EuroAmusement Professional Magazine issued a great article this fall about our latest coaster opening, Thunderbird, at Holiday World in Santa Clause, Indiana. It features great interviews with two of our project designers, April Neal and Mike Linenbroker, and beautiful shots of the great new attraction! Read the article here, with English translations on pages… Continue reading.
Last week, I was locked in a room with nine of my (mostly) co-workers. We had 60 minutes to escape the room. No instructions. No clues upfront. Just a room full of seemingly indecipherable puzzles that, hopefully, would reveal a key to the door. Oh, and no bathroom. This wasn’t the first time I… Continue reading.
Taking on the challenge of designing an imaginative new water park, Penn State senior Andrew Reiff was the recipient of this year’s PGAV Destinations Spot Experiential Scholarship. For his outstanding design, he and his family were awarded an all-expenses-paid trip to one of five PGAV-designed destinations across the United States, and together they chose to… Continue reading.
“I just don’t get bumper cars.” This is what my friend Hannah said as we watched guests at Busch Gardens Williamsburg wham into each other on the Der Autobahn Bumper Cars in the Oktoberfest node. It is really pretty silly when you think about it. I was giving Hannah a tour of Busch Gardens, a… Continue reading.
Penn State University senior Andrew Reiff is this year’s Spot Experiential Scholarship winner! The annual Spot Experiential Scholarship challenges college students from US universities to design a destination based upon one of seven unique environmental concepts, and Andrew’s water park design has netted him an all-expenses-paid trip to PGAV-designed Busch Gardens Williamsburg this September. Scroll down… Continue reading.
I discovered something in August of 2013: Twitter makes traveling even more fun. There’s something about the act of collectively sharing your travel experiences, with whomever is willing to follow, which is exhilarating. Not to mention the added bonus of documenting your trip for posterity. So, as my PGAV Destinations’ colleague Joe Poelzl and I… Continue reading.