Check in for a ride deep inside the haunted hotel...
Check in for a ride deep inside the haunted hotel...
| Theme Park | PowerPark |
|---|---|
| Type | Dark Ride |
| Audience | Families |
| Opened | 2007 |
| Manufacturer | Gosetto |
| Model | Dark Ride - 4 seats |
| Duration | 3½ minutes |
Propping up the bar
Set in the forest near the edge of the park, Devil's Mine Hotel is an interactive dark ride at PowerPark in Finland.
The ride is set inside an old Wild West hotel building. Riders travel through the hotel in four seater cars, each passenger getting their own pistol with which they have to shoot various targets along the way.
Each target they hit increases their score and many cause something to happen within the scene they are passing beside. Unusually though, each rider is given only 250 shots, so they have to use them wisely rather than repeatedly pumping the trigger as they might do on other similar dark rides.
The ride begins with ride cars entering into the old abandoned hotel and into the reception area. Journeying deeper within, they pass through scenes including a bedroom and a Wild Western saloon bar before coming face to face with the devil himself. The climax comes as they find themselves no longer within the hotel but inside the mine the ride is named after. Sets are detailed and the theming is nicely put together, with plenty of animatronic characters populating each scene.
Devil's Mine Hotel is a popular ride at PowerPark, and is a step up from many ghost train style dark rides which just pass by random props. There's both a good standard of theming and a cohesive storyline, plus a decent interactive element with the added dimension of a limited amount of ammo to fire.
The western themed hotel
Four seater car
Ride platform
Scoring system
Hotel reception
Going deeper within
Bedroom
Bar
The devil
Inside the mine
Scoreboard
The ride is set within the trees
