Day 10 - Indiana Beach
Day 10 - Indiana Beach
Mats Hummel
Indiana Beach and ERS in the morning was really great being about 50 people on the trip we could really enjoy riding to the fullest. Enjoyed the haunted house where Gordon got scared by his own mirror image. Had a good lunch and a few more rides. If you are in the area it is a visit is a must, Knoebel's atmosphere here!
Paul Orsmond
A lovely morning and afternoon at Indiana Beach. Great ERS, and the haunted House Attraction was great. Kiddie Land was our suprise park with a very cute woodie.
Chris Simon
Indiana Beach - love Lost Coaster and Frankensteins dark walk thru. Extra park on way back, Kiddieland, really enjoyable and well maintained junior woodie.
Dirk Lather
Auch heute ein klasse Tag, alle Coaster noch einmal ausreichend gefahren. Der Park liegt einfach traumhaft, ebenso ist der Wasserpark spitze.
Als Ueberraschung ging es dann noch mal in das Cedar Point fuer Kids, dass "Kiddieland" in Chicago. Ein schooner kleiner Woodie und ne menge Fladrides. Klasse Ueberraschung.. 1 Count+.
Christof Muehlan
At Indiana Beach, at first I had a little trouble sorting the coasters out. But then I rode them all.
Nina Kleppe
Had a nice morning with ERS on three coasters. Than we stopped at Kiddieland to ride a fun little Woodie.
Mette Doving
Fun day. Great line up of ERS. Scary Air Crows. Nice park.
Fun place that Kiddieland
David & Susan Ellis
The day started with a 90 minute ERS on 3 coasters and some Flying Scooters at Indiana Beach, we had a fantastic lunch too, and after spending more time at Indiana Beach we headed off to Illinois, stopping for an hour at Kiddieland near Chicago, for a ride on the Schmeck junior woodie Little Dipper, which, for a 58 year old coaster was running great! Another great day, and tomorrow off to another big Six Flags park and home to the 1st inverted coaster.
Andy Costin
Today we continue with Indiana Beach and an ERS on Cornball Express, Superstition Mountain, Tig'rr and Air Crow. We also were treated to lunch, and had a relaxed day exploring the park. Weather warnings meant we had to leave early for Six Flags Great America, stopping off en route at a small park, Kiddieland, to sample a small woodie, Little Dipper, a nice little smooth well maintained coaster.
Steve Gzesh
More Indiana Beach today and lots of opprtunity for aerial photographs from the Giant Wheel and Skyride. Coasters were all running great and we got it all in before any rain came. The drive to Chicago brought the first rain we've seen on the trip, but it stopped in time to visit Kiddieland and ride the Little Dipper, a nice little woodie in a cute little park. Onto bigger coasters tomorrow at Great America.
David Elvy
We had a good few hours at Indiana Beach, the 4 ride ERS was great, and we managed lots of repeat rides during the day. Then into Illinois, and Kiddieland. Little Dipper was a great little wooden coaster at 58 years old. A good day, and we bought the nice weather with us again.
Mark and Jenny
An excellent breakfast and ERS kicked off today. Indiana Beach was the perfect place to take it easy for the first part of the day. Lunch and the boat ride were highlights. Just left Kiddieland - really nice collection of very well kept traditional rides including a butter-smooth junior woodie. Great day.
Chris And Lisa
Quick Suprise stop at KiddieLand to sample the Little Dipper. Ride was good fun, and the park was nice as well.
Martin Valt
Apparently visiting Kiddieland was my idea. God, I'm good.
Yvonne Janik
Kiddieland is a very well-maintained, lovely park. Thanks, Tom, for hosting our group -- what a fun visit! Happy 80th year, Kiddieland!
Lorna & Adrian Dade
Great day at Indiana Beach, great breakfast & lunch supplied by the park, And a surprise trip to Kiddieland, a smooth little dipper that was a great ride.
Bob Clark
3 great CCI woodies at Indiana Beach. Relaxing cruise on Lake after Lunch.
Kiddieland was a delightful surprise park with a wonderful junior woodie.
Owen & Alan Rees
Nice old style beach park. Paddle cruise really nice. Kiddieland was a unique park.
The Frenchies
Pour cloturer ce lundi a moitie pluvieux, un petit parc "KIDDIELAND" fort bien enfantins.(que de maneges pour les enfants , et c'est avec grand plaisir que nous nous sommes pretes au rituel de tous les jours. Simplement merci.
St Benard the Dog
Woof Woof Bark, Waggy tail
Jeppe Nygaard
I dag var Indiana Beach.. Gammeldags tradtionel seeside park, lidt et mini Blackpool.
God atmosfaaere, og et par gode rutchebaner bygget ud over vandet.
Det aeldste hotel vi har boet paa til dato, men ogsaa etg af dyreste ??
Det var det ikke vaerd, men at hotellet laa i parken gjorde det vaerd..
Videre til Chicago...
Malcolm Marr
Indiana Beach was toasty but bearable. Splashed out, not in the waterpark, but on a wonderful meal last night at the main park restaurant. Stopped off at a kiddy park on the way through to Chicago and it was immaculate with old rides in wonderful condition, and a friendly workforce who seemed quite surprised to see us turn up en masse to savour their park.
Darren and Mary
Indiana Beach had a nice variety of rides we managed them all. Kiddieland was a lovely park with a few rides, some children were open mouthed when we all turned up - adults all dressed alike!!!!
andycoasterboy
Another great day at IB - Waking to see the Cornball Express and the construction of Steel Hawg. A huge thanks to the super chef and all the great staff in the Sky Room. Thanks also to Mr Valt for suggestion the surprise park of the trip 'Kiddieland' !! with the Little Dipper ride - Bumper Car takeover - a park with some very well maintained older rides... cheers.....
Chris Hull
Nice start with breakfast in the Skyroom - thanks to the staff for coming in early to serve us. ERS followed on 3 coasters and the flying scooters. Enjoyable morning taking in the park and enjoying the paddle steamer on the lake. Afternoon 'surprise' park was Kiddieland with its Little Dipper wooden coaster. Nicely maintained park with good rides. Thanks to all staff!
Stuart Cosgrove
Great day at Indiana Beach and nice surprise on way to Chicago at Kiddieland really well maintained schmeck kiddie coaster would love in my back garden.
Mats Hummel
Really nice wooden kiddie coaster, cool selection of flat rides.
Ole Bredesen-Vestby
Great ERS this morning at Indiana Beach. And a great day all in all with the surprise park at the way to the hotel. The woodie Little Dipper at Kiddieland Amusement Park was a treat.
Cal Jones
Great day at Indiana Beach. The Lost Coaster of Superstition Mountain was tremendous fun. I remember riding the original dark ride and can't believe they fit a coaster in the same space. Hurricane was running as well as ever but the Cornball Express was a revelation - a real airtime monster. I was impressed.
Finished off with a relaxing ride on the paddle steamer before heading off to the surprise park in Chicago. What a gem this park is. There are so many beautiful old rides here, I was blown away. A real treasure.
Gordon Taylor
Fab fab day here.(see above) Wonderful hospitality from the ERS's to the food provided. Cornball Express a real surprise and straight into the top 10 as I've not been here for 7yrs. Hit the shops with a real fury as it's such an amazing place, I love their merchandise considering it's small(ish) so spent a load on gifts and suchlike. SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL PARKS! Please keep it as it is management!
Andy Dewar
A great day at Indiana Beach, the ERS's were really fun and the hospitality was great. I hope the new coaster fits in well for this lovely lakeside park.
Matthias Pies
Heute begann der Tag in Indiana Beach mit 4ERS's. Wir hatten dan Park quasi 1,5 Std nur fuer uns. Indiana beach wird mir nicht nur wegen dem durchgangigen ABBA Soundtrack in Erinnerung bleiben, sondern auch wegen den tollen Achterbahnen.
Abends ging es dann noch in einen "Suprise- Park" in der Nahe von Chicago. Netter kleiner Kiddieland mit netten kleinen Woody
Jonas Aastroem
Indiana Beach was wonderful, and the food, rooms and hospitally equally great. very nice of them to give us ERS on all of their rides. Kiddieland was also sweet, and it was a very clean and friendly park.
Lars Soerensen
Indiana beach is so a wonderful place. I absolutely love it. I rented a Jetski, that was so much fun, and nice to see the park from another view, the lake!
Steve Fagin
Had a good day at the park - surprised how smooth their woodies were. Very relaxed ride ops.
Kim Varde Lassen
Indiana Beach is so special. Very relaxed place. We got to do the Waverunners as well. That was cool - even though we only had 20 min on them.
Don't think the ride ops had ever seen so many fullsized children before at Kiddieland. Small funny ride on the woddie.
Lee Bennett
Had a great day starting with an ERS on the rides at Indiana Beach, also did Frankensteins castle very scary and funny!
Joined Kim and Lars for Jetski takeover which was great fun and very fast!
Paul Greenwood
Had a terrific day at Indiana Beach - the park had generously provided a 90 minute ERS on 4 of their rides which was great fun. All their rides are good and the 3 CCI woodies are very recommended. The crow is right - there's more than corn in Indiana!!
...The suprise visit to Kiddieland was a good bonus too!
Chris And Lisa
Quick Suprise stop at KiddieLand to sample the Little Dipper. Ride was good fun, and the park was nice as well.
Eirik Erstad
Back on the trip again. Indiana Beach was a refreshing change. They have a unique and fun coaster I had been wanting to ride for a long time. Finally! Lost Coaster of Superstition Mountain is excellent. What I liked most about IB was the relaxed atmosphere among the ride operators. No "check, check, check...", just sit down and go. Love it!
Kiddieland was a lovely surprise. Neat and clean and with a good variety of kiddie rides.
