Day 14: Family Park and Papéa Parc

Setting off on the penultimate day of the trip

It was another two park day - the one for the morning was Family Park

In what was becoming quite a habit, our first ride was on the kiddie coaster!

It needed a bit of a push to get started

Family Park's Gold Rush is the old 4 Man Bob from Alton Towers

The coaster came to Family Park in 2020

It was originally built in 1975

Gold Rush was built by Zierer

It was great to see it doing well in its new location

For such an old ride it was remarkably smooth

With the coasters ridden, it was time for a trip on the wheel

Looking down on Gold Rush

Riding the wheel in the sunshine

The 4D cinema showed a film featuring a rickshaw racing along the Great Wall of China

A shady spot for lunch

Baguette

Taking the requisite entrance sign photo at Papéa Parc

We were met at the entrance by the park manager, who took us into the park

We joined the queue to ride Train de la Mine

The first part of the group set off from the station ...

... but the train was too heavy and got stuck on the lift hill

After removing some of the excess weight, they made it around

Thankfully we had better luck on the kiddie coaster

Spot the caterpillar

Roller Coaster was fast and smooth for a Zierer Tivoli

Speedy Nuts was a very nicely presented wild mouse coaster

It was nice and smooth too

Some of the drops were pretty steep!

Another wheel? But of course!

Waiting for our turn

It was a bit windy at the top

There wasn't room for us on the train

We rode the gentle boat ride instead, which passed through some very pretty gardens

It was very relaxing floating slowly along

... but not as slowly as the train, which was so slow it had taken over twenty minutes to circuit the park!

Papéa Parc had been great, but it was time to leave as we had a long drive ahead of us

We stopped at a service station Burger King for dinner, then passed through Paris

Our hotel was yet another crappy Campanile, but this one didn't even have air conditioning