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We visited HRP on Thursday June 12th 2008. Park hours that day were 10am to 1am! The HRP offically broke ground in July of 2006 and opened it's guitar laiden gate to the public on May 9th 2008.
The day before we hit the beach pretty hard so we were all a little slow in getting to the park and so we missed the park openeing. With a little effort though, we managed to arrive at the front of the park at 11:15am.
Here is the first entrance you see as you arrive at the parking lot:
Parking was $10 and I didnt see where you could pay extra to park closer. The parking lot isn't that big anyway and I didn't see the presents of a tram either (kinda like Sea World)
We walked up to the ticket center:
I had planned on buying the tickets online last week before we got here at $55 per ticket but I kept hesitating and boy and I glad I did. When we got to the ticket window, a one day admission was $40 per person or $50 per person for any 2 days in the park in a consecutive 7 day period. We just bought the one day ticket and already I felt like I had saved nearly $60 by not buying online, although that isn't usually the case with advanced purchased tickets.
We took our tickets and headed torward the turnstyles. Two young ladies checked my camera bag with drumsticks instead of the normal thin wooden dowels I'm used to seeing, I thought that was a nice Hard Rock touch!
Now HRP is situated on 140 acres of land but the park itself is only 55 acres, so it's not very big in comparison to other major parks.
The HRP is laid out in different themed areas that circle the outside of the lake in the middle of the park (similar to Word Showcase in EPCOT)
These themed areas are called "Rock n Roll Heaven", "British Invasion", "Lost in the 70's", " Born in the U.S.A." and lastly "Cool Country" The main gate area and it's shops are known as "All Access Entry Plaza"
Looking out over the lake
I'll do a short walk through and give you my impression of each starting with the first themed area you will see if you walk into the park Through the "All Access" area and turn left.
1: Rock n Roll Heaven:
A very cool entrance! This is where you will find HRP's signature rollercoaster, 'Led Zepplin the Ride' You will also pass a nice CS restaurant called "A Taste of Paradise" we didn't eat there but the themeing of this CS restaurant was very cool! They even had a man playing steel drum music outside of the place all day.
Directly across from "A Taste of Paradise" is the "Reggae River Falls" water play area. This is very neat and much needed on a hot day and I like the name too
My WiFI connection in the resort we are staying at is a little slow. I'm trying to upload more photos to Photobucket so that I can include them in the this review. So after dinner I'll pickup here with the Led Zepplin ride review with photos!!
We visited HRP on Thursday June 12th 2008. Park hours that day were 10am to 1am! The HRP offically broke ground in July of 2006 and opened it's guitar laiden gate to the public on May 9th 2008.
The day before we hit the beach pretty hard so we were all a little slow in getting to the park and so we missed the park openeing. With a little effort though, we managed to arrive at the front of the park at 11:15am.
Here is the first entrance you see as you arrive at the parking lot:
Parking was $10 and I didnt see where you could pay extra to park closer. The parking lot isn't that big anyway and I didn't see the presents of a tram either (kinda like Sea World)
We walked up to the ticket center:
I had planned on buying the tickets online last week before we got here at $55 per ticket but I kept hesitating and boy and I glad I did. When we got to the ticket window, a one day admission was $40 per person or $50 per person for any 2 days in the park in a consecutive 7 day period. We just bought the one day ticket and already I felt like I had saved nearly $60 by not buying online, although that isn't usually the case with advanced purchased tickets.
We took our tickets and headed torward the turnstyles. Two young ladies checked my camera bag with drumsticks instead of the normal thin wooden dowels I'm used to seeing, I thought that was a nice Hard Rock touch!
Now HRP is situated on 140 acres of land but the park itself is only 55 acres, so it's not very big in comparison to other major parks.
The HRP is laid out in different themed areas that circle the outside of the lake in the middle of the park (similar to Word Showcase in EPCOT)
These themed areas are called "Rock n Roll Heaven", "British Invasion", "Lost in the 70's", " Born in the U.S.A." and lastly "Cool Country" The main gate area and it's shops are known as "All Access Entry Plaza"
Looking out over the lake
I'll do a short walk through and give you my impression of each starting with the first themed area you will see if you walk into the park Through the "All Access" area and turn left.
1: Rock n Roll Heaven:
A very cool entrance! This is where you will find HRP's signature rollercoaster, 'Led Zepplin the Ride' You will also pass a nice CS restaurant called "A Taste of Paradise" we didn't eat there but the themeing of this CS restaurant was very cool! They even had a man playing steel drum music outside of the place all day.
Directly across from "A Taste of Paradise" is the "Reggae River Falls" water play area. This is very neat and much needed on a hot day and I like the name too
My WiFI connection in the resort we are staying at is a little slow. I'm trying to upload more photos to Photobucket so that I can include them in the this review. So after dinner I'll pickup here with the Led Zepplin ride review with photos!!
With crowds so low, did they have all of the attractions up and running? Looks like an awesome place for a visit.
