So my buddy and I got out to Busch yesterday after work around 3pm and we went straight to CH. Posted time was 120...figured this is the reason we drove out to Tampa so in line we went. First off....the queue building...you can tell it was just shoved into the old skyride building. Felt like I was waiting in a six flags esque queue, very boring switch back after switch back. Also, the fans are mostly in the upper part of the queue where you do the least amount of waiting, so in the lower level there is not much relief from the humidity that builds in the queue. Also had a 20-25min downtime during our wait.
Anyway onto the ride. First ride was...less than impressive. We were slotted into row 5, which is towards the middle/back of the train. Nothing stood out as incredible from the ride. Launches were a lot less intense than I thought they would be, figure 8 element is a complete gimmick, nothing interesting/thrilling about it, and the airtime in the middle of the car was close to nonexistent. After waiting 2 hours for that I felt cheated :blank:
We went and did some other coasters before it was 30min till closing. We decided to give CH another chance so we queued up again, this time wait time posted was 90. It had another 20 min break down right after we got in line. Once it was up the line creeped until we got to the loading station. We decided to give the back row a shot, which I am glad we did. The ride, whether it was because we rode at night, or in the back row, was much better. The air time was sick off the figure 8 into the trench dive, bunny hop over the skyway, and the first bunny hill after the 3rd launch was what stuck out as awesome to me riding in the back. All in all, that second ride changed my opinion about the ride to a positive one.
CH is definately in the family coaster catagory...not what I was hoping when BG first announced they were going to be building Florida's first Intamin, but it is a fun ride...if you sit in the back that is :thumbs: