Saturday Holiday World

We drove 185 miles the next morning to Santa Claus, Indiana to Holiday World amusement park. They recently installed a new roller coaster, the Voyage, that was rated #1 for a couple of years so we had to go.

This is a perfect example of a family owned park. Here are some of the amenities.

• They give out free soft drinks and water, all day, every day.
• Their prices are very reasonable. A funnel cake with apples that cost us $3.50 here and the next day at Kings Island it was $7.50
• You can get your picture taken with Santa Claus







We had a great time at the park but we probably won’t be back since this is our second time here in 4 years and it is really out of the way.

The Voyage was a big disappointment to Karen and me. It was really too rough and the twists and turns weren’t smoothly done. It was kind of like riding a bad simulator ride where the movie doesn’t sync up with the simulator motion (like Dollywood’s Thunder Road). The ride just threw you around for no reason. It was extremely fast but the speed needs to be transformed into smoothness in the corners and in the upward movement of the coaster cars. Throwing you up in the air AND turning the track does not make for an enjoyable ride. We were merely hanging on wanting the ride to be over so we didn’t get hurt. We did not ride it again.



They have a good sized water park that we didn’t go into.

We sat and watched a couple of shows. The 60s, 70s, and 80s show had two good singers out of the six that sung. The Gospel Quartet in the other show had great harmony and they could sing.

The Gobbler Getaway was a Buzz Lightyear-like ride where you shot at targets with a beam of light. Those rides are so much fun for kids of all ages. They also had a ride that shot you into the air and you were weightless at the top as it pulled you back down with a force greater than natural gravity.



Karen and I had a chicken dinner for $9 that we split at lunch time – chicken, stuffing, mashed potatoes, gravy, baked potato, and corn bread. What a great deal.

The park was very clean and there was plenty of shade from the 90 degree heat. We left about 4:30, gassed up the van, and headed back to Cincinnati with a stop in Kentucky for dinner at Sonic Burger in Campbellsburg.