The Miami Herald from Miami, Florida • 163

i 7J Sunday January 25 1987 The Miami Heralc 5o S3 BOTTOM PRICES Only 1 mile et the good times roll from 40 cities of East Coast Include Miami HoncKong88 WALT DISNEY WORLD EPC0T ENTRANCE 8 days HIBfKd 1IZ From Air Hotel Work! Hotel dass Bangkok $294 $000 skl 398 Taipei Only Bangkok PER PERSON DBl OCC PER DAY S-J750 6 days Singapore Based on 2 night minimum stay CHINA I lAti tiL AMiHOl UUIN BHJIM $1014 10 IMV5 fjl 4NG7HOL BIDING aN SHANGHAI MAVZHOl SI 385 rx7! A package includes Breakfast Accommodations Children free in same room with parents -breakfast not included Ml WORLD HOTEL $55 Ktaal Ginh $69 HO rrand Pilate Moiel $79 Seoul Plaa $59 EnaGaaziQja from West Coast Auckland 769 SYDNEY 4829 Bnsoome $849 Wellington $790 Penh $999 Meibome $849 f-iji $595 Christchurch $790 umaeo spoce ovanopiiiiy ond roiid Jan 1-FeD 28 with advance reservation only SI0 Sufcnorqe per person per day Feb 28 tall 1-800-432-0887 in Florida 1-800-223-1628 OTHER STATES 12 days Auckland Svdney $1169 days Svdney Aukland Nandi $1589 17 daw Svdney MoumCooke Oamam Tennau Queenstown Christchurch Auckland Honolulu $1589 EuroAsia Express (8oo) 782-9625 MAINGATE 7571 West SpacecoasI kwy (US192 West) Kissimmee FI 32741 Count on Action Line to solve problems get answers and stand up lor your rights England FlyDrive 499 SSST per person based on 2 departing MIA together No min adv booking No minmax stay 747 nonstop MIA-LON-MIA Ford Fiesta unlimited mileage one week Larger car if more than 2 Travel must begin before April Not included: $23 tax on car $30suppl per person if returning in April or May Air Overseas 665-8109 (ma) 800-432-7724 FOR SUN OUR LIOWESTaTRIP PRICES Le Monstre snakes along the St Lawrence River MERIDA BREAKFAST MUSEUM TOUR NIGHTCLUB 3 NIGHTS DBL OCC INC Air Charming AC Hotel with Pool One American Breakfast Admission to Archeological Museum Admission to Nightclub with Native Show 15 Tax COASTERS from 1J will measure 3200 feet long have a 148-foot lift hill and a 138-foot first drop another steel coaster record Riders will be thrown through two vertical loops a corkscrew pretzel-shaped boomerang curve and a 360-degree horizontal helix During the 2 12 -minute adventure they will travel at speeds exceeding 50 miles per hour Cedar Point Sandusky Ohio will unveil the Iron Dragon a suspended coaster Passengers sit in cars that dangle from overhead curving steel track They will skim through low-lying wooded areas and over water As cars round the turns in the 2800-foot layout they giving riders a feeling of flying The finale is a knot-shaped double-loop placed horizontally over water The Iron Dragon is Cedar seventh coaster more than found in any park in North America But not just Ohio that is enjoying this renaissance in coasters The East Coast from Virginia to Quebec has recently witnessed feverish coaster building Thrill-seekers will now find a variety of new coasters awaiting them The rides are bigger safer and more outrageous than ever before The most ominous new coaster Le Monstre lurks in Montreal Le Monstre an awesome twin-track roller coaster opened last summer at La Ronde Park Le skeletal wooden structure rises seemingly out of the St Lawrence River looming over St Island It menaces the faint-of-heart challenges the brave and promises un plaiser monstre monstrous thrills Le Monstre stands 132 feet tall the highest racing coaster in the world It is 4200 feet long is spread over 400000 square feet of real estate and cost $7 million Its glistening new fiber-glass trains fly through the computer-con-trolled circuit at speeds of up to 60 mph Obviously a major league thrill machine The first drop of Le Monstre is 76 feet followed by a twisting 100-foot plunge High-speed banked turns through wooden trestles follow You are lifted off your seat several times flirting with disaster The ride according to designer William Cobb is Coaster enthusiasts welcome the introduction of Le Monstre as another confirmation of the roller coaster renaissance At Six Flags Great Adventure Jackson NJ a bizarre new coaster leaves even veteran riders gasping The Ultra Twister is a sleek switchback coaster that twists riders 360 degrees as they race along the track Most variations of roller coasters first appeared early in this centu- CARACAS 299 Inc Fare and accommodations Anauco Hilton 3 NTS DBL OCC ACAPULCO MEXICO DAILY BREAKFAST 3 NTS $219xph Inc: fare well located hotel cont breakfast 15 tax 3 NTS $249xfu Inc: Fare hotel and 15 tax REACH HOTEL CANCUN MERIDA $272 DBL 7 NTS OCC MAYAN RUINS AC HOTELS POOL Inc: Fare 4 nights Cancun 3 nights Merida Transfers tour Chichen Itza one full breakfast 15 tax admission native club FREEPORT BY SEA KEXICO-TAXCO-ACAPULCO coaster was in doubt Now however