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ECC Trips

From time to time during the year, members of the European Coaster Club are invited to participate in trips to ride roller coasters and other thrill rides all over England and the rest of Europe.

A trip will normally spend one or more days at a park and include food and at least one ERS (Exclusive Ride Session, where a ride is given over for a period, usually an hour, for the exclusive use of ECC trip-goers). Sometimes, some "extras" can also be arranged, such as a "behind the scenes" tour. The detailed trip invitations (issued a few weeks before the trip) explain what each trip includes.

On this page you will find reports written by Club members about trips they have enjoyed and information about forthcoming Club events. If you like what you read why not join the European Coaster Club now and you'll be invited along to the next Club trip!

As usual, all ECC members will receive detailed printed invitations to all Club events by post, but if you have any questions about Club trips or suggestions for future events, please email the trips team

Of course, all the trip photos are available in the Photo Gallery

Future Trips

If you're interested in what trips we are planning for the future, please see our Future Trips Schedule where we list all our planned trips, no matter what their status.

Italy 2009

Saturday 18 - Wednesday 22 July 2009

With so much happening in mainland Europe right now, we've decided this year to do a small trip to Italy in the same year as the big South Korea/Japan trip. The trip will take in three parks, and two of the ever-popular alpine coasters.

Park-wise we'll go to Movieland, that is now home to Europe's only original Intamin Freefall ride – see FD81 for more on this ride. Gardaland is now home to a new Vekoma mine train, on top of its large selection of other coasters. Finally there's Mirabilandia, which for 2009 is adding a large Intamin multi-looping Rocket Coaster. All told there are some great new rides in Italy, making it a very interesting destination in 2009.

Invites and Application forms for this trip have been emailed to the PDF list and will be included with the next issue of First Drop. You can also download a copy from the PDF Library.

Trip reports

Categories: 2009