April 30th Is A Big Day At The Park
The park has announced that this Friday, April 30, Gov. Bob McDonnell will be in the park to celebrate the official opening of Celtic Fyre and the first “test flights” taking place for Europe In The Air. The park will be opening at 9 am, so on top of Europe In The Air opening, you’ll […]
Bring The Effects Back To Nessie!
If you’re a regular visitor to the site, you’re probably familiar with the online petition to have the effects in the Loch Ness Monster cave turned back on (or replaced). Well, this is my appeal to those that might not be regular visitors, if all of the casual visitors of this site took a minute […]
The Pretzel-Coaster Contest Is Back!
The park has announced today that the pretzel-coaster build off will be back this year. Last years winner, Gregory Stanton will also be back to defend his title. This years contest will require contestants to build Griffon with nothing more than an unlimited number of pretzels and glue. This contest is open to any and […]
The Griffon Webcam Is Now Live
It was just days ago that we reported on there being solid evidence of a webcam being placed atop Griffon and it didn’t take long for it to go live. You can now head over to the park’s official website to check out the cam. Or, you can come here. We’ll be running the cam […]
BGW Is The Most Beautiful Amusement Park... Still
For most of us, this is not a surprise, but Busch Gardens Williamsburg has once again been voted the Most Beautiful Amusement Park by the National Amusement Park Historical Association. This makes 20 years straight of domination… beautiful domination. Our humble park here in WBurg has been able to top every other park in the […]
Europe in the Air Opening Date
This is not coming from an official park announcement, but I’ve been told that the opening date for Europe in the Air is May 1st. This is coming from a third party source, but apparently it is based on a conversation had with the most reliable of all sources within Busch Gardens Williamsburg. We’ll keep […]
Rumor - Webcam Coming To Griffon
Earlier today I was standing beside Griffon and noticed that there was a locked wifi network named, “LiveStream”. I thought at that point that it certainly sounded like a network that would be… streaming something live and quickly deduced that this added to the fact that park officials flatly stated that they wanted to expand […]
Apollo's Chariot Is The Fan Favorite
[singlepic id=459 w=320 h=240 float=left]Our “Best Roller Coaster” poll has officially ended and although Apollo’s Chariot came up short in the Theme Park Insider tournament, it brought home the win in our poll with 38% of the vote. Alpengeist and Griffon ended knotted up with 27% of the vote each thanks to a last minute […]
Time To Get Out The Vote For Apollo's Chariot [Updated]
Today brings the big day for the Theme Park Insider tournament. It’s time to vote for the best roller coaster in the country. Apollo’s Chariot is going up against The Voyage, a woodie located in Holiday World. AC has pretty much destroyed the other rides on our poll, well, it’s time to bring this one […]
Why Are The Big Bad Wolf Footers Still There?
There is an ongoing conversation in our forums about why the Big Bad Wolf footers have not been removed. At first it would seem that perhaps the park didn’t want to take the time to remove the footers. However, this assumes that the removal of concrete footers is difficult. It turns out that footer removal […]
[singlepic id=1536 w=320 h=240 float=left]There were some park-goers that were concerned at the end of last season that the park would lose a good show and obviously had no guarantee that whatever replaced it would be on par with a show they had come to love. Well, we found out a few months ago what […]
A Coaster Tour Survivor's Review
I survived the Busch Gardens Williamsburg Coaster Tour, the question is, have you? Written By: Nora Marien [singlepic id=1525 w=320 h=240 float=center] For those of you teetering on the fence about whether to purchase a ticket or for those who may not have even known about the coaster tour; don’t hesitate – Get your ticket […]
Even though it was chilly on Saturday, BGWFans made it out to the park. We got there as the park opened and made a quick stop at Squire’s Grille (wiki) to get some breakfast and take advantage of the All Day Dining option the park offers. After walking around for a little bit and seeing […]
BGWFans.com Will Be On The Move This Weekend
I wanted to let everyone know that the site will be migrating to a new host starting Saturday (3/27/10) night. The reason for the change is because our current hosting provider consistently fails to meet guarantees made by them regarding downtime. Multiple instances of downtime each day not only means you don’t have access to […]
The Case For A Legitimate In-Park Sit-Down Restaurant
For the past few weeks the forum users have been discussing whether or not we think a legitimate sit-down restaurant within the park would do well. So I decided to put a little post up and state the case for putting a restaurant in the park. If the concept of a sit-down, full service, restaurant […]
Today was Passmember Preview Day at the park and was also a BGWFans Forums meet up. The meet up went well with a few members of both our forums and BGEscape. The day went well also, perfect weather and a crowd size that wasn’t absurd. Today was mostly a day of walking around, enjoying the […]
Passmember Preview Day Extended
As pointed out by one of our contributors, Swiftman, the park has announced that they are extending Passmember Preview day by an hour, meaning that passmembers will have an extra hour to get their exploring in this Saturday before the general public is allowed in. The new hours for the day are 10 am – […]
Today’s media day centered around the Highland Stables, Europe In The Air & Celtic Fyre. The tour was informal, it was only myself, Tanisha (who took all of our pictures today) & an editor from Theme Park Review going from location to location with a lot of interaction with park officials and with the animals […]
While I remember being on the monorail and going on the brewery tour with my parents, this is the first picture of it I have ever seen. It was found and relayed to me in our forums by regular reader and contributor, Nora Marien. I know I’m not the only one that has been looking […]
Some Pictures From The Park Today
I went to the park today to do a couple things. Upgrade my season pass to a platinum one and grab some pictures of Apollo’s Chariot which I had been painfully short of. AC was testing today, so I was able to get some shots of the trains making their way along the track. I’ve […]