it has been moved to Boyer-town USA in Altoona Pa and will be ready to roll in May The Boomerang coaster now graces the shorelines at Rides Ocean City Md Dorney Park Allentown Pa found room on its midway for the Colossus a double-looping steel coaster In Niagara peninsula Crystal Beach Park added a highspeed steel coaster the Galaxie to its ride collection It occupies real estate once graced by the legendary Crystal Beach Cyclone the most terrifying coaster ever built Last March Great America Santa Clara Calif introduced its version of the Grizzly the fourth reincarnation of the popular Wildcat woodie from defunct Coney Island The queue line winds under the fan-tail curve providing wonderful photo opportunities for those waiting to ride At Six Flags Magic Mountain Valencia Calif a different version of the stand-up coaster also called Shock Wave carries riders four abreast along a tightly banked course Across North America the roller coaster renaissance rolls on Whether standing or sitting upright or upside-down park guests will find thrills aplenty this year For those who long for wild coasters 1987 promises to be a vintage year Paul Ruben is associate editor of Amusement Park Journal ry The Ultra Twister however is unprecedented The $3 million Ultra Twister was designed by Togo Inc Tokyo Japan Six Flags Great Adventure is the first park to feature this high-tech ride The Ultra Twister look like other coasters and surely ride like them It has two tracks arranged around circular bulkheads providing a pathway for eight six-passenger cars Riders are lifted 97 feet skyward before plunging in a virtual free fall of 80 degrees Peeling out of this dive they race ahead for 500 feet spiraling once as they go Passengers are braked to a stop then they speed off backward to the unloading station spinning two more times along the way stomach-wrenching At Kings Dominion near Richmond Va another Togo-manufactured creation was recently introduced It is a dramatic new concept called Shockwave North third state-of-the-art looping coaster on which people stand rather than sit The $4 million shockwave is Kings most technologically advanced ride In two minutes the snakelike coaster transports standing riders over 2210 feet of steel track Features include a 95-foot lift a 360-degree vertical loop that reaches a height of 66 feet and a 540-degree helix which is banked at 80 degrees and carries standing riders virtually parallel to the ground You can safely ride Shockwave standing thanks to its modern restraint system The thrills however remain In your legs feel weightlessness change to three times body weight as you go through the vertical loop The sensation of standing as the coaster careens along at break-neck speed provides unique breathtaking excitement The ability to move and restore existing wooden coasters was recently demonstrated and has renewed interest in these rides Previously wooden coasters were lost when parks closed After Paragon Park Hull Mass closed in 1984 the future of the legendary Giant Coaster was clouded The 1917-built coaster is a top-1 0 ride a proven thriller Fortunately for coaster buffs this jewel of a coaster was dismantled and transported to a new site near Washington DC Last winter it was refurbished and rebuilt at a cost exceeding $1 million and renamed Mid-Atlantic riders may now enjoy this 3400-foot-long 98-foot-high nightmared that packs an initial 60 mph whallop Another wooden coaster has also been taken down and is being completely rebuilt It has not been moved however The Wildcat an 85-foot-high twister at Herehey Lake Compounce Bristol Conn was originally erected in 1927 This restoration preserves the original 2750-foot-long design When Roseland Park Canandai-qua NY closed in 1985 the fate of the skyliner a 26-year-old DBL I OCC NTS EACH HOTEL DBL 7 OCC NTS EACH HOTEL Inc Fare Princess or Atlantik Beach Hotel Inc: Fare 3 nights Mexico 1 Taxco 3 Acapulco 15 tax City tour and diving show OTHER TRIPS ON DISCOUNT FARE DBL OCC NASSAU 2 NTS $120 MEX-IXTAPA 5 NTS $299 PARADISE IS 2 NTS 3199 MONTEGO 2 NTS 3220 MADRID AIR ONLY 3495 SAN JUAN 2 NTS $299 CANCUN IU COZUMEL $09 A DM- BEACH 3 NT £1 OCC HOTEL Inc Fare beach hotel transfers and 15 tax DBL TOWN 3 NTS OCC HOTEL Inc Fare town hotel transfers and 15 tax rOPENl ISUNDA open Sunday VEST MIAMI MIDWAY MALL 264-1214 WEST HOLY WOOD FASHION CENTER 987-9596 FT LAUD PLANTATION BROW ARDMALL 472-6407 VEST PALM BEACH PALM BEACH MALL 683-0223 CORAL CABLES 2700 PONCE DE LEON 448-2646 NORTH MIAMI BEACH MALL AT 163rd ST 940-4998 HOLLYWOOD BOCA RATON HOLLYWOOD MALL BOCA TOWN CENTER 989-1 900 BR 368-0520 624-1308 Dade Only Ountal ha Kathie Lee Gifford When it comes to vacationing no one can 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