The Crystal Maze Experience Manchester

I've just got back from The Crystal Maze Experience in Manchester. I went with Jo, Rich, Jacob, Sarah, Billy, Rich's cousin John Paul and his mate Kev. It was so good but it was hard!

These bomber jackets are £50 each to buy!

They end up taking a photo of you in jackets in the locker room!

I've never actually seen the show when it was on back in the 90s. You have a team of 8 with a team captain - Billy and a vice captain - Jo. Our team name was the Gym Kings. I knew it was different challenges but there are different types of challenge categories and zones. The different adventure zones are - Medieval, Industrial, Aztec and Futuristic. The different challenge categories were - skill, mental, physical and mysterious. The game host asks what challenge category you want to do then the team captain picks the person they think would be best at it. I did 2 mental ones - the first one was a work block one which I was so close just got the last letter wrong before time was up and then I had to make a cube out of different blocks like tetris which I just couldn't get my head around! It was hard and you didn't want to risk getting locked in so we'd get out before the time was fully up!

The other challenges included a ball pit, air hockey against a robot, getting an egg up a tree, maths related puzzles and more! Everyone did 2 challenges each.

The challenges were hard! Sadly the girls didn't win any crystals but the boys did. We won 8 crystals in total which meant we got 40 seconds in the dome at the end to collect as many of the tokens. In the tv show there's both silver and gold ones and you have to catch the gold as the silver lost you time but in this one they're all gold so you just have to catch as many as you can. Before we went in there was a leader board and the top score was 498. We got 152... Yeah we definitely needed more time to beat that! But they did say they have hardcore fans that go all the time so they must know how to do the puzzles and the answers to them to be able to win all the crystals.

We've all agreed we'd love to do it again hopefully win more crystals! It was such a fun day out Jo found it on group on so we got a good deal on it! Thanks guys!

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Alton Towers

Went to Alton Towers yesterday with Sarah, Jo and Jo's brother Will. It was the perfect day to go it wasn't too hot and we didn't have to queue for any of the rides and managed to go on all of them. It was a short day though it was only open from 10-4pm. We left at 8:45am and got there just before 11am. We got 2 for 1 vouchers so it was £28 each.

I haven't been to Alton Towers for about 10 years. I was still in school when I last went and went with my school mates that I don't even talk to any more. Don't remember it being in the middle of nowhere and being so pretty. I remember we never went on Rita as the queue for it was too long and Air which is now called Galatica was my favourite ride. Also remember Oblivion and Nemesis but then all the other rides are new.

Rita

Thirteen

The Smiler

Jo and Will weren't going to go on The Smiler but of all the rides that is going to be the safest as there's no way they would let that happen again - if it did the whole place would get shut down so we convinced them to go on it and they liked it!

Oblivion

We went on Rita first then Thirteen, The Smiler, Oblivion, Wicker Man, The Water Rapids, Nemesis, Blade (Pirate Ship), Spinball Whizzer and finished with Galatica.

(The other photos aren't great.)

As they went on The Smiler it meant I had to go on the rapids. But I hate getting wet and having wet hair and convinced me I wouldn't get wet unlike in Florida.

Sarah got the wettest her back was all wet. My bum was wet and felt like I pee'd myself but did manage to stay pretty dry luckily.

Wicker Man

It said 0 minute wait for Nemesis and we were the next on but then the people that were on it were told to get off as they were experiencing technical difficulties. A car came in and a guy threw up right in front of the controller man. So that delayed it for a bit but it wasn't a long wait at all. After we were going to go on Galatica but it was temporarily closed so Will went on Blade the pirate ship with me but thought he was going to be sick. He was not feeling good after it at all. Then we trekked to the other end - Me and Sarah went on the Spinball Whizzer. 

Then trekked all the way back to go on Galatica for our last ride. We weren't going to go on it as we didn't think we would made it back to that end before it closed but I was adamant to go on it as it's my favourite ride feeling like you're flying! We got there with time to spare and there was still people queuing behind us. So glad we went did get to go on it otherwise they wouldn't have heard the end of it! It's still my favourite ride and wish we got to go on the front row definitely would have been even better - that's one ride you definitely want to get to the front for but as it was closing they didn't have separate queue for it.

We went on the Skyride - cable cars back to the entrance.

Not a day out if you don't get ice cream!

Had the best day and picked the right day to go. Was knackered when we got back but it was so worth it. My happy place is definitely at a gig seeing my favourite band or artist and upside down hanging from a roller coaster! My cousin's were saying Alton Towers is rubbish after you've been to Florida but I don't think it is as Alton Towers is big to get from one side to the other and there's loads of big rides!

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