode the trolley bus, it was an electric trolley ride that had a trolley front car and a train-looking second car that drove the walking paths of the park. You could only get on and off at one location.
Next we had Ben and Jerry's ice cream. Karen had a butterfinger shake, because she could get it in a souvenir cup. Sadly, her only souvenir except a postcard from Tivoli. There are not many Tivoli souvenirs. That has to be the biggest disappointment of this park. She wanted to get something small, like a shirt. We're sure glad Walt doesn't have that problem at his park.
Started asking about the light show. Nobody knows the schedule or even where things happen in this park. Walked around and took pictures of all the lights. This park is beautiful with lots of flowers during the day and beautiful with lights at night, on the buildings, over the walkways and around the water ways.
Finally found the water light show over by the boats we rode earlier.
Stayed for the fireworks at 11:00. You are really close to where they set the fireworks off here. So close you can see them shoot out of the launchers. We walked out the front gate and took pictures of the main logo and building all lit up before catching a bus back to our place.
Love all of the photos.
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