Palm Beach Resort

Heading out of Shanghai, sweat pouring from us, we decided to head south to the coast. The sheer stupidity of going somewhere hotter than the humidity we had suffered the last few days was obvious but the need of the group to ride more coasters was greater. Stupidity > Common Sense perhaps.

The first seaside resort, Palm Beach Resort, is home to 3 coasters, with no operators around to run them and no people bar our coach of Western tourists to ride them. Our guide had a job finding someone willing to run the rides but after some coersion, and getting one guy out of bed who refused to work in the excessive heat and serve foreigners, we got the rides running.

First up was a rather unique coaster, and certainly not a dragon or mouse. This one looked more like a school project. Someone had taken a Chance Toboggan, replaced the coffin cars with normal cars and added a loop to the track. It was a mess looking at it and just as bad to ride. I nearly didn't get on it, my chest proving to be too big for the restraints. They did lock but would pop open when I exhaled. In the end they somehow stayed in place but I pulled it in just in case. The ride, relying on a circle loop, was forceful but I did survive it. I hope the school kids that built it passed their course with a decent grade.

Ow ow ow !!!

Second up was...another dragon. This one had been turned up speed wise offering a much faster and lateral force filled ride than any other on the trip. Clearly this ride operator wanted to give us some pay back for ruining her day.

The final coaster over on the other side of the beach enclosure was another Jungle Mouse, but this one was much bigger than the others we'd ridden. Clearly another model but less common. It was fairly decent but I still get a feeling that the car will shoot off some of the corners, fortunately they never do.

This resort was just a place to go to accumulate some credits, but the bonkers death machine is enough of a draw for the hardcore or plain stupid to make the trip worthwhile. It's about 45-50 minutes South of Shanghai straight down the Puxing Highway.