Austria 05/25 – Wiener Prater
So this is my life now, waiting for new things to appear in Europe that give me an excuse to revisit somewhere.
And it sucks.
Back in April time we were of course eyeing up the new Austrian Mack duo. RCDB, who are usually pretty hot on only posting credible opening dates, suddenly reported a specific date in April for Wiener Looping. So, to give that some room to breathe, we booked a weekend in May and thought nothing more of it.
At some point the date was just pushed back to the month of May as a whole. The operator of the ride started being super sketchy on his socials and it then became ‘in about 3 weeks’, ignoring other people’s questions and as of the day of the visit it was just ‘there’s a lot more work to do’. I do hate a lack of transparency on this stuff.
Day 1 – Wiener Prater
As such it was a wasted trip to Prater. The ride may be built and have tested, but it was still inside a construction site and you couldn’t physically access it for mud, scaffolding, diggers, paving slabs and fencing.
We rerode Gesengte Sau to make something of the day, as it’s by far the best coaster on park.
Then one of the old dark rides I hadn’t done before, Grottenbahn. I’m seriously considering turning dark ride counting into an actual endeavour at this point, but Prater is not a healthy place to start.
It had a knuffelbeer.
And some classic nightmare fuel.
Then we left.