There was music playing, it's in the building, not on board the ride. But there is a sad looking disco ball at the top.
The ride building, due to having massive holes in it for the track to roam outside, is completely light. So I walked up the bland office like stairs, sat in the ride cart and noticed that THERE WAS STILL BUBBLE WRAP ON THE FLOOR OF THE CART! They hadn't even bothered to remove it! (That's the kind of vibe at Prater, like the ops are desperate for your money.) But annoying man in the booth insisted it was open and kept harping on that I must ride it. There were building men still doing work to the exterior of the ride building. I already hated it because it's name falls prey to that stupid belief that spelling mistakes make things more 'fun'.Īnyway. Let's start with the parks newest cred: an indoor Gerstlauer spinning coaster named ' Maskerade'. With 11 creds on offer (Goon alert: Autobergbahn is a spiteful kiddie cred) you're looking at spending at least 40 Euros just for the pleasure of ticking boxes on Coaster Count (because you won't get any pleasure on the rides themselves).Įxpect to lose a whopping 65 Euros if you want to chance it on the interesting-looking flat / dark rides as well. Cred prices ranged from 3.50 - 5 Euro depending on how slightly above or below average it was. So there's no nice 'all day wristband' available. If you aren't already aware, each ride at Prater is owned and operated by individual vendors. I counted:Īnd I wasn't paying much attention, because I was too busy moaning about what a rip-off dump the place is. The park inexplicably has multiple versions of the same mediocre rides, with nothing shiny or special crammed a top its concrete. Wiener Prater is the amusement park equivalent of that. The heat broke records in Sichuan, where a temperature of 43.9 degrees Celsius (111 Fahrenheit) was recorded Wednesday afternoon, the province's Meteorological Service Centre said in a statement.You know when you collect football stickers / Pokemon cards and you end up getting loads of duplicates of the same crappy player and no special shiny ones? Record low water levels on the Yangtze River have also put pressure on the region's hydropower generators. Temperatures as high as 45 degrees Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) have led multiple Chinese provinces to impose industrial power cuts, as cities struggle to cope with a surge in demand for electricity partly driven by people cranking up the air conditioning. Wednesday's CCTV evening news broadcast showed trucks supplying villagers who lacked drinking and agricultural water in rural Sichuan and Chongqing, with remote mountain areas particularly hard hit. Officials also called for "a combination of measures to increase water sources to fight drought, first ensure drinking water for the people, ensure water for agricultural irrigation," the readout added. China produces more than 95 percent of the rice, wheat and maize it consumes, but a reduced harvest could mean increased demand for imports in the world's most populous country - putting further pressure on global supplies already strained by the conflict in Ukraine.
China's State Council on Wednesday announced a 10 billion yuan ($1.45 billion) subsidy to support rice farmers experiencing drought conditions which authorities have warned pose a "severe threat" to this year's autumn harvest. The China Meteorological Administration predicted continued high temperatures of up to 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) in Chongqing and the provinces of Sichuan, Jiangxi and Zhejiang Thursday. The worst-affected area - the Yangtze river basin, stretching from coastal Shanghai to Sichuan province in China's southwest - is home to over 370 million people and contains several manufacturing hubs including the megacity of Chongqing. A chart from the National Climate Centre showed Wednesday that swathes of southern China - including the Tibetan Plateau - were experiencing "severe" to "extraordinary" drought conditions. Experts have said the intensity, scope and duration of the heatwave could make it one of the worst recorded in global history. Southern China has recorded its longest continuous period of high temperatures since records began more than 60 years ago, the agriculture ministry said this week. The world's second-largest economy has been hit by record heat, flash floods and droughts - phenomena that scientists say are becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change. BEIJING: Half of China's vast territory is now experiencing drought, including parts of the frigid Tibetan Plateau, official data showed - with more high temperatures forecast Thursday for hundreds of millions of people enduring the country's hottest summer on record.