In Holland, they don't go running to lawyers
Just outside the Hague is Duinrell, a campsite with a funfair and waterpark attached. Fantastic place that I went to as a kid and later took MrsScars and Little Scars.

However, you need to be a bit cautious. The waitress at a local restaurant warned us not to try too hard on the extreme rides; half the kids in Wassenaar had broken something on the flumes or wound up bruised and scraped falling out of the sledge run. She herself had split her chin open going headfirst into a catch pool wall.

Some years later, I worked with a guy who had got the fastest ever exit speed from the Cyclone. This is an Extreme, with a funnel at the bottom and an 8 foot pool underneath.

It was presented to him while he was in hospital, having his C4 vertebra plated. He'd gone down so fast that instead of falling into the bowl at the bottom, he'd gone right round, over the exit hole and his head had struck the rim. Hard. If his 7 year old daughter hadn't been there, he'd have drowned.

Speed? 72.6 kph.
(all my scars face forward possesses 2.5% of a hyperalloy combat chassis, Sun 12 Jun 2011, 0:26, 1 reply)

Duinrell \o/
I am amazed at your friends speed but have to say I amazed how that place manages to stay open. I think it would be impossible in the UK to have such an extreme water-slide park.
I have been on those slides a few times myself and utterly terrified ! Have to say the loose bikini's coming off are great fun tho :D
(The_artist_formally_known_as_alz0r, Mon 13 Jun 2011, 6:46, closed